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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,383 Views)
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I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean. The introduced species include-

Vertebrates
Platypus
River otter
American alligator
Red eared slider
Softshell turtle
Alligator snapping turtle
Garter snake
Tentacled snake
African dwarf frog
Axolotl
Ruber eel
Electric eel
Neon tetra
Koi
Goldfish
Freshwater ray
Alligator gar
Australian lungfish
Betta
Carp
Zebrafish
Bass
Anole lizards
American bullfrog
Muscovy duck
Flamingo
American white ibis

Panarthropods
Giant water bug
Daphnia
Water strider
Red swamp crayfish
Freshwater crab
Various dragonflies
Various mosquitoes, crane flies, and midges
Horseflies
Freshwater amphipods
Woodlice
Brine shrimp
Diving bell spider
Freshwater mites
Aquatic springtails
Cherry shrimp
Remipedes
Scolopendra cataracta
Diving beetles
Whirligig beetles
Mayflies
Caddisflies
Tardigrades
Water boatman
Backswimmers
Copepods
Triops
Various millipedes
Fishing spider
Ostracods
Water scorpion (both verities)
Dobsonflies
Velvet worms
Wolf spiders
Various land crabs, including the coconut crab
Housefly
American cockroach

Other animals
Rotifers
Nematodes
Nematomorphs
Various pond snails
Various land snails and slugs
Earthworms
Medicinal leech
Tiger leech
Terrestrial nemerteans
Land planarians
Freshwater planarians
Various freshwater bivalves
Bryozoans
Freshwater sponges
Tubifex
Hydra

"Flora"
Reeds
Lily pads
Duckweed
Volvox
Pond scum
Moss
Liveworts
Bladderworts
Various lichens
Aldrovanda vesiculosa
Ceratophyllum
Various alismatids
Euglena
Paramecium
Many types of micro algae
Palm trees
Ferns
The grass you see on lawns
Various fungi (I don't know sh*t about fungi, so feel free to fill me in here)

For animals, I wanted to add mostly aquatic or amphibious species, with a few small terrestrial species. I did my best with the aquatic flora, but there probably has to be a lot more terrestrial plants. You can handle if you want to.

It would be pretty cool to see how these normally inland species evolve in the ocean sized pond.
Edited by IIGSY, Mar 19 2017, 06:59 PM.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
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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 probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.


That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater.
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I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.


That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater.
could the salt get bound to something and locked away (maybe instead of silica, something uses salt for its casings?)...or its a planet which gets terraformed young in its planetary life, before the oceans get particularly salty?
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I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.


That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater.
Then let's make the planet not have salt. It's highly unlikely, but it's possible.
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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So, guys. Barring the salt problem, how do you think life would evolve on this strange planet?
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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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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I probably wont follow this idea anytime soon, but here is something I want to get out there. If you want to use this, feel free. It's a typical terraformed planet project, but there's one catch. The oceans are freshwater. There is one large continent surrounded by a few islands, surrounded by a freshwater ocean.


That's physically impossible. Evey river, every rock shelf, every bit of shoreline, it all leaches mineral salts into the ocean. Unless the entirety of your planet's rock, dirt, sand, and crust lacks salts of ANY kind (which would be astronomically hard to pull off) your planet's oceans aren't going to be freshwater.
Then let's make the planet not have salt. It's highly unlikely, but it's possible.
Aren't sodium and chlorine like, essential to life as we know it, and if you're doing a terraformed planet, isn't it therefore essential to that planet? Removing salt from a planet that is supposed to harbour Earth life, will most likely mean almost everything remotely complex will die. If i'm wrong, which is possible, please correct me
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The problem is not with our diet or with our systems. That's no problem at all.

It sits within our cells, we have Sodium/Potassium pumps which keep our inner equilibrium. If you remove salts you remove that and our cells will most likely die.

But it would most certainly be interesting if you found a way around that!
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You could just make it an alternate universe project, sorta like old school Sheatheria. That way you can just handwave it away and say "physics work different".
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
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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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh?
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh?
Well, this project will be 50 million years from now. Are you sure there isn't a way to have permanently freshwater ocean?
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


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh?
Well, this project will be 50 million years from now. Are you sure there isn't a way to have permanently freshwater ocean?
*sigh* this is like arguing theology.

do you need the oceans eternally fresh, or simply for a very very long time?
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Isn't there some way to keep the oceans freshwater? I feel like this project could be amazing, but if there's no way to get freshwater oceans, then it's pointless. There must be a way.
how long do you NEED the oceans to be perfectly purely fresh?
Well, this project will be 50 million years from now. Are you sure there isn't a way to have permanently freshwater ocean?
*sigh* this is like arguing theology.

do you need the oceans eternally fresh, or simply for a very very long time?
Preferably eternal. If not, then at least enough to have fresh seas 50 million years from now.
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


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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So, if the oceans can at least have fresh water oceans 50 million years from now, then I think stuff will go like this. Alligators will probably give rise to apex predators, with pike and bass being mesopredators. Ducks will evolve into all sorts of "seabirds". Water fleas will become major proponents of plankton. Plants and insects will have a much more prominent role in this giant lake than in our earth oceans. Water striders here will be like Halobates on earth. Reef would probably be made of mussels, algae, bryozoans, and freshwater sponges. Hydras will evolve either into reef builders of neo "jellyfish". Snapping turtles would probably become camouflaged ambush predators, akin to angel sharks or frogfish. Carp and goldfish descendants might be the main forage feeders. "Tidepools" would contain all sorts of insects and mollusks. Insects with aquatic larvae may even become neotenic, which could do all sorts of interesting things. Decapods like shrimps, crabs, and crayfish would probably take the place of their saltwater counterparts. Tadpole shrimp could take the place of horseshoe crabs. The diving bell spider, might also produce something interesting. Leeches could be some sort of shoaling parasite. The possibilities are endless!
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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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


More pictures


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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