Forget having a country, let's go bigger!

[EricD]

What if we Aspires had our own PLANET?!?!?!

 

[Bird]

As long as it had birds.

 

[EricD]

Those birds will live at the most beautiful golf course in the universe, & will help you find your ball, too!

 

[EricD]

Our world would be a tropical paradise, with delicious foods, exotic locales, and bizarre lifeforms!

 

[unsurewhattoname]

tropical

Count me out, I prefer the temperate zones on earth.

 

[Vinca]

What if the planet had it's own unique weather system, so the each person could choose what type of weather 'surrounded' them, that way people wouldn't have to change coutry/ location to get the type of weather they prefer.

 

[EricD]

Temperate would near the poles, with the only very cold areas right around the pole an on the very highest mountains. Think of Hawai'i everywhere!

 

[unsurewhattoname]

So there'd be no tundra, subarctic, ice cap, nothing? Would there be any continental, or would the temperate zones be oceanic? What kinds of temperate ranges would be in the temperate zones? How big would the areas not tropical or subtropical be?

 

[Bird]

No no no! Birds live in all habitats, and we need to have a wide variety of climates all over the globe, in order to maintain appropriate ecosystems for each species. Besides, "ideal" weather would get so boring. I want deserts and blizzards and typhoons and tsunamis and earthquakes and lovely, balmy spring days, and rainy, drizzly gray days. I want soaring mountain ranges, with snowy peaks. I want plains of grass and wetlands and bogs and deciduous forests and coniferous forests and miles of silent sand dunes. Our planet needs to be just like Earth, but without all the people.

 

[unsurewhattoname]

I'll be happy anywhere with low sunlight hours (as in, cloudy places), and temperatures being cold to mild, maybe the lower end of warm but no higher. Don't mind rain, so long as it doesn't flood or anything, not a fan of the idea of living in areas with natural disasters. I mean of course there could be natural disasters, but in areas with no people, so better planning than on earth where people are put on floodplains because they're flat and end up losing everything and dying as a result.

 

[EricD]

Aspergia would be about 25% larger than Earth, with a thicker, more humid atmosphere, as it would be 80% water. You would have all ecosystems, but it would be warmer overall than Earth. The tallest mountain would be a lofty 37,000 feet high! Rainforests would be common, with some prairie, and small desert islands.
Lifeforms would be generally more intelligent as well, with some being incredibly dangerous. Most others, though, will not be very dangerous.
Everyone gets to populate Aspergia with one lifeform of their own creation. Mine is the Aspergian Raptor, seven feet long and three feet high at the hip, its slightly larger version of a Velociraptor. When domesticated, the iridescent feathered bipeds are steadfast companions, but in the wild, they're lethal predators. Living in packs of up to fifty, they're faster smarter, & far more dangerous than lions.

 

[EricD]

A bird for Bird! Hey Bird,ake up your very own Aspergian bird, everyone gets to create their own lifeform.

 

[EricD]

If you're wondering about why Aspergia would be warmer than Earth, it's justy inability to tolerate cold. I'm very sensitive to the cold, & can't tolerate it.
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[Bird]

Well, I will create a rapidly evolving Archaeopteryx lithographica, that all ~9,000+ species of bird quickly descend from (within a matter of years). And then I can have all the birds! From Hesperornis to Chestnut-backed Chickadee.

 

[EricD]

What about an Argentavis, he's big enough to carry you on his back! You can fly anywhere!

 

[Bird]

Ok!

 

[Bird]

All the birds!

 

[EricD]

Even something like the Terror Bird? Look it up, this guy was SCARY!

 

[EricD]

I'll look up Hesperomis, BRB!

 

[EricD]

Hesperornis was an interesting critter! He would fit in well with the strange lifeforms on Aspergia.