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Idea Exchange

I have far more ideas than I am ever going to reasonably use, and frankly, I like watching someone take an idea seed I've thought up and make it into something new. So I thought I would share some of the ideas lurking in my brain with all of you. Feel free to twist, fold, spindle, mutilate, warp and outright steal if you see anything you like, and please share in kind!

I like dinosaurs as much as the next person (well, maybe a bit more), but I've had a growing fascination for some years with creatures from times before them. Lately I've found myself thinking what it would be like to have modern people interact with the incredibly ancient worlds of the Permian or early Triassic. Few people learn about these earlier periods, so they would be a lot more exotic. Instead of dinosaurs, dimetrodons and dicynodonts! What if a group of modern people, knowledgeable and well-equipped enough to survive, somehow ended up stranded hundreds of millions of years in the past on the continent of Pangaea? How would they adapt? What kind of adventure could be had -- exploration? A race to try to redevelop technology? The apocalypse of the Permian-Triassic extinction that wiped out almost all life on Earth?

This is just one of the crazy things floating around in the back of my mind. What about you folks?

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Permalink Reply by Zakharov Sawyer on October 25, 2009 at 10:49pm: I like the idea of this very much. I will have to post something when I've got a little more free time!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Mutant Mouse 1 day ago: i could imagine the crocodile hunter... OH look at that one shes a mean one! real nasty! And this litle lass is the baby! dont want the momma around! Thud THUD THUD ROAR! ARGHHH crunch slurp burp!

I forget which age had one of the super continents where it had a vast internal desert. Alot of the people would just be killed being that these beasties wouldn't have any real fear of mankind and see us as a appetizer.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andrew Modro 1 day ago: Supercontinents in general have large desert areas thanks to weather patterns. Also, at the time the planet was in a warm phase, so human inhabitants would have to deal with heat, probably by moving away from the equator (or even underwater with sufficient tech capability, I suppose).; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Drohem 1 day ago: Darn, I wish I could remember more about this particular show. There was this faux animal preserve show where they traveled back in time to stock the preserve with animals from the previous eras of earth. They would pretend to trap these creatures and bring them back to the reserve, in present the day. I think it was on the Sci-Fi channel, but I could be wrong about that. The lead character was a field scientist and when he went back in time he would give you information the creatures, climate, and geography of the period they were currently visiting.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Andrew Modro 1 day ago: There was a BBC show that had a similar premise. Something about prehistoric animals coming through time portals and a team having to mop them up. Some of the critters were exaggerated to make them more "monstrous".; ▶ Reply to This