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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,394 Views)
Dakka!
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I have an idea for silicon based organisms. Right now the main problems are how the heterotrophs are going to obtain food and what sort of electrically conductive liquid I should use for their conductive system. Any suggestions?
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Why would they use a liquid?
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I have an idea.

Seeds.

Neotenic seeds.

Neotenic gliding seeds.

Neotenic gliding photosynthesizing seeds.

Neotenic gliding photosynthesizing seeds that make up air plankton and stand at the base of an entire aerial food chain. Aerial organisms would live at high altitudes and very rarely or never need to land. The seeds themselves would fall though, only to be picked up by wind soon thereafter due to their shape.
They would come in all shapes and small sizes - umbrellas, feathers, winglets, feathers, multiple intersecting planes, all kinds of fractals...
In case of rain, after it's over they'd dry up pretty quickly and off to air they go again.
When over bodies of water, many would inevitably end up as sea fodder, but most would make it to the next landmass. These neotenic seeds would exist only at certain latitudes where much more land than water is present.
Their lifecycle is simple. There is an optimal size for gliding, which is reached in matter of days. Once there, all energy is devoted to reproducing. Air borne pollen is ever present. Some seeds release thousands of tiny seedlings every few days, or hours in the more extreme cases. Some, more primitive, grow a single seedling and let it go when adult or nearly adult. Some reproduce most often asexually, by fragmentation, sporogenesis or budding.
Most aren't larger than your average coin, with the very biggest ones being the size of a hand; and the smallest ones are nearly microscopic.

I have to figure out if the whole concept is feasible, to have tiny organisms that most of the time ride the winds passively.
More of a subproject idea. It's better suited for a gas giant, but I'll see if I can go with it anyway.
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flashman63
Dec 27 2016, 02:01 AM
Why would they use a liquid?
So they don't mass so much.

I gave up on that idea, what about a rogue binary planet system that heats each other up using tidal force?
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The Future is Right
Ediacaran Explosion
Great Old Ones
Skinkworld


