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Cell to Singularity - Collaborative Full Tech Tree, Fungi can be friendly…

- - - - EVOLUTION [] 8
        Planet Earth
        Earth provides just the right mixture of chemicals, an abundance of water, and an oxygen-rich atmosphere, creating the ideal environment for developing life.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 13
        Primordial Soup
        On the primeval planet Earth, an atmospheric solution rich in organic compounds set the ideal condition for the development of life.
        
        LIFE [] 20
        Amino Acid
        Produces [] 0,05/sec
        [x producing [] 0,05x/sec]
        Atoms and molecules bond together to create amino acids, organic compounds that combine to build proteins. They are some of the most essential building blocks for life.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 300
        Protein
        DNA 100% more efficient
        The building blocks of live cells, proteins are molecules made form long chains of amino acids.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 800
        Plasma Membrane
        DNA 100% more efficient
        The plasma membrane protects the interior of cells form the environment.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 1.250
        Bacterium
        DNA 100% more efficient
        Bacteria are unicellular microorganisms that have cell walls, but none of the organells that make up multicellular organisims. While some can make you sick, most bacteria are harmless and many are actually necessary for you to survive.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 535.080
        Polypeptides
        Amino Acid 50% more efficient
        When amino acids bond together, they create a chain that becomes an integral building block in creating proteins.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 580M
        Enzymes
        Amino Acid 100% more efficient
        To produce a reaction, you must first have a catalyst. Enzymes act as the trigger for biochemical reactions. They are necessary to kickstart the metabolic processes that sustain life.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 40
        Nucleotides
        Entropy Tap gains +1 per tap
        Nucleotides are the chemical compounds that build the foundation for DNA and RNA.
        
        LIFE [] 100
        DNA
        Produces [] 0,25/sec
        [x producing [] 0,25x/sec]
        A molecule with the unique property of self-replication, DNA's infinite configurations forms the foundations of all evolutionary changes.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 3.57M
        Chromosomes
        DNA 50% more efficient
        Chromosomes are DNA molecules containing genetic material. They preserve genomic sequences and allow for traits to be passed form parent to offspring.
        
        LIFE [] 600
        Prokaryotic Cell
        Produces [] 2/sec
        [x producing [] 2x/sec]
        The first living organism. These tiny uni-cellular organisms lacked a membrane-wrapped nucleus, but paved the way for the rest of life to begin.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 1.250
        Virus
        Prokaryotic Cell 50% more efficient
        A virus is a biological agent that replicates within other cells. Suprisingly, it's ability to infiltrate the DNA of other organisims is one reason that human even exist.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 900
        Nucleus
        Prokaryotic Cell 50% more efficient
        A cell's control center, the nucleus contains the chromosomes that house DNA.
        
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        EVOLUTION [] 750
        Mitochondria
        Prokaryotic Cell 25% more efficient
        The powerhouse of the cell, mitochondria are organelles that converts glucose to energy.
        
        1 more item...
        
        EVOLUTION [] 2.500
        Mitosis
        Entropy Tap gains +14 per tap
        Mitosis is a process of asexual reproduction where one cell divides into two identical cells. It occurs only in eukaryotic cells, and enables single-celled organisms to multiply.
        
        2 more items...
        
        EVOLUTION [] 600
        RNA
        Amino Acid 300% more efficient
        RNA is responsible for transferring genetic code form the nucleus to ribosomes to make proteins. It controls gene expression and regulation.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 3.87B
        DNA Replication
        DNA 100% more efficient
        The basis for biological inheritance, DNA replicates by produci iden tical copies of existing DNA so that traits can be passed on form one organism to it's offspring.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 850
        Volcano
        Amino Acid 300% more efficient
        The carbon dioxide produced by
        erupting prehistoric volcanos warned the Earth, and was a major catalyst in making Earth habitable in it's early stages of development.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 65.000
        Ozone Layer
        Entropy Tap gains +1% of your idle Entropy Per/Sec
        The ozone layer in the Earth's stratosphere protects the planet form ultraviolet radiation. Over time, human pollution has damaged this essential barrier.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 240
        Moon
        Entropy Tap gains +4 per tap
        The gravitational forces of the Moon and Sun, and the rotation of Earth, turn the tides of the ancient oceans to advance life.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 3,000
        Solar System
        Entropy Tap gains +10 per tap
        The Sun is the star of our solar system, a gravitational parent to 8 planets and their moons and countless asteroid and comets. Its nuclear energy bathes all the orbiting children in heat and light and a steady solar wind of particles.
        
