Activity for Amoeba‭

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Question	—	Long Term Zircon Data Storage Question How can Zircon be used to record data for generations of life forms? Requirements Must be able to store the data with little to no loss of it, for a least 541 million years The data in the zircon must be only accessible to civilization that are at least as advanced as 16th century Europe... (more)	—	about 6 years ago
Question	—	What would the size constraints on my creature be? Context This creature right here is one of the decedents of placoderms that that transitioned from rivers to land. The got onto land during the Middle Devonian and remained isolated from all other land animals. The only non-placoderm descended creatures are arthropods, amphibians, and a few specie... (more)	—	about 6 years ago
Question	—	A Tiktaalik for Placoderms So many millions of years ago their was a lobe finned lung fish named tiktaalik that led to the evolution of all tetrapods and the diversity they hold today. And I wanna do that again, but instead of a bony fish, I wanna use a placoderm for the job. My intention in this is to have vertebrate creature... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Evolution of intelligent drepanosaurs For a story I require an intelligent [drepanosaur]. But to work with the plot the creature needs to still have traits that don't mix well with classical vertebrate evolution of intelligence. Requirements Need them to be on an almost pure insect diet, while being 8 feet tall (not including the tail... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Man-made mass extinction that benefits arthropods Context To revive the Carboniferous period of earth one man and a group of other scientists have been genetically engineering and breeding land arthropods into giant sizes and exotic shapes since the 50s. The second part of the plan is to release the arthropods starting in Georgia and spreading them... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Chlorine Trifluoride-producing microorganisms Quick Context Basically I need one of my charaters to produce a lot of chlorine trifluoride, but human biochemistry wont allow that, so I was going to get a micro-organism to do the job and produce it as a waste product on the person's skin (kind of like how bacteria turn our sweat into foul smellin... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Mitocondrial Density in an arthropleura on steroids Context In one of my stories I am having a villain try to bring back the beauty of the giant arthropods in the Carboniferous period by genetically engineering his own personal, mega-pseudo-arthropods. And one of these creatures is an arthropleura on steroids. So this creature is about 26 feet tall... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Sonar Jamming Squids Context In the arms race of survival many animals have developed ways of evading predators, but the animal I am interested in for this question would be the tiger moth. So basically these guys jam bat echolocation through their wing flapping patterns, this causes the bat to get mixed signals and be ... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Sperm Whale Hunting Colossal Squids Context For reasons unknown a large, powerful company wants to engineer colossal squids to catch or kill sperm whales. They have tons of money to do this and even more resources.Just one thing... Question What biological and robotic enhancements can someone make to a colossal squid to let it catch... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Entelodont domestication Description So fellas have you ever head of pig from hell, well if you haven't its called the Entelodont and it is an extinct pig like omnivorous mammal that resembles a giant boar. It is thought to be most closely related to hippos and is about 6ft tall. Question Basically what I want to know is... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Anatomically Correct Opticoid Description An Opticoid is an alien species from the tv series Ben 10 and is named and known for having green eyes with slits all over its body except for its head where there are two large bat-like ears. It is a bit taller than the average human and has a bulky physique. Its skeleton is made of car... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	non muscular rapid color changing I have this alien race of amoeba-like creatures about the size of humans with the ability to morph their shape and move by constantly making and dissolving muscles by manipulating their membrane and bursting capillaries. But these muscles cannot be permanent and making smaller ones is much harder f... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Reproductive Neck Darts Yay my second alien sex question, I hope I am not arrested. Context Okay now to nitty gritty, So I got an intelligent species of Ostrich/flamingo looking creatures(this refers only to the shape, very few other aspects are like them)called the QiLokzmcs. And their method of reproduction involves a h... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Creating a Scientifically Semi-valid Pseudo-Arthropod Primate Part 3: Mouth Parts As a parody of the super soldier questions and as an efficient way of organizing these questions I will now start this series of questions about Pseudo-Arthropod Primates. Previous questions from this thread.: Pseudo-Dragonfly Wing Rib Muscles Exoskeleton Mimicking Armor Plating As an overview of... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Could this programmable matter approach allow for scientifically plausible shapeshifting? While I am aware that there have been a lot of posts about how shape-shifting could be possible, but I am asking if this type shape-shifting would work. Okay so fair warning, physics isn't my strong suit so I may not be the most scientifically literate thing in the world and it involves a fair bit o... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Human Hive Mind Alterations Context I got this man who can control millions of insects at a time to fight. He accomplishes this thanks to the microbots(smaller than bacteria) in his nervous system that react to his mind and send signals to the other microbots in the insects allowing limited control of the insects motor systems... