Small-medium sized rocky planet, a bit far from the sun. It has deserts of copper sulphate and it is diluded on most of its water, which also shares its space with small sulphuric acid pools inland. The copper sulphate gives the planet a beautiful blue colour, while its atmosphere is composed mainly of methane, acetylene and sulphur dyoxide. The atmosphere is very dense, and masks the blue planet with a whirling green colour. The greenhouse effect plus its distance from the sun makes it a slightly cold planet, maybe near the 4º celsius in the equator, but its strong geothermal energy (yay, magma!) gives the planet a pretty constant tepmprature.
I think stars cannot be green, but.. who minds :P
STEP ONE: Redesign the sun so that when a comet enters the system, it sends out a small amount of it's fused material to grab them and drag them into the suns gravity well.
STEP 2: Have the sun reabsorb them.
STEP III: Break the ice down into hydrogen and Oxygen.
STEP D: Use these materials for great fusion.
STEP ONE: Redesign the sun so that when a comet enters the system, it sends out a small amount of it's fused material to grab them and drag them into the suns gravity well.That seems very.. Artificial, does it not?
STEP 2: Have the sun reabsorb them.
STEP III: Break the ice down into hydrogen and Oxygen.
STEP D: Use these materials for great fusion.
Go supernova.Are you sure you want to restart? Y/N
That'll teach comets to come knocking on our planet.
We're pretty much a god.Alright, if that's the consensus, but the more artificial-looking phenomena the more strange and alien theories your people will come up with, and the more variety, which means more wars and more chance of failure.
Puny things like the laws of physics don't apply to us.
Also, Rule of Cool.
Create a large purple gas giant with green polka-dots. It will have exactly 23 moons. And a distinct lack of rings. The purple will be slightly swirly, and the spots will be migrating storms that move about its surface. All of the planets will have sufficient geothermal energy to be able to support life.
Reduce the temperature a bit to extend ice and reduce water, then raise some more land out of the sea to form a proper continent starting around the equator and going north.Sounds like a good idea.
Dump sand inside a random supervolcano.Why?
BURN EVERYTHING ON THE CONTINENTS. WE AIN'T MAKIN PUSSY-ASS LIFE HERE.-1
Dump sand inside a random supervolcano.+1.
MELT THE ICE CAPS.Noooo!
FUCK THE POLE ICEMELT THE ICE CAPS.Noooo!
Not the polar bears!
OK I laughed at that one.FUCK THE POLE ICEMELT THE ICE CAPS.Noooo!
Not the polar bears!
Polar bears don't exist yet. The world has yet to generate life, only a semi-habitable environment.I knew it!
There's not much oxygen yet.
BEAR ABORTION IS BOTH SIMPLE AND FUNQuotePolar bears don't exist yet. The world has yet to generate life, only a semi-habitable environment.I knew it!
There's not much oxygen yet.
He's future assasinating unborn polar bears!
There's not much oxygen yet.
Does it have to have an oxygen rich atmosphere? We are God, after all.No.
I say we dump fully fledged humans into the oceans and make them turn into mer-men and develop nuclear weapons for our amusementThat's it. I'm lobbying for robopolarbears.
Since we melt the ice caps will they need to be PirateRobotPolarBears?I say we dump fully fledged humans into the oceans and make them turn into mer-men and develop nuclear weapons for our amusementThat's it. I'm lobbying for robopolarbears.
That does sound pretty awesome.Since we melt the ice caps will they need to be PirateRobotPolarBears?I say we dump fully fledged humans into the oceans and make them turn into mer-men and develop nuclear weapons for our amusementThat's it. I'm lobbying for robopolarbears.
I say we dump fully fledged humans into the oceans and make them turn into mer-men and develop nuclear weapons for our amusement-1
If we do that (and I don't want to), we'd need to make them ninjas and zombies as well. At minimum.That does sound pretty awesome.Since we melt the ice caps will they need to be PirateRobotPolarBears?I say we dump fully fledged humans into the oceans and make them turn into mer-men and develop nuclear weapons for our amusementThat's it. I'm lobbying for robopolarbears.