        EVOLUTION [] 15,000
        The Milky Way
        Entropy Tap gains +100 per tap
        The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our solar system. It is estimated to contain up to 400 billion stars. Located in the Orion Arm, our solar system is 27,000 light years from the galactic center: a supermassive black hole named Sagittarius A*.
    - - REALITY ENGINE 1
        
        Reality Engine
        
        REALITY ENGINE 750
        Value Sorting Routine
        
        Unlocks the "vaule sort" feature for generator purchasing.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 71.000
        Turbo Hold
        
        Increase tap and hold buying speed on the tech tree.
        
        LIFE (12X)
        1st - 1
        2nd - 2
        3rd - 4
        4th - 16
        5th - 256
        6th - 65.000
        7th - 260.000
        8th - 1.04M
        9th - 4.19M
        10th - 16.7M
        11th - 67.1M
        12th - 268M
        Nanobot
        
        Autonomous agents that help you run the simulation.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 3.500
        Nano buyer
        
        Turn this mode on and nanobots will buy items on the tree. Build a new universe quickly and with ease!
        
        REALITY ENGINE 15
        Kilobyte Capacitor
        
        Increase max boost time by 4 hours.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 50
        Flux Capacity
        
        Increase max Time Flux time by 1 hour.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 1M
        More Flux Capacity
        
        Increase max Time Flux time by 1 hour.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 5B
        Even More Flux Capacity
        
        Increase max Time Flux time by 1 hour.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 102M
        Yottabyte Capacitor
        
        Increase max boost time by 12 hours.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 10.730
        Gigabyte Capacitor
        
        Increase max boost time by 8 hours.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 12,5M
        Petabyte Capacitor
        
        Increase max boost time by 12 hours.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 148
        Megabyte Capacitor
        
        Increase max boost time by 4 hours.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 1,1M
        Terabyte Capacitor
        
        Increase max boost time by 8 hours.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 4
        Hyper Tap Physics
        
        Entropy Tap gains +5 per tap
        
        REALITY ENGINE 7
        Brain Storm Modeling
        
        Idea Tap gains +1% of your idle Idea Per/Sec.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 125
        Super Neurons
        
        Idea Tap gains +10 per tap
        
        REALITY ENGINE 12
        Adrelanized Tapping
        
        Entropy Tap gains +1% of your idle Entropy Per/Sec.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 1.024
        Bionic Reaction Speed
        
        Entropy Tap gains +1% of your idle Entropy Per/Sec.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 37.500
        Next Level Mindest
        
        Idea Tap gains +2% of your idle Idea Per/Sec.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 2,5M
        Elementary Particle Probaly
        
        Idea Tap gains +2% of your idle Idea Per/Sec.
        
        1 more item...
        
        REALITY ENGINE 1M
        Dimensional Alternator
        
        Entropy Tap gains +1% of your idle Entropy Per/Sec.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 1,5M
        Propagation Capacitor
        
        Entropy Tap gains +1% of your idle Entropy Per/Sec.
        
        1 more item...
        
        REALITY ENGINE 3
        Hologram Computing
        
        Simulation Speed 50% more efficient.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 20
        Time Crystal RAM
        
        Simulation Speed 50% more efficient.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 40
        4 Dimensional Chess Algorithm
        
        Simulation Speed 50% more efficient.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 500
        3D Microship
        
        Simulation Speed 25% more efficient.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 25.000
        Hyper Realistic Graphics
        
        Simulation Speed 75% more efficient.
        
        2 more items...
        
