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| Rodlox | Mar 27 2017, 11:33 PM Post #841 |
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not sure discussing potential projects qualifies as derailing. pretty sure it doesn't qualify. |
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| CrypticPrism | Mar 27 2017, 11:49 PM Post #842 |
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Oh, okay, sorry, I'm still trying to get used to the ways of the forum as a user. An idea I've had is a future project, but I feel I need more experience. I still can't decide between several times or one. I'm kind of edging towards the latter, due to time constraints(ha) and the fact I don't want to talk about a barely-changed earth 10 million years from now. Edited by CrypticPrism, Mar 28 2017, 10:09 AM.
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So what's this thing for? Haha, I know what it's for.
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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| IIGSY | Mar 28 2017, 05:44 AM Post #843 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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You new here? If so, you caught on to that pretty quickly. |
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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 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 | Mar 28 2017, 10:08 AM Post #844 |
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Yeah, I'm new, but I've been an anon stalker for the past 3 years. |
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So what's this thing for? Haha, I know what it's for.
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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| Rodlox | Mar 28 2017, 10:53 AM Post #845 |
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its up to you how much the flora and-or fauna changes in a given span of time. (and i felt the same way when i started my future evolution project - sometimes the best teacher is experience...well, trying) there were times after various Triassic extinctions that saw little change over a span of 10 million years; on the other hand, there were other Triassic extinctions (and the extinction at the end of the Cretaceous) that saw massive changes over after ten million years. |
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| CrypticPrism | Mar 28 2017, 11:45 AM Post #846 |
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Yeah , I feel like it would be better to focus on my almost ready projects than the ones that are still in idea form. |
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So what's this thing for? Haha, I know what it's for.
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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| IIGSY | Apr 1 2017, 03:15 PM Post #847 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Holyshitholyshitholyshitholyshit. I just showered and I got a flood of new ideas for ARTH-6810. I think I'm doing pretty good, but I haven't really exploited the full potential for this project. These ideas just might change that. A whole community of small animals that live on and near the surface of the ocean, including pelagic fishing spiders and upside down snails. Marine (including pelagic) diving beetles. Neotenic spiders that live ballooning high in the sky for their whole lives. With seabirds gone, insects can have a much more prominent role in the oceans. A massive marine filter feeder (possibly bigger than a blue whale) and it's own world of parasites, symbioites, and commensalists. A large, filter feeding sundew plant in the driftlands (is this even possible? I'm not to well versed in plants) Limnognathia descendants "Giant" arrow worms Some large flying insect that uses modified forelimbs to catch aeroplankton A spider that spins a trawling net and casts it in a river. Shell boring nemerteans A fishing insect that uses it's antennae as bait All these ideas seem reasonably plausible to me, but I must make sure. Adding these to much project would be something that I would very much like, but I'm not 100% sure yet. |
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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 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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| Beetleboy | Apr 8 2017, 12:07 PM Post #848 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Here's a little something that's been swirling around in my head for the past week. I've been thinking about underused aspects of spec evo projects. As IIGS will tell you, around 3 times a week, invertebrates are great and are often underused in spec. Other obvious things are plants and fungi, rarely covered in any depth (if at all) in spec. And hey, that's fine, this is a hobby, we speculate on what interests us most. But the other day I was looking at some old photos and videos of my marine aquarium that I owned several years ago. It brought to mind the fact that corals, crabs, and fish have fascinated me for a long time, and that marine species such as this would be great to spec on. Of course, marine organisms are not uncommon in projects, but they are often limitted to large animals, for example whale analogues. What I'm interested in are those fascinating little stories hidden away in the coral reefs and sandy seabeds, stories of hermit crabs fighting over shells, fish turning from male to female, harlequin shrimps feasting upon starfish, pufferfish making intricate patterns to impress their mate . . . you get the picture. My point is, lots of projects feature sealife, and and many focus quite heavily on it - for example Jasonguppy's amazing Oceanus. However, what interests me (at least to speculate on) is the fascinating little aspects of marine habitats, the bizarre lifestories behind seemingly ordinary fish, strange behaviours, bizarre symbiotic relationships . . . I'm not sure how to explain this, but I guess I mean the little things are what interest me. I'm going to use Oceanus again as an example, and I don't mean this to bash