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Reasons People Wouldn't Weaponize These Gravity Machines So when making my space stories I have put them in a technological time in history where gravity manipulators are available to the common creature and you can use it to go to other planets and live in zero-G environments, the science isn't important(mostly because I'm shamelessly hand waving it with ... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Amoeba Skeletal Structure So I am making these giant(human sized) amoeba-like aliens and to have something this big it requires a skeleton to maintain shape and to support its body but also needs to be flexible so it can do as an amoeba does and change shape to move. So my question is what sorts of weight supporting structure... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Creating a Scientifically Semi-Valid Pseudo-Arthropod Primate Part 2: Exoskeleton Mimicking Amour plating Other questions from this thread: Question 1 Question 3 Oh my that title is a mouthful, but as a parody of the super solider questions and as an efficient way of organizing these questions I will now start this series of questions about Pseudo-Arthropod Primates. As an overview of what these crea... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Creating a Scientifically Semi-Valid Pseudo-Arthropod Primate Part 1: Pseudo-Dragonfly Wing Rib Muscles Background As a parody of the super soldier questions and as an efficient way of organizing these questions I will now start this series of questions about Pseudo-Arthropod Primates. Questions from later questions relating to this thread: Exoskeleton Mimicking Armour Plating Mouth Parts As an ov... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Super Vision In the Dark I have made this planet for my creatures and it is constantly dark, night or day. No it's not a rogue planet, it's dark because of the 1,000 feet tall autotrophs that suck up all the sunlight and let little pass through (think nighttime with a half full moon). There are also hot vents sticking up... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Pancreas Chitin Okay so I am making these arthropod looking humanoid mammalian species, so think of a human with armadillo armor and jointed sloth arms. And I have heard that the pancreas produces Chitin so my question is what would it take for the pancreas to produce enough chitin to make chest, back, and loin armo... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Literally Pulsating Brains Slime molds apparently are incredibly smart for a single celled amoeba and where their smarts lie is in building efficient transport tubes for nutrients, which rival our own highways. They do this by rhythmic pulsating, allowing them to think with their whole bodies. They have also put them into robo... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	What would be the psychological differences between a human and an intelligent detrivore? I am still working on my intelligent detrivore alien species and so far I have gotten some great help from you guys. But after searching online a lot about detrivore psychology I still cannot find anything to help me so I go here. And my question is: what kind of psychological differences from a huma... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Could super-sized and intelligent detrivore aliens exist? For my story I have an alien species who are detrivore. They are also an intelligent species on par with humans. But many people have pointed out to me that intelligent detrivores don't work, because their diets don't support a large brain or a large body. My question is therefore whether intellige... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Insect Mind Control So I am making another insect themed character (I can't help it insects are just so amazing to me❤️) and I want this one to be able to control insects from a distance. I have some ideas (Pheromones and brain wave surges) on how but I'm not too sure how plausible they are or if there are better ... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Mammal producing spider venom Could a human be genetically engineered to produce a less fatal form of the Brazilian Wandering Spider's Venom? I have been told that many things that insects can do do not function in humans for various reasons, so I would like to know if this could work. (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Dragonfly Goggles Ahh insects, such fascinating creatures with fascinating traits, but sadly as I have found out most are only available to them and not us thanks to the square cubed law. Maybe the following traits, with the combination of optics and biology can be possible. So my idea is: an advanced human eye thr... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Human Dragonfly Wings So dragonflies are the sky's perfect predator, and while their are many adaptations that make this one big one is their wings. And one character in my story has these along with other mammalian versions of dragonfly/damselfly adaptations, but for this question I will just focus on the wings. So could... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Syrup Atmosphere As you look at the properties of the atmosphere as you scale up or down, things get weirder and weirder. One good example is the fairyfly and its environment. Fairyflies are so small that at their scale, air behaves somewhat like syrup and their wings have become like hairy spoons in order to grab th... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Bio ChlorineTrifluoride Pyrogenesis So Chlorine Trifluoride is a very dangerous chemical known to burn through things like concrete and asbestos. It's so bad that the Nazis, THE NAZIS, decided it was too dangerous to use. So I need an organic substance that takes forever for this compound to burn through (3 hours to a day) that is abou... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Human hybrids and prion diseases How genetically different do my human-arthropod hybrid have to be to humans to not be at risk of prion diseases when eating humans? I don't want my monsters to eat a brain for a quick snack and then 10 months later find out he has Kuru... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Azidoazide Azide Storage and Weaponization AA (azidoazide azide) is a hyper-explosive 14 nitrogen molecule. My questions are: what are some theoretical ways to store it so it doesn't explode on you but on the enemy you throw it at, and what would be the feasibility and practicability of this as a weapon? (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	The dragonfly diet So basically what I want to know what dietary changes to human would need to happen to support this human dragonfly -Chitin claws on all fingers and toes; and three chitin spikes on each limb 9-10 meter long dragonfly wings -2 meter long dragonfly tail with enlarged pincers -enlarged retract... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Psychedelic Death Birds There is this very weird species of bird that just can't get enough of delicious human flesh. But the bird has a problem - humans are big, smart, and social, so this little birdie has a unique skill: getting humans drugged up and brought into the forest. How the bird does it is the weird part: you se... (more)	—	over 6 years ago
