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Unexplored topics and ideas
Topic Started: Jun 27 2017, 08:52 AM (2,297 Views)
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Is there any unexplored topics\ideas in speculative biology that no one or few people have made projects about?


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Xenobiological life in the very far future of the universe.
Deep speculation of how alien cultures will be.
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-Life on a gas giant ( I can think of only one project).
-Life on a moon of gas giant (again only one).
-Life on an entirely water world, with highest ground kilometers below water surface.

Alien cultures are done more often than you'd think, I can think of a couple on top of my head, and that's without counting all the sci-fi books and movies.
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Jun 27 2017, 09:23 AM
-Life on a gas giant ( I can think of only one project).
-Life on a moon of gas giant (again only one).
-Life on an entirely water world, with highest ground kilometers below water surface.

Alien cultures are done more often than you'd think, I can think of a couple on top of my head, and that's without counting all the sci-fi books and movies.
Thanks, now you got my creativity flowing.
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I don't know how many people have done projects relating to the deep oceans such as what might evolve in the future, what existed in the past or even speculate what lives down there now; like 70 - 80% of the deep oceans remain unexplored so it's easy to imagine what could live down there.

Also more crocodilian projects (I have an idea for a world populated by various extant crocodilian species but I don't know if I should do that yet)
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I've never seen a project about only plants existing on a planet. I know some people want to explore this (that includes me) but I don't think I've ever seen it be done. Another thing is life under a world like Europa (I am aware of the COM centered around this idea).
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Jun 27 2017, 12:01 PM
I've never seen a project about only plants existing on a planet. I know some people want to explore this (that includes me) but I don't think I've ever seen it be done. Another thing is life under a world like Europa (I am aware of the COM centered around this idea).
Ilion is a project with only plants existing on a planet, if I remember right.
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Jun 27 2017, 12:06 PM
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Jun 27 2017, 12:01 PM
I've never seen a project about only plants existing on a planet. I know some people want to explore this (that includes me) but I don't think I've ever seen it be done. Another thing is life under a world like Europa (I am aware of the COM centered around this idea).
Ilion is a project with only plants existing on a planet, if I remember right.
Ah, yes, I remember. Plant descendants. Perhaps one with only earth plants?
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Jun 27 2017, 11:13 AM
Also more crocodilian projects (I have an idea for a world populated by various extant crocodilian species but I don't know if I should do that yet)
Crocodilians are actually really popular, though most people tend to make them endothermic and terrestrial. We we DO lack is projects where crocodilians stay cold blooded, Why turn them warm blooded when you can EMBRACE their ectothermy? Imagine a lineage of small burrowing crocodiles that slowly atrophies their legs in a similar fashion to snakes and caecilians.

Another idea is hypersaline environments, aquatic or terrestrial.

Oh, and how about this. Life near the end of the universe.
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Jun 27 2017, 01:05 PM
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Jun 27 2017, 12:06 PM
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Jun 27 2017, 12:01 PM
I've never seen a project about only plants existing on a planet. I know some people want to explore this (that includes me) but I don't think I've ever seen it be done. Another thing is life under a world like Europa (I am aware of the COM centered around this idea).
Ilion is a project with only plants existing on a planet, if I remember right.
Ah, yes, I remember. Plant descendants. Perhaps one with only earth plants?
Actually Umbriel the terraformed moon of Uranus which is only colonized by conifers in the distant future.
I think it would be missing an alt evo type project where plants are the only advanced eukaryotes on the planet :D

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Jun 27 2017, 11:13 AM
Also more crocodilian projects (I have an idea for a world populated by various extant crocodilian species but I don't know if I should do that yet)
Crocodilians are actually really popular, though most people tend to make them endothermic and terrestrial. We we DO lack is projects where crocodilians stay cold blooded, Why turn them warm blooded when you can EMBRACE their ectothermy? Imagine a lineage of small burrowing crocodiles that slowly atrophies their legs in a similar fashion to snakes and caecilians.

Another idea is hypersaline environments, aquatic or terrestrial.

Oh, and how about this. Life near the end of the universe.
I'm actually in favour of endothermic crocodilians as you can do more with them; cursorial pursuit predators, possibly gazelle-like forms, arboreal insectivores, even flying crocodiles; the possibilities are endless. Yes you can delve into ectothermic crocodilians but I'd like to go down the endo path
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- Official Project
- Foundation
The Beryoni Galaxy: The Biologically Rich and Politically Complex State of our Galaxy (Habitational Zone)

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The Ecology of Skull Island: An Open Project for the Home of King Kong (Alternative Universe)
The Ecology of Wakanda: An Open Project for the Home of Marvel's Black Panther (Alternative Universe)

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I've never seen a project about only plants existing on a planet. I know some people want to explore this (that includes me) but I don't think I've ever seen it be done. Another thing is life under a world like Europa (I am aware of the COM centered around this idea).
Ilion is a project with only plants existing on a planet, if I remember right.
No it's not. It has had proper mobile species from the beginning. Infact its plants have mobile ancestors and have given rise to mobile species on their own.
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-Life on an entirely water world, with highest ground kilometers below water surface.
I had an idea similar to this a few years back, but people pointed out this doesn't really change much of anything for water life. The presence or lack of an unrelated ecosystem isn't going to have sweeping effects on the ocean.
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No K-Pg projects set in the far future, like around 50 to 70 million years from now.
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That's something I've definitely thought of before - there's nothing saying alternative evolution projects have to take place in the present like most do. They could go past that point, into an alternate future. This has been explored with extended Pleistocene-style concepts but that's about it.
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Jun 27 2017, 12:01 PM
I've never seen a project about only plants existing on a planet. I know some people want to explore this (that includes me) but I don't think I've ever seen it be done. Another thing is life under a world like Europa (I am aware of the COM centered around this idea).
Ilion is a project with only plants existing on a planet, if I remember right.
No it's not. It has had proper mobile species from the beginning. Infact its plants have mobile ancestors and have given rise to mobile species on their own.
That a plant species is proper mobile does not mean it's not a plant in an alien setting.
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