NESLife VI

[Nintz]

Digestive tracts don't matter when you have nothing to digest.

EDIT: Will attempt to re-write.

Edit2: THERE.

 

[bonefang]

Am I right in these assumptions ?

1. Animals breathe out methane. The world is a smelly place.
2. Organisms breathe in Hydrogen, plant/plant like organisms' bulk is made of nitrogen compounds. The bodies are mainly acidic in nature (?)

 

[Lord_Iggy]

All gases are smelly. We earthlings are just tuned to recognize particular gases. Organisms do breathe in hydrogen, and plants are mostly carbon, but they're more nitrogenous than earth plants. Relative to their environment, life on Lambda is not particularly more acidic or basic than life on earth.

 

[Patchy]

A pity; oxygen for fire would come in handy in a few billion years.

Just realized how doomed whatever species that evolves to become sentient is without fire. Nothing to warm yourself with, metallurgy is out of the picture so the strongest tools they'll be able to use are rocks and bone. And due to anything with metal being thrown out the window progressing past the stone age will be impossible.

I think we'll have to create the equivalent of a zerg hive mind in order to progress that way.

 

[bonefang]

I was of the understanding, the organisms resemble Methanogens to an extent. co2+h2=ch4+h20. Guess I was wrong in this assumption.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

No, we definitely don't follow that particular chemical pathway bonefang, although it's possible that there are a few extremophile bacteria somewhere with a biochemistry capable of processing carbon dioxide.

I thought it might be fun to compare Lambda, 100 million years after its first huge explosion of multicellular life, to Earth around 100 million years after the dawn of the Cambrian Period.

Life on earth around this point was very different from that of the Cambrian. The majority of animals were a diverse array immobile filter feeders, ranging from corals to brachiopods, while a few varieties of mollusc and primitive fish swam through the oceans. Trilobites dominated the sea floor, alongside early echinoderms (sea stars). Green algae, which thrived underwater, were just beginning the invasion of land, evolving into non-vascular plants resembling modern mosses.

Here is a great link!

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Am I correct in assuming the bottom picture is a resemblance of Lambda?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

It is a visualization of Ordovician Earth. Lambda's 'water' would have a tea-like brown tint to it, and its life on land would be somewhat more complex. Also, most extant photosynthetic pigments on Lambda are purple.

 

[Lord_Herobrine]

Okay, time to get back to evolving!

Spoiler :

Organism: Stripper
Description: A photosynthetic organism with large photosynthetic strips, highly-specialized tissues for mass-reproduction and energy storage tissues.
Niche: Aquatic primary producer.

Organism: Algen
Ancestor: Stripper
Selective Pressure: The lack of much plant competition in the seas anymore has allowed the Algen to take advantage of an opportunity.
Mutation: Because of the lack of evolution to out-compete plant species in the seas, the stripper evolved to take a more readily bite out of the ocean. The Algen's have grown out their tendrils so much that they now float among the waves at the top of the ocean. Their arms, once at sea level, tend to latch together with small prickly hairs on the edge of their tendrils. Because of this, their arms make a sort of 'Solar Array' that blocks out light from the ocean floor and soaks up tons of energy to increase its size even more and reproduce as quickly as its predecessors.

I thought the Sporida lineage needed some luvin'.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Maybe we should try to pump some Oxygen into the atmosphere?

 

[Terrance888]

Thanks man.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Maybe we should try to pump some Oxygen into the atmosphere?

That would have some... interesting effects. Of course, the tricky bit is figuring out how you're going to harness the oxygen, which is almost entirely locked up in various ices and oxides.

 

[Daftpanzer]

I think you'd need an enormous amount of oxygen for reasons Iggy explained. Probably taking billions of years and screwing the whole planet's chemistry so our ammonia-based life no longer works... I don't think we need it

 

[Terrance888]

Zerg>All.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Except in Starcraft II, which has been so thoroughly screwed up plotwise that I am tempted to expunge everything since the Brood War out of my headcanon.

 

[Terrance888]

I suggest using this.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

So that man's face is everything since Brood War?

 

[Lambda Ignaceae]

Sooo, about that update?

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Working on it, pesterchum. You don't need to remind me, I want to move the game along too.

 

[bonefang]

An increase in the oxygen content would probably wipe out most the non aquatic species..