it, it's one of the best projects on the forum in my opinion, and I could see it being pinned one day - but so far it's main focus has been life on and around islands. And islands are great! What I want is a project that shows the strange little creatures living within the ocean, on the coral reefs, swimming across open oceans, inhabiting deep abysses. Man, I'm explaining this really badly. Basically, I guess I want a project about weird fish and invertebrates, corals and crabs and maybe the occaisonal island with some weird stuff going on on it. Essentially, an alternative universe filled with a worldwide ocean, perhaps scattered with islands (because I can't resist island life). I know it sounds like an Oceanus rip-off, but really what I'm imagining in my head has a very different feel to it. It would draw on my love for aquariums and marine life that I've had since I've been a little kid. I have several ideas for this project already (the recent fish posts in the Obscure Taxa thread has been particularly inspriring), and as I frequently visit my local public aquarium, there'll probably be a steady flow of new ideas and inspiration. My main problem at the moment is a name for the world. I'm aiming for something tropical, and not sounding like it's from the Hawaiian language. I'm at a bit of a loss at the name to be honest, I've been scrolling through lists of relevant words in different languages, searching for inspiration, for a large portion of the afternoon, and nothing seems to fit. |
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| trex841 | Apr 8 2017, 12:56 PM Post #849 |
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It's interesting how you picked Oceanus for your comparison, as I remember Jason stating that, as a tropical resort, that there was a bias to showing off the more marketable aspects, whether it be the large, or the beautiful, or even the more hazardous aspects as the last entries demonstrated. So the kind of stuff you wish to show would be largely glanced over, uninteresting to all but the diehard biology fans like us. That being said, those aspects of a reef/ocean community fascinate me as well, and would love to see what you come up with. I've had a similar idea, though more on taking some of the more unusual quirks of ecology and applying them to alien ecosystems that otherwise might not have occurred to us speculators. |
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| Rodlox | Apr 9 2017, 12:55 AM Post #850 |
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Reefworld, perhaps? (there's no rule saying it must it must it must be an exotic name) a thought - maybe in some (all?) of the posts of that project, the observations are made of seafloor seacoastal critters which are living in captivity - public or private aquaria. I like this idea. |
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| trex841 | Apr 9 2017, 08:01 AM Post #851 |
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Would the behaviors he'd like to focus on be effected by captivity? I'm not sure how much it's effected in the real world. |
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| Beetleboy | Apr 9 2017, 10:29 AM Post #852 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Hey, thanks for the feedback guys!
Ah, that makes sense. I chose Oceanus as a comparison purely because of the similarity in premise, however I think that the style would be totally different. Having said that, I'm not sure what the style is yet, but I know that it'll be very different from the tropical resort style of Oceanus (which is awesome).
True, and I do like Reefworld. Simple, but sums up the project pretty well. Having said that, I'll continue to think about this for a little longer I think. However, looking back at my post it does make it look like the project would be limited to a coral reef. Well, that's not really what I meant - although reefs and other such shallow water areas would be a large focus, other habitats such as the open ocean, islands, and the deep sea would also be covered to an extent.
I like that idea very much indeed. Although I don't think it would work for the vast majority of the updates, it just wouldn't be compatible with the image I have in my head. However, the inclusion of some aquarium references would be cool, for example stating that certain species are caught and sold for use in marine aquariums. It could be a conservation issue, in fact. That gives me an idea, using more conservation aspects in the project. This is something that I've wanted to do for a while, including stuff such as breeding projects or schemes to help protect certain threatened speculative species. I was until now fairly unsure whether humans would be present in the project, but now having said all this, I think that both native island tribes and more modern newcomers could be seen. |
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| trex841 | Apr 9 2017, 10:57 AM Post #853 |
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Maybe this is my recent watching of Finding Dory talking, but now I kind of want to see a speculative aquarium. Then again, I have held interest in things like this SCP or even this bit of artwork in the past, so maybe that could be a theme. Animals from various different universes, with different histories or even rules, put on display for public exhibition, and how well they are received, or how there behavior is effected by captivity. |
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| Beetleboy | Apr 9 2017, 11:04 AM Post #854 |
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Hey, I was thinking about something similar a couple of weeks back, but it was not just an aquarium, but also had features such as a museum, botanical garden, and wildlife park, all including speculative organisms from alternative universes. |
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| Sheather | Apr 9 2017, 11:07 AM Post #855 |
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A terraformed world, only vertebrate present being the tuatara. Tuaterra.
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