Zeuseus
KNEEL BEFORE YOUR GOD!!
Ain't this just the story of the world lol.
The idea of three different groups all creating a portal to the same universe simultaneously is quite amusing.
My Random Fiction Bits and Pieces
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The idea of three different groups all creating a portal to the same universe simultaneously is quite amusing.
- Location
- The deathworld-in-miniature that is Australia
- Pronouns
- They/Them
I'll admit, when the Fiction Bit (ficbit?) was titled 'Evolutions' and there was something that messed with the universal spatial constant, I was kinda half-expecting a Palkia to be nearby. Pokemon, or pokemon-like organisms, wouldn't be any kind of intelligent life 'we' were expecting to see, after all, and a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon-like world would probably be lacking enough in refined metals and fossil fuel use to not trigger those scans.
But what we got was even better! (theoretically)
But what we got was even better! (theoretically)
Hexcalibur
Not So Ordinary Sword
- Location
- Somewhere
- Pronouns
- It
Meanwhile nearby under the sea, intelligent octopuses swam out of their portal.
Please kind sir, may I have some more?
And this is the sort of stuff that could be published and sold for actual money. Just needs to expand a little bit.
And this is the sort of stuff that could be published and sold for actual money. Just needs to expand a little bit.
Stephenopolos
Going through stargate withdrawl
- Location
- illinois
nah, it's thranx and family exploration teams bumping into a human exploration team
JVR
Contessa's #1 Fangirl
- Location
- Cauldron Compound
There's a GURPS world that's been a part of the Infinite Worlds timeline since 3rd Edition. It's called The United States of Lizardia. The descendants of the dinosaurs have a world that's eerily similar to ours and it gives the parachronic scientists on Earth Prime fits trying to figure it out.
- Location
- Australia, often behind a keyboard
"Variables won't, constants aren't."
- Location
- Beyond the Unknowable Veil
Okay so the destination reality would be downhill from the others. Does it have natives? How many exploration parties all showed up at the same time from different origins? We have three visible so far.
- Location
- Tatum, Tx
Okay, I can see two familiar stories encountering a third in this story. "Taylor Varga" resuls in "dinosaurs" if they believe what they are seeing and "Bugs in the System" would be the bugs in the rover.
- Location
- Somewhere In Pa
- Pronouns
- Mr
That's the thing though; the asteroid didn't make the dinosaurs go extinct. Oh sure, it's considered the extinction event; however, it didn't happen overnight. Plus, not all of the dinosaurs went extinct. That's why we still have gators, crocs, and birds; they all descended from dinosaurs that survived the mass climate change brought on by the asteroid.
Now, I'm not sure of the specifics, but I do believe that arthropod evolution was Pre-Cambrian; or at least, close enough to that point to not make much difference. All that would have had to happen is that whatever extinction even occurred in that timeframe to not happen, allowing arthropods to evolve to full sapience. What's really a brain twister is that there's the possibility that this sort of thing did happen, if you accept some of the more out-there theories of how the universe works.
The problem that occurred for the mega bugs was a rapid drop in oxygen levels and their bodies not being designed to handle that well, these sapient bugs may have developed some sort of lung like organ and a better circulatory system.
Er, only the birds. Gators and crocs have recognizable ancestors contemporary with dinosaurs I think, but they're not dinosaurs.
Deterrence requires people knowing that you have the capability and are willing to use it. That usually requires using it at least once, if only as a test/demonstration.
Plus, I'm pretty sure that TNA-1/KX-19 is nasty enough that it could be effective even against a ramped up Lung, and possibly the only thing they have that could stop a sufficiently ramped and determined Lung. And gas grenades are one of the few things that could be effective against a teleport/clone spamming Oni Lee.
I suppose it's also possible that Kaiser might have been willing to try gassing an Endbringer, but that seems like a bit of a stretch.
Sure, it wasn't instantaneous, and not all the dinosaurs died. Though, if we're being technical, crocodilians are a different evolutionary branch from dinosaurs and their only living descendants birds.
And a fuckton of dinos (and everything else) did die in the immediate wake of the impact - the blast wave was enormous and the impact winter was brutal.
However, the asteroid impact is generally considered by science to be the trigger and critical factor in the extinction event that ended the Age of Dinosaurs. No asteroid impact, that extinction event doesn't happen, though something else could easily have led to an extinction event ending the Age of Dinsoaurs anyways.
- Location
- That place over there.
Ok yeah having three (or more) portals from different universes hit all at once I could see changing things.
Though after all that time you'd think they'd have an entire backup portal system on each side. Then again I just started listening to Outland where the hardware was relatively easy to make once the math was figured out.
Though after all that time you'd think they'd have an entire backup portal system on each side. Then again I just started listening to Outland where the hardware was relatively easy to make once the math was figured out.
- Location
- Attempting to cast animate object on a black hole.
I always like it when "interdimensional grease-trap" areas get written well in fiction. Same with time travel, really.
- Location
- I'll never tell...
Like a supervolcano going boom? Or several in quick succession?
Oh so regular Octopi!
- Location
- Somewhere
That would be the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event at the latest, I believe. Also known as the Great Dying, and the worst extinction event we've discovered in the fossil record and is also the only extinction event that involved a mass extinction of insect species.
It doesn't mean that their Earth isn't habitable by humans, as that much time can easily have had oxygen levels drop gradually anyway but slowly enough for insects to evolve lungs or more efficient breathing mechanisms in general than what they have here. If not, well, let's just say that the Death Zone for us wouldn't be at 20,000 feet but a bit higher due to the higher oxygen levels in the atmosphere. OTOH, the atmosphere at sea level would likely be toxic to us due to there being too much oxygen.
- Location
- Adelaide, Australia
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