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May 26 2017, 09:52 PM
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@Scrublord: It depends-how would they become dominant in the first place? Fish struck on a very effective, yet simple layout; hard but small scales on the outside allow for protection while permissing side-to-side movement used in nektonic swimming, while an internal structure for muscles to pull against allows potential for strong swimming. Hallucigenia is a benthic feeder with protection in the form of external spines and is otherwise very squishy. I can see it if benthic fauna suddenly becomes diverse, though you would need to explain why.
Side note: Pikaia is actually closer to the lancelet side of Chordata, considering fish had almost already evolved in a recognizable form.
@gestaltist: I've altered it a bit since I made that original post. The planet is in an eccentric orbit, only coming fatal-twilight close at periapsis. It has a significantly larger magnetosphere than Earth, which helps with stellar wind and UV radiation being much higher than Earth conditions. But the real kicker is that the star is much older than the planet- by about several billion years. The reason for this is that Fonix is actually a recaptured rogue planet, its orbit reasonably stabilized by the revolution of a brown dwarf sibling at about 5 AU.
Little is set in stone, so please comment.
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May 26 2017, 11:22 PM
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@gestaltist: I've altered it a bit since I made that original post. The planet is in an eccentric orbit, only coming fatal-twilight close at periapsis. It has a significantly larger magnetosphere than Earth, which helps with stellar wind and UV radiation being much higher than Earth conditions. But the real kicker is that the star is much older than the planet- by about several billion years. The reason for this is that Fonix is actually a recaptured rogue planet, its orbit reasonably stabilized by the revolution of a brown dwarf sibling at about 5 AU.
Little is set in stone, so please comment. then the star will have gotten past its wild and recklessly dangerous youth. problem solved.
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May 27 2017, 02:11 PM
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@gestaltist: I've altered it a bit since I made that original post. The planet is in an eccentric orbit, only coming fatal-twilight close at periapsis. It has a significantly larger magnetosphere than Earth, which helps with stellar wind and UV radiation being much higher than Earth conditions. But the real kicker is that the star is much older than the planet- by about several billion years. The reason for this is that Fonix is actually a recaptured rogue planet, its orbit reasonably stabilized by the revolution of a brown dwarf sibling at about 5 AU.
Little is set in stone, so please comment.
then the star will have gotten past its wild and recklessly dangerous youth. problem solved. Only partly so, if the planet is still tidally locked. @Inceptis - hard to comment with so little data. If the planet is now on an excentric orbit, and not tidally locked, then you're good as long as the planet has the right atmosphere. Research suggests that a stable atmosphere can outweigh the temperature differential between the apsides. I would have to look for the papers I read about that.
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May 27 2017, 02:34 PM
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Not that I remember. I did an entry for a COM where annelids were dominant, though.
Oh, sorry. I was thinking of Flish's entry for Old Life, New Beginnings.
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May 27 2017, 04:07 PM
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So I was recently thinking of opening up Galapagaia again, but perhaps changing the setting sand scenario. For example, I think the initial list of species I introduced was too broad for true exploration, and I thought of whittling it down to essential cornerstone species and some key, most memorable members of the Galapagos isle. My thoughts are to include the key Tortoise, Iguana and Finches, but then I dont want to just create a bird dominated world that would most likely take place. So I may change it up entirely and rather than doing a Serina style epoch by epoch description, have it set in the far future of the world when all the life has settled into some extraordinary place, describing the evolutionary history as more of the planet is learnt about. Oh and rather than have it be a simulation, place it more in line with tampering aliens on a foreign world vein.
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May 27 2017, 09:22 PM
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Will you put penguins in your project? I'd like to see descendants of Galapagos penguins.
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May 27 2017, 10:05 PM
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So I was recently thinking of opening up Galapagaia again, but perhaps changing the setting sand scenario. For example, I think the initial list of species I introduced was too broad for true exploration, and I thought of whittling it down to essential cornerstone species and some key, most memorable members of the Galapagos isle. My thoughts are to include the key Tortoise, Iguana and Finches, but then I dont want to just create a bird dominated world that would most likely take place. So I may change it up entirely and rather than doing a Serina style epoch by epoch description, have it set in the far future of the world when all the life has settled into some extraordinary place, describing the evolutionary history as more of the planet is learnt about. Oh and rather than have it be a simulation, place it more in line with tampering aliens on a foreign world vein. Maybe have the finches perish early on (or end up restricted to Cocos Island or somewhere equally remote), and-or just focus on some of the other fauna and flora of the Galapagos...the snakes, maybe, or the bees, or...
