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Mar 22 2017, 11:14 PM
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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! do it.
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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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Mar 23 2017, 12:59 AM
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- Mar 22 2017, 11:14 PM
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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!
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.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
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Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
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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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Mar 23 2017, 01:36 AM
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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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Mar 23 2017, 01:37 AM
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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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Mar 23 2017, 11:31 AM
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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. That does seem a little like a cop out.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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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Mar 24 2017, 10:50 AM
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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.
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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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IIGSY
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Mar 24 2017, 11:03 AM
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Well, I geuss earth life is transported to an alternate universe sheatheria-style, I guess.
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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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Mar 24 2017, 01:51 PM
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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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Projects Currently Being Worked Upon:
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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Mar 24 2017, 05:04 PM
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I'm planning on a xenobiology project, still need a name for it
Also mayyyyyybe realistic Pokémon.
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Delfi-An alien world closer to home than we imagined(WIP)
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Mar 24 2017, 05:15 PM
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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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Recent Projects The Lance That Pierced the Stars -The world of chordates throughout its history. A planet populated only by lancelets, algae, and zooplankton. Dogworld - A planet of Good Boys, man's gift to their dearest friends.
Old Projects The Twisted Mirror -my first project, in which some unknown event sometime before the carboniferous drastically changed the course of earth's evolution, and a new clade arose that replaced the tetrapods. And then evolution went nuts. Sphera Vitae -my second project. A universe of giant hollow spheres populated with life from Earth. Each is seperate and unique from one another, and some downright inhospitable, though life evolves and finds a way like nowhere else. Haemos Island - A tiny volcanic rock in the middle of the South Pacific. An island that is no paradise.
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Mar 24 2017, 05:18 PM
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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...)
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So what's this thing for? Haha, I know what it's for.
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You know a story's gonna be good when it's from Kam and starts with "My cousin vapes."
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Mar 24 2017, 05:30 PM
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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...) Hexapoda is already the name of a clade containing insects and springtails
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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 "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
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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Mar 24 2017, 05:33 PM
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Hexapedal, I mean.
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Mar 24 2017, 05:33 PM
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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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Old Projects The Twisted Mirror -my first project, in which some unknown event sometime before the carboniferous drastically changed the course of earth's evolution, and a new clade arose that replaced the tetrapods. And then evolution went nuts. Sphera Vitae -my second project. A universe of giant hollow spheres populated with life from Earth. Each is seperate and unique from one another, and some downright inhospitable, though life evolves and finds a way like nowhere else. Haemos Island - A tiny volcanic rock in the middle of the South Pacific. An island that is no paradise.
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Mar 24 2017, 05:37 PM
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Thanks. I will give credit to you, Gemstar.
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So what's this thing for? Haha, I know what it's for.
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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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