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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,385 Views)
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Mr Mysterio
Feb 23 2017, 06:21 PM
A "lesser relative"? Like another ape species? Not sure that's possible.
Yeh, god that sounds derogatory, and I dunno, would a chimp-human hybrid that's gm'd be able to produce offspring with other humans? Animal testing can get freaky....
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A future evolution project focusing on ecology, focusing a great deal on speculative plants, fungi, and invertebrates. It would give in-depth descriptions of speculative future ecosystems, looking at everything's role in it, from trees to large grazers, insects to fungi. It would focus heavily on topics such as geography, localised climates, etc, and speculative ecology.
Recently I have become very interested in paleoecology, I think speculative ecology could be an interesting topic. Such a project would have in-depth descriptions of flora and fungi and their roles in the ecosystem, not just fauna.
One idea that I've had whizzing around my head for a while and I could incorporate into this is a diversification of ant-plant symbiosis in South America, leading to a succesful radiation of 'myrmecacia' plants, relying on each other for everything from defence to seed dispersal. Over time, as myrmecacia became more widespread and common, it could lead to interesting adaptations in herbivorous/myrmecophagous animals.
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Beetleboy
Feb 25 2017, 09:37 AM
A future evolution project focusing on ecology, focusing a great deal on speculative plants, fungi, and invertebrates. It would give in-depth descriptions of speculative future ecosystems, looking at everything's role in it, from trees to large grazers, insects to fungi. It would focus heavily on topics such as geography, localised climates, etc, and speculative ecology.
Recently I have become very interested in paleoecology, I think speculative ecology could be an interesting topic. Such a project would have in-depth descriptions of flora and fungi and their roles in the ecosystem, not just fauna.
One idea that I've had whizzing around my head for a while and I could incorporate into this is a diversification of ant-plant symbiosis in South America, leading to a succesful radiation of 'myrmecacia' plants, relying on each other for everything from defence to seed dispersal. Over time, as myrmecacia became more widespread and common, it could lead to interesting adaptations in herbivorous/myrmecophagous animals.
Id love love see that. How far in the future is it?
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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I'm currently trying to do a project wherein the only animals that left evolutionary descendants were animals that were previously domesticated- dogs, cats, horses, cows, sheep, etc.- and animals strongly associated with mankind- rats, cockroaches- and see where that gets me. Thinking of calling it Untamed.
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My current project is speculation of what life could be like on Proxima b. Hopefully by the time I finish with that we'll learn more about the Trappist-1 system. If we do I'll probably do a project on that.
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Akurian452
Feb 26 2017, 02:23 AM
My current project is speculation of what life could be like on Proxima b. Hopefully by the time I finish with that we'll learn more about the Trappist-1 system. If we do I'll probably do a project on that.
I'd be interested to see how the project worlds differ. all the best to you in your doings.
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Beetleboy
Feb 25 2017, 09:37 AM
A future evolution project focusing on ecology, focusing a great deal on speculative plants, fungi, and invertebrates. It would give in-depth descriptions of speculative future ecosystems, looking at everything's role in it, from trees to large grazers, insects to fungi. It would focus heavily on topics such as geography, localised climates, etc, and speculative ecology.
Recently I have become very interested in paleoecology, I think speculative ecology could be an interesting topic. Such a project would have in-depth descriptions of flora and fungi and their roles in the ecosystem, not just fauna.
One idea that I've had whizzing around my head for a while and I could incorporate into this is a diversification of ant-plant symbiosis in South America, leading to a succesful radiation of 'myrmecacia' plants, relying on each other for everything from defence to seed dispersal. Over time, as myrmecacia became more widespread and common, it could lead to interesting adaptations in herbivorous/myrmecophagous animals.
Id love love see that. How far in the future is it?
I am thinking of making it multi time period actually. That way I could show the evolution of an ecosystem as a whole over 50 million years.
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Beetleboy
Feb 26 2017, 06:35 AM
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Feb 25 2017, 06:30 PM
Beetleboy
Feb 25 2017, 09:37 AM
A future evolution project focusing on ecology, focusing a great deal on speculative plants, fungi, and invertebrates. It would give in-depth descriptions of speculative future ecosystems, looking at everything's role in it, from trees to large grazers, insects to fungi. It would focus heavily on topics such as geography, localised climates, etc, and speculative ecology.
Recently I have become very interested in paleoecology, I think speculative ecology could be an interesting topic. Such a project would have in-depth descriptions of flora and fungi and their roles in the ecosystem, not just fauna.
One idea that I've had whizzing around my head for a while and I could incorporate into this is a diversification of ant-plant symbiosis in South America, leading to a succesful radiation of 'myrmecacia' plants, relying on each other for everything from defence to seed dispersal. Over time, as myrmecacia became more widespread and common, it could lead to interesting adaptations in herbivorous/myrmecophagous animals.
Id love love see that. How far in the future is it?
I am thinking of making it multi time period actually. That way I could show the evolution of an ecosystem as a whole over 50 million years.
Is this starting from the holocene forward? If so, what goes extinct?
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Feb 26 2017, 11:09 AM
Beetleboy
Feb 26 2017, 06:35 AM
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Feb 25 2017, 06:30 PM
Beetleboy
Feb 25 2017, 09:37 AM
A future evolution project focusing on ecology, focusing a great deal on speculative plants, fungi, and invertebrates. It would give in-depth descriptions of speculative future ecosystems, looking at everything's role in it, from trees to large grazers, insects to fungi. It would focus heavily on topics such as geography, localised climates, etc, and speculative ecology.
Recently I have become very interested in paleoecology, I think speculative ecology could be an interesting topic. Such a project would have in-depth descriptions of flora and fungi and their roles in the ecosystem, not just fauna.
One idea that I've had whizzing around my head for a while and I could incorporate into this is a diversification of ant-plant symbiosis in South America, leading to a succesful radiation of 'myrmecacia' plants, relying on each other for everything from defence to seed dispersal. Over time, as myrmecacia became more widespread and common, it could lead to interesting adaptations in herbivorous/myrmecophagous animals.
Id love love see that. How far in the future is it?
I am thinking of making it multi time period actually. That way I could show the evolution of an ecosystem as a whole over 50 million years.
Is this starting from the holocene forward? If so, what goes extinct?
Yeah, starting from the Holocene. The full survivor's list isn't fully ironed out yet, but I'm playing with the idea of the extinctions being less severe than is often seen in projects. I'm not sure yet.
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Beetleboy
Feb 26 2017, 12:52 PM
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Feb 26 2017, 11:09 AM
Beetleboy
Feb 26 2017, 06:35 AM
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Beetleboy
Feb 25 2017, 09:37 AM
A future evolution project focusing on ecology, focusing a great deal on speculative plants, fungi, and invertebrates. It would give in-depth descriptions of speculative future ecosystems, looking at everything's role in it, from trees to large grazers, insects to fungi. It would focus heavily on topics such as geography, localised climates, etc, and speculative ecology.
Recently I have become very interested in paleoecology, I think speculative ecology could be an interesting topic. Such a project would have in-depth descriptions of flora and fungi and their roles in the ecosystem, not just fauna.
One idea that I've had whizzing around my head for a while and I could incorporate into this is a diversification of ant-plant symbiosis in South America, leading to a succesful radiation of 'myrmecacia' plants, relying on each other for everything from defence to seed dispersal. Over time, as myrmecacia became more widespread and common, it could lead to interesting adaptations in herbivorous/myrmecophagous animals.
Id love love see that. How far in the future is it?
I am thinking of making it multi time period actually. That way I could show the evolution of an ecosystem as a whole over 50 million years.
Is this starting from the holocene forward? If so, what goes extinct?
Yeah, starting from the Holocene. The full survivor's list isn't fully ironed out yet, but I'm playing with the idea of the extinctions being less severe than is often seen in projects. I'm not sure yet.
How long are humans going to last?
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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I have an idea that takes place veeeeery far into the future. Like, near the end of life. Can someone give me some sort of sequence of events of major events, like when photosynthesis will become impossible, evaporation of oceans, etc? My thing is a surprise, and I think you'll like it.
Projects
Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

