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Universe Factory - Medium: Prehistory of Great Lakes Earth

posted on October 12, 2016 by John Dailey

In The Beginning… Right from the start, Great Lakes Earth proved itself to be different from our own. Our Earth first came into existence 4,543,000,000 years ago as an inhospitable ball of molten rock that barely survived a crash from a Mars-sized rogue planet whose impact gave rise to the creation of our moon. Great Lakes Earth came into its solar system exactly five billion years ago as the r…

bilbo_pingouin

05:44

morning

dot_Sp0T

06:51

Hell-ooooooo

Green

12:21

Quiet Europe today.

dot_Sp0T

Has it ever been different?

Green

Yes. I've walked into chat some mornings to see hundreds of messages passed between a few european WBers.

dot_Sp0T

Well no luck there then

Green

No, not today and that's okay.

bilbo_pingouin

We were waiting for you... we would not want you to miss anything ;)

Green

12:33

Thanks :)

dot_Sp0T

@bilbo_pingouin you might've been. I've been crying in my silent corner for the last 5 hours

bilbo_pingouin

12:44

crying in silence? that does not sound very productive... ;)

Green

@bilbo_pingouin For sure. How is anyone going to collect all those tears if they don't know that the tears exist?

bilbo_pingouin

exactly

Green

Public demonstration of tear production is essential for efficient tear collection. @dot_Sp0T, you're going to have to come cry in public please.

dot_Sp0T

I dun wanna

Green

@dot_Sp0T Come, come now. We both know that tears production is down for the month and needs improvement. Your bold salty tears will contribute to the Cause.

dot_Sp0T

13:00

sigh

Green

(Okay, I'm done. :) )

dot_Sp0T

13:17

Anyone of you working with Java?

bilbo_pingouin

@dot_Sp0T nope, but why?

Green

@dot_Sp0T Used to, but not in the last two years. What's up?

dot_Sp0T

Trying to do things I don't get to work :) And it's usually more efficient to get in external views

DaaaahWhoosh

I worked with Java once

now I work with Javascript, but everyone calls it Java anyway

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh define everyone

bilbo_pingouin

13:23

@DaaaahWhoosh is it to feel better about it?

DaaaahWhoosh

@dot_Sp0T maybe not everyone, but at least two people who talk to the client more than I do

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh business analysts?

DaaaahWhoosh

one of them, the other is a project manager I think

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh I remember that guy who sorta led the group of fansubbers I've once been part of talking about making a new website using php & java; so I got intrigued and asked him how exactly that worked in regards of java being compile and everything and php as well being server-side but interpreted......... Well yeah, I didn't really intend to stay in that group anyways

oooooooh buggedy connection bug bug (or some javascript bug)

DaaaahWhoosh

huh, I don't think I've ever seen a double post in chat before

dot_Sp0T

13:28

I have attained god-status then

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dot_Sp0T

13:38

Don't be scared my little sheep; I will not do you any harm. Talk, talk and prosper!

DaaaahWhoosh

I do want to say I'm somewhat satisfied with my roach farming question

though it seems like the best answer was posted in under a minute, I've been waiting to see if anything better shows up and it has not

dot_Sp0T

@DaaaahWhoosh try adding a bounty to it after a few days (some 100-200 rep), that usually gets out some more answers

DaaaahWhoosh

I guess I'm not really complaining about the lack of good answers, just that I like it when they get better over time.

Green

13:54

@DaaaahWhoosh, got a link to the roach farming? I"ll have a look.

Skye

Humans farm strange things

DaaaahWhoosh

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Q: Farming after the apocalypse: chickens or giant cockroaches?

So let's say you live in a terrifying post-apocalyptic world. For whatever reason, this world is now infested with cockroaches the size of chickens (similar to radroaches from the Fallout games, but ignore the radiation). My question, then, is would it be better for a chicken farmer to keep on ...

Green

@DaaaahWhoosh That top answer is really good. I can't do better.

DaaaahWhoosh

yeah, I guess I might as well go ahead and accept it. It's just so anticlimactic to instantly get the right answer to something.

Skye

Since we have cockroach farms, do we have rat farms as well?

Green

14:00

@DaaaahWhoosh But it's a nice award to be first post and the accepted answer.

Worldbuilding Meta

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Q: Question Clarification as an Answer

Yesterday, I came across an answer from a new user that caught my attention not because of its quality (or lack thereof), but because it consisted of 15 questions to the OP and 1 suggestion. I suggested the user take those questions to chat, discuss them with the OP, and provide an answer. I als...

discussion answers

TrEs-2b

16:20

@DaaaahWhoosh I agree with @dot_Sp0T , adding a bounty would likely attract the eyes of the users who actually can do math on the input to output ratio

DaaaahWhoosh

@TrEs-2b eh, too late. I'm not gonna risk giving you more rep

though I do like that answer that suggests raising chickens and cockroaches

dot_Sp0T

18:13

Take me to church, I'll worship like a dog, at the shrine of your lies

DaaaahWhoosh

I wasn't aware that dogs were particularly good at worshiping.

DaaaahWhoosh

20:07

I don't like it when people are vague

like, maybe if it's vague to encourage the other person to ask questions, but if you ask a question that is vague, that part bothers me

though I guess I'm just as bothered when people add information that is wrong, so there's really no way to win

Nex Terren

20:28

Such as "what are your thoughts on ____?"

I hate that specific question.

DaaaahWhoosh

what are your thoughts on half-lives?

Nex Terren

@DaaaahWhoosh You can just go into a corner and decay for 20,000 years.

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DaaaahWhoosh

that's the exact response I didn't know I needed

but I've recently been wondering if there's any isotope that decays into another isotope that has different enough properties that you could get a jar of it and use it to tell time

Nex Terren

20:47

@DaaaahWhoosh Get on that and figure it out for me.

Shalvenay

say -- I know we have questions on fire breath, and lightning weapons, do we have any on lightning breath?

DaaaahWhoosh

I had a question about ice breath once, I think

ah, hold on

8

Q: Breathing lightning

This question is partly a nod to the current fortnightly challenge. In many fantasy settings and resources, there are creatures capable of, or described as, breathing lightning. How might a creature evolve naturally such that it can emit lightning, or an effect that may be easily mistaken for li...

science-based creature-design lightning

I remember in 5th grade I told a story about three dragons. One could produce fire, one could produce ice, the third could produce electricity

Shalvenay

@DaaaahWhoosh -- I was thinking about Andy's comment about using lasers to ionize air to produce a "conduit" for lightning to travel down

and was wondering "could a biological laser exist?" considering that critters can produce HV, and we're surrounded by a laser gain medium...

and was wondering if that'd be a good question for the site

DaaaahWhoosh

if we don't have a question about animals shooting laser beams out of their mouths, then I will be disappointed

8

Q: Sharks with frickin' lasers!

Yes, this is about Dr. Evil's dream: Sharks with frickin' lasers. Except that the lasers would not be artificially attached, but be part of the animal itself (bio-lasing instead of simply bioluminescence). In short: Would it be possible for an animal (shark or otherwise) to grow a laser at its h...

science-based reality-check creature-design

but I can't find one for lasers on land

so yeah, ask away

Shalvenay

21:08

asked

Durakken

23:58

what do you guys think of this comment I made:

These types questions need a general answer somewhere people can be pointed to because it's the same everywhere. "Any structure can be done via biological means, but whether it would ever develop is another question entirely and for most of these questions it is a not likely to occur status"

: on this post worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/58944/…

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