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Happy 10th Anniversary, SE!
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Topic Started: May 24 2018, 04:00 AM (619 Views)
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Holben
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May 24 2018, 04:00 AM
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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On the 24th May 2008, metanthropic (currently known as Livyatan) founded SE. That's 10 years ago today, and while there's been a lot of change since then, I think that we are still the best discussion forum for speculative evolution anywhere on the internet.
The last decade has been pretty rough for forums, which I think is a shame because they are the best model for encouraging deeper conversation outside face-to-face contact. One of SE's main functions, in my view, is as a hub for information sharing, and tens of thousands of posts by people utilising knowledge about real-world organisms, evolutionary patterns, and more are sure to be. But we're still going strong, and I'm very happy with SE's community and energy.
I really look forward to seeing what our community produces in the future!
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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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May 24 2018, 04:50 AM
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Long live SE!
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May 24 2018, 05:38 AM
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So, how about that year book?
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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.
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"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
In honor of the greatest clade of all time
More pictures
Other cool things
All African countries can fit into Brazil
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ZoologicalBotanist
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May 24 2018, 06:31 AM
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Although i have only been a member for a short while, it has been wonderful being a member of this community. Happy Anniversary Forum! LONG LIVE SPEC!
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Random Quotes and Stuff "Let your freak flag wave, let your freak flag fly, never take it down, never take it down, raise it way up high! Let your freak flag fly. Let it fly, fly, fly." - Freak Flag, Shreck The Musical "Well they're laughing anyway, kid, so you might as well get paid. " -P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman"I suspect nargles" - Luna Lovegood"We're all mad here." - Chesire Cat
--Windblown-- I do not know where I will go. I travel where the breeze will blow. For I know, deep in my soul, I am windblown.
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Ebervalius
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May 24 2018, 07:28 AM
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- IIGSY
- May 24 2018, 05:38 AM
So, how about that year book? Yeah, how about it?
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The Sirens of the Land of Fire Codex Ebervaliorum
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ZoologicalBotanist
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May 24 2018, 07:35 AM
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I would work on one, but i'm already overworked as it is. I have lots of school work, an art project that is also my final exam, and my own projects.
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Coming Soon Athero - Life on a gas planet 65% larger than Earth Artisan - Life in a universe made of art supplies
My DeviantArt Nature and Wildlife Discord
Random Quotes and Stuff "Let your freak flag wave, let your freak flag fly, never take it down, never take it down, raise it way up high! Let your freak flag fly. Let it fly, fly, fly." - Freak Flag, Shreck The Musical "Well they're laughing anyway, kid, so you might as well get paid. " -P.T. Barnum in The Greatest Showman"I suspect nargles" - Luna Lovegood"We're all mad here." - Chesire Cat
--Windblown-- I do not know where I will go. I travel where the breeze will blow. For I know, deep in my soul, I am windblown.
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Beetleboy
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May 24 2018, 08:51 AM
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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Happy 10th anniversary, my dear SE!
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~ The Age of Forests ~
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May 24 2018, 09:13 AM
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Happy Birthday Speculative Evolution. Here's to 10 more years!
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May 24 2018, 09:54 AM
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While I've not been here for very long compared to some of you, I've loved being part of this community and hope that it lasts for years to come, Long Live Spec!
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Recent Projects The Lance That Pierced the Stars -The world of chordates throughout its history. A planet populated only by lancelets, algae, and zooplankton. Dogworld - A planet of Good Boys, man's gift to their dearest friends.
Old Projects The Twisted Mirror -my first project, in which some unknown event sometime before the carboniferous drastically changed the course of earth's evolution, and a new clade arose that replaced the tetrapods. And then evolution went nuts. Sphera Vitae -my second project. A universe of giant hollow spheres populated with life from Earth. Each is seperate and unique from one another, and some downright inhospitable, though life evolves and finds a way like nowhere else. Haemos Island - A tiny volcanic rock in the middle of the South Pacific. An island that is no paradise.
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Even
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May 24 2018, 10:19 AM
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Long live Spec, for tens more years!
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Currently a part of Specworld's revival and The Dark Phoenix's Dinosaur Spec... Still open for idea exchanges and commentaries
GENERATION 26: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.
My Pets All of His creations under my responsibility: Planted Tank #1 0.0.5 Corydoras sterbai 0.0.2 Jordanella floridae 0.0.2 Ctenolucius hujeta 0.0.3 Gasteropelecus maculatus 0.0.2 Thorichthys meeki 0.0.2 Mikrogeophagus altispinosus 0.0.3 Rineloricaria spp. L010A 0.0.2 Ctenopoma acutirostre 0.0.2 Uaru ampliacanthoides 0.0.2 Tetraodon nigroviridis 0.0.2 Doryichthys cf. martensii 0.0.2 Agamyxis pectinifrons Countless Melanoides tuberculata currently tipping off the bioload Comment: Cichlid craze! Will have some fishes moved away in the near future, or add some more molluscivores (hoping the puffers work as control)
Turtle Cage #1 0.0.1 Trachemys scripta elegans 0.0.1 Unidentified turtle
Turtle Cage #2 0.0.1 Chelydra serpentina
Apartment Tank 0.0.5 Brachydanio rerio 0.0.5 Tannichthys albonubes 0.0.5 Nannostomus eques 0.0.3 Pseudomugil gertrudae 0.0.1 Carinotetraodon travancoricus 0.0.2 Acantopsis octoactinotos 0.0.3 Corydoras paleatus 0.0.3 Corydoras panda slayer fin 0.0.4 Fundulopanchax gardneri 0.0.1 Gyrinocheilus aymoneri 0.0.2 Hyalobagrus flavus 0.0.1 Dermogenys sp. (hoping to find more) 0.0.4 Neocardina sp. local Amano 0.0.3 Neritina natalensis Comment: This is full-booked, hopefully
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May 24 2018, 12:27 PM
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Hurrah!
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May 24 2018, 06:44 PM
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Happy birthday Speculative Evolution forum. May the next 10 years be filled with just as many great projects as the last.
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May 24 2018, 07:06 PM
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Happy birthday SE forum, I look forward to what the next decade will present both users and creations
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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.
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May 24 2018, 10:33 PM
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totally not British, b-baka!
You like me (Unlike) I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
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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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.
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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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May 24 2018, 11:35 PM
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Time to bring out the party crow
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Unnamed No K-Pg project: coming whenever, maybe never. I got ideas tho.
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