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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,357 Views)
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There is the question of just how much total land would be left if just those listed peeks are above the surface, and also how much water is being added from this event. And in turn, what the impact of that volume would do to the moon...

Not saying it's impossible, just that there is math to be done.
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I've got a few project ideas:

-A few Serina/Littoralis-like worlds including: A terriformed planet/habitat involving European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis), as well as generic pond fish (perhaps minnows). The future turtles would produce traditional archosaur-like forms, and bat/pterosaur-like forms, while the fish would produce the bulk of the aquatic biota, as well as specialized terrestrial groups.

-A planet/habitat inhabited solely by descendants of Edaphosaurus. These include small, mammaloid insectivores, and sailbacked marine species.

-And RPG and/or mockumentary involving the multiversal cluster reality I've been developing since 2013. If you wanna see some useful (albeit outdated) information on it, here's a topic on an earlier version:

http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5850699/1/#new
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trex841
Aug 19 2017, 10:12 PM
There is the question of just how much total land would be left if just those listed peaks are above the surface, and also how much water is being added from this event. And in turn, what the impact of that volume would do to the moon...

Not saying it's impossible, just that there is math to be done.
Your points are well taken. Here's what I was thinking in terms of land area:

The full flooding will take place over maybe 300-500 years. By the time the icy debris rains out of Earth orbit, anything higher than 22,598 feet (6,888 meters) is above water. So we end up with the Himalaya/Hindu Kush/Karakoram mountain ranges forming a large island chain, much like Polynesia. South America's Aconcagua and Ojos del Salado are two very lonely islands where the Andes used to be, but that's it.

That doesn't seem like a lot of area for land animals to play around with, but keep in mind that the world is far from static. Places like the Andean highlands and the Tibetan plateau form wide expanses of shallow sea, raising the possibility of reef-building survivors raising atolls. And given that this is 30 or 35 million years in the future, there's a new island chain forming where the Mediterranean used to be, as the collision of the African and European plates throws up Himalayas-sized seamounts.
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A project that looks at the hypothetical animals of a real area that once existed in the past, but from which we have got very little fossils from, ala Lamna's Kanaloa and Land of our Forefathers (which kind of inspired this idea in the first place). However, this one would be in the Cretaceous - more specifically, Southeast Asia in the Maastrichtian.
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As far as I know, very few fossils have been found there (aside from a champsosaur, IIRC), and considering this island has been isolated since the early Jurassic judging by This neat little thing, I'd basically be able to make the animals from scratch. I'm thinking that it wouldn't be totally unique, however. Probably some types of Asian dinosaurs such as dromaeosaurs and ceratopsians could have made it there.
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Noah's Nightmare: A future evolution project where a large icy body impacts the moon, shattering itself into a ring of icy particles that gradually de-orbit and add their water to Earth's oceans. This causes sea levels to rise even further than mere melting icecaps would allow, which causes mass extinctions on land (extreme habitat displacement) and sea (salinity/oxygenation crisis). Eventually, nothing is left of the continents but the tallest peaks of the Himalayas/Hindu Kush and two Andean mountains, which have become low-lying islands in an endless ocean. The project would take place 30 or 35 million years after the present, detailing how the survivor species have radiated and adapted to this new waterworld.

This sounds seriously cool. When I first joined the forum a few years ago, I also wanted to create a similar future world to this, but couldn't think of a plausible way to do so. I really hope that you publish this project, sounds awesome.
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Do you guys want to heard about some new project ideas I thought of?
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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Noah's Nightmare: A future evolution project where a large icy body impacts the moon, shattering itself into a ring of icy particles that gradually de-orbit and add their water to Earth's oceans. This causes sea levels to rise even further than mere melting icecaps would allow, which causes mass extinctions on land (extreme habitat displacement) and sea (salinity/oxygenation crisis). Eventually, nothing is left of the continents but the tallest peaks of the Himalayas/Hindu Kush and two Andean mountains, which have become low-lying islands in an endless ocean. The project would take place 30 or 35 million years after the present, detailing how the survivor species have radiated and adapted to this new waterworld.

This sounds seriously cool. When I first joined the forum a few years ago, I also wanted to create a similar future world to this, but couldn't think of a plausible way to do so. I really hope that you publish this project, sounds awesome.
Appreciate it! But "Noah's Nightmare" is a project I'm really passionate about and want to get absolutely right. Plus, I've done some looking around and there seems to be a lot of waterworld projects going on right now. As a rule, I only hop on trends when they're already over. So for my first spec project on this site I think I'll do a more modest project first. Probably Valles Incompertus, though it'll need a catchier name.