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May 28 2017, 11:05 AM
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- May 25 2017, 04:47 PM
Not that I remember. I did an entry for a COM where annelids were dominant, though. Huh? When?
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Here's a project I've been ironing out for a long time now, and it's now in my signature as an upcoming work, so I figure I might as will put it here (though it IS something I plan to do eventually, so no stealing. . .)
I call it "The Big One". I got the idea from reading Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life, where he briefly wonders what life might look like today if a different group of organisms (say, Hallucigenia instead of Pikaia) had evolved into the dominant phylum of large animals on Earth after the Cambrian explosion. So I've decided to do exactly that--create a timeline where Hallucigenia gives rise to the dominant phylum on Earth. This is basically the Mt. Everest of alternative evolution. The Big One, in other words. Needless to say, this project's going to take a lot of thinking. What direction are other phyla (arthropods, mollusks, etc?) going to take? What effect will mass extinctions have, assuming they're still the same as our world? But it's something I want to do nonetheless.
I like this. But there's something I must make clear, Hallucigenia is NOT an arthropod. Not anymore than a clonial salp is a vertebrate. I said this because I don't want neo-arthropods coming from this. Anyway.
As for true arthropods, they'll probably still colonize land several times. But maybe you could to a different set? Instead of hexapods, myriapods, and arachnids, you could do trilobites, nektaspids and phyllocarids. And maybe some more minor lineages become terrestrialized over time, such as fuxianhuiids, nektaspids, pycnogonids and eurypterids (just as isopods, amphipods, true crabs and hermit crabs in real life).
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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.
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"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
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C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
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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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May 28 2017, 05:39 PM
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Here's a project I've been ironing out for a long time now, and it's now in my signature as an upcoming work, so I figure I might as will put it here (though it IS something I plan to do eventually, so no stealing. . .)
I call it "The Big One". I got the idea from reading Stephen Jay Gould's book Wonderful Life, where he briefly wonders what life might look like today if a different group of organisms (say, Hallucigenia instead of Pikaia) had evolved into the dominant phylum of large animals on Earth after the Cambrian explosion. So I've decided to do exactly that--create a timeline where Hallucigenia gives rise to the dominant phylum on Earth. This is basically the Mt. Everest of alternative evolution. The Big One, in other words. Needless to say, this project's going to take a lot of thinking. What direction are other phyla (arthropods, mollusks, etc?) going to take? What effect will mass extinctions have, assuming they're still the same as our world? But it's something I want to do nonetheless.
I like this. But there's something I must make clear, Hallucigenia is NOT an arthropod. Not anymore than a clonial salp is a vertebrate. I said this because I don't want neo-arthropods coming from this. Anyway. As for true arthropods, they'll probably still colonize land several times. But maybe you could to a different set? Instead of hexapods, myriapods, and arachnids, you could do trilobites, nektaspids and phyllocarids. And maybe some more minor lineages become terrestrialized over time, such as fuxianhuiids, nektaspids, pycnogonids and eurypterids (just as isopods, amphipods, true crabs and hermit crabs in real life).
Marellids would be interesting if they lived past the Devonian. Antler crabs for the win!
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@Inceptis - hard to comment with so little data. If the planet is now on an excentric orbit, and not tidally locked, then you're good as long as the planet has the right atmosphere. Research suggests that a stable atmosphere can outweigh the temperature differential between the apsides. I would have to look for the papers I read about that.
Fonix is still tidally locked, it's just that it experiences extreme libration of its sun, distributing the sunlight more evenly across the surface. It would also create some interesting spots in the shadows of mountains where the sun rises fatally and sets friendly, working vice versa.
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This was getting fairly big.
Spoiler: click to toggle Projects No link= doesn't exist yet Partial link= little or no information yet
The Hundred Thousand Acre Woods: We're going on an expotition... Roald Island: Snozzwangers and Whangdoodles aplenty(Please don't feed the nerds). The Candleverse: Like The Library, but with candles. Basura: Also like The Library, but with trash and lost things. From Scratch: We all drew monsters as children...
More serious projects Rivun: Qhoths on Rivun, evermore. Pelagia: Earth's mirror twin Calida: Looking to where you first began can reveal what's gone unnoticed. The first exoplanet ever found has a lukewarm sibling... Spyra: Few things are stranger than jellyfish, especially when they apologize. Canto: A planemo carrying the seeds of life is adopted by an elderly red dwarf couple. Music ensues. (?) Methuselah: Much is still in the works, given that life doesn't evolve on a planet.
