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World Dream Bank

World Dream Bank is a website by a Chris Wayan (not yet on AH.com). It contains many texts and images about various topics, like mythical creatures, sexuality and also political issues. All of them come from dreams, hence the name of the site.

Planetocopia

The most interesting thing on this website (at least for the AH.commers frequenting it) is the Planetocopia, a collection of alternate earths and other planets. The author has clearly put a lot of thought and work in it - geology and meteorology were definitely considered before making these worlds.

Tilt!

This is Earth, if you would tilt it. There are four of them:

* Seapole - a world where both poles are in the sea (south Atlantic and west Pacific). Since there is no water locked up in thick ice, as in OTL's Antarctica, sea levels are 90 meters higher. Europe, Scandinavia and Central America are islands, the coastline is very ragged, and the world is generally warmer and wetter than OTL. The biomass may be higher than on Earth. * Shiveria - a world where both poles are on a continent (South America and East Asia), so even more water is locked up in thick ice. Afro-Eurasia and America form a megacontinent, and the Mediterranean is a bizarre place, many kilometers below sea level (like OTL's Dead Sea, but much bigger), with a thick atmosphere. The whole world is colder (as the name says - it's essentially a permanent ice age) and drier, lots of it is ice or desert, and the fertile places are far away from each other. This may lead however to the development of several intelligent lifeforms in the long run… * Turnovia - a world just like Earth, just turned on its head, with the poles flipped. So, the ocean currents, winds and rainfall patterns are practically backwards. This creates some differences to OTL, albeit smaller than in the other Tilt! planets. There's a bit more thick ice on land (all of Scandinavia), hence sea levels are ten to fifteen meters lower. Most of continental USA, China and the Parana area are deserts, and Europe is very cool, but OTL's deserts in the Sahara and Australia are fertile here, and Canada and Siberia are somewhat warmer. * Jaredia - as you know, Jared Diamond wrote in “Guns, Germs and Steel” about the theory that continents with a big west-east extension are especially favored in the competition for world domination (pigs and wheat do well in both France and China, but Mexican corn took centuries to adapt to Ohio). Jaredia features a wide tropical zone from Java-Sumatra via East Asia and East Siberia to the Americas, so development of civilization should go way faster than IOTL. Jaredia's north pole is in Africa, the south pole in the Pacific, and the sea level is 40 meters lower, so the Bering street is a land bridge. Europe's very cool, but there are generally few deserts on this world.

Future

This is what the future may held for some planets in our solar system. There are three of them covered:

* Dubia (named in the doubtable honor of George W. Bush) is Earth in the future, with doubled CO2 levels. Almost all of the ice has melted, sea levels are about 110 meters higher. Europe, Scandinavia, Iberia have become islands; Britain is an archipelago; there are big inland seas in Amazonia, West Siberia and China. * Mars in a few centuries, terraformed. Only the smaller part of it is covered by sea, and most of the dry land is desert or too high. Hence, the biosphere is relatively small. * Venus in several centuries, also terraformed. Most of it is covered by sea, and the continents and islands form a very bizarre pattern.

The Biosphere Variations

Caprices

Earth with some “tiny” changes.

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