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Questions that don't need their own topics vol.2; New and fresh
Topic Started: Jan 4 2018, 11:18 AM (26,867 Views)
Archeoraptor
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I think looking at algae would be good, since they have differnt pigments and ecologies
in land you could look at differnt plant groups, how do ferns compete with angisperms and mosses?
Astarte an alt eocene world,now on long hiatus but you never know
Fanauraa; The rebirth of Aotearoa future evo set in new zealand after a mass extinction
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and who knows what is coming next...........

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I have to know what lies on the unknown universe
I have to know that the laws of thee universe can be broken
throw The Spec I gain strength to the inner peace
the is not good of evil only nature and change,the evolution of all livings beings"
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Has David Peters ever tried to join the forum, and would you guys ever deny him based on his theories. Or would you let him stay for a while, just for the lulz. I know Kusanagi was basically our version of David Peters, but was he ever actually here?
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Talenkauen
Apr 20 2018, 10:28 PM

Has David Peters ever tried to join the forum, and would you guys ever deny him based on his theories. Or would you let him stay for a while, just for the lulz. I know Kusanagi was basically our version of David Peters, but was he ever actually here?
wat?
who are they?
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The complete lunatic brilliant mind behind reptileevolution.net and the Pterosaur Heresies, where he posts his insane ramblings alternative hypotheses about the evolutionary relationships of prehistoric and modern tetrapods. He thinks pterosaurs are closely related to lizards, among many other strange ideas.

Anyway, I don’t think he has any real interest in spec, he seems more invested in his “studies” of tetrapod evolution.
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Understood...
well...I have a question...
How big can a humanoid be? I really wanted to think about nephilims and things like that, but I do not know about plausibility ...
I'm talking about humanoid beings with heights between 3 and 10 meters ...
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Cool_Hippo43
Apr 21 2018, 04:36 PM
Understood...
well...I have a question...
How big can a humanoid be? I really wanted to think about nephilims and things like that, but I do not know about plausibility ...
I'm talking about humanoid beings with heights between 3 and 10 meters ...
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Good old square cube law is the biggest obstacle here. Larger humanoids would need to be more proportionally robust and less top heavy. Things like brain power would definitely need to be sacrificed for it too. Cold climates would be more suitable due to mammalian lungs too. The largest known bipeds historically were things like T.rex (which could reach well over 8 tonnes, or 35 times heavier than the largest wilds gorillas) and the Highland Giant sauropodomorph, though neither is a perfect representative for humans.

That said, some of those heights seem plausible. Therizinosaurus reached more than 5m tall, and a few quadrupedal land mammals could reach heights within that range, so I don't see why the lower part of that range would be difficult. A Sue-sized (8.4 tonnes based of Scott Hartmann's, 8.83 tonnes off Franoy's and 9.5 off Hutchingson's) gorilla or humanoid with a similar height:mass ratio would be well over 6m tall. And this is assuming earth Gravity is in play and that they have no bizarre adaptions to help them out.
10m is probably stretching it (no pun intended) unless it has a very long neck (perhaps with more than 7 cervical vertebrae) and some very extreme proportions.
What was the last bit going to ask?
Edited by Nyarlathotep, Apr 23 2018, 04:58 PM.
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Apr 21 2018, 05:25 PM

What was the last bit going to ask?
I was not talking about being with 30 meters or so
only of "tall humanoids"
the idea is not even intelligence, because my idea was about things like beings almost animal (like old prehistoric men)
something like a "big foot" or goliath
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Talenkauen
Apr 20 2018, 10:28 PM

Has David Peters ever tried to join the forum, and would you guys ever deny him based on his theories. Or would you let him stay for a while, just for the lulz. I know Kusanagi was basically our version of David Peters, but was he ever actually here?
In the extremely unlikely event that David Peters were to join the forum he should be allowed to stay. As long as he didn't break any forum rules there would be no reason to kick him out. I myself disagree quite strongly about his views on pterosaurs and on tetrapod classification in general but I do not consider it right to ban someone for not having the same views and opinions as others.

Incidentally, how was kusanagi like "our version of David Peters"?


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How big can a humanoid be? I really wanted to think about nephilims and things like that, but I do not know about plausibility ...
I'm talking about humanoid beings with heights between 3 and 10 meters ...
If you have enough of certain physiological features to help your speculative being survive at a such a large size (e.g. hollow bones, a muscle mass distribution that helps hold up more mass, and so on) then I suppose a humanoid at the sizes you're speaking of could work.
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Nyarlathotep
Apr 21 2018, 05:25 PM
A Sue-sized gorilla or humanoid with a similar height:mass ratio would be well over 6m tall. And this is assuming earth Gravity is in play and that they have no bizarre adaptions to help them out.
By Sue, and the earlier mention of T. rex, I'm assuming you mean the largest known specimen of that species.

And under that assumption, it's actually plausible for a human giant to reach that size?

I've also been thinking about human giants for another universe I'm making but I was just going to make them close to Gigantopithecus size to be believable.
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Tartarus
Apr 21 2018, 07:08 PM
Incidentally, how was kusanagi like "our version of David Peters"?


They had very strange and unorthodox views on taxonomy, lectured people constantly about "proper" cladistics, and vehemently rejected genetic analysis as a valid aspect of phylogeny.
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And also insisted that volaticotheres were capable of powered flight based on no real evidence.
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What's the largest/longest an oceanic animal can be? I'd like a guesstimate for a potential project for ocean worlds in the Trappist-1 system.
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I wanted to know more about beaks ... how they evolved in birds? and in turtles?
I would also like to know about teeth turning beaks ... I was thinking of some kind of humanoid (not a primate) that evolved into a kind of animal "bird-like" without wings and with a body similar to a monkey or any thing like that
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I don't remember Kusangi saying anything particularly outlandish other than the whole genetics rejection.
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Akurian452
Apr 23 2018, 05:36 PM
What's the largest/longest an oceanic animal can be? I'd like a guesstimate for a potential project for ocean worlds in the Trappist-1 system.
Would depend on a lot of factors, such as how big the ocean it lives in is, how much food and raw materials are available, and its world's gravity (while water would buoy up your creature's mass, preventing gravity from being an issue for holding up its weight, the world's gravity will still have an influence on how much water pressure increases with depth).
Not sure if anyone has come up with any good estimates for what the upper size of an oceanic creature could be given the most ideal conditions. However, I do know some other spec projects have come up with sea creatures much larger than Earth's largest creature, the blue whale. For example, in the Nereus project the largest creature is a sea creature called the triton, which is 72.68 m long: https://sites.google.com/site/projectnereus/home/life/tetrabrachia/ichthyoforma/celeracaudae/triton This seems to be considered a fairly plausible creature, so I'd say you could have a sea creature at least that big. If it could be possible to get a creature much bigger than even this (like say some 100 m or 200 m giant) I'm not sure.
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