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Author Topic: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game  (Read 17040 times)

Dansmithers

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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #30 on: June 21, 2013, 09:26:49 am »

Use shell to cover self for armor
Become huge

Soooooo... exactly what I suggested?
Yes, but in a format for non-Fowl fans.
EDIT: Also, a few turns down liquid/gaseous rocket engines could become feasible for traversing the globe.
« Last Edit: June 21, 2013, 09:31:51 am by Dansmithers »
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #31 on: June 21, 2013, 09:36:41 am »

Note: Most organisms are very intolerant to massive temperature changes around their bodies.

Also, massive organism in water creates a lot of drag. Doubt we could move fast without suffer from massive skeleton failures. (Especially considering we don't have one).
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #32 on: June 21, 2013, 09:42:07 am »

Note: Most organisms are very intolerant to massive temperature changes around their bodies.

Also, massive organism in water creates a lot of drag. Doubt we could move fast without suffer from massive skeleton failures. (Especially considering we don't have one).
Well the Artemis Fowl krakens are basically several-mile-long armored shells. How else would we move efficiently? Also, if the chamber were made of calcifed rock, and sme distance away form the living part, it could be possible.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #33 on: June 21, 2013, 09:46:29 am »

Plus eventually I want us to fly through SPACE.

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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #34 on: June 21, 2013, 09:50:30 am »

Note: Most organisms are very intolerant to massive temperature changes around their bodies.

Also, massive organism in water creates a lot of drag. Doubt we could move fast without suffer from massive skeleton failures. (Especially considering we don't have one).
Well the Artemis Fowl krakens are basically several-mile-long armored shells. How else would we move efficiently? Also, if the chamber were made of calcifed rock, and sme distance away form the living part, it could be possible.
Just saying don't expect a several kilometer long beast to move any faster than 3 km/h.
And shaping a part of the shell in a specific way while being quite some distance away from it is hard. Especially when it fractures. (Calcified rock isn't that strong).

Alternative ways to move is to just use massive, slow tentacles. Easier to steer, and more energy efficient.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #35 on: June 21, 2013, 09:54:57 am »

Movement +1. Specifically using a writhing motion.
Sevenfold radial symmetry. Develop a gilltube to supply oxygen.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #36 on: June 21, 2013, 09:55:27 am »

Note: Most organisms are very intolerant to massive temperature changes around their bodies.

Also, massive organism in water creates a lot of drag. Doubt we could move fast without suffer from massive skeleton failures. (Especially considering we don't have one).
Well the Artemis Fowl krakens are basically several-mile-long armored shells. How else would we move efficiently? Also, if the chamber were made of calcifed rock, and sme distance away form the living part, it could be possible.
Just saying don't expect a several kilometer long beast to move any faster than 3 km/h.
And shaping a part of the shell in a specific way while being quite some distance away from it is hard. Especially when it fractures. (Calcified rock isn't that strong).

Alternative ways to move is to just use massive, slow tentacles. Easier to steer, and more energy efficient.
Flying several thousand feet into the sky is cooler.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #37 on: June 21, 2013, 10:00:30 am »

Sadly, you'll be flying several thousand feets in every direction. At once.

((Because really, the amount energy required to move that mass is enormous.))
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #38 on: June 21, 2013, 10:07:58 am »

Sadly, you'll be flying several thousand feets in every direction. At once.

((Because really, the amount energy required to move that mass is enormous.))
Maybe at first, but Rule Of Cool guarantees we'd get what we want, because rockets are the coolest method of movement.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #39 on: June 21, 2013, 10:09:37 am »

Sadly, you'll be flying several thousand feets in every direction. At once.

((Because really, the amount energy required to move that mass is enormous.))
Maybe at first, but Rule Of Cool guarantees we'd get what we want, because rockets are the coolest method of movement.
Wrong, sir! There are much  cooler methods of movement than rockets.

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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #40 on: June 21, 2013, 10:19:53 am »

Sadly, you'll be flying several thousand feets in every direction. At once.

((Because really, the amount energy required to move that mass is enormous.))
Maybe at first, but Rule Of Cool guarantees we'd get what we want, because rockets are the coolest method of movement.
Wrong, sir! There are much  cooler methods of movement than rockets.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #41 on: June 21, 2013, 10:29:07 am »

Sadly, you'll be flying several thousand feets in every direction. At once.

((Because really, the amount energy required to move that mass is enormous.))
Maybe at first, but Rule Of Cool guarantees we'd get what we want, because rockets are the coolest method of movement.
Wrong, sir! There are much  cooler methods of movement than rockets.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #42 on: June 21, 2013, 10:31:16 am »

I can't remember what it was for, but once I made up a race of enormous creatures that manipulated gravity and time to move around... eh, fuck it. Let's just make ourself into a living rocket.

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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #43 on: June 21, 2013, 10:46:14 am »

Develop the ability to shape the rock deposits we leave to make it easier to catch food.
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Re: Adaptation - Another Evolutionary Suggestion Game
« Reply #44 on: June 21, 2013, 11:04:27 am »

Develop a sac on where we can take water and then let it off at big pressures to move, similar to squids.
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