Well it's ancestor is turbatusnex, and these are fairly similar but more intricate and directly descended so I slapped a neo on the front.
The rest of the name was because it's fun.
This post has been edited by colddigger: Nov 15 2021, 05:57 PM
The rest of the name was because it's fun.
This post has been edited by colddigger: Nov 15 2021, 05:57 PM
I completely missed the memo that the infectoids are still alive! Glad to know unicellular mancerxians are still extant outside beta!
Curses, I will have to change the name then
And thus I did
This post has been edited by colddigger: Nov 18 2021, 10:48 PM
And thus I did
This post has been edited by colddigger: Nov 18 2021, 10:48 PM
The sentences in the template at the top are customarily capitalized.
You'll need to specify the minimum size, not just "microscopic". There's a big difference between, say, slightly below 0.1 mm (the smallest thing that average human eye can see without tools) and 370 nanometers. The latter is the small estimated size of Pelagibacter ubique, one of the smallest known free-living bacteria, and it's equivalent to 0.00037 millimeters.
No support? Surely you can at least say "cell membrane", or ideally something slightly more specific, like "Cell Membrane, Microtubules" or "Double Cell Membrane".
Make sure you aren't confusing "it's" with "its" in the description. Putting this through a word processor, such as LibreOffice or Google Docs, should help you detect common types of errors.
I'll have to get to the rest later. I've been busier lately.
I wasn't sure if we still used microscopic as a size. I'll figure out the specific minimums.
Do cell membranes count as structural support? At that point I would wonder about microtubules.
My autocorrect sneaks in it's and its without me noticing, I'll have to read through a couple times to catch them all.
This post has been edited by colddigger: Dec 4 2021, 08:04 PM
Do cell membranes count as structural support? At that point I would wonder about microtubules.
My autocorrect sneaks in it's and its without me noticing, I'll have to read through a couple times to catch them all.
This post has been edited by colddigger: Dec 4 2021, 08:04 PM
https://sagan4alpha.miraheze.org/wiki/Size
This one specifically says not to use "microscopic" as a size measurement.
I believe "cell wall" has occasionally been used as structural support, and cell membranes do seem to be a means of structural support.
For comparison, the largest virus known at time of writing, Pithovirus sibericus, is 1,500 nanometers, or 0.0015 millimeters. That's bigger than the average size of members of the genus Ostrococcus, an exceptionally small class of algae with an average size of 0.8 micrometers (0.0008 mm). Since this eats other, smaller microbes, presumably ones significantly smaller than yourself, you'll need to make sure that, at least in its feeding stage, it's big enough that it still has something to eat.
"meant to disguise their identity and trick observers into registering them as something less dangerous." Meant by whom?
These have such a novel lifestyle that making a few references in the description to real-life microbes with similar lifestyles could boost its plausibility.
This one specifically says not to use "microscopic" as a size measurement.
I believe "cell wall" has occasionally been used as structural support, and cell membranes do seem to be a means of structural support.
For comparison, the largest virus known at time of writing, Pithovirus sibericus, is 1,500 nanometers, or 0.0015 millimeters. That's bigger than the average size of members of the genus Ostrococcus, an exceptionally small class of algae with an average size of 0.8 micrometers (0.0008 mm). Since this eats other, smaller microbes, presumably ones significantly smaller than yourself, you'll need to make sure that, at least in its feeding stage, it's big enough that it still has something to eat.
"meant to disguise their identity and trick observers into registering them as something less dangerous." Meant by whom?
These have such a novel lifestyle that making a few references in the description to real-life microbes with similar lifestyles could boost its plausibility.
Clarified size and edited that sentence.
I'm not sure what you mean by referencing real things.
Viruses will take host membranes as their own to create envelopes to surround their own bodies, there are bacteria that wear the membranes of blood cells to trick and evade immunity cells. It's not terribly novel, though it is fun.
I'll add these comparisons if it's really useful in understanding what's going on, I would just need to figure out how to make such an addition natural in writing.
This post has been edited by colddigger: Dec 5 2021, 08:35 PM
I'm not sure what you mean by referencing real things.
Viruses will take host membranes as their own to create envelopes to surround their own bodies, there are bacteria that wear the membranes of blood cells to trick and evade immunity cells. It's not terribly novel, though it is fun.
I'll add these comparisons if it's really useful in understanding what's going on, I would just need to figure out how to make such an addition natural in writing.
This post has been edited by colddigger: Dec 5 2021, 08:35 PM
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