Question	—	Detritivore farming So I have this intelligent alien race of detritivores and I was wondering if it would be more practical for them to be a farming society or a hunter-gatherer society. I don't know if this is very important, but they can digest just about anything organic from their planet and for what they can't, th... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Organic Thermoelectric Phase Change Material So I was designing some aliens who exhale colder air that they take in and one person gave me a really great suggestion, using phase change materials in the creature's make up to absorb the heat from the air. When looking into phase change materials I saw that GeSb$2$Te$4$ is one that can also hold d... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Reasons and advantages to this form of sexual dimorphism I want to have my aliens have a culture that clashes with human modern culture and one way I want to achieve this is having some extreme sexual dimorphism. For these aliens the sexual dimorphism is such that the males are the hosts and the females are the parasites. It's alot like reverse angler fi... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Gasses as a biological solvent Everyone knows that water is necessary for life because it is such a good solvent, but could a lifeform use water vapor as a solvent instead of water, or any other gas that works a solvent instead of a liquid? The environment I'm thinking of for this creature would be a planet without an atmosphere s... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Germanium Based Life What would Germanium based life look like and what conditions would favor it. I know that it's not that common but I am going to handwave that. What would be the resulting look for such a lifeform if indeed it was based on germanium and used semiconductors for life sustaining processes( like silicon... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	What would be the consequences of these biological changes to a human So let's say you changed a human's DNA to give him: a thick exoskeleton that is a lot like that of a mantis shrimp (to make him bullet-proof) very small holes all over his body to use to breathe instead of a nose (to make it hard to cut off his oxygen) a lot of stem cells stored in his bone marrow ... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Advantages and disadvantages to having 12 DNA bases So I was curious what would be the advantages and disadvantages to have 12 DNA bases? For example could it be used to store complex memories in an organism, could it cause very complex structure in an organism that wouldn't be possible in ones with only 4, would it cause more cancer or cancer like di... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Planet Titan, could this work? So I'm guessing you guys know about the speculation that life exists on Titan. To me, this is very interesting but many point out that it would probably only be microbes and unicellular life because the freezing point and melting point of liquid methane is so close together. But! More complex life ... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Environment for my freezing aliens So I am designing my aliens flash-freeze-on-target mechanism and now I am wondering what would be the more practical use for these flash freezing powers, as a predator or prey. These creatures are as intelligent and curious as humans, and as social as rats. They have a tube and pod net system under ... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Aliens with freezing powers So I have been doing some thinking and I now am trying to design some aliens who can exhale very cold gasses or cool the atmosphere around them as a side effect of their metabolism and also survive in an environment around room temperature, so does anyone know what kind of metabolism would do this to... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	What element would make up a creature if it used the weak nuclear force during its metabolic processes? I was doing some research on how to design a scientifically possible alien, when I came across an interesting section on metabolism. I found it very interesting and read about the weak force, as opposed to our electromagnetic radiation metabolism. I did more research on it, but all I found was a thou... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Can osmium replace calcium or be placed in with it to make an organic human exoskeleton I am trying to design my main character in my post-apocalyptic series to have a very dense, organic, durable skeleton. The skeleton should also be able to handle gun fire, a sledge hammer impact, as well as gamma rays (and other ionizing radiation). My idea was to have an osmium, iron, and carbon n... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Is this a fairly decent description for a post-apocalyptic fiction story? Okay so the story takes place up in the northern hemisphere around glaciers and polar bears and all that good stuff, its main character is named Xavior and he is a good human adapted to the radioactive polar environment. Before the war and all of this happened genetic engineering was booming and some... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago
Question	—	Can my character have a pet mammoth? I have been working on a post-apocalyptic fiction story and there is one thing I have been wondering about, could (in theory) a mammoth make a good pet and transportation system in this story? For some context, my character is a human, genetically altered to have thick organic armored plates around... (more)	—	almost 7 years ago