Why not get some bigger plants up and running? Like... Huge plants. But not elfy huge plants, but like, beer trees. With intoxicating fruit.*cough*Sun Berries*/cough*
Create a continent under the northern ice-sheet, extending southwards as a tundra, then connecting with forests to the large eastern continent, the landmass having a shape roughly like this:
(http://img.ie/f7qzi.png)
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You talk, I act.
Create some mats of sargasso-like plants, but silicon-based, so big and thick they can function as small islands when creatures come along. Give them floating, juicy fruits. Also create some sort of animal to eat these fruits and spread the seeds within.
Unfortunately, you lack the ability to create large landmasses of defined shapes from nothing. You may attempt to extend land along those lines, should you wish to. Be aware that tectonic movement coupled with erosion will eventually make any and all shaped landmasses moot.Create a continent under the northern ice-sheet, extending southwards as a tundra, then connecting with forests to the large eastern continent, the landmass having a shape roughly like this:Spoiler (click to show/hide)
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This.
Create some mats of sargasso-like plants, but silicon-based, so big and thick they can function as small islands when creatures come along. Give them floating, juicy fruits. Also create some sort of animal to eat these fruits and spread the seeds within.
Ho hum. Continental drift works in this world, right?+1
Create some plants like silicon-based algae*, and some sponges*, and some silicon-based bacteria* living in various places, and some silicon-based fungi*, and silicon-based diatons*, and silicon-based protists* of various sorts, and a single species of carbon-based bacteria which lives by the hydrothermal vents.
Long-term goal:Create some mats of sargasso-like plants, but silicon-based, so big and thick they can function as small islands when creatures come along. Give them floating, juicy fruits. Also create some sort of animal to eat these fruits and spread the seeds within.
Ho hum. Continental drift works in this world, right?+2
Create some plants like silicon-based algae*, and some sponges*, and some silicon-based bacteria* living in various places, and some silicon-based fungi*, and silicon-based diatons*, and silicon-based protists* of various sorts, and a single species of carbon-based bacteria which lives by the hydrothermal vents.
Long-term goal:Create some mats of sargasso-like plants, but silicon-based, so big and thick they can function as small islands when creatures come along. Give them floating, juicy fruits. Also create some sort of animal to eat these fruits and spread the seeds within.
Ho hum. Continental drift works in this world, right?
Create some plants like silicon-based algae*, and some sponges*, and some silicon-based bacteria* living in various places, and some silicon-based fungi*, and silicon-based diatons*, and silicon-based protists* of various sorts, and a single species of carbon-based bacteria which lives by the hydrothermal vents.
Ho hum. Continental drift works in this world, right?
Create some plants like silicon-based algae*, and some sponges*, and some silicon-based bacteria* living in various places, and some silicon-based fungi*, and silicon-based diatons*, and silicon-based protists* of various sorts, and a single species of carbon-based bacteria which lives by the hydrothermal vents.
Long-term goal:Create some mats of sargasso-like plants, but silicon-based, so big and thick they can function as small islands when creatures come along. Give them floating, juicy fruits. Also create some sort of animal to eat these fruits and spread the seeds within.
Also, create some non-silicone based creatures, to serve as another caste (like plant/animal/fungus, we currently have one kingdom)If you'd notice, I added some carbon-based life.
I'm thinking something based on a Noble Gas, or Lithium. Because Lithium and H2O just looove each other.[/i]
Create boron-based volcano-dwelling fungi!You can't create life "based" on just any element. The element needs to be able to bind with several other elements in a versatile number of ways. The best elements for that are probably those in Period 14, for various reasons related to valance electrons...so, carbon, silicon, maybe germanium, maybe maybe tin or lead.
Lets get some Germanium based things on one of the icecaps. i vote the southern ones.Start simple. There's no life on land yet; we're still Precambrian. No monkies yet.
four arms/legs small and 6 fingers on each limb. and a tail.
think smart monkey
Lets get some Germanium based things on one of the icecaps. i vote the southern ones.Start simple. There's no life on land yet; we're still Precambrian. No monkies yet.
four arms/legs small and 6 fingers on each limb. and a tail.
think smart monkey
Make Carbon based micro-organisms then.+1.
