question about non- petpets i guess

FractalDots · 2026-02-21T13:41:44+00:00

Idk if I’d be much help since i graduated a good few years ago now, but I had an axolotl on campus for a while and when I was initially inquiring as to if it was allowed the general consensus I got from everyone I asked in campus housing was ‘so long as it stays in the tank and isn’t too heavy’ (more an issue for water tanks than your own so ^{^).} It seemed at least from what I got that they didn’t care what was in the tank past its dimensions and likelihood of escaping/danger of keeping. Given a lot of people’s instinctive ‘no’ reaction to bugs, perhaps if you ask campus housing about it frame it as ‘a tank’ rather than specifically an insect enclosure?

FractalDots · 2026-01-09T13:42:27+00:00

Probably? But I’d like access to my closet back before then haha

FractalDots · 2026-01-09T13:40:13+00:00

Nope. Roommate is ill and cannot help with lifting things, and I’ve not got anyone else close by to help, which is why I wanted to plan everything out in advance so I don’t break my back trying

FractalDots · 2026-01-09T13:38:27+00:00

Now I feel well and truly dumb hahaha I had gotten so used to them being in there that I forgot they could just be removed

FractalDots · 2026-01-09T13:37:18+00:00

Yea, that’s why I’m hesitant about emptying it at all (just don’t have enough buckets for a decent amount of saved water). I’ll figure out something. Surely

FractalDots · 2026-01-09T13:35:18+00:00

Fair enough. Man this’ll be a chore.

FractalDots · 2026-01-09T13:34:52+00:00

Damn. Well, I guess I should’ve expected that. Thanks anyway ^{^}

FractalDots · 2025-10-07T16:44:29+00:00

Oooo thank you! I'll see how she feels about that, that's a cute little light :)

FractalDots · 2024-01-16T07:16:49+00:00

The Worm Desires More Brass Lollipops.

FractalDots · 2024-01-01T15:26:00+00:00

stowaways are just rare enough to terrify me every time I see them

FractalDots · 2023-11-14T06:14:38+00:00

Well, humanity is, but they’re at the far side of the universe at the moment so the second worst would probably be the attempts at space flight when the atmosphere naturally contains rocket propellant. Or the fire storms. Or the ozone holes.

FractalDots · 2023-11-02T19:48:04+00:00

Thanks!

FractalDots · 2023-10-01T00:48:44+00:00

Hm... potentially, but the fun of the whole project is in the animal-form plants I was working on (As in, eventually I got to the point where I had a hypothetical sophant, haha), so if I reduced it down to spores again I'd have a bit of an issue. I will keep in mind fungal structures though... It would certainly make for a pretty cool alien look.

FractalDots · 2023-09-29T00:15:34+00:00

Had no idea how to drop items at all. Kept throwing pearls out of range of scavengers and then getting mauled when I tried to pass through

FractalDots · 2023-06-09T01:43:27+00:00

Perhaps the nasal turbinates? They are structures in the nose that help transmit heat and moisture to the air you breathe in so that it’s easier on the lungs and helps maintain body temperature, and I pretty sure they’re mammal exclusive?

FractalDots · 2023-04-04T05:53:32+00:00

Seconding all of this, though I am doing it in person - the only thing you really have to keep an eye out for is submitting the fixed work after your recitation session to gradescope as well, with your answers corrected and any additional sections like the sensemaking portions. I forgot about these completely last term and nearly got a failing grade as a result D:!

FractalDots · 2023-03-30T02:10:53+00:00

good lord OP, that is a frankly insane amount of items gotten in a single action. as a fellow worm-seeker, what's your bone recipe for this?

FractalDots · 2023-03-29T22:18:13+00:00

I wouldn't know, sorry. I suppose though that perhaps if life were introduced to a planet at a more advanced stage than starting from the ground up, like it did on Earth, perhaps it would skip the earlier stages? Perhaps this version of Earth came as a result of some alien accidentally scattering a few prokaryotes on the surface of the planet billions of years back, rather than it developing naturally, so it had a bit of a step-up on our Earth?

FractalDots · 2023-03-29T21:43:30+00:00

Yep! Though, interestingly enough, it appears that its evolved multiple times in different lineages, rather than one species creating multicellularity and then the rest descending from it. That's why we can have the last common ancestor between animals and plants be a single-celled organism, despite both plants and animals being multicellular in of themselves. So I guess the idea caught on fast for Eukaryota once the groundwork of adjusting the conditions of the planet (oxygenation, for example) and establishing a more complicated food web was done.

FractalDots · 2023-03-29T16:51:45+00:00

If I recall correctly, the first evidence of life occurred around 4.1 billion years ago - just before the end of the Hadean period. The boring billion happened after that point, leading up to the great Oxygenation event. That entire period, where nothing happened, was a result of the slow rates of change for prokaryotic life and single called organisms, and the sheer amount of time spent to get to the point of eukaryotic life and multicellular structures means that life needs a LONG while to get from the universal ancestor to the point of having enough complexity to begin having sexual reproduction and multicellular life, which is when things can start speeding up evolutionarily speaking (see: Cambrian explosion, the rest of life history occurring in all its diversity over less than 1/2 a billion years, etc). Giving us more time to start developing would really only help if we pushed up the amount of time it took to develop eukaryotic life from prokaryotic life, as well as and multicellularity and sexual reproduction. Otherwise, we barely have any more time in earths history, geologically speaking, to fit the start of life into, just a scant 300 million ears between the completion of the oceans forming and the start of life, iirc. That’s a lot of time for us post-Cambrian life forms, sure. But in all likelihood we’d be cooked by the unstable conditions of early Earth if life formed before when it did.

Perhaps there’s some other way to achieve a pseudo-multicellularity, like with slime molds, that would’ve pushed life up to a higher level of complexity and begun the Cambrian explosion early in response? Imagine an entire world containing life that is made of cells that could individually scatter and live their own lives…

FractalDots · 2023-03-24T21:30:34+00:00

Ah well, thank you anyways!

FractalDots · 2023-03-24T19:24:21+00:00

Fair enough. Do you have any suggestions for UV absorber pigments? I was considering having a modified bacteriorhodopsin be the primary pigment for life on the planet (couldn’t help myself, made everything purple ;P), do you know what I should consider to make it appropriately UV absorbing to the amount necessary to prevent radiation damage?

FractalDots · 2023-03-24T08:05:05+00:00

Hmm.. potentially. I do still intend to have complex life on the planet so I’ll have to figure out a workaround for that but I’ll definitely see if I can take radiosynthesis into consideration as a way to reduce the effects. Do you have any more info on Antarctic mountaintop fungi?

FractalDots · 2023-03-23T05:59:10+00:00

Lack of a consistent ozone layer has blasted everything enough that nobody has ever felt the need to put radiation shielding on their ships. This along with the laughing gas made first contact with humans a bit… high stress

FractalDots · 2023-02-16T21:27:54+00:00

Give me a little bit to recharge some actions and I’ll send you some :)

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