Timeline for How would flora behave on a two continent planet?
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| Jul 4, 2016 at 9:18 | comment | added | nigel222 | The planet will need to be warmer than today's Earth. Here, a continent at both poles has led to runaway glaciation "snowball Earth". Warmer implies that only the polar regions will be habitable by human beings, if that features in your story. (Earth herself was like this for most of the history of life, which is why we should greatly fear global warming). | |
| Jul 3, 2016 at 4:05 | answer | added | Francisco | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Mar 27, 2016 at 8:45 | history | bounty ended | dot_Sp0T | ||
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| Mar 26, 2016 at 16:18 | answer | added | JDługosz | timeline score: 1 | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 16:05 | comment | added | JDługosz | Right; nature eventually came up with grass. Humans turned it into grain including maize (corn), wheat, and rice. There is no "wild grain" close to it in form like wolves are clearly dogs; grain as a thing at all is not "natural". | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 15:58 | comment | added | dot_Sp0T | @JDługosz no matter that to domesticate something you need an undomesticated version of it anyways, right? | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 15:55 | comment | added | JDługosz | Domesticated species in general would not exist without intelligent natives, regardless of the isolated contenents. | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 9:09 | comment | added | dot_Sp0T | @JDługosz because I didn't know any better word back then; regarding it now I guess grains/crops would fit the bill better | |
| Mar 26, 2016 at 6:17 | comment | added | JDługosz | You would not have wheat. That doesn't have characteristics that would compete in a natural environment; it's a "freak" created by humans and exists only through our agriculture. Why did you mention wheat specifically anyway? | |
| S Mar 26, 2016 at 3:10 | history | suggested | Aarthew III | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Clarified the moons
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| S Mar 25, 2016 at 23:59 | history | bounty started | dot_Sp0T | ||
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| Jun 29, 2015 at 18:20 | answer | added | WhatRoughBeast | timeline score: 19 | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 20:54 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | Outside the scope of the question. Of course, if you want to ask another question... | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 20:47 | comment | added | dot_Sp0T | @WhatRoughBeast please feel free to elaborate :) | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 20:43 | comment | added | WhatRoughBeast | Your moons are not in a configuration which is remotely stable. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 17:19 | history | edited | dot_Sp0T | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Addendum about humans
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| Jun 28, 2015 at 17:01 | answer | added | Mikey | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 16:45 | comment | added | Mikey | Okay, but animal activity has an enormous impact on the diversity of plant life, from transporting seeds to creating defensive mechanisms. I will attempt to answer the question, knowing this. A tiny example, if you have birds or people traveling between your two continents, you most certainly will have plants traveling between them. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 10:46 | comment | added | dot_Sp0T | There will be animals naturally. But I didn't include any questions about animals for the sake of narrowing the question as best as possible. The question here is mostly about the plants fighting each other, e.g. the Americas and Australia have a very different plant-/animallife, not least due the fact of them being separated by what is basically half of the earth's watermasses | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 0:20 | comment | added | Mikey | Do you want to have any animals? If not, there will be far less diversity than what we see on Earth. | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 12:49 | answer | added | bowlturner | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 9:19 | history | asked | dot_Sp0T | CC BY-SA 3.0 |