        REALITY ENGINE 120
        Chondrite Collector
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Beyond episode completed.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 6.5K
        Logistic Scouts
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Badge earned in explore events.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 70M
        Recon Function
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Badge earned in explore events.
        
        1 more item...
        
        REALITY ENGINE 50M
        Pallasite Processor
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Beyond episode completed.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 80T
        Siderite Assimilator
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Beyond episode completed.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 60
        Triassic Jet
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Mesozoic Valley extinction completed.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 80M
        Jurassic Amber
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Mesozoic Valley extinction completed.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 130T
        Cretaceous Pearl
        Gain 10x speed increase for each Mesozoic Valley extinction completed.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 6
        Space-Folding Hard Drive
        
        Background Idle Capacity 10% more efficient.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 25
        Disc Drive of Holding
        
        Background Idle Capacity 10% more efficient.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 400
        Infused Deep Time Chamber
        
        Background Idle Capacity 10% more efficient.
        
        REALITY ENGINE 30.000
        Alternate Reality Interface
        
        Background Idle Capacity 10% more efficient.
        
        1 more item...
        
        REALITY ENGINE 256
        Neural Network
        
        Enable multiplayer and leaderboards. Simulations are running worldwide on this network. Complete and collaborate, view other player's simulations statistics.
        
        Terminus Chamber
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Bird Glass
        Buy first Neoave (Blue Jay bird)
        
        By evolving the Neoaves, you have unlocked this terminus glass. Dinosaurs develop into birds, demonstrating just how much evolution can change a species.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Aquatic Mammal Glass
        Unlock Cetaceans
        
        By discovering why some mammals returned to the sea, you have unlocked this terminus glass. The mysterious ocean depths are the last great frontier on the planet Earth.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Brain Glass
        Buy first Human
        
        By developing the human brain, you have unlocked this terminus glass. Now capable of higher thought, this species of advanced primate is poised to take over the whole world.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Planet Glass
        Unlocked All Planets
        
        By collecting all of the planets in the solar system, you have unlocked this terminus glass. These planets orbit our sun and teach us more about the universe.
        
        1 more item...
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Reptilian Relatives
        Unlocked Crocodilians
        
        While they are not the descendants of dinosaurs, crocodilians are the last living archosaurs. Evidence of these can be seen in some traits that distinguish them from other modern reptiles, like their four-chambered heart and cerebral cortex.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Mesozoic Glass
        Buy first Tyrannosaurus Rex (Requires Mesozoic Valley Rank 26)
        
        By exploring the Mesozoic Valley, you have unlocked this Terminus Glass. The extinction of the dinosaurs gives us insights into how species can disappear.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Singularity Glass
        Buy the Singularity for the first time; crash the Simulation
        
        Permits upgrades beyond the Singularity
        Your quantum computer simulation could not handle all calculations and crashed. This upgrades your hyper-ram so you can go beyond the Singularity and calculate its effect on the universe.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Null Node
        
        Crystallization process incomplete. More data required.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        King of the Jungle
        Buy first Feliform
        
        You have completed the Mammalian branch of evolution. Now we can better understand our mammal ancestors and relatives.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Terraform Mars Complete
        Buy Fully Terraformed Environment Upgade(the final Upgrade in the Mars colonization branch)
        
        You have successfully terraformed Mars. Humanity now has a second home. Mars will act as a base for future space exploration.
        
        REALITY ENGINE
        Null Node
        
        Crystallization process incomplete. More data required.
  - - - DINOSAUR 60
        Ornithischia
        Herbivore Bipedal Triassic
        Manuel charge produces 60 after 3 sec
        Ornithischia are one of two different orders of dinosaurs. These herbivores with beak-like structures are often called "bird-hipped" dinosaurs, as their pelvic structure resembles that of modern day birds. Parasaurolophus is one of the Ornithiscian dinosaurs.
        Unlocks at Rank 1
        
        DINOSAUR 720
        Stegosaurus
        Herbivore Quadrupedal Jurassic
        Manuel charge produces 720 after 6 sec
        Stegosaurus was a quadrupedal plant-eating dinosaur known for the distinctive rows of large upright plates on their back.
        Unlocks at Rank 1
        
