How massive is the planet? What is the gravity?
It’s around 1.2 earth masses.
Is the gravity increased by the same amount?
geomedusa folicalyx(leaf shell), and green-shelled polyp
oh and how much oxygen is currently in the ocean?
if it’s above like 0.3% i’ll probably need to turn my own cells into endosymbionts
tho, i do have a weird and unique way of doing it that makes them still always be genetically identical to their host cells, and doesn’t require the chloroplasts be passed from parent to child
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What do you plan on becoming? A master of planimals?
super coral
then maybe bone trees
with black leaves. since i can just cool the leaves more to stop them from overheating as soon as i evolve blood, instead of needing to reflect light to keep them from frying
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And do you plan on making the trees sapient?
Actually, it is around 1.12 times more gravitational pull than Earth’s because the planet is slightly larger than Earth, decreasing density.
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What is the atmosphere made of atm?
1.03 atm, 3% oxygen (athmosphere), 0.21% oxygen (oceans), 2.1% CO2, 1.8% Hydrogen Sulfide, rest is nitrogen.
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I can assume the CO2 will be getting replenished at a reasonable rate?
not the trees themselves
a future medusa stage, however?
maybe!
said future medusa stage would be grown inside a specialization of what will become of the would-be medusas already extant on geomedusa polypia and all its descendants
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It’s not really being used at all, so it’s staying constant becuase there is nothing decreasing or increasing it.
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Wouldn’t that mean we’d be left with this low oxygen percentage? Unless plants evolve to use it on the surface when that area becomes available?
what respiration process are the heterotrophic species’ using then? most respiration or fermentation reactions that start with organic matter produce at least a small amount of CO2
and how are geomedusa sessilis and its relatives making energy from h2s?
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Which’d make the planet run out of O2 over time…
no, since alcoholic and lactic fermentation can support a eukaryote, and don’t use O2
both of those do produce Co2 tho
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Question 1 answer: It’s not really that much, and it won’t get out the ice most likely.
Question 2 answer: Chemosynthesis.
Still that means until the glaciers melt away we don’t have much of a way of producing O2 (that’d make sense from an evolutionary perspective atleast)
well, green sulfur bacteria do produce Extremely small amounts of oxygen(about 1 molecule per ‘cycle’), likely by using electrons to bind oxygen to itself so any H+ that gets produced stays as H+ while the oxygen escapes
and electrolysis exists
as well as chemotrophic, electrogenic bacteria(irl, at least)
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