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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
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Nembrotha
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Inceptis
Jun 16 2017, 02:54 PM
If you do, it would be interesting to see California as an island and have the Chesapeake sea in North America. I don't remember what it's actually called, but some explorer got lazy and exaggerated Chesapeake Bay to a sea that went back to the Great Lakes. Can't find the map, though.
I think I've heard of California being an island before, but I never knew about Chesapeake Bay being a sea! That reminds me, my grandparents actually own some very old maps of Canada that have several phantom islands in the great lakes and elsewhere.

Also speaking of phantom islands, look what I found:
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Not my map, but I could use this as a starting point.

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Alien animals with many heads and all the heads is used to eat food.
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Inceptis
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Weeell, the biophysics page pushed me back a bit on Fonix, but I think I have something going for me still with zooidism and thinking from sponge-analogues downward. However, I'm not letting myself post it until I make myself work on the one thing I do have going right now in Cosmique.
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I've had two ideas that I'm not sure I can/will do anything with, but I wanted to share.

-Near the end of Earth's life cycle, mankind has advanced so far they we are able to either create a new earth from the beginning of the cycle or extend it's natural life indefinitely. See what happens after a few billion years. This process would also cover the sun, of course.

-A variant on the Hollow Earth concept, massive caverns did indeed form in the crust as the planet cooled, but it's not a time capsule for prehistoric life. However, at some point in the past (not sure when would be the best to explore), the cavern opens up into the ocean floor, draining away vast swaths of water from the surface and hiding it underground.
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A comprehensive list of all organisms, artifacts, and alternative worlds encountered by the foundation team.

At the present time, concepts within are inconsistent and ever shifting.

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My ideas right now:

:The culture of intelligent aliens living on extreme worlds, for example a gas planet or a planet with very very high gravity.

:Last trilobite species alive living in the deep sea in an alternate timeline. The only difference with this alternate earth is that one trilobite species is left.

:Life on a brown star.

:A cave closed in ca. 400 million years by pure chance and the creatures that live there.
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Jun 30 2017, 11:03 AM
My ideas right now:

:The culture of intelligent aliens living on extreme worlds, for example a gas planet or a planet with very very high gravity.

:Last trilobite species alive living in the deep sea in an alternate timeline. The only difference with this alternate earth is that one trilobite species is left.

:Life on a brown star.

:A cave closed in ca. 400 million years by pure chance and the creatures that live there.
Number 1 seems pretty cool, though number 2 would probably be akin to the last dinosaur in some manner.

Number 3; How?! If it worked, though, you could do some exploring with it.

Number 4 seems dangerously close to Fragment and Diyu.

But hey, that's my opinion, so you can ignore it.
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I didn't want to be a bummer, but I actually had a very similar idea to the trilobite thing a few pages back. It was taken from one of my COM entries.
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Hello, so, I have two ideas but I'm not too sure on how executing them:

1.- A scientific approach to Tolkien's legendarium. The races would be derived from an early human ancestor and dragons would be either a new Archosaur order or a highly derived monitor. I still have to figure out some of the creatures' taxonomy and evolution though (Ents are a problem).

2.- Something based on Planet of the Apes, either the evolution humans would go under after the Ape take over/Nuclear war or the evolution of the Apes themselves.
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I may try working on a super phylogenetic tree for arthropods. It's like this, but for arthropods.
http://albertonykus.deviantart.com/art/Vertebrata-Phylogeny-680659263
Is anyone willing to help?
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 may try working on a super phylogenetic tree for arthropods. It's like this, but for arthropods.
http://albertonykus.deviantart.com/art/Vertebrata-Phylogeny-680659263
Is anyone willing to help?

I just don't know how, given how terrible I am at technology.
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Jul 1 2017, 09:52 AM
1.- A scientific approach to Tolkien's legendarium. The races would be derived from an early human ancestor and dragons would be either a new Archosaur order or a highly derived monitor. I still have to figure out some of the creatures' taxonomy and evolution though (Ents are a problem).
With the Ents perhaps instead of making them anthropomorphic trees you could make them instead be just giant hominans that live in forests and have some plant-like aspects to their appearance (e.g. bark-like skin, allowing things like moss and lichen to grow on skin and hair). Perhaps something kinda like these depictions of them: http://turnermohan.deviantart.com/art/Ents-665479857 and http://turnermohan.deviantart.com/art/Going-Treeish-680168125
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Jul 1 2017, 03:49 PM
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I may try working on a super phylogenetic tree for arthropods. It's like this, but for arthropods.
http://albertonykus.deviantart.com/art/Vertebrata-Phylogeny-680659263
Is anyone willing to help?

I just don't know how, given how terrible I am at technology.
Well, you may be able to help with the phylogeny. Actually putting the tree together comes last.
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


More pictures


Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Jul 1 2017, 11:21 AM
I may try working on a super phylogenetic tree for arthropods. It's like this, but for arthropods.
http://albertonykus.deviantart.com/art/Vertebrata-Phylogeny-680659263
Is anyone willing to help?

That seems like a massive undertaking. There are a HUGE amount of genera in arthropoda.
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IIGSY
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Jul 1 2017, 09:49 PM
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Jul 1 2017, 11:21 AM
I may try working on a super phylogenetic tree for arthropods. It's like this, but for arthropods.
http://albertonykus.deviantart.com/art/Vertebrata-Phylogeny-680659263
Is anyone willing to help?

That seems like a massive undertaking. There are a HUGE amount of genera in arthropoda.
Well, that's why we aren't doing it down to genera level, are we? (though exceptions will be made for basal taxa like Isoxys or genera that share no close affiliation with modern groups)
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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Nembrotha
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A phylogenetic tree for arthropods is going to be a massive undertaking. I wish you the best of luck.

I was thinking of a project about a world where Antarctica never (completely) froze over. Cliche, I know, but I'd try to give it a unique flare - There's still glaciers that cover a good portion of the land, as well as a slightly different geography, as the continent was never crushed under kilometres of ice. I would have to find a way to keep the continent warm though, without if affecting much world history... Any suggestions are welcome.

Another project: This one focuses on a volcanic island that existed in the Permian, around 254 million years ago. Since there were no flying vertebrates around those times, the only inhabitants of the island are those who swam there or insects who flew there.

Also, a project focusing on a cave featuring descendants of prehistoric animals - but hear me out: These animals are descended from Cretaceous fauna, and are wildly different from their ancestors due to having evolved for 130-120-ish million years in isolation.
Journey to the Makrinocene, a world in the twilight hours of the Cenozoic! (Slightly Inactive, will eventually pick up)
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