        DINOSAUR 8.640
        Ankylosaurus
        Herbivore Quadrupedal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 4.320 after 12 sec
        Ankylosaurus was a bulky, armored herbivore from the late Cretaceous period with a large clubbed tail that could shatter predator's bones.
        Unlocks at Rank 2
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Tail Club
        Automate and speed up Ankylosaurus
        X Speed
        A new development that helped herbivores protect themselves, the bony, clubbed tail could fend off even large predators.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Ossification
        Increase Ankylosaurus payout
        X Payout
        Many bones throughout the Ankylosaurus' skull and body were fused, which greatly increased their strength and durability. Their name is derived from the medical term ankylosis: the process of fusing bones.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Cretaceous Period
        Reduce Cretaceous Age dinosaur cost x.
        The Cretaceous (145 MYA - 66 MYA) was the last period of the Mesozoic Era. Dinosaurs continued to dominate the Earth. Flowering plants first appeared during this time. This period ended with the Cretaceous-Paleogene Mass Extinction Event, when 75% of all life on Earth went abruptly extinct.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Flat Teeth
        Increase Stegosaurus payout
        X Payout
        Broad, blunt teeth help to grind fibrous plant material into a digestible state. These are necessary for an herbivorous diet.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Armour
        Automate and speed up Stegosaurus
        X Speed
        By developing bony plates, spikes, and scales that were embedded in their skin, some dinosaurs were able to stay protected against attacks from predators.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Quadrupedal
        Increase Quadrupedal dinosaur speed x.
        A creature that walks on four legs, with a horizontal posture, is called a quadruped. Many dinosaurs were quadrupedal including Stegosaurus and Triceratops. A quadrupedal gait gave these dinosaurs increased sturdiness and the ability to carry lots of weight.
        
        DINOSAUR 103.680
        Triceratops
        Herbivore Quadrudepal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 51.840 after 24 sec
        An herbivore from the late Cretaceous period, the Triceratops had three defensive horns on its face and a largy bony frill behind its head.
        Unlocks at Rank 3
        
        DINOSAUR 44.58T
        Pachycephalosaurus
        Herbivore Bipedal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 71.58B after 40 sec
        A small, feathered carnivore with extremely sharp claws and teeth, Velociraptors were skilled hunters that stalked and disemboweled their prey.
        Unlocks at Rank 18
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Olfactory Lobes
        Increase Pachycephalosaurus payout
        X Payout
        Pachycephalosaurus had unusually large olfactory lobes, indicating that they may have had a much more advanced sense of smell than other dinosaurs.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Hard Head
        Automate and speed up Pachycephalosaurus
        X Speed
        Pachycephalosaurus had a bony, exceptionally thick skull roof, which helped to protect their tiny brains and may have been used in interspecies combat.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Nose Brow Horns
        Automate and speed up Triceratops
        X Speed
        Some dinosaurs, such as Triceratops, has large, bony horns on their faces that were used for defense against predators and competition for mates.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Frill
        Increase Triceratops payout
        X Payout
        A large frill at the base of the neck serves as an attachment site for more powerful muscles, resulting in stronger jaws that are better for chewing tough, leafy vegetation.
        
