The Future Is Furry

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The Future Is Furry; Why are there so many kill mammal projects? No more I say.
Topic Started: Jan 20 2017, 07:50 AM (1,169 Views)
Dakka!	Jan 20 2017, 07:50 AM Post #1
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,431 Group: Members Member #1,999 Joined: Oct 11, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: Specitizen Favorite Quote: The Turtle Moves! Also known as: Finderskeepers, Ad infinitum, Waffles Gender: Oh wait I just realised what this is for:Heterosexual then	*The Future Is Furry* We all know the stereotypical future project, humans die, mammals get extincted, and a new totally aberrant group of animals take over as overlords of the Earth. Well, I'm going to do away with all that. Who needs new creatures when mammals are perfectly fine? Why are humans so biased against our survival? This is a glimpse into what our world may look like in the future, a furry and most importantly, furry future. All things cycle. Life and Death are intertwined. The universe will bounce back as the amount of dark energy gets too widely spread and gravity reclaims position on the throne. The same goes for mankind. Sapience was too powerful a weapon to be beaten by mere accidents and chance. No chance impact or volcanic eruption could completely wipe out humanity. That is what happened to man, he cycled. Over and over again. Falling only to rise once more, then falling again. This is not our first Fall, but I will construe it so for the convenience and simplicity's sake. And through the Falls, life went on as usual.
	"I was a Psychiatrist in Florida! For 3 weeks! Have you ever been to Florida?" Some project ideas The Future is Right Ediacaran Explosion Great Old Ones Skinkworld Unrelated:The Final Spec:What Could Have Been, And Still Can


Scrublord	Jan 20 2017, 04:48 PM Post #2
Father Pellegrini Posts: 4,422 Group: Members Member #169 Joined: May 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American (unfortunately) Favorite Quote: Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.	Good idea, but I just want to point out that not all that many future evolution projects actually have mammals disappearing completely. It's more of a dead unicorn trope than anything else.
	My Projects: The Neozoic Redux Valhalla--Take Three! The Big One Deviantart Account: http://elsqiubbonator.deviantart.com In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado. --Heteromorph


Whiteshore	Jan 20 2017, 07:56 PM Post #3
Adult Posts: 884 Group: Members Member #350 Joined: Jul 24, 2010 Gender: Male Nationality: Filipino	I think this is nice and that "mammals evolving into forms as distinct from modern mammals as said modern mammals are distinct from Dimetrodon (or Archeothyris)" scenarios are more realistic than total mammal extinction.
	Go to Crurotheria:A world of Killer Rodents,Notosuchid Elephants,and Sirenian Hippos: http://s1.zetaboards.com/Conceptual_Evolution/topic/5035229/1/


Scrublord	Jan 20 2017, 08:07 PM Post #4
Father Pellegrini Posts: 4,422 Group: Members Member #169 Joined: May 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American (unfortunately) Favorite Quote: Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.	Once again, total mammal extinction isn't as common in speculative biology projects as everyone seems to think it is.
	My Projects: The Neozoic Redux Valhalla--Take Three! The Big One Deviantart Account: http://elsqiubbonator.deviantart.com In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado. --Heteromorph


Sceynyos-yos	Jan 21 2017, 09:06 AM Post #5
dheubewes wedor Posts: 881 Group: Members Member #813 Joined: Aug 10, 2012 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Xenobiology	Scrublord Jan 20 2017, 08:07 PM Once again, total mammal extinction isn't as common in speculative biology projects as everyone seems to think it is. Well, there is TFIW, Ultrozoic and what else? But TBH TFIW is one of the most known futevo works, so that counts for something.



Dragonthunders	Jan 21 2017, 09:43 AM Post #6
The ethereal archosaur in blue Posts: 3,039 Group: Global Mods Member #690 Joined: Jan 22, 2012 Gender: Male Nationality: Salvadoran Favorite Quote: "There is only one war that can afford the human being: the war against their extinction" Isaac Asimov Also known as: DT, thunders Gender: still male	IIRC Ultrozoic has mammals (remember the flying pigs), quite derived, however, in the end they are mammals descendants.
	Projects "Active" projects The Future is Far Welcome to the next chapters of the evolution of life on earth, travel the across the earth on a journey that goes beyond the limits, a billion years of future history in the making. The SE giants project Wonder what is the big of the big on speculative evolution? no problem, here is the answer Coming one day Age of Mankind Humanity fate and its possible finals. The Long Cosmic Journey The history outside our world. 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. My deviantart


