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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,384 Views)
Beetleboy
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For those who were interested (I think that IIGS was), here's my future ecology project: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/8075058/1/#new
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Yiqi15
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Something similar to Another Sun rose on the British Empire, only in this case, the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Arkansas are teleported to the middle of the pacific, off the coast of California in the year 1963. The project would focus on several specific time periods.
Current/Completed Projects
- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

Potential Projects
- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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Dr Nitwhite
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All this pet talk has me thinking. What ever happened to petlandia? This isn't the first time it's been forgotten, but it'd be a shame to just throw it out the window.


Alright, so sphenodon and I have been discussing this matter, and we've made some real progress in moving it along. There where lots of contentions points in the past, and if we want to really get the ball rolling we're going to have to iron them out. However, some of the broader strokes (which where made previously). That would be the matter of the backstory. I think it was largely agreed on by those in the forum (and we'd like to run with this idea moving forward) that the setting of the project would be a terraformed world in a far-future scifi setting. The grand experiment in evolution and geology would be undertaken by an eccentric group of evolutionary biologists, and given control of their entrants they naturally chose their favorite pet species.

Most up-to-date list I can find, courtesy of lamna. I believe a few more lists may have been left out, so this is slightly incomplete


I've already created a worldmap that I'd like to humbly submit as our setting-

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But there are still some details we have to iron out.


  • Name- Lots of them have been discussed in the past. I'm in favor of Petlandia and Basket-in-the-Sky (one I came up with yesterday), but others have been discussed such as Rainbow Bridge and Domesticus
  • Timescale- I've heard 30 million years thrown about before, but other than that I haven't heard much. I'd like to suggest 50 or even 100 myh, as they allow for both basal forms and those a bit more derived than 30 myh offers. I do think (and I believe it was agreed) that we should stick to one time period though.
  • Management- A bit up in the air as of now. I'm willing to take part (even write an OP), though it should be noted this was, when it comes down to it, sphenodons idea, and lamna has played a big role in listing. I think any future decisions should involve their input.
Edited by Dr Nitwhite, Mar 10 2017, 12:41 PM.
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Hananas59
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So if this came to be we would choose an arrangement of species from the list, or would we choose that whole list of pet species?
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Dr Nitwhite
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Hananas59
Mar 10 2017, 12:41 PM
So if this came to be we would choose an arrangement of species from the list, or would we choose that whole list of pet species?
The way this was originally discussed the entire list would be introduced at the beginning, and allowed to continue after that. Some species might eventually go extinct before the time period the project takes place in.




It has come up on discord that this might be better off with a more selective pool of participants or even as a one person project, on the grounds that open collabs often fail and that it may compete with the existing ones. I myself don't see why this necessarily would be so but it's something to consider.
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Hananas59
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Okay, that sounds reasonable and pretty awesome :)

I agree that open collaborations mostly fail, and if anything, this project should be kept from following on those footsteps. A given small team of participants would be a great plan.
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cheesemeat
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Take orchids, butterflies, algae, krill, jellies and leatherback turtles. Dump them on an oxygenated earth-like planet. Wait. See what happens.
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Take orchids, butterflies, algae, krill, jellies and leatherback turtles. Dump them on an oxygenated earth-like planet. Wait. See what happens.



You're gonna need more than that to make sure the ecosystem doesn't fall apart. Putting random species on a random planet just because "you think it would look cool" isn't conducive to a functioning biosphere. You gotta put more thought into it than that.
Edited by Talenkauen, Mar 11 2017, 07:23 PM.
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A scientifically plausible version of the Pikmin series by Nintendo.
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IIGSY
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http://salpfish1.deviantart.com/art/Tower-Forests-637460849

This guy might provide some ideas
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.

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Corecin
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Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Mar 16 2017, 10:42 PM
He has a project here.
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IIGSY
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Corecin
Mar 16 2017, 11:05 PM
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Mar 16 2017, 10:42 PM
He has a project here.
Huh? What is 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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Rodlox
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Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Mar 16 2017, 11:16 PM
Corecin
Mar 16 2017, 11:05 PM
Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt
Mar 16 2017, 10:42 PM
He has a project here.
Huh? What is it?
the same thing you just linked to.
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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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Hananas59
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What would you guys think about a project that is both scientific and fantasy.

It would essentially be all sorts of small planets or dimensions connected to one another, each harboring small ecosystems or worlds but shared together by a transportation device/mechanism.

These worlds would be things like a bamboo mangrove forest, a big mountainous valley with strange wind spirits and jungles with butterflies evolving to look like tiki masks ... it, again, includes both fantasy as speculative evolution but I want to hear what you guys think ...

Or would one bigger project be better?
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I'm always up for Science Fantasy projects.
F.I.N.D.R Field Incident Logs
A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

(And this is just the spec related stuff)
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