        DINOSAUR 133.12 qi
        Iguanodon
        Herbivore Bipedal Jurrasic
        Manuel charge produces 2.23 Qa after 48 sec
        Iguanodon was a large, bulky herbivore that walked upright and had long prehensile fingers for foraging food, as well as distinctive thumb spikes for warding off predators.
        Unlocks at Rank 30
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Changing Posture
        Increase Iguanodon payout
        X Payout
        Iguanodons' posture changed over its lifetime. Juvenile Iguanodons were primarily bipedal, walking on two legs, while older Iguanodons became more quadrupedal as they grew older and heavier, walking on four legs.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Thumb Spikes
        Automate and speed up Iguanodon
        X Speed
        Iguanodon had a unique spiked protrusion where its thumb would be. Paleontologists hypothesize that these could have been used for combat, or for helping to break open seeds and fruits.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Duckbilis
        Increase Ornithischia payout
        X Payout
        Some herbivorous dinosaurs had long flattened snouts that looked like the beaks of ducks. These were ideal for plucking twigs and leaves off of plant and trees.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Predentary Bone
        Automate and speed up Ornithischia
        X Speed
        The predentary bone is a bone at the front of the lower jaw that forms a beak-like apparatus perfect for shearing plant material. It is common in herbivores.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Jurassic Age
        Reduce Jurassic Age dinosaur cost x.
        The Jurassic (201.3 MYA - 145 MYA) was the second period of the Mesozoic Era. During this period, dinosaurs became the dominant species on Earth as the supercontinent Gondawana began to split, replacing the deserts of the Triassic with lush rainforests.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Bipedal
        Increase Bipedal dinosaur speed x.
        A creature that walks on two legs, with an upright posture, is called a biped. Some dinosaurs were bipedal including Tyrannosaurus Rex, Velociraptor, and Hadrosaur. A bipedal gait gave these dinosaurs increased speed and flexibility.
      - DINOSAUR 1.24M
        Pterosaur
        Carnivore Parallel Evolution Triassic
        Manuel charge produces 207.360 after 18 sec
        Pterosaurs were the earliest vertebrates to evolve flight. They had leathery wings and came in a wide variety of sizes.
        Unlocks at Rank 4
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Wings
        Automate and speed up Pterosaur
        X Speed
        Pterosaurs were the first to develop this type of limb, which generates thrust and lift while moving through the air. Their leathery wings are closer to those of bats than the feathers of modern birds and later dinosaurs.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Extended Finger
        Increase Pterosaur payout
        X Payout
        Pteranodon's leathery, bat-like wings were connected from their ankles to their extremely long fourth finger, giving them a massive wingspan that helped to power their flight.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Parallel Evolution
        Increase Parallel Evolution dinosaur speed x.
        Pteranodons, which were not dinosaurs, developed the ability to fly during the Triassic. Later, independently, some dinosaurs adapted the ability to fly as well. This is an example of parallel evolution, where two unrelated creatures develop the same trait.
        
        RANK X - PRESTIGE [] X/X
        Warm Climate
        Increase dinosaur payout x.
        During the Mesozoic Era, the Earth's temperature was very warm, which led to a great amount of geological and biological transitions. This climate set the stage for the major changes of the era.
      - DINOSAUR 14.93M
        Pleisosaur
        Carnivore Aquatic Triassic
        Manuel charge produces 2.2M after 36 sec
        Plesiosaurs were large aquatic animals with a broad, flat body, a long neck and tail, and four strong flippers. They were one of the first fossilized reptiles identified by humans, and were discovered in the early 1800s.
        Unlocks at Rank 6
        
        DINOSAUR 1.6 Sx
        Ichthyosaur
        Carnivore Aquatic Triassic
        Manuel charge produces 7.41 Qa after 30 sec
        Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles. Similiar to modern dolphins, these creatures had large eyes, long snouts, and short necks. They breathed air and gave birth to live young.
        Unlocks at Rank 33
        
