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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,372 Views)
IIGSY
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Lowry
May 11 2017, 05:40 PM
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Lowry
May 11 2017, 06:07 AM
I don't think the highly specialised cave lancelet I plan of having is going to escape the ridiculous freshwater cave system I have for it, so I'd say my project is fine in plausibility. Plus just because something survives my initial impact it doesn't necessarily mean I can't kill it off shortly after. Before turning towards judgment on my ideas, first develop an opinion I respect.
I hate to be "that guy", but lancelets aren't vertebrates. I think you meant chordates.
Oh lol, typo on my part. I did actually mean vertebrates I just didn't mean a literal lancelet, rather an equivalent derived from cave dwelling fishes. It should read as 'highly specialised cave lancelet-analogue'. And even when I say analogue, I mean on a visual level. Perhaps a better word could be used but meh. Thanks for pointing it out and being once again 'that guy'. Anything else about my posts you'd like to nitpick while we're at it? It's just I'm in a confrontational move and I don't want to clog this thread up too badly.
Well, yes. Why decapods? I'm not really nitpicking anything here, just wondering why you chose decapods. I'd personally find arachnids more likely, but hey, that's why I'm asking.


Rodlox
 
IIGS has a habit of sometimes trying to outdo those of us who have Aspergers and other things - not always, granted, but...

and given the whole "debate" earlier (this thread?) about what is isn't an insect etc, one would think IIGS wouldn't knowingly repeat the whole shitestorm with lancets. *sigh*
1. What does Aspergers have to do with this? I just wanted to point out that lancelets aren't vertebrates, and it turns out that this "lancelet" is actually a cave fish that just looks like a lancelet.

2. I am not intentionally trying to start shitstorms. I just ask a question, and things go downhill. Because 'me', I guess. Please note I am not trying to be aggressive.
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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I actually have high-functioning ASD and know some people with it as well. I see some of the known habits in your behavior of posting, but TBH, it does seem like there's a group on here named, "The people IIGS annoyed" which is kind of pushing it. I always try to be as careful as possible with my posts, but it's okay to make a few mistakes.
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Inceptis
May 11 2017, 06:21 PM
there's a group on here named, "The people IIGS annoyed"
Huh? What do mean? Look. That past me is gone. We all make mistakes and learn from them. I am no different.
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


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Inceptis
May 11 2017, 06:21 PM
it does seem like there's a group on here named, "The people IIGS annoyed"
Okay that's really rude so we need to stop this now, I can feel a too personal argument coming on.
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Alright, you all need to calm down. IIGS, some people on the forum just find you irritating. My only suggestion is to be careful with your posts, think if it's adding to the discussion or just increasing your post count, try to read your post back as if you are someone else. That is what I do.
Rodlox, I would suggest to perhaps be a little more civil with IIGS. I understand that you might be annoyed, but I'm noticing a pattern that on multiple threads you do seem to lose your temper with IIGS particularly quickly.

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The people IIGS annoyed"

This is rude and frankly offensive, please stop. Many people here seem to have a go at IIGS needlessly just because it's him. Please, all of you try and put the past behind you and make a fresh start. This forum is about discussion, learning, and biology. Don't let good threads dissolve into needless, childish bickering.

I'm not telling anyone off here, as frankly I'm in no position to do so. Just advice from my point of view looking in on this thread.
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May 11 2017, 03:58 PM
True, though doesn't that stagnate evolution by preventing variation and genetic drift? or anything else I'm not thinking of? I suppose other factors could compensate, I just to make sure there are reasons for 'complex' life to evolve.

Also I would probably need volcanism for the chemosysthesis, though once enough was pumped into the atmosphere the cycle should be able to keep going from there if the previous biology question turns out to be true.

EDIT: Aaand I took so long to write that I got knocked out of place. Ugh, Why can't I write fast?
A valid concern. If I were to take a stab at this project, I would probably say that this planet used to have continental drift, but gradually dried out, leaving only caves as viable habitats. That would provide you with enough timeline for complex life to evolve, and then adapt to the caves. And you could have several cave systems with their unique challenges, providing ample grounds for spec evo.