Also, create some non-silicone based creatures, to serve as another caste (like plant/animal/fungus, we currently have one kingdom)If you'd notice, I added some carbon-based life.QuoteI'm thinking something based on a Noble Gas, or Lithium. Because Lithium and H2O just looove each other.[/i]Create boron-based volcano-dwelling fungi!You can't create life "based" on just any element. The element needs to be able to bind with several other elements in a versatile number of ways. The best elements for that are probably those in Period 14, for various reasons related to valance electrons...so, carbon, silicon, maybe germanium, maybe maybe tin or lead.
Also, create some non-silicone based creatures, to serve as another caste (like plant/animal/fungus, we currently have one kingdom)If you'd notice, I added some carbon-based life.QuoteI'm thinking something based on a Noble Gas, or Lithium. Because Lithium and H2O just looove each other.[/i]Create boron-based volcano-dwelling fungi!You can't create life "based" on just any element. The element needs to be able to bind with several other elements in a versatile number of ways. The best elements for that are probably those in Period 14, for various reasons related to valance electrons...so, carbon, silicon, maybe germanium, maybe maybe tin or lead.
Too variable. So variable in fact, it cannot make viable life.Also, create some non-silicone based creatures, to serve as another caste (like plant/animal/fungus, we currently have one kingdom)If you'd notice, I added some carbon-based life.QuoteI'm thinking something based on a Noble Gas, or Lithium. Because Lithium and H2O just looove each other.[/i]Create boron-based volcano-dwelling fungi!You can't create life "based" on just any element. The element needs to be able to bind with several other elements in a versatile number of ways. The best elements for that are probably those in Period 14, for various reasons related to valance electrons...so, carbon, silicon, maybe germanium, maybe maybe tin or lead.
good sir i did my research and at this stage of tectonic activity boron-based lifeforms inside of volcanoes are nothing that should be considered impossible considering boron's chemistry is actually even more variable than carbon's and this stuff even has its own wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry) which you can use as a springboard to even more sources supporting my pseudoresearch
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Too variable. So variable in fact, it cannot make viable life.Also, create some non-silicone based creatures, to serve as another caste (like plant/animal/fungus, we currently have one kingdom)If you'd notice, I added some carbon-based life.QuoteI'm thinking something based on a Noble Gas, or Lithium. Because Lithium and H2O just looove each other.[/i]Create boron-based volcano-dwelling fungi!You can't create life "based" on just any element. The element needs to be able to bind with several other elements in a versatile number of ways. The best elements for that are probably those in Period 14, for various reasons related to valance electrons...so, carbon, silicon, maybe germanium, maybe maybe tin or lead.
good sir i did my research and at this stage of tectonic activity boron-based lifeforms inside of volcanoes are nothing that should be considered impossible considering boron's chemistry is actually even more variable than carbon's and this stuff even has its own wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothetical_types_of_biochemistry) which you can use as a springboard to even more sources supporting my pseudoresearch
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You can't create life "based" on just any element. The element needs to be able to bind with several other elements in a versatile number of ways. The best elements for that are probably those in Period 14, for various reasons related to valance electrons...so, carbon, silicon, maybe germanium, maybe maybe tin or lead.The positive ones would work too, Lithium is one of the highly reactive ones, and Flourine... jesus.
((How did we manage to create a parasite(virus) without it having anything to parasite on.*cell
Besides, virii are questionably alive.))
Gently pat the cell with glucose.+1
Throw some minerals at the cell, to try to get it to form a mineral shell.+1, but gently/.
I think we should hold off on the shaking until we get big enough that a hard collision with a big mineral wouldn't wipe us out instantly.Agreed.
Spawn glucose around it.GLUCOSE IS A CARBON BASED MOLECULE!!!
No you don't. It's in water. If it was based on Silicon it would be dead. Or so slow as to appear that way.Spawn glucose around it.GLUCOSE IS A CARBON BASED MOLECULE!!!