        DINOSAUR 2.76 Sp
        Mosasaurus
        Carnivore Aquatic Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 9 qi after 240 sec
        Mosasaurus was a massive aquatic carnivore. Growing up to 17 meters long, Mosasaurus lived near the ocean's surface and preyed on fish, birds, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, and any other smaller animal that was unlucky enough to cross its path.
        Unlocks at Rank 42
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Scales
        Increase Mosasaurus payout
        X Payout
        It is believed that Mosasaurus was covered in smooth protective scales. Their dark color would have made the large Mosasaurus more stealthy and streamlined their movement through the water.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Double-Hinged Jaw
        Automate and speed up Mosasaurus
        X Speed
        Mosasaurus had a double-hinged jaw, like a snake, which enabled them to swallow their prey whole. This ability to catch and devour prey of a large size enabled Mosasaurus' diverse and deadly diet.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Ammonoidea
        Fossil Tap +1300% of your idle income per second.
        Ammonites are extinct molluscs that were abundant from the Devonian through the Cretaceous period. They provide an important function as index fossils, helping to define and identify different geologic periods.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Live Birth
        Automate and speed up Ichthyosaur
        X Speed
        Like modern air breathing aquatic animals like dolphins, Ichthyosaurs gave birth to live young instead of laying eggs. The babies were born tail first so they didn't drown during delivery.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Large Eyes
        Increase Ichthyosaur payout
        X Payout
        Ichthyosaurs had the largest eye sockets of all known vertebrates. Their large eyes helped them to see underwater, and were especially useful as they hunted their prey in the dark depths of the oceans.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Flippers
        Increase Plesiosaur payout
        X Payout
        Like their archosaur ancestors, Plesiosaurs retained their four-limbed structure. However, these legs evolved into broad, flat flippers that were used to propel their bodies through the water.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Aquatic Diapsid
        Automate and speed up Plesiosaur
        X Speed
        The aquatic diapsids are the starting point for an extremely diverse group of animals including crocodiles, lizards, snakes, turtles. They have two openings in the skull above and below the eye that enable the jaw to open more widely.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Aquatic
        Increase Aquatic dinosaur speed x.
        While no dinosaurs were truly aquatic, there were reptiles that lived in the oceans. These marine archosaurs, such as Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, and Mosasaurs, may have been air-breathing and warm-blooded.
      - DINOSAUR 179.16M
        Saurichia
        Carnivore Bipedal Jurrasic
        Manuel charge produces 5.16M after 14 sec
        Saurischia are one of two different orders of dinsaur. They are mostly carnivorous, though the class includes some herbivores. The are often called "lizard-hipped" dinosaurs. The Ceratosaurus is one of the Saurischian dinosaurs.
        Unlocks at Rank 8
        
        DINOSAUR 2.15B
        Sauropoda
        Herbivore Quadrudepal Jurrasic
        Manuel charge produces 235.82M after 120 sec
        Enormous herbivores with long necks and tails and small heads, Sauropods evolved their distinctive necks as a way to obtain hard-to-reach food sources, such as the foliage at the tops of trees. The Apatosaurus is one of the Sauropodan dinosaurs.
        Unlocks at Rank 10
        
        DINOSAUR 77.04 Qa
        Brachiosaurus
        Herbivore Quadrudepal Jurrasic
        Manuel charge produces 61.06T after 200 sec
        One of the largest dinosaurs known to man, the Brachiosaur was a large herbivore that lived in the late Jurassic period.
        Unlocks at Rank 24
        
        DINOSAUR 33.12 Sp
        Argentinosaurus
        Herbivore Quadrudepal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 63.98 qi after 320 sec
        Although known only from fragmentary remains, Argentinosaurus is widely acknowledged to be one of the largest land animals of all time, measuring up to 39.7 meters long. The farmer who found the first specimen initially thought that the vertebrae were petrified trees.
        Unlocks at Rank 45
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Giant Vertebrae
        Increase Argentinosaurus payout
        X Payout
        Argentinosaurus is known mostly from fossils of their distinctive vertebrae. These bones were massive, and they needed to be huge and thick to support the impressive size and weight of this giant dinosaur.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Accelerated Growth
        Automate and speed up Argentinosaurus
        X Speed
        Argentinosaurus' gave birth to its young in large batches of small eggs. When they hatched they were only around one meter long. However, they matured at a rapid rate, growing quickly to the enormous size that the adult dinosaurs were known for.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Long Tails
        Automate and speed up Brachiosaurus
        X Speed
        Some sauropods had tails nearly as long as their torsos, which were used defensively to deter or injure predators.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Pencil-Like Teeth
        Increase Brachiosaurus payout
        X Payout
        Some Sauropods, like Diplodocus, has pencil-shaped teeth in the front of their mouths to help them more efficiently strip leaves off of plant stems.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Rapid Tooth Replacement
        Automate and speed up Sauropoda
        X Speed
        With huge appetites to fuel their massive size, Sauropods' broad, blunt teeth would be lost and regrow quickly to compensate for wear and tear.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Gastroliths
        Increase Sauropoda payout
        X Payout
        A gastrolith is a rock or stone that is ingested by an animal and held inside their gastrointestinal tract to aid in the grinding of food for proper digestion.
        
