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Topic Started: Jan 4 2018, 11:18 AM (26,851 Views)
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Jun 4 2018, 02:52 PM
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal. borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins?
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal.
borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins? Yeah, but those are all super tiny. I am not aiming for megafaunal copepods, but I still want them to cover a similar size range as insects or arachnids
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
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Jun 4 2018, 03:34 PM
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Jun 4 2018, 03:52 PM
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal.
borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins?
Yeah, but those are all super tiny. I am not aiming for megafaunal copepods, but I still want them to cover a similar size range as insects or arachnids its a starting point, not an endpoint. (though i didn't realize lungless salamanders were smaller than insects)
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Jun 4 2018, 04:11 PM
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal.
borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins?
Yeah, but those are all super tiny. I am not aiming for megafaunal copepods, but I still want them to cover a similar size range as insects or arachnids
its a starting point, not an endpoint. (though i didn't realize lungless salamanders were smaller than insects) No, lungless salamanders are not smaller than insects, but they are pretty tiny nontheless. Also, they need to live in moist environments to survive.
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
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"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
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Jun 5 2018, 03:01 PM
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Jun 5 2018, 10:36 PM
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Does competition and ecological influence increase with physical size? I need a good reason to cut my evolutionary history down to larger life, or it'll be an ultra-inclusive nightmare. I'm sorry, but what exactly are you asking here?
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
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"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
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Jun 6 2018, 01:29 AM
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal.
borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins?
Yeah, but those are all super tiny. I am not aiming for megafaunal copepods, but I still want them to cover a similar size range as insects or arachnids
its a starting point, not an endpoint. (though i didn't realize lungless salamanders were smaller than insects)
No, lungless salamanders are not smaller than insects, but they are pretty tiny nontheless. Also, they need to live in moist environments to survive. that second part is pretty much true of anything that is starting to emerge from the tidepools...so i don't see why your barnacles are stuck.
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Jun 6 2018, 12:57 PM
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal.
borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins?
Yeah, but those are all super tiny. I am not aiming for megafaunal copepods, but I still want them to cover a similar size range as insects or arachnids
its a starting point, not an endpoint. (though i didn't realize lungless salamanders were smaller than insects)
No, lungless salamanders are not smaller than insects, but they are pretty tiny nontheless. Also, they need to live in moist environments to survive.
that second part is pretty much true of anything that is starting to emerge from the tidepools...so i don't see why your barnacles are stuck. Uhh barnacles are sessile first of all. Second, I want my copepods to get passed the stage of "terrestrrial but need a moist environment". I want them to be able to live in different habitats such as deserts and stuff.
Oh, by the way, I meant copepods in my original question. Sorry for the confusion...
Edited by IIGSY, Jun 6 2018, 12:58 PM.
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Projects Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates Last one crawling: The last arthropod
ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)
Potential ideas- Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized. Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal. Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.
Quotes "Arthropod respiratory systems aren't really "inefficient", they're just better suited to their body size. It would be quite inefficient for a tiny creature that can easily get all the oxygen it needs through passive diffusion to have a respiratory system that wastes energy on muscles that pump air into sacs. (Hence why lungless salamanders, uniquely miniscule and hyperabundant tetrapods, have ditched their lungs in favor of breathing with their skin and buccal mucous membranes.) But large, active insects already use muscles to pump air in and out of their spiracles, and I don't see why their tracheae couldn't develop pseudo- lungs if other conditions pressured them to grow larger."-HangingTheif
"Considering the lifespans of modern non- insect arthropods (decade-old old millipedes, 50 year old tarantulas, 100+ year old lobsters) I wouldn't be surprised if Arthropleura had a lifespan exceeding that of a large testudine"-HangingTheif
"Humans have a tribal mindset and it's not alien for tribes to war on each other. I mean, look at the atrocities chimpanzee tribes do to each other. Most of people's groupings and big conflicts in history are directly or obliquely manifestations of this tribal mindset."-Sceynyos-yis
"He's the leader of the bunch You know his Coconut Gun is finally back to fire in spurts. His Coconut Gun Can make you smile If he shoots ya it's firing in spurts. His Coconut Gun Is bigger, faster, stronger too! He's the gun member of the Coconut Crew! HUH!