IT JUST BREAKS DOWJ INTO ADENASINE TRIPHOSPHATE!
WE HAVE A SILICON BASED LIFE-FORM
To everyone voting for Non-carbon based life: Silicate lifeforms on this planet would either be glacially slow to do everything, not making a very good game and also not evolving fast enough to escape before the sun goes supernova, or would die from the relatively absolutely freezing tempratures of the planet.
You guys made a earth-like planet. Just warning you because it would seem cruel to have your life die on the first post in the Evolution scale.
Does not help whatsoever.To everyone voting for Non-carbon based life: Silicate lifeforms on this planet would either be glacially slow to do everything, not making a very good game and also not evolving fast enough to escape before the sun goes supernova, or would die from the relatively absolutely freezing tempratures of the planet.
You guys made a earth-like planet. Just warning you because it would seem cruel to have your life die on the first post in the Evolution scale.
All that says is that it would be stupid to make silicon life.Does not help whatsoever.To everyone voting for Non-carbon based life: Silicate lifeforms on this planet would either be glacially slow to do everything, not making a very good game and also not evolving fast enough to escape before the sun goes supernova, or would die from the relatively absolutely freezing tempratures of the planet.
You guys made a earth-like planet. Just warning you because it would seem cruel to have your life die on the first post in the Evolution scale.
What did we make the life based on? Boron or carbon?Carbon. I've never heard of Boron as a viable candidate for life. I know zilch about what life made of Boron would have to act like different from Carbon-based life.
Just to note, Silicate is something completely different than Silicon. Silicate is made up of silicon and oxygen.What did we make the life based on? Boron or carbon?Carbon. I've never heard of Boron as a viable candidate for life. I know zilch about what life made of Boron would have to act like different from Carbon-based life.
And Silcate life would die. So Carbon.
But that's physically imposs-
Bay 12 Rejects Your Conventional Logic!
We do, however, understand chemistry pretty well. And if elements don't work the same in space as they do on Earth, might as well throw everything out.
Guess what matters most for this particular problem?We do, however, understand chemistry pretty well. And if elements don't work the same in space as they do on Earth, might as well throw everything out.Do know all human knowledge about universe you get number like this 0.0000000001 and What know Matter is that Reaction and Bonding and Small is Bigger also this,My Father Explain me this long time ago
Reaction and Bonding
Yeah, larger elements and metals are the assholes of the elemental world when it comes to that kind of thing, too. Metals change their valence electrons for fun because of their makeup, Iron(II) and Iron(III) and all that crap, then the fact that larger elements have a disturbing tendency to not like existing for more than thirty seconds, and in those thirty seconds, spew radiation all over the friggin place.
That video explained everything!*Aye. We're discussing physics, not philosophy.
*by which I mean it has no bearing on this discussion whatsoever
*Leaves,No never to again by this fourmThat video explained everything!*Aye. We're discussing physics, not philosophy.
*by which I mean it has no bearing on this discussion whatsoever
Would it be possible to create a race of biomachines?Be more specific. When it's made of life, "machine" is a bit tough to define...
I mean augmenting a creature with parts made form other compounds, such as giving organisms naturally metallic bodies, so essentially they are born cyborgs.Would it be possible to create a race of biomachines?Be more specific. When it's made of life, "machine" is a bit tough to define...
I can't think of any reason why not, but I still doubt that's possible without significant meddling...I mean augmenting a creature with parts made form other compounds, such as giving organisms naturally metallic bodies, so essentially they are born cyborgs.Would it be possible to create a race of biomachines?Be more specific. When it's made of life, "machine" is a bit tough to define...
We need the element of irony in high amounts. Everyone knows that life cant survive without irony.Then what about surprise? Huh? What about the Elements of Harmony? Huh? What about THOSE elements?
No,How about love as food and Carbon as it shellWe need the element of irony in high amounts. Everyone knows that life cant survive without irony.Then what about surprise? Huh? What about the Elements of Harmony? Huh? What about THOSE elements?