The Land Unknown? Into the Abyss? A Tale of Steam and Sulphur?
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I got two projects that will be coming next month or so and I'll tell you about them below.
Project#1: Planet Sais
Planet Sais will be my first possible exobiology project that would mostly be taken place on the planet Sais itself. It focuses heavily on everything about the planet, from the history of the planet to its native inhabitants. Human colonies first visit Planet Sais about 200 years from now in the future after a space colony project was completely finished.

Project#2: Man After Man: From First to Last
Man After Man: From First to Last is another one of those projects about the possible evolution of mankind in the future and it is mostly inspired by First and Last Men, Man After Man, and All Tomorrows. It is about the future of humanity after the 21st century across five million years in the future and 18 distinct human species, from which our own is the first. This story begins with the impact of genetic engineering and ecological damage caused by humans. Civilization collapses all over the world, leaving behind scatter ruins and abandoned cities. Humans have attempted to manipulate biological human DNA to create genetically-altered species of posthuman species.
Discontinued projects:
The New Ostracoderms (i might continue with this project again someday)
The Americas (where in 58 million years from now in the future North and South America has both become isolated island continents)



All Expansions (my attempt at expanding the universe of All Tomorrows by Nemo Ramjet aka C.M. Kosemen, started June 6, 2018)
Anthropozoic (my attempt at expanding the universe of Man After Man and also a re-imagining of it, coming 2019 or 2020)
New Cenozoica (my attempt at expanding the universe of The New Dinosaurs and also a re-imagining of it, also coming 2019 or 2020)
All Alternatives or All Changes (a re-telling of All Tomorrows but with some minor and major "changes", coming June 10, 2018)
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A giant underground cave system isolated since the Cretaceous, with a bacteria-fungus based food chain and creepy, blind, white sphenodonts and chigutisaurids, possibly non-avian theropods and sauropods as well. Like Diyu but with more Perdido-like faunal groups.

A terraformed planet where the only multicellular lifeform introduced is a genetically modified form of the Siberian salamander which gets its food from symbiotic algae.
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Aug 20 2017, 06:28 PM
though it'll need a catchier name.

The Land Unknown? Into the Abyss? A Tale of Steam and Sulphur?
You can just keep the name.

If I did have to choose one, it would be The Last Uncharted Land as a subtitle.
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- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
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- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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A giant underground cave system isolated since the Cretaceous, with a bacteria-fungus based food chain and creepy, blind, white sphenodonts and chigutisaurids, possibly non-avian theropods and sauropods as well. Like Diyu but with more Perdido-like faunal groups.

A terraformed planet where the only multicellular lifeform introduced is a genetically modified form of the Siberian salamander which gets its food from symbiotic algae.
I'm not completely sure, but I don't think large animals can live permanently in caves.
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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A giant underground cave system isolated since the Cretaceous, with a bacteria-fungus based food chain and creepy, blind, white sphenodonts and chigutisaurids, possibly non-avian theropods and sauropods as well. Like Diyu but with more Perdido-like faunal groups.

A terraformed planet where the only multicellular lifeform introduced is a genetically modified form of the Siberian salamander which gets its food from symbiotic algae.
I'm not completely sure, but I don't think large animals can live permanently in caves.
The caves themselves are also pretty huge.
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Aug 21 2017, 09:22 AM
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Aug 20 2017, 10:48 PM
A giant underground cave system isolated since the Cretaceous, with a bacteria-fungus based food chain and creepy, blind, white sphenodonts and chigutisaurids, possibly non-avian theropods and sauropods as well. Like Diyu but with more Perdido-like faunal groups.

A terraformed planet where the only multicellular lifeform introduced is a genetically modified form of the Siberian salamander which gets its food from symbiotic algae.
I'm not completely sure, but I don't think large animals can live permanently in caves.
The caves themselves are also pretty huge.
But will enough "flora" grow there?
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


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Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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Almost everyone knows what cryptids are: the strange creatures that science has yet to confirm. Sasquatches. Nessies. Mothmen. Chupacabras. In the 20th century, the science of cryptozoology emerged, bringing to light strange tales of centuries-old folklore and anecdotes to the public. Many held out that one day, science would one day find these monsters and reveal them to the world. However, no concrete evidence for their existance outside of shaky footage and blurry photos emerged, and with every passing year, it became clear that all these cryptids were just simple stories with no basis in our reality; in fact some were just made up on the spot by cryptozoologists. While they would still live on in popular culture, it seemed that cryptids in general were never real and never would be.

However, it turned out we were wrong on the latter statement:. As it turns out, cryptids will be real. 50,000,000 years into the future, we see a strange world where it seems that the cryptids we have come to known have to life. Massive long-necked turtles swim through lakes and oceans. Man-like mustelids power through the forests of the northern hemisphere. Bats the size of small aircraft soar though the skies. This is a world of creatures we created reimagined by nature. A world of Beasts and Monsters.
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- After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project.
- A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually.

Future Projects
- XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy.
- The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic.
- Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock
- Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making

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- Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being

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