Alternatively, you could have external factors, like changes in the sun's activity, asteroid impacts, or whatnot, provide variation in the environment. Or simply have a strong enough Milankovich cycle for the planet to change its climate cyclically (why did I think of it last? It's actually a cool idea...)

So yeah, that wouldn't be an easy project, but it could prove interesting.

BTW: you could then have some creatures try to "conquer the land" by crawling out of the caves for similar reasons as the first land animals on Earth: more safety for offspring, etc. They would likely not be able to survive solely out of the caves with the arid climate, but maybe they could evolve enough to be able to actually move to other cave systems.

I'm warming up to this idea the more I think about it. If Scosya weren't so time-consuming, I might actually steal this one.
Edited by gestaltist, May 12 2017, 04:27 AM.
Scosya - my project
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gestaltist
May 12 2017, 04:26 AM
I'm warming up to this idea the more I think about it. If Scosya weren't so time-consuming, I might actually steal this one.
maybe have it as a back-burner project, something to have fun with when Scosya gets stressful or frustrating.
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Having multiple projects, personally, is useful for bouncing ideas as I usually have ideas for one project when trying to think of ideas for the other
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I do have other projects, but they are less on the spec evo side, and more on the wacky alternate universes and/or fantasy side - so I don't post them here because they aren't meant to be plausible.

Think floating islands in a bubble of air around a giant glowing orb, stuff like that. Or an 19 century analogue but with vengeful gods, vampires, and space-bending trains.
Edited by gestaltist, May 12 2017, 01:45 PM.
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May 12 2017, 01:44 PM
Think floating islands in a bubble of air around a giant glowing orb, stuff like that.


I had a project like that once. It involved the descendants of devonian fauna, like lobopodians, placoderms, primitive arachnids, etc. There were even lobopodian sophonts living there, but they eventually got turned into intelligent land placoderms. Unfortunately, I dropped the project because it wasn't going in a satisfying direction. However, now that I think about it, it has some potential that I wasn't able to grasp back then. I might actually revisit it, someday.
Edited by Talenkauen, May 12 2017, 02:19 PM.
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Actually, it hit me that outside of the chemosysthesis, my idea is pretty parallel to Diyu. It certainly doesn't mean no one else can do their own take, just surprised it slipped my mind.
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Too, lighten the mood, I have a few ideas I want to spit out. Feel free to use them.

1. A terraformed planet where the only vertebrate is the blue whale

2. A terraformed planet with many representatives of all eukaryotic lineages. Except for animals. No animals.

3. An alternate world where the devonian extinction was much worse, severely degrading vertebrates even more than it did in real life, as well as killing off anything even remotely tetrapod-like.

4. A terraformed planet with three large continents, all very far away from each other. There is three vertebrates introduced (Epaulette shark, mudskipper, australian lungfish). One on each continent. Plate tectonics also move slowly here than on earth. So, when the continents finally meet, we will have 3 separate lineages of "tetrapods"!

5. A planet with the only animals introduced being gelatinous zooplankton.


I am thinking of reviving my 'freshwater ocean' project in the form of a community project. Instead of a freshwater ocean, it will be a lake world. There will be no continents and oceans. The planet will be more or less equal parts land and water with a slight edge to water. It will look like land polka dotted with tons of freshwater lakes of varying sizes, most of which are connected by rivers and streams. There will be one massive lake in the middle, twice the area of the caspian sea, depth of like Baikal.
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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Is teleporting a group of animals into the past considered alternate universe or alternate evolution if you don't have any other magical physics laws breaking stuff in it.
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May 21 2017, 04:35 AM
Is teleporting a group of animals into the past considered alternate universe or alternate evolution if you don't have any other magical physics laws breaking stuff in it.
Oh god, it's the return of Jurassic Zebras!
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May 12 2017, 07:26 PM
1. A terraformed planet where the only vertebrate is the blue whale
Dragonthunders once did that for a COM.
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