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Old 08-28-2016, 02:02 AM   #51
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That's just meta enough to be delicious.

I'm also enjoying fchase'work. Another bio weapon world:

Labrynthian. Victims lose much higher mental capacity and merely eat whatever is available and build circuitous paths. It appeared over 500 years ago; today, docile infectees slowly expand the mazes made of ruins.

It turns out that Labrynthian make good hunting grounds.

Instead of flooding, why not draining? Drop sea levels 800m and see how things look....
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Old 08-28-2016, 02:31 AM   #52
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You need both ATP and nucleotides to still be our kind of life.
I meant life itself doesn't need to have our levels of "trace" element needs, not that earth life could handle less. I omitted too many words for my point.
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Old 08-28-2016, 02:35 AM   #53
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Slumber - In 1975 a sleeping sickness takes over that causes people to sleep more & more, eventually about six days out of seven. While the third world fell apart, the first & second maintained a somnolent peace. Everything is very socialist, as it takes seven people on different sleep schedules to share a single job. But people also need less to eat and the like, even seem to be aging slower.
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Then it is very noticeably not sleep. Human metabolisms only decrease by 10% from base and sleepy animals don't live longer than more wakeful related species. But of course, that just makes it creepier.
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Old 08-28-2016, 03:21 AM   #54
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Elder Earth: strangely this world is many billions of years further along than Homeline. The sun has exhausted most of its hydrogen fuel, formed a red giant and then collapsed into a white dwarf star. The Earth's orbit has spiralled outward so that a year is now one and a half times longer than in modern times. The moon has spiralled outwards as well and the Earth's rotation has slowed. The Earth takes 35 days to rotate on its axis and the moon has moved so far away that it looks more like a bright star than another world.

Amazingly life has still survived. The atmosphere that was blasted away during the red giant phase has been replenished by bacteria buried and protected many kilometres below the surface within the Earths crust. Luckily the larger orbit prevented Earths oceans from being boiled away and some organisms survived deep within the depths of the great ocean trenches. Slowly life has reclaimed the surface but it is very different to the Earth of old. This Earth is cold and dark and covered by vast sheets of black coloured mold that ekes out what light it can from the distant and pale sun.
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Old 08-28-2016, 06:55 AM   #55
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Instead of flooding, why not draining? Drop sea levels 800m and see how things look....
It's been researched!


https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

Long story short-The Netherlands becomes the world's sole superpower.
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Old 08-28-2016, 09:19 AM   #56
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There was that catastrophe series that depicted what would happen if various impossible events occurred. One of them was the Earth inexplicable becoming tide-locked in a very short time.
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Old 08-28-2016, 09:58 AM   #57
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It's been researched!


https://what-if.xkcd.com/53/

Long story short-The Netherlands becomes the world's sole superpower.
That also explains where the water comes from for the Flood parallels - the portal at the bottom of the Pacific is interdimensional instead of interplanetary.
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Old 08-28-2016, 12:45 PM   #58
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That also explains where the water comes from for the Flood parallels - the portal at the bottom of the Pacific is interdimensional instead of interplanetary.
Then it would rain fish and lots of invertebrates. No one mentions the horrific odor of the deluge. I guess you had to be there.
The British TV series involving portals through time had one linked to pre-oxygen earth where the affected building started to flood with the noxious gases prevalent then... along with invertebrate life forms that never existed... on our earth.

But unblockable holes between disparate worlds would be apocalyptic to both. Sure, we're getting so much choking chlorine, but they have to do with the horrifically oxidizing oxygen.
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Old 08-28-2016, 01:00 PM   #59
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Trinity: The Trinity test happens on schedule, and instead of the relatively modest explosion in our timeline, it devastates much of northern Mexico, Texas, Colorado, and Arixona, stopping short of the Mississippi and the Pacific coast. Essentially, the worst fears were realiseed -- it chain-reacted with the atmosphere, flash-frying a massive area of the USA.

In Europe, the war ends more of less as in Homeline, except that the western advance was stalled a bit due to a smaller US contingent. WW2 ends with the USSR launching a painful invasion of Japanese territory which bled it dry, but left it in control of Korea and shared control of Japan (USA has control of Okinawa, Shikoku, and Chuugoku). The Cold War kicks off but with all sides far more exhausted than in Homeline.

Then it is discovered that plans for the atom bomb survived the terrible disaster at Trinity, and the USA contemplates building another...
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Old 08-28-2016, 01:27 PM   #60
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The Trinity test happens on schedule ... flash-frying a massive area of the USA.

In Europe, the war ends more of less as in Homeline, except that the western advance was stalled a bit due to a smaller US contingent.
Err, the Trinity test happened in July 1945, more than two months after the end of WWII in Europe.
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