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Derpy Dev

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Re: e c o
« Reply #15 on: September 21, 2017, 06:29:56 pm »

Create a photosynthetic sky whale.

I'm not biologist, but I don't think a whale can live entirely off of photosynthesis.
High surface area, and most of its body will just be air. It's basically an organic blimp.

Oh. That could work.

...Bob has some competition.

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« Reply #16 on: September 21, 2017, 06:45:41 pm »

Oh, also complex processes and the names of them wont get a pass. Just explain a characteristic in layman's terms.

Example:
Photosynthesis = eats light

(ect.)
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Re: e c o
« Reply #17 on: September 21, 2017, 07:01:46 pm »

Fine. It's a giant lighter-than-air whale that floats through the sky and gets energy from absorbing sunlight through its skin. In essence, an organic solar-powered blimp.
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« Reply #18 on: September 21, 2017, 07:08:52 pm »

Oh, also complex processes and the names of them wont get a pass. Just explain a characteristic in layman's terms.

Example:
Photosynthesis = Sun absorbing skin

(ect.)

Wait, what was that about names? Will Bob not go down in history as Bob?

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« Reply #19 on: September 21, 2017, 07:36:19 pm »

Create a photosynthetic air moss that can form very large clumps
hopefully making a floating island.

Call it 'floating island'.
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« Reply #20 on: September 21, 2017, 07:44:25 pm »

Create a virus.
Revising this to:
Create a virus that hijacks other cells, forcing them to produce more of the virus, while increasing the metabolism of photosynthetic cells.

My goal here is to be symbiotic: if you let me infect your organisms, I'll boost their metabolism, so they're more efficient, and can reproduce/generate ATP/move/etc better and faster.

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« Reply #21 on: September 21, 2017, 08:10:32 pm »

Create a virus.
Revising this to:
Create a virus that hijacks other cells, forcing them to produce more of the virus, while increasing the metabolism of photosynthetic cells.

My goal here is to be symbiotic: if you let me infect your organisms, I'll boost their metabolism, so they're more efficient, and can reproduce/generate ATP/move/etc better and faster.

inb4 endosymbiosis.

All your viruses now belong to us.




Create not-quite-cyanobacteria. Small photosynthetic bacteria that metabolize light and release toxic vapors (oxygen) into the atmosphere.
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« Reply #22 on: September 21, 2017, 08:17:09 pm »

Create not-quite-cyanobacteria. Small photosynthetic bacteria that metabolize light and release toxic vapors (oxygen) into the atmosphere.

Bob now does the exact same thing, but will also, for inexplicable reasons, cling to creatures like Glass' air whales and live on them.

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« Reply #23 on: September 21, 2017, 08:22:39 pm »

inb4 endosymbiosis.

All your viruses now belong to us.
fuck he's good

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« Reply #24 on: September 21, 2017, 08:24:20 pm »

I think we need to wait for Roseheart to place everything.
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« Reply #25 on: September 21, 2017, 08:45:37 pm »

Fine. It's a giant lighter-than-air whale that floats through the sky and gets energy from absorbing sunlight through its skin. In essence, an organic solar-powered blimp.

That would be very impractical. For one, surface area is proportional to the square of the radius, while volume is proportional to the cube of the radius -- which means producing the insides of an organism from photosynthesis gets much harder as the organism gets larger. It would be very hard for your organism to reproduce, requiring storing energy for long periods of time before splitting, which would make your creature be quickly  overtaken by... Bob.
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« Reply #26 on: September 21, 2017, 08:50:58 pm »

Fine. It's a giant lighter-than-air whale that floats through the sky and gets energy from absorbing sunlight through its skin. In essence, an organic solar-powered blimp.

That would be very impractical. For one, surface area is proportional to the square of the radius, while volume is proportional to the cube of the radius -- which means producing the insides of an organism from photosynthesis gets much harder as the organism gets larger. It would be very hard for your organism to reproduce, requiring storing energy for long periods of time before splitting, which would make your creature be quickly  overtaken by... Bob.
Well, it's mostly hollow.
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« Reply #27 on: September 21, 2017, 09:10:04 pm »

Fine. It's a giant lighter-than-air whale that floats through the sky and gets energy from absorbing sunlight through its skin. In essence, an organic solar-powered blimp.

That would be very impractical. For one, surface area is proportional to the square of the radius, while volume is proportional to the cube of the radius -- which means producing the insides of an organism from photosynthesis gets much harder as the organism gets larger. It would be very hard for your organism to reproduce, requiring storing energy for long periods of time before splitting, which would make your creature be quickly  overtaken by... Bob.
Well, it's mostly hollow.
If you mean hollow as in a vacuum, it would immediately collapse in on itself due to the pressure difference.
However, if you mean hollow as in its filled with whatever its surroundings were when it was created, I think it should be fine.
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« Reply #28 on: September 21, 2017, 09:11:13 pm »

Well, duh, of course there's air in there. It having just vacuum in there would mean it automatically dies.
We're going the "organic blimp" route here, mate. Blimps aren't filled with vacuum.
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