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Jul 28 2014, 03:13 PM
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well, new and old members, I put this so it does not arising filler issues that can be addressed of a single answer. this is to avoid topics that do not lead to any discussion. some things should not write:
-Comments which are neither question nor answer. -sarcastic answers -repeat questions already answered
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Jul 28 2014, 07:06 PM
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Good idea. I wonder how many will actually use it though.
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Jul 28 2014, 07:08 PM
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Topic pinned. Would "Questions that don't need their own topics" be a better title?
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.
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Jul 28 2014, 07:12 PM
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edited, now, who wants to ask a question related to speculative evolution, do it here
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Jul 28 2014, 07:19 PM
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How long will the Hawaiian islands last?
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Jul 28 2014, 11:58 PM
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- Jul 28 2014, 07:19 PM
How long will the Hawaiian islands last? Around a few million years before being eroded. The hotspot will last tens of millions of years.
Well, who wants to answer the question that is written must only press the "quote" button, then type your answer and go.
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The alternative paths The multiverse, the final frontier...
Holocene park: Welcome to the biggest adventure of the last 215 million years, where the age of mammals comes to life again! Cambrian mars: An interesting experiment on an unprecedented scale, the life of a particular and important period in the history of our planet, the cambric life, has been transported to a terraformed and habitable mars in an alternative past. Two different paths, two different worlds, but same life and same weirdness.
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Jul 29 2014, 06:07 AM
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Are tunicates considered chordates? I heard that their larvae have a notochord.
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Jul 29 2014, 06:32 AM
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Are tunicates considered chordates? I heard that their larvae have a notochord. Currently, they are usually considered chordates.
This may not be the whole story. They may be of hybrid origin.
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.
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Jul 29 2014, 09:30 AM
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Tunicates just got significantly more interesting.
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Are tunicates considered chordates? I heard that their larvae have a notochord.
Currently, they are usually considered chordates. This may not be the whole story. They may be of hybrid origin.
Wow.
Kind of a philosophical question here. I tend to use an "if it has only evolved once, don't count on it evolving again. If it has evolved twice, why not a third time?" rule. Is this reasonable? After all, before varanids developed a circulatory lung, it would have seemed like the sort of thing that was so unlikely as to only evolve once.
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Jul 29 2014, 12:11 PM
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Might depend on how recent said feature evolved.
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totally not British, b-baka!
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Me  Forum user Uncanny Gemstar drew what is supposed to be a me. Thanks! Spoiler: click to toggle As they walk in, they're greeted by a small, poorly kept pathway leading to a poorly constructed Japanese-style gate. Behind this, a small field made up of corn, rice, wheat, potatoes, among other plants is contrasted by large piles of books, as well as a few rather out of place looking laptops. Off in the corner, a small woman, with long, striped, and strikingly colorful socks, no shoes, unremarkable denim shorts, a large, fancy black coat, arm warmers, glasses, a tuque, and somewhat unkempt, mid-length blue-and-pink-streaked red hair, is rummaging through a trash bin, located behind a sign saying "employees only". She continues this for a while (walking behind a wall to change her outfit now and then), until one of her visitors coughs. Startled, she looks up, apologizes, and grabs a handful of textbooks and novels before daintily running off to join them. What, you want me to tell you what these mean? Predenterra The (Lost) Lost World The Standing World Read First Clarifications on my sex and genderSorry if I come off as rude, I don't put much thought into word choice sometimes. I'm also super prone to editing my posts, sometimes multiple times, in the minutes following posting. For the love of god, take my posts from my earlier days on the forum with a grain of salt. I was not particularly knowledgeable or mature back then. Some of them are so cringe-worthy I can't even bring myself to look at them. Words Maybe Great Words - Words To Spec By
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It would have to be something extremely alien, pushing the limits of our imagination. But those are always my favorite kinds of life. ~~The Words of The Xenologist
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Ignorance is never insulting if you're willing to learn, we're all ignorant about most things. ~~The Words of Lamna
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Yeah, and even if you don't agree with creationists on that concept, that doesn't mean they can't be decent people. I have friends who are creationist (possibly even young earth) that I get along with fine in general life. I don't think they're right of course, but that doesn't make them intellectual degenerates. ~~The Words of forbidden3
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Ass-breathing fish-lizards? Sounds like a punk rock band
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Myo, if you don't stop reading the YouTube comments...