Mr. Sir	Mar 1 2017, 11:05 AM Post #7
Fetus Posts: 27 Group: Members Member #2,087 Joined: Feb 24, 2017 Gender: Male Nationality: United States	Is this the beginning of a project? If it is, let's let the man get on with it instead of talking about whether or not killing mammals is super common in future evolution (and it is, let's be real here.) And, while I get what you're saying Scrublord, the truth is, everyone's first thought in future evolution is "let's kill off the "normal" animals", which means... mammals. Not just TFiW, but many, many crappy future evolution ideas- and a few good ones!- all start with "let's get rid of the normals!" And I get that! It makes your future evolution design immediately distinguishable from the real world. People do it for a shock and for drama. But it's unrealistic; mammals won the fight for dominance because we tolerate cold very, very well. Even as the world grows hotter, mammals will dominate what few cool areas are left, and spread out as the temperature freezes again. A push and pull; we're like the White Walkers, we come with the cold. At any rate, if this is a project, I'd like to see it! If it's just a thread for complaining, though, I'll book it; I agree with the point, but don't want to argue about it.



Corecin	Mar 1 2017, 11:49 AM Post #8
Prime Specimen Posts: 1,567 Group: Members Member #1,893 Joined: Mar 21, 2016 Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American :/ Favorite Quote: “Life’s too short to spend it being mean to people.” Also known as: Literally just any spin on Corecin Gender: Nonbinary	I don't think the project is active anymore. There hasn't been any updates.



Scrublord	Mar 1 2017, 12:22 PM Post #9
Father Pellegrini Posts: 4,422 Group: Members Member #169 Joined: May 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American (unfortunately) Favorite Quote: Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.	Mr. Sir Mar 1 2017, 11:05 AM And, while I get what you're saying Scrublord, the truth is, everyone's first thought in future evolution is "let's kill off the "normal" animals", which means... mammals. Not just TFiW, but many, many crappy future evolution ideas- and a few good ones!- all start with "let's get rid of the normals!" Funny you should say that, because the ur-example of future evolution scenarios--After Man-- did take place in a world where mammals survive. So do the Neocene Project, Metazoica, Stephen Baxter's book Evolution, the French future evolution book Demain: Les Animaux du Futur (although in that one, the only mammals that remain are bats), and that weird-ass Japanese future evolution site. Edited by Scrublord, Mar 1 2017, 12:22 PM.
	My Projects: The Neozoic Redux Valhalla--Take Three! The Big One Deviantart Account: http://elsqiubbonator.deviantart.com In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado. --Heteromorph


Dr Nitwhite	Mar 1 2017, 04:02 PM Post #10
Luddite Posts: 1,606 Group: Members Member #1,919 Joined: May 9, 2016 Gender: Male Nationality: American Favorite Quote: "Hey, no ticks, no warblers." -me Also known as: The unburnt, unlucky in love, "oi you", and etcetera.	Mammals are fine in the Great Song, and no-one praised me for novelty... I have to agree this is a real dead unicorn. Mammals are often left alone or suffer minor extinctions. TFIF, settlers from the deep, and Post Earth, the currently most active projects in continuum other than serina (which has no mammals be axiom, not by extinction), all have mammals doing well into the future. The only "project" I can think of off the top of my head that kills mammals off is TFIW, and that takes 100 million years, not right out the gate. Quote: That is what happened to man, he cycled. Over and over again. Falling only to rise once more, then falling again. This is not our first Fall, but I will construe it so for the convenience and simplicity's sake. And through the Falls, life went on as usual. I do think, however, this is at least somewhat groundbreaking. Posthumans are common, but future evolution projects a la Peter Ward style predictions aren't made too often. I can't think of any to be honest, outside Future Evolution (by Peter Ward) that recognize humans as successful and very likely to continue quite like they do today. Edited by Dr Nitwhite, Mar 1 2017, 04:07 PM.
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Scrublord	Mar 1 2017, 09:49 PM Post #11
Father Pellegrini Posts: 4,422 Group: Members Member #169 Joined: May 5, 2009 Gender: Male Area of expertise: Future Evolution Nationality: American (unfortunately) Favorite Quote: Life can seem a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.	Well, some of Sheather's works (Eden, for example) seem to take place in such a world, though needless to say they have a much more optimistic outlook than Ward does. Edited by Scrublord, Mar 1 2017, 09:49 PM.
	My Projects: The Neozoic Redux Valhalla--Take Three! The Big One Deviantart Account: http://elsqiubbonator.deviantart.com In the end, the best advice I could give you would be to do your project in a way that feels natural to you, rather than trying to imitate some geek with a laptop in Colorado. --Heteromorph


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