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Post by redsycorax on Apr 6, 2023 3:30:30 GMT
Potential undersea difficulties: -Toxic red algae blooms -Fishery species exhaustion due to surface dweller overfishing -seabed mining -contamination from oil exploration -contamination from nuclear submarine failures -contamination from shipwreck oil leaks -disruption of maritime ecosystem due to above -disruption of maritime ecosystem due to whaling -radioactive contamination due to maritime nuclear tests
I suspect that the above problems would be particularly bad when it comes to either end of the Gulf Stream, when it comes to Europe and Nigeria (an OPEC member) on the eastern side and North and South America on the western side.
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Post by dans on Apr 6, 2023 12:52:21 GMT
I think I'll use this one: "-disruption of maritime ecosystem due All Of The Above" Thank you!
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Post by redsycorax on Apr 11, 2023 3:16:45 GMT
Might Sirocco's people have undergone adaptations to their preferred desert environment too? I imagine they'd have prodigious water storage and retention capabilities, the ability to remote sense water sources through highly developed olfactory senses (smell), a low threshold for hypernatremia (excessive water consumption) as a result and aestivation (natural hibernation/suspended animation) when water is critically absent, awakening when it becomes more available through sensory stimulation (smell, taste, hearing). Perhaps her people evolved in a particularly arduous desert environment and even constitute a human subspecies- homo sapiens desertum?
By the same token, perhaps Gulfstream belongs to a particular alternate human subspecies too- homo sapiens sinus amnis? Or homo aquaticus sinus amnis, if you prefer a divergent species of human altogether?
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Post by dans on Apr 18, 2023 23:19:13 GMT
The folks in Algeria are pretty much standard humans, although they probably have some 'learned' adaptations that help them survive. And they probably have some minor genetic adaptations that are out of the mainstream. But they are definitely homo sapiens. Gulfstream is definitely a divergent species of human. Homo aquaticus, if you like... another contrast between the two heroines
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Post by redsycorax on Apr 18, 2023 23:58:22 GMT
Right, rather like the Fremen on Frank Herbert's Arrakis in Dune? Although I'd imagine it's a less arduous version of that, probably. It might be worth looking up some anthropological stuff on desert dweller communities and their adaptation to their particular environment if you want to flesh out Sirocco as a character possibly.
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Post by dans on Apr 19, 2023 1:55:45 GMT
I will get back to her... I have to take a break from writing for a while due to physical issues. But it is giving me a lot of time to think about these two!
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Post by lee on Apr 19, 2023 4:09:35 GMT
Hope it is nothing too serious, Dan. Got you in my thoughts and prayers.
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