C.G.! Coconut Gun! C.G.! Co-Coconut Gun! Shoot yourself with a Coconut Gun! HUH!"-Kamineigh
"RIP, rest in Peytoia."-Little
"In Summary: Piss on Lovecraft's racist grave by making lewds of Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.
Then eat arby's and embrace the void."-Kamineigh
"Dougal Dixon rule 34."-Sayornis
Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups
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Jun 6 2018, 04:42 PM
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal.
borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins?
Yeah, but those are all super tiny. I am not aiming for megafaunal copepods, but I still want them to cover a similar size range as insects or arachnids
its a starting point, not an endpoint. (though i didn't realize lungless salamanders were smaller than insects)
No, lungless salamanders are not smaller than insects, but they are pretty tiny nontheless. Also, they need to live in moist environments to survive.
that second part is pretty much true of anything that is starting to emerge from the tidepools...so i don't see why your barnacles are stuck.
Uhh barnacles are sessile first of all. Second, I want my copepods to get passed the stage of "terrestrrial but need a moist environment". I want them to be able to live in different habitats such as deserts and stuff. Oh, by the way, I meant copepods in my original question. Sorry for the confusion... the pun only hit me after I hit Send.
not all barnacles are sessile adults - some are wood-borers, after all.
and all barnacles are mobile in their youth.
and as to wanting them to live in different enviroments - that's terrific and great! but you can't get them there, if you surrender before ever getting them out of the tidal zone.
(though IRL amphibians - lungless and otherwise - need moist enviroments...and they still diversified into deserts and stuff)
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Tthe vast majority of Creationists that I have met online or in real life, have been stubbornly, ignorantly arrogant towards people who accept evolution. I have met some creationists who are genuinely nice people who accept other's beliefs, but they are in the minority. Even the most prominent Creationist preachers or "creation scientists" can be labelled as arrogant, because their behavior when talking against or about evolution ranges from passive-aggressive to bordering on sociopathic.-Tim Morris
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Jun 6 2018, 08:31 PM
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From what I’ve gathered, it is a private decision made by the staff members. I wouldn’t recommmend demanding for the position; rather, you should let it happen naturally, and the staff pick people they think to be responsible members that would make for good moderators.
That’s all I know. Feel free to correct me and/or add to this.
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Jun 6 2018, 08:40 PM
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More or less correct, at the moment we feel we have more than enough staff and aren't expecting to make any promotions or recruitments in the near future. Asking to be a moderator doesn't really have a negative impact on your chances, it just doesn't have any sort of positive effect either. Completely pointless.
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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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Jun 6 2018, 09:52 PM
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Is there any way I could get barnacles to fully terrestrialize? They lack a heart, gills and any kind of circulatory system. Oxygen just passes through them because they are so small. But this wont work for a fully terrestrial animal.
borrow a page from lungless salamanders, perhaps? or from other terrestrial critters that breathe through their skins?
Yeah, but those are all super tiny. I am not aiming for megafaunal copepods, but I still want them to cover a similar size range as insects or arachnids
its a starting point, not an endpoint. (though i didn't realize lungless salamanders were smaller than insects)
No, lungless salamanders are not smaller than insects, but they are pretty tiny nontheless. Also, they need to live in moist environments to survive.
that second part is pretty much true of anything that is starting to emerge from the tidepools...so i don't see why your barnacles are stuck.
Uhh barnacles are sessile first of all. Second, I want my copepods to get passed the stage of "terrestrrial but need a moist environment". I want them to be able to live in different habitats such as deserts and stuff. Oh, by the way, I meant copepods in my original question. Sorry for the confusion...
the pun only hit me after I hit Send. not all barnacles are sessile adults - some are wood-borers, after all. and all barnacles are mobile in their youth. and as to wanting them to live in different enviroments - that's terrific and great! but you can't get them there, if you surrender before ever getting them out of the tidal zone. (though IRL amphibians - lungless and otherwise - need moist enviroments...and they still diversified into deserts and stuff) I mean copepods not barnacles. Me saying barnacles before was a mistake
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