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| Sceynyos-yos | Jan 11 2017, 12:28 PM Post #691 |
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dheubewes wedor
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A world with alternative biochemistry where rock's equivalent is ice, all the way up to somewhere in the mantle. |
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| Rodlox | Jan 11 2017, 11:17 PM Post #692 |
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Superhuman
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could be another world, could be Earth... there is a civilization of sample-takers (maybe ASBs, maybe just specialists), who roam the space lanes and, when they find a world with life on it, remove an island and the waters immediately around it, and take that sample with them for study and preservation. now, normally that would be all they do with it. but the universe is a dangerous place, and sometimes a world loses all of its life (thank you, unnovas, vampire stars, magnetars, etc)...and when that happens, the sample-takers take their sample of the life from that now-dead world, and establish that island-and-waters on another world (not always matching stellar types exactly), from which life can rebound. imagine it - with Earth, a planetary fauna descended from lemurs and tenrecs, or kiwi and glowworms, or... or with the life of another planet's islands altogether. |
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| Mr Mysterio | Jan 12 2017, 12:48 AM Post #693 |
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Waiting...
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An idea I'll probably never do anything with: a project similar to Serina, where the only vertebrates introduced are finches and fish, only instead of finches, it's Anurognathus (or some other small, generalist pterosaur). Basically, in any "extinct animals get a second chance" type project, the pterosaurs still always end up getting overshadowed by dinosaurs, so having a project where pterosaurs try to fill as many niches as possible (like Serina) would be neat. |
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| Troy Troodon | Jan 13 2017, 05:20 PM Post #694 |
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Prime Specimen
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Marsupials actually having evolved a better IQ than in our timeline?! |
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| Whiteshore | Jan 14 2017, 07:14 AM Post #695 |
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What about a terraformed world where the only living things introduced are "living fossils" ? |
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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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| peashyjah | Jan 14 2017, 05:05 PM Post #696 |
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Bydo
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This sounds like an great idea. |
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Discontinued projects: The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday) The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents) All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018) Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020) New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020) All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018) | |
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| HangingThief | Jan 18 2017, 07:51 PM Post #697 |
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I've been thinking about a project involving an enormous, cold freshwater lake inspired by Lake Baikal, only on an even larger scale. (Both in terms of size and biological isolation.) It would take place following a mass extinction, and the fauna would all be descended from a handful of tiny freshwater invertebrates such as snails, hydras, worms and copepods. The shallows would contain forests giant water mosses and reefs built by derived bryozoans and green hydras, while the barren deeper waters would contain an array of scavengers and hydrothermal vent dwellers. |
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| Beetleboy | Jan 19 2017, 02:33 AM Post #698 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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I really hope that you do that project, it sounds awesome. |
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| Rodlox | Jan 19 2017, 02:53 AM Post #699 |
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do. it. please! |
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.---------------------------------------------. Parts of the Cluster Worlds: "Marsupialless Australia" (what-if) & "Out on a Branch" (future evolution) & "The Earth under a still sun" (WIP) | |
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| Myxini | Jan 19 2017, 07:20 PM Post #700 |
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Vermiform
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One idea that came to me today- not sure if it really has much merit to it- would be some kind of archipelago system primarily dominated by highly derived amphibians. The current premise would be that the island was inhabited during the late Devonian/Carboniferous period, and that for whatever reason the amphibians living here (potentially some of the invertebrates as well) did not die out due to the presence of reptiles/some other extinction event. Life would then progress as normal, with occasional new species introduced as life on the mainlands evolved to travel to the island. |
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| Yiqi15 | Jan 22 2017, 02:00 PM Post #701 |
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Prime Specimen
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Moon Ex Machina: after a supervirus wipes out 99.9% of all organic life on a colony moon, the androids and robots left behind inherit it, resulting in a uniquely artificial biosphere. |
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| Uncanny Gemstar | Jan 22 2017, 02:20 PM Post #702 |
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The problems I'm aware of with the robotic/artificial organism thing, is that either: A: nanobots will wipe out literally everything because they can't be stopped B: Digging robots are the only thing that will survive because they can mine up metals to fix themselves with and build copies. C: The first thing to develop electric based weaponry wins at life D: A single computer virus will decimate everything, be it man made or self aware robot made If you could find a work around for those, that premise does seem really interesting though. |
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| Flisch | Jan 22 2017, 02:38 PM Post #703 |
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Superhuman
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Someone on a planet inhabited solely by artifical life: "The problems with organic life is that either: A: Microbes will wipe out literally everything, because they can't be stopped. B: Autotrophs are the only thing that will survive, because they can synthesize the needed molecules themselves and reproduce. C: The first thing to develop nerve toxins wins at life. D: A single virus will decimate everything, be it plant or animal." Everything can be counteracted. Nanobots can be fought the same way we fight microbes: With our own microbes aka imune system, or certain chemicals aka antibiotics (though in robots it would likely be physical barriers, not chemical ones). Robots may "prey" upon other robots to obtain materials (though they will likely see them as inferior or useless, thus repurposing them, but not quite as prey). Electric surges can be prevented (infact even in modern times electronics have something to prevent just that *cough* fuses *cough*). Computer viruses are stopped by anti-virus softare. |
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| Holben | Jan 22 2017, 02:41 PM Post #704 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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I think the real problem is the lack of the refined materials needed to create electrical components. You need some sort of community extracting rare metals etc that can be passed along the food chains. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Uncanny Gemstar | Jan 22 2017, 02:51 PM Post #705 |
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@Flisch Good point. I just thought of those off the top of my head and if I had thought them over a little more I probably would have figured that out myself. Holben does have a good point as well. Rare metal extractors and synthesizers would probably take the place of photosynthesizers in an organic environment. Fuel creators would also be important, unless robots developed solar panels or did the fuel synthesizing themselves. |
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