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Your Project Ideas; A place to share your ideas for projects
Topic Started: Oct 14 2015, 09:27 AM (65,428 Views)
Nyarlathotep
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No worries. Best of wishes with the main ones. :Sam:
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A alternative evolution where the dinosaurs didn't go extinct, except the fauna is of the early cretaceous. As that is the setting for my alt. Evo project.
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If you mean a world with an early cretaceous POD (point of divergence), then that's fine.
But if you mean having early cretaceous dinosaurs somehow living in the late cretaceous, that's going to need to be thought out better.

I have a number of project ideas of my own, including:
A scenario where the K/T extinction did happen, but for whatever reason, Australia and Antarctica were spared. The rest of the world keeps on going the way it did in our timeline. So what happens to the dinosaurs/pterosaurs/etc. over the next 65 million years? And what happens when humans discover them?

A timeline where what would be the Paleogene/Neogene transition in our world was instead marked by another K/T-sized impact, ending the age of mammals before it really had a chance to get going. What takes over next?

An attempt at realistically plotting the evolution of multiple sapient species on one planet, without resorting to cliches like genetic engineering. Haven't decided whether I want it to be future Earth or alien yet.

I probably won't end up doing most of these, since many of my own projects (especially The Wildlife of Pineland and Hexapod Zoology) need more attention as it is.

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what about a world where the Edicaran Biota didnt get extinct and become the dominant animal/plant group on the planet.....
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A planet settled by humans and various other species which have incompatible biologies(e.g terran life can eat makhaite life but not dorisian and remielite life, so on so forth) and how they form a stable ecosystem.

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Dapper Man
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Jan 24 2016, 08:57 PM
If you mean a world with an early cretaceous POD (point of divergence), then that's fine.
But if you mean having early cretaceous dinosaurs somehow living in the late cretaceous, that's going to need to be thought out better.

I have a number of project ideas of my own, including:
A scenario where the K/T extinction did happen, but for whatever reason, Australia and Antarctica were spared. The rest of the world keeps on going the way it did in our timeline. So what happens to the dinosaurs/pterosaurs/etc. over the next 65 million years? And what happens when humans discover them?

A timeline where what would be the Paleogene/Neogene transition in our world was instead marked by another K/T-sized impact, ending the age of mammals before it really had a chance to get going. What takes over next?

An attempt at realistically plotting the evolution of multiple sapient species on one planet, without resorting to cliches like genetic engineering. Haven't decided whether I want it to be future Earth or alien yet.

I probably won't end up doing most of these, since many of my own projects (especially The Wildlife of Pineland and Hexapod Zoology) need more attention as it is.

Yes, I do mean a early cretaceous pod.
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An alternative evolution setting where the animals of the Jurassic Period never go into decline. The K-Pg still occurs, but it kills totally different groups of dinosaurs.
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Troy Troodon
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A universe where mammals become dominant over dinosaurs since the Triassic but dinosaurs were still prominent. I could have gone with "Dinosaurs and Cenozoic Mammals and Birds Evolving at the Same Time" but I thought this might be less cliché.
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Scrublord
Jan 24 2016, 08:57 PM
If you mean a world with an early cretaceous POD (point of divergence), then that's fine.
But if you mean having early cretaceous dinosaurs somehow living in the late cretaceous, that's going to need to be thought out better.

I have a number of project ideas of my own, including:
A scenario where the K/T extinction did happen, but for whatever reason, Australia and Antarctica were spared. The rest of the world keeps on going the way it did in our timeline. So what happens to the dinosaurs/pterosaurs/etc. over the next 65 million years? And what happens when humans discover them?

A timeline where what would be the Paleogene/Neogene transition in our world was instead marked by another K/T-sized impact, ending the age of mammals before it really had a chance to get going. What takes over next?

An attempt at realistically plotting the evolution of multiple sapient species on one planet, without resorting to cliches like genetic engineering. Haven't decided whether I want it to be future Earth or alien yet.

I probably won't end up doing most of these, since many of my own projects (especially The Wildlife of Pineland and Hexapod Zoology) need more attention as it is.

For the Dinosaur Australia/Antarctica world, maybe we could see basal Tyrannosauroids hunting Mammoths (Megaraptorids are probably basal Tyrannosauroids) as Antarctica was connected to South America until the early Oligocene.
Go to Crurotheria:A world of Killer Rodents,Notosuchid Elephants,and Sirenian Hippos:
http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5035229/1/
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Swagynubis
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Yesterday i just had an idea for an alternative project... where a bacterian group evolved to use solar energy to produce eletrecity and use this eletrecity to make electrolysis of sea water before the evolution of normal photosynthesis, and then get the hydrogen necessary to make glucose, the eletrolysis of sea water would produce chlorine gas and oxygen as by-products... and you know these bacterias will fill the atmosphere with chlorine and oxygen, and the sky will become green (blue + yellow) wich is a cool color

Because of the green sky and the unknow atmospheric pressure, normal photosynthesis could evolve a purple color as the green ligth is more common than red and blue on this alternative earth, the photovoltaic bacterias need salty water to work properly, and normal photosynthesis could still exist on places were the water is not salty enough for the bacterias

and my english got even worse...
Edited by Swagynubis, Jan 26 2016, 05:52 AM.
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Beetleboy
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Nah, your English is pretty good.
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A multicellular shadow biosphere existing in the isolated parts of the earth- the heart of the Amazon, the Marinas Trench, the Antarctic Ice Cap. It would be kind of like antimatter- life and mirror life were equal, but at some point during the Permian/ Carboniferous got outcompeted. Essentially a xenology project but set on earth.
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

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Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

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Beetleboy
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Wow, that sounds that like a very interesting project indeed.
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flashman63
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Proceedings of the Miskatonik University Department of Zoology: Begins with the recording of the University's expedition to the Transantarctic Mountains, where they find a strange ecosystem dominated by laterally symmetric life forms, fungi and silicon based flora. It then slowly goes into other biological oddities of the Lovecraftian world
Travel back through time and space, to the edge of man's beggining... discover a time when man, woman and lizard roamed free, and untamed!

It is an epoch of mammoths, a time of raptors!

A tale of love in the age of tyrannosaurs!

An epic from the silver screen, brought right to your door!

Travel back to
A Million Years BC

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Proceedings of the Miskatonic University Department of Zoology

Cosmic Horror is but a dissertation away

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