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Are you saying what I think you're saying?
Sheather bathes in cum?
- Cephylus
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And last night I dreamed I was blowing up a Kindergarten with a grenade launcher for no particular reason...
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Oh, and of course more people get killed by selfies than by sharks. Of course.
- Parasky
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SHEEEEAAAAATTTTTTHHHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!
- whachamacalit2
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The smell of rotting flesh really kills my appetite, surprising, but the visual appearance of corpses makes me hungry. Is that weird?
- Ebervalius
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I mean, let us say I'm a genderfluid blurflux demi-romantic woman who is sexually attracted to men, but only if they are Melanesian and have a voice like that of Nicholas Cage. Okay, so what?
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When I first saw that picture, I thought you were dissecting a condom.
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All hail Robo-Stalin.
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Seems like everything in this project is now dead.
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Seagulls are pretty much trees, right?
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We all must finish chapters of our lives to go on to the next. Sometime this means leaving behind versions of ourselves that don't want to die.
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For April fool's, we had to make an orgasm that resembled a human foot.
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He was a skater birb, she said tweet you later birb
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Funny, isn't it, that our world needs Clark Kent a lot more than Superman.
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Even though he is our creator, that does not afford him the right to take our lives on a whim. But that is the thinking of a homs. He is a god. Such morals cannot apply to gods. So you think we should just shut up and die?! If that is the fate decided by a god. You are mistaken if you think we will simply accept such a fate and wait to die. We'll never stop fighting. Not till the end. To Zanza, the outcome is the same. Thus your logic is flawed.
- Hades - Kid Icarus Uprising
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When freaky aliens give you lemons, make freaky alien lemonade.
- Kid Icarus Uprising
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But Souls are delicious. They're like bacon - they taste good on anything. But if you eat them, you completely remove them from existence! They can't move on or... or be reincarnated! Huh. I never really gave it much thought. Besides, what do you mean by reincarnation anyway? You know, being reborn as someone or something else. Which means different body, different memories, different experiences, yes? So isn't being reborn as "something else" the same as being "removed from existence"? I... I... eating souls isn't right! That depends on your definition of "right". All living things survive by eating other living things. So what? You're a god. You should be above all that! Gods are above living things, which doesn't necessarily mean we care about them.
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Jul 29 2014, 01:02 PM
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Kind of a philosophical question here. I tend to use an "if it has only evolved once, don't count on it evolving again. If it has evolved twice, why not a third time?" rule. Is this reasonable? After all, before varanids developed a circulatory lung, it would have seemed like the sort of thing that was so unlikely as to only evolve once. In terms of making it sound believable, there are certainly benefits in choosing (relatively) repeatedly arisen features. Personally I would expect at least some "freak" features to have arisen, but it is probably a matter of balance and the intended audience.
The optimal solution, in my opinion, is just to create an evolutionary history which would logically produce the phenomenon.
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.
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Jul 29 2014, 08:37 PM
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- Holben
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- Jul 29 2014, 12:01 PM
Kind of a philosophical question here. I tend to use an "if it has only evolved once, don't count on it evolving again. If it has evolved twice, why not a third time?" rule. Is this reasonable? After all, before varanids developed a circulatory lung, it would have seemed like the sort of thing that was so unlikely as to only evolve once.
In terms of making it sound believable, there are certainly benefits in choosing (relatively) repeatedly arisen features. Personally I would expect at least some "freak" features to have arisen, but it is probably a matter of balance and the intended audience. The optimal solution, in my opinion, is just to create an evolutionary history which would logically produce the phenomenon.
I use that as a rule of thumb too. And to keep things interesting I sometimes introduce "freak" features that haven't arisen on Earth. In other words, if it evolved only once, too bad. If it evolved zero times, go for it. Stuff that evolves multiple times is sort of the staple of the meal, while novel features are the spice.
- Holben
- Jul 29 2014, 06:32 AM
You did what with a protostome?!
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Jul 29 2014, 08:42 PM
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Life uh, finds a way..
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Jul 29 2014, 08:48 PM
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Mmkay. So... er... Why are cats generally considered a separate species, while dogs generally aren't? I know it's partially because dogs... um... occasionally procreate with wolves, but do cats do the same thing with wild cats? Besides, dogs differ much more in phenotype.
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