        RANK X - EPIC [] X/X
        Herd Behavior
        Increase dinosaur payout x.
        Some dinosaurs congregated in social groups, living in loose family units for defense against predators.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Herbivore
        Increase Herbivore payout x.
        Animals that feed entirely on plant matter are called herbivores. About half of all dinosaurs were herbivores. They had teeth that were specially designed for grinding leaves, twigs, and shoots.
        
        DINOSAUR 25.8B
        Theropoda
        Carnivore Bipedal Jurrasic
        Manuel charge produces 167.8M after 16 sec
        The Theropoda family were bipedal carnivores with hollow bones and three-toed limbs. The Dilosophosaurus was one of the Theropod dinosaurs.
        Unlocks at Rank 12
        
        DINOSAUR 309.58B
        Compsognathus
        Carnivore Bipedal Jurrasic
        Manuel charge produces 223.69M after 4 sec
        A small, bipedal carnivore, Compsognathus could grow to around the size of a turkey and preyed on small, fast lizards.
        Unlocks at Rank 14
        
        DINOSAUR 3.72T
        Velociraptor
        Carnivore Bipedal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 6.71B after 20 sec
        A small, feathered carnivore with extremely sharp claws and teeth, Velociraptors were skilled hunters that stalked and disemboweled their prey.
        Unlocks at Rank 16
        
        DINOSAUR 230.02 Sx
        Eoraptor
        Omnivore Bipedal Triassic
        Manuel charge produces 281.16 Qa after 40 sec
        Eoraptor is one of the earliest known dinosaurs. It lived approximately 231 to 228 million years ago, during the late Triassic period. This small, quick omnivore lived alongside archosaurs, proto-mammals, and other early dinosaurs.
        Unlocks at Rank 39
        
        True Fossil
        
        Heterodont Dentition
        
        Sickle-Shaped Claws
        
        Pack Hunting
        
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        Sharp Eyesight
        Increase Compsognathus payout
        X Payout
        Compsognathus possessed sharp and accurate eyesight, which enabled them to hunt the small, swift lizards that comprised most of their diet.
        
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        Small Bodies
        Automate and speed up Compsognathus
        X Speed
        Dinosaurs that were small and fast were able to flee predators rather than fight them. Some become predators in their own right, feeding on smaller species - including early mammals.
        
        DINOSAUR 534.97T
        Gallimimus
        Herbivore Bipedal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 76.36B after 8 sec
        Gallimimus was a large, bird-like herbivore that traveled in herds and built nests.
        Unlocks at Rank 20
        
        DINOSAUR 6.42 Qa
        Archaeopteryx
        Carnivore Parallel Evolution Jurrasic
        Manuel charge produces 1.53T after 30 sec
        A transitional species in the evolution from feathered dinosaurs to birds, archaeopteryx was small, with sharp teeth and claws and broad wings used for flying.
        Unlocks at Rank 22
        
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        Bird Brain
        Automate and speed up Archaeopteryx
        X Speed
        Archaeopteryx had a larger brain than most other dinosaurs, with well-developed regions associated with muscle coordination, hearing, and vision - much closer to the brains of modern birds than those of other dinosaurs.
        
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        Flight Feathers
        Increase Archaeopteryx payout
        X Payout
        Long, stiff feathers on the tail and wings of the Archaeopteryx help to aid with lift and thrust, enabling flight - unlike Pterosaurs, which flew using leathery wings made of skin.
        
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        Nest Building
        Automate and speed up Gallimimus
        X Speed
        Large fields of fossilized dinosaur nests have been discovered in many areas, giving insight into how some dinosaurs protected their eggs and young as a community.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Three-Toed Feet
        Increase Gallimimus payout
        X Payout
        Walking on three distinct toes, instead of flat feet, allowed dinosaurs to lengthen their stride and increase their speed. This improved their hunting and evasion.
        
