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Happy 10th Anniversary, SE!
Topic Started: May 24 2018, 04:00 AM (619 Views)
Holben
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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!
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.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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Ebervalius
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Long live SE!
The Sirens of the Land of Fire
Codex Ebervaliorum

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IIGSY
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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So, how about that year book?
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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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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Other cool things


All African countries can fit into Brazil
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ZoologicalBotanist
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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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--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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IIGSY
May 24 2018, 05:38 AM
So, how about that year book?
Yeah, how about it?
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ZoologicalBotanist
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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.


My Projects
Active

On Hold

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Posted Image My DeviantArt Nature and Wildlife Discord
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--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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neither lizard nor boy nor beetle . . . but a little of all three
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Happy 10th anniversary, my dear SE!
~ The Age of Forests ~
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Zorcuspine
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Enjoying our azure blue world

Happy Birthday Speculative Evolution. Here's to 10 more years!
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Uncanny Gemstar
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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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Long live Spec, for tens more years!
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.

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The Creeping Chaos
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Hurrah!
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Tartarus
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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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Dragonthunders
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The ethereal archosaur in blue

Happy birthday SE forum, I look forward to what the next decade will present both users and creations :lol:
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"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.




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LittleLazyLass
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Proud quilt in a bag

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totally not British, b-baka!
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I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess.
Me
What, you want me to tell you what these mean?
Read First
Words Maybe
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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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