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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,382 Views)
Rodlox
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Mar 22 2017, 11:40 AM
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!
do it.

I will subscribe.
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Rodlox
Mar 22 2017, 11:14 PM
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Mar 22 2017, 11:40 AM
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!
do it.

I will subscribe.
I probably will, actually. But I just want to know if there can be fresh oceans 50 million years from now. That's all the confirmation I need.
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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This pretty much describes what I want to say
http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whysalty.html

The problem.is because all water on land finds a way someway or another to ocean water that all factors on land will contribute to saltness. If rocks erode and the salts and minerals within their core find their way to an aqueous solution then your water will become salt. Maybe not directly but in 50 million years it will.

Now mind me!

I am not saying this to disempower you because that list of ideas is very awesome and I really would like to see such an awesome idea come alive.

You just need something to remove the water. Mayhe the terran worldbuilders built a device to collect salt through electrical magnets and you could have one pool that is salt while the rest of the earth is fresh.
Just proposing ideas here, you have to do what feels good for you. Freshwater world is aweeome and mayne a bit implausible but no one said implausible couldn't be fun :)
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If you are having trouble with the plausibility (or implausibility as the case seems to be) of a freshwater ocean, one possible solution could be to have the project in the Alternate Universes category and set it in a universe where maybe salt doesn't exist or something prevents water from becoming salty. Though I'm not sure if you would see this as a bit of a cheap cop-out solution.
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Tartarus
Mar 23 2017, 01:37 AM
If you are having trouble with the plausibility (or implausibility as the case seems to be) of a freshwater ocean, one possible solution could be to have the project in the Alternate Universes category and set it in a universe where maybe salt doesn't exist or something prevents water from becoming salty. Though I'm not sure if you would see this as a bit of a cheap cop-out solution.
That does seem a little like a cop out.
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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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Adman
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It's pretty much the only way to have your project though, otherwise you'll have to deal with oceans that are brackish to saltwater.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
The Ditch- Nothing is what if seems..
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Well, I geuss earth life is transported to an alternate universe sheatheria-style, I guess.
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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Lowry
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From those ideas I don't see why you need mainly freshwater at all, have a mainly fresh water, large lake and use that as a launching platform for salt water life. Just extend the timeline long enough for salt pumps and the like and you'll be fine
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Karkinos: Where faith meets myth on a world of the strangely familiar.
Under New Suns: The forums own colonisation race! Steep yourself in my lore....

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- Rich Man's Ark (nice little bit of community spec :P)
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CrypticPrism
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I'm planning on a xenobiology project, still need a name for it

Also mayyyyyybe realistic Pokémon.
So what's this thing for?
Haha, I know what it's for.

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Uncanny Gemstar
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Mayhaps you could give seem details for your xenobiology project or at least a theme to work with to help you?
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CrypticPrism
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It's orbiting a red dwarf, and the plants are orange. The placoderm-like group took to land, and the animals are hexapodal(well, basally...)
So what's this thing for?
Haha, I know what it's for.

Mr.Mysterio
 
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CrypticPrism
Mar 24 2017, 05:18 PM
It's orbiting a red dwarf, and the plants are orange. The placoderm-like group took to land, and the animals are hexapodal(well, basally...)
Hexapoda is already the name of a clade containing insects and springtails
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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CrypticPrism
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Hexapedal, I mean.
So what's this thing for?
Haha, I know what it's for.

Mr.Mysterio
 
You know a story's gonna be good when it's from Kam and starts with "My cousin vapes."




Delfi-An alien world closer to home than we imagined(WIP)

Thalassios- An eternal world of tropical islands, and shallow seas(WIP)




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Uncanny Gemstar
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If you're naming the planet, how about Rutilus. As for the project name how about The Blazing World, due to the fiery colors (red star and orange photosynthesizers)
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CrypticPrism
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Thanks. I will give credit to you, Gemstar.
So what's this thing for?
Haha, I know what it's for.

Mr.Mysterio
 
You know a story's gonna be good when it's from Kam and starts with "My cousin vapes."




Delfi-An alien world closer to home than we imagined(WIP)

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