GD: It shall be revived when I revive it.
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Insect Illuminati Get Shrekt - Archean life boi
Corecin - This is why this timeline is infamous, as it brought back every memory of the 'Jurassic Zebra' thread, and we can never forget about it, we thus nuked the planet and never looked back, turning our sights to other timelines.
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May 28 2017, 06:24 PM
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Marellids would be interesting if they lived past the Devonian. Antler crabs for the win! Yeah. But imagine terrestrial pycnogonids.
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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
More pictures
Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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May 29 2017, 12:11 AM
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Fonix is still tidally locked, it's just that it experiences extreme libration of its sun, distributing the sunlight more evenly across the surface. It would also create some interesting spots in the shadows of mountains where the sun rises fatally and sets friendly, working vice versa.
Hmm. Tidally locked on a very eccentric orbit? Alright. Then we are back to my original question. You only have one side of the planet recieve heat. Air on that side will be constantly rising due to warming, whereas it will ge falling on the dark side. Such a one-sided movement will probably tear the atmosphere apart - it will simply evaporate into space on the day side. What is your solution? An eccentric orbit does little to change that.
Libration is an interesting concept but first you need an atmosphere.
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May 29 2017, 02:14 AM
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Fonix is still tidally locked, it's just that it experiences extreme libration of its sun, distributing the sunlight more evenly across the surface. It would also create some interesting spots in the shadows of mountains where the sun rises fatally and sets friendly, working vice versa.
Hmm. Tidally locked on a very eccentric orbit? Alright. Then we are back to my original question. You only have one side of the planet recieve heat. Air on that side will be constantly rising due to warming, whereas it will ge falling on the dark side. Such a one-sided movement will probably tear the atmosphere apart - it will simply evaporate into space on the day side. What is your solution? An eccentric orbit does little to change that. unless it gets around to the other side of the planet (or even to any nonsunward side) before it evaporates into space.
yes, every planet loses some gas to space. even Earth (arid zones are particularly bad for this, my science lessons always said, because gas and humidity escaped the atmosphere during the day)...and yet Earth manages to survive 4 billion years with arid zones.
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May 29 2017, 04:28 AM
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Fonix is still tidally locked, it's just that it experiences extreme libration of its sun, distributing the sunlight more evenly across the surface. It would also create some interesting spots in the shadows of mountains where the sun rises fatally and sets friendly, working vice versa.
Hmm. Tidally locked on a very eccentric orbit? Alright. Then we are back to my original question. You only have one side of the planet recieve heat. Air on that side will be constantly rising due to warming, whereas it will ge falling on the dark side. Such a one-sided movement will probably tear the atmosphere apart - it will simply evaporate into space on the day side. What is your solution? An eccentric orbit does little to change that.
unless it gets around to the other side of the planet (or even to any nonsunward side) before it evaporates into space. yes, every planet loses some gas to space. even Earth (arid zones are particularly bad for this, my science lessons always said, because gas and humidity escaped the atmosphere during the day)...and yet Earth manages to survive 4 billion years with arid zones. True, but Earth has various counterbalances. E.g., the most arid areas are in the subtropics where the air actually falls due to the Hadley cell terminating there. This prevents too much air from escaping at those latitudes. On a tidally locked planet, creating a stable circulation pattern is much harder - I'm not saying impossible, mind you, but unless you want to handwave it, it is the primary concern on such a planet.
Interactions between the planetary rotation (and Coriolis force) and the constance of the subsolar point are not trivial to calculate. It's a completely different situation than on Earth, where it's not a point but a band that gets the most insolation. Having a hot band allows for Hadley cells forming, and - subsequently - the whole atmospheric circulation with jet streams, etc.
With a tidally locked planet, it's different. The air movement wouldn't start North and South from the Equator, like on Earth. It would start North, South, East and West from a single subsolar point at the equator. It would be deflected by the Coriolis force to one side, but it would be more local.
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- Inceptis
- May 24 2017, 05:38 PM
Uh, did you just like your own post?! That's honestly a little self-centered. I've only done that once before, and it was just to see if it was possible. Its a habit OK? It's not being self-centered or anything.
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May 29 2017, 07:06 AM
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- Planetace
- May 29 2017, 04:38 AM
- Inceptis
- May 24 2017, 05:38 PM
Uh, did you just like your own post?! That's honestly a little self-centered. I've only done that once before, and it was just to see if it was possible.
Its a habit OK? It's not being self-centered or anything. Habits can be changed, and this particular one may be easily misunderstood so that people think less of your content. Just a thought.
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