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Corecin
Dec 23 2016, 09:04 PM
Speaking of parks, I was going to do a park in the far future that "catalogued" different GMS (genetically modified species). There's reconstructed dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures, a petting zoo with genetically modified pets and farm animals, exhibits holding different subspecies of animals from terraformed planets, and a great many aquariums and tanks, which hold genetically modified pets, like colorchanging lizards, glowing fish, see through frogs, and a lot more. I'm currently in the midst of writing about it.
This sounds really interesting and similar to things that I've been thinking of lately, so I'd be interested to read what you've come up with. Genetic modification isn't something that I see going away any time soon in the future, I can only see it snowballing and becoming the norm. Nor can I see humans going extinct in the next few hundred years, unless something unexpected happens, which is plenty of time to develop lots of weird GM'd organisms! ^_^ Which means a good bounty of speccing.
Right now I have a lot of GM'd creature ideas, so I may at some point reboot Mutant Earth, probably under a different title. I think in version one I moved from the near future discussing pets and stuff like that to after the human extinction, with GM creatures running wild, too quickly. This time I want to focus on anywhere from 2020 upwards, throughout humanity's reign, before moving onto the second chapter, after human's extinction.
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What about a scenario where T-J was worse and wiped out almost all dinosaurs (with basal Ornitschians as the sole exception)? What does the rest of the Mesozoic look like with no Saurischians?
Go to Crurotheria:A world of Killer Rodents,Notosuchid Elephants,and Sirenian Hippos:
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Beetleboy
Dec 31 2016, 10:41 AM
This sounds really interesting and similar to things that I've been thinking of lately, so I'd be interested to read what you've come up with. Genetic modification isn't something that I see going away any time soon in the future, I can only see it snowballing and becoming the norm. Nor can I see humans going extinct in the next few hundred years, unless something unexpected happens, which is plenty of time to develop lots of weird GM'd organisms! ^_^ Which means a good bounty of speccing.
Right now I have a lot of GM'd creature ideas, so I may at some point reboot Mutant Earth, probably under a different title. I think in version one I moved from the near future discussing pets and stuff like that to after the human extinction, with GM creatures running wild, too quickly. This time I want to focus on anywhere from 2020 upwards, throughout humanity's reign, before moving onto the second chapter, after human's extinction.
Similarly to mutant earth, I'm actually thinking of a project where some of the GM animals that I have in my story escape into the wild, after current civilization "falls". The park idea is sort of a gateway into some of my other projects, both spec and story based. I can't wait to see what you do too, though I wasn't around to see it being updated, Mutant Earth struck me as a very cool premise!
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Jan 1 2017, 02:18 AM
What about a scenario where T-J was worse and wiped out almost all dinosaurs (with basal Ornitschians as the sole exception)? What does the rest of the Mesozoic look like with no Saurischians?
I would imagine it is like a mash-up of the Triassic and Cenozoic, in that a lot of the predators are four-legged - either obligates or facultives. finaly, carnivorous stegosaurs!
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Corecin
Jan 1 2017, 03:30 AM
Beetleboy
Dec 31 2016, 10:41 AM
This sounds really interesting and similar to things that I've been thinking of lately, so I'd be interested to read what you've come up with. Genetic modification isn't something that I see going away any time soon in the future, I can only see it snowballing and becoming the norm. Nor can I see humans going extinct in the next few hundred years, unless something unexpected happens, which is plenty of time to develop lots of weird GM'd organisms! ^_^ Which means a good bounty of speccing.
Right now I have a lot of GM'd creature ideas, so I may at some point reboot Mutant Earth, probably under a different title. I think in version one I moved from the near future discussing pets and stuff like that to after the human extinction, with GM creatures running wild, too quickly. This time I want to focus on anywhere from 2020 upwards, throughout humanity's reign, before moving onto the second chapter, after human's extinction.
Similarly to mutant earth, I'm actually thinking of a project where some of the GM animals that I have in my story escape into the wild, after current civilization "falls". The park idea is sort of a gateway into some of my other projects, both spec and story based. I can't wait to see what you do too, though I wasn't around to see it being updated, Mutant Earth struck me as a very cool premise!
Thanks! I can't wait to see your stuff too. I've already written a load of stuff for the reboot of Mutant Earth, but I'll develop it some more before posting. I want to give the reboot a new name, but I'm not sure what it should be.
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Beetleboy
Jan 1 2017, 06:06 AM
Thanks! I can't wait to see your stuff too. I've already written a load of stuff for the reboot of Mutant Earth, but I'll develop it some more before posting. I want to give the reboot a new name, but I'm not sure what it should be.
Perhaps it can be called "Man's Legacy" or something of the like? As the GM animals would technically be so, though it would depend on some aspects of the project. I'm calling my written story Aftermath, and my spec project "The Miapenthecene" (a rough translation of reminder in Greek)
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Jan 1 2017, 03:34 AM
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Jan 1 2017, 02:18 AM
What about a scenario where T-J was worse and wiped out almost all dinosaurs (with basal Ornitschians as the sole exception)? What does the rest of the Mesozoic look like with no Saurischians?
I would imagine it is like a mash-up of the Triassic and Cenozoic, in that a lot of the predators are four-legged - either obligates or facultives. finaly, carnivorous stegosaurs!
Well, Sphenosuchians and Protosuchians are still around, so, they'd probably be the main predators but carnivorous heterodontosaurs would probably be around.
Go to Crurotheria:A world of Killer Rodents,Notosuchid Elephants,and Sirenian Hippos:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5035229/1/
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Jan 1 2017, 03:24 PM
Beetleboy
Jan 1 2017, 06:06 AM
Thanks! I can't wait to see your stuff too. I've already written a load of stuff for the reboot of Mutant Earth, but I'll develop it some more before posting. I want to give the reboot a new name, but I'm not sure what it should be.
Perhaps it can be called "Man's Legacy" or something of the like? As the GM animals would technically be so, though it would depend on some aspects of the project. I'm calling my written story Aftermath, and my spec project "The Miapenthecene" (a rough translation of reminder in Greek)
I was thinking of something like 'Humanity's Legacy', but Man's Legacy does sound better. I'll have a think about it.
Miapenthecene sounds cool, it's quite an original name. When can we expect to see it published? Not rushing you or anything, just wondering. :)
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Well you'd probably be better off waiting for the park project, which is taking a bit longer than expected, since I am making it an interactive project.
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Jan 2 2017, 11:55 AM
Well you'd probably be better off waiting for the park project, which is taking a bit longer than expected, since I am making it an interactive project.
Oh, cool! I love interactive projects. Well, good luck and thanks for discussing things with me. :)
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Jan 2 2017, 11:31 AM
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Jan 1 2017, 03:24 PM
Beetleboy
Jan 1 2017, 06:06 AM
Thanks! I can't wait to see your stuff too. I've already written a load of stuff for the reboot of Mutant Earth, but I'll develop it some more before posting. I want to give the reboot a new name, but I'm not sure what it should be.
Perhaps it can be called "Man's Legacy" or something of the like? As the GM animals would technically be so, though it would depend on some aspects of the project. I'm calling my written story Aftermath, and my spec project "The Miapenthecene" (a rough translation of reminder in Greek)
I was thinking of something like 'Humanity's Legacy', but Man's Legacy does sound better. I'll have a think about it.
Miapenthecene sounds cool, it's quite an original name. When can we expect to see it published? Not rushing you or anything, just wondering. :)
Huh. I actually had a similar idea as well - The Future Is Altered. Maybe all three of us could work together to combine our ideas into one mega-project?
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