AnthropocenianAge
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Squamellaria plants, which are an aerial tuber plant in Fiji, were found to keep as many a five genetically different ant colonies within the same treetuber. This is due to the tubers many chambers and the layout of the tuber’s chambers. This is a symbiotic relationship, where the ants get shelter, and the plant get nutrients from ant droppings and other litter from ants.
From a gameplay standpoint, if your organism is small enough, it could utilize similar plant-like organism structures as homes/nests.
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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I suppose in this way plants can sort of “eat”…
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AnthropocenianAge
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According to a paper in the International Journal of Astrobiology, there is a potential for life on frozen worlds where ionizing radiation causes radiation-induced radiolysis of water. The authors use Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator as a model organism for the study, since it was the first single-species ecosystem found to power its metabolic activity using products of radiation uranium decay, such as HCO3-, SO4- and H2. The authors have defined a Radiolytic Habitable Zone (RHZ). They looked at Mars, and important moons in outer solar system, Europa and Enceladus. In the paper, they found the maximum biomass production and ATP production was on Enceladus, then Mars, followed by Europa. The RHZ boundaries are influenced by factors such as GCR flux, subsurface composition and temperature, which vary across Mars, Europa and Enceladus. The author say this supports a scenario in which an organism could uptake electrons directly or indirectly from radiolysis in subsurface environments, and hypothesize some mechanisms of how to this could occur, such as indirect electrophy or Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET).
Gameplay wise, this could be important in planet and star system generation, as well as space exploration, since there are other potential places within a star system where life could be found and originate using RHZs.
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aah31415
(The maker of SitF, Radiostrocity, The Lifenote and TGBing; The Second Ascended...; And just maybe a security warning come alive...?)
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Not sure any sort of new life options will be added unless we discover such life.
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doomlightning
(The Invisible Aztec Dodo God. Real Plant Enslaver, Ltd.)
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I finding that interesting
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aah31415
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I wonder how this sort of symbiosis would be handled for macroscopic/aware… Maybe it would be somewhat similar to the endosymbiosis menu?
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AnthropocenianAge
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According to a new study, fish may have been out of water 10 million years earlier than previously believed. This comes from trackways and imprints of fish snouts found in Lower Devonian (middle–upper Emsian, ~410.62 ± 1.95 Ma) marginal marine deposits in the Holy Cross Mountains, Poland. The Paleontologists extrapolated the possible movements of the ancient fishes, based on fossil evidence, and how modern lung fishes move on land. Two new species from the fossil evidence, Reptanichnus acutori igen. et isp. nov. and Broomichnium ujazdensis isp. nov. Another main conclusion of the paper was that they found the oldest possible evidence of handedness within vertebrates, where left-handedness seemed to be preferred for these early vertebrates
Gameplay wise, perhaps left-handedness would be default for coming onto land, before life switches to right-handedness. Or perhaps handedness could be an important mechanic for coming onto land, and life can later switch handedness.
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aah31415
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I am not sure handedness would even be coded to be an actual thing in the game