Quotes


Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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I have an idea that takes place veeeeery far into the future. Like, near the end of life. Can someone give me some sort of sequence of events of major events, like when photosynthesis will become impossible, evaporation of oceans, etc? My thing is a surprise, and I think you'll like it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Earth#Climate_impact

This has a good summary of some of the different ideas I have seen.
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I had an idea where humans advance to the point of being major space travelers and colonizers. For some reason they choose to abandon Earth, but also leave a number of different multi species human hybrids (as in each hybrid species is created with the genomes of many animals and not just human and one animal) that are designed to live in the biomes of Earth and one day might come to form another civilization. I imagine many species of hybrids evolving from the base species to the point where ecosystems contain many hybrid species and future descendants of regular animals.
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Beetleboy
Feb 25 2017, 09:37 AM
A future evolution project focusing on ecology, focusing a great deal on speculative plants, fungi, and invertebrates. It would give in-depth descriptions of speculative future ecosystems, looking at everything's role in it, from trees to large grazers, insects to fungi. It would focus heavily on topics such as geography, localised climates, etc, and speculative ecology.
Recently I have become very interested in paleoecology, I think speculative ecology could be an interesting topic. Such a project would have in-depth descriptions of flora and fungi and their roles in the ecosystem, not just fauna.
One idea that I've had whizzing around my head for a while and I could incorporate into this is a diversification of ant-plant symbiosis in South America, leading to a succesful radiation of 'myrmecacia' plants, relying on each other for everything from defence to seed dispersal. Over time, as myrmecacia became more widespread and common, it could lead to interesting adaptations in herbivorous/myrmecophagous animals.
Id love love see that. How far in the future is it?
I am thinking of making it multi time period actually. That way I could show the evolution of an ecosystem as a whole over 50 million years.
Is this starting from the holocene forward? If so, what goes extinct?
Yeah, starting from the Holocene. The full survivor's list isn't fully ironed out yet, but I'm playing with the idea of the extinctions being less severe than is often seen in projects. I'm not sure yet.
How long are humans going to last?
Not long, humans are going to go extinct in the next few hundred or thousand years, in it. Human extinction is going to be caused by a mixture of things, such as the Yellowstone eruption, war, engineered super viruses, etc.

At the moment, my focus for the project is geography and corresponding climatic patterns.
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I have a crazy project idea I have thinked on in a long time: Carnivorous sheep living in North Europa 3-5 million years in the future :evilsmile: ! I dont know how they will become carnivorous. But I have to wait until I have more time for this idea. :)
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