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| Citrakayah | Oct 7 2013, 01:23 AM Post #1 |
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We didn't go out with a bang. We didn't go out with a whimper, either. We're still here. Honestly, I can barely believe it. War, plague, climate change, famine--humans have basically been the universe's chewtoy. Also our own chewtoy, really. Humans endured everything everyone threw at it. We continued to improve our technology. We united, solved many of our old problems, even if we replaced them with new ones all too easily. Finally, we developed FTL, by opening wormholes connecting gravity wells. The stars were opened to us. We built a fleet of ships, big ones so we could travel the universe. They were designed to carry colonies, and they were wonders. In 2400 BCE, we left Earth. Most of the entire population, eleven billion people, left, with the rest retreating to isolated, self-sufficient cities. We used our technology to terraform Mars, built a wormhole generator, and went off to live life as a rogue planet, hopping between solar systems. But we never forgot Earth. How could we? It was our birthplace. We kept an eye on it, watching it with interest. With us gone, how would it fare? Winners and Losers Winners:
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The World The world can be described, roughly, by the projection at right; the world is in an ice age, there's a great big desert in North America, etc. However, there are significant differences. It's significantly drier than showed on the right, comparable to the climate of the late Pleistocene, because of this some species can be remarkably similar to its Pleistocene counterparts. One example is the swamp lion being similar to the Pleistocene owen's panther. In Africa, the savannah has turned dry (drier than it already was, that is) and is close to turning to desert. Woodland remains in Central Africa, and is heavily present in the section that has broken off of Africa, but is less wet than it used to be. It is more comparable to a temperate rainforest, at least in terms of rainfall. The forests of the area that has broken off of Africa (hereafter referred to as Somaliland) are especially wet, however, due to constant fog and mist being sent in from the ocean. The freshwater lake in the center of Somaliland is extremely deep, rather akin to Lake Baikal, and has a great many interesting species living in it. In what was one the Mediterranean Sea, the land has become almost completely a salt flat. What life does survive mainly lives on former islands. Interestingly, due to the vertical barrier, different species often live on the islands than the salt flats, even if they were fairly recently related. The Americas are significantly drier than shown on the map. Central America has retained woodlands, and Florida has developed one. Much of California is a rich grassland, and California has been separated from the rest of the United States by a shallow strait of water for some time. Despite what the map shows, the Himalayan Mountains remain very cold. |
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| martiitram | Oct 28 2013, 02:12 PM Post #11 |
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Also , will you give me a watch in deviantart?Please! |
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| Citrakayah | Oct 28 2013, 05:39 PM Post #12 |
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Stop derailing the thread, both of you. This is not the place for off-topic conversations. |
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| Zirojtan | Oct 28 2013, 06:31 PM Post #13 |
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Look at the photo in this article, or this photo, or this one, or this one, or may see what I got when I typed in "Detroit" on Google. It is also the largest city in the United States to file for bankruptcy, and it is the metropolitan area, not the city itself that houses 4,292,000. The city has enough buildings in it to house upwards of 2 million people, but only about 5-700,000 people live there because most of it is actually abandoned. It is frequently cited as one of the poorest places in the country. And guys, I don't mind working with younger kids, but the Terms of Service for Zetaboards are very clear about how to work with users under the age of 13, and by mentioning your age publicly, you may have created an administrative problem. I'm going to confer with the admins and see what we need to do here. |
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| JaggerTheDog | Oct 29 2013, 02:14 PM Post #14 |
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12 is okay, but 10. That's just bonkers. |
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| Zirojtan | Oct 29 2013, 05:47 PM Post #15 |
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No bud, neither are ok. We're supposed to have a parental consent form for you to fill out if you're under the age of 13. I talked it over with the other admins yesterday. Where are we on that? |
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| Citrakayah | Oct 29 2013, 09:49 PM Post #16 |
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Indeed, what Zirojtan says is correct. I'm sorry, Jagger, but legally we have no other choice. ZetaBoards could easily shut us down. |
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