        RANK X - EPIC [] X/X
        Feathers
        Reduce dinosaur cost x.
        It is still unknown to what extent therapodian dinosaurs were feathered, but evidence exists that shows that at least some of them presented with varying degrees of feathery skin coverings.
        
        DINOSAUR 11.09 qi
        Spinosaurus
        Carnivore
        Manuel charge produces 782.86T after 90 sec
        Similar to a modern crocodilian, Spinosaurus bodies were low to the ground, and they may have been semi-aquatic. Their destinctive spines were connected to each other by skin and formed a sail-like structure.
        Unlocks at Rank 28
        
        Semi-Aquatic
        
        Spines
        
        DINOSAUR 924.42 Qa
        Tyrannosaurus Rex
        Carnivore Bipedal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 162.82T after 100 sec
        A bipedal carnivore with a huge head, a long heavy tail, and short forearms, the Tyrannosaurus Rex is among the best known and most popuar dinosaurs.
        Unlocks at Rank 26
        
        DINOSAUR 397.5 Sp
        Gigantosaurus
        Carnivore Bipedal Cretaceous
        Manuel charge produces 533.16 Qa after 500 sec
        One of the largest known terrestrial carnivores, Giganotosaurus has been estimated to have been 12-13 meters long. There is debate over whether Giganotosaurus may have been larger than Tyrannosaurus Rex, but it is known that it was an apex predator in the regions where it resided.
        Unlocks at Rank 48
        
        Jaw Articulation
        
        Gigantothermy
        
        Alpha Predator
        
        Brawny Neck
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Sharp Teeth
        Increase Theropoda payout
        X Payout
        Sharp teeth with a serrated edge cut through flesh easily - the perfect adaptation for a carnivorous diet.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Grasping Hands
        Automate and speed up Theropoda
        X Speed
        The long, prehensile fingers of hands are able to grab and grasp objects, offering the creatures that have them a huge dexterity advantage,
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Upright Posture
        Increase Saurischia payout
        X Payout
        Changes in the hip, knee, and leg bones enabled dinosaurs to stand on their hind legs. They could run faster and breathe more efficiently than dinosaurs that were exclusively quadrupedal.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Mobile Neck
        Automate and speed up Saurischia
        X Speed
        A long, flexible neck gives creatures greater visibility and alternate perspectives. The Sauropodan dinosaurs had the unique ability to look behind them, a useful form of defense against predators.
        
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        Hollow Bones
        Increase dinosaur speed x.
        The development of hollow or semi-hollow bones gave some dinosaurs a lighter but stronger skeletal system. This development would later enable them to evolve the ability to fly.
        
        TROPHY [] 100
        Mega Volcano
        Increase dinosaur speed x1.5
        Not once but twice during the Mesozoic Era, mega-volcanoes contribute to mass extinctions. In the Indian Ocean, a Cretaceous-period hot spot still oozes lava, 66 million years later.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Carnivore
        Increase Carnivore payout x.
        Animals that feed entirely on meat, or the flesh of other animals, are called carnivores. About half of dinosaurs were carnivores. With teeth specially designed for ripping and tearing, some carnivores were hunters, while others were scavengers.
      - DINOSAUR 19.17 Sx
        Cynodont
        Omnivore Quadrudepal Triassic
        Manuel charge produces 126.36 Qa after 20 sec
        Thrinaxodon was a cynodont, or early proto-mammal. Living during the Triassic period, this carnivore was around the size of a fox, laid eggs, lived in burrows, and may have had fur. They represent a stage in evolution before mammals became the dominant lifeforms on Earth.
        Unlocks at Rank 36
        
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        Burrowing
        Automate and speed up Cynodont
        X Speed
        Thrinaxodon lived in burrows that also gave them easy access to their prey - mostly insects and other small herbivores. This increased shelter may have helped them to survive the Cretaceous-Paleogene Extinction Event.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Whiskers
        Increase Cynodont payout
        X Payout
        Pitting in the skulls of Thrinaxodon indicates that it may have had whiskers. These whiskers would have helped Thrinaxodon to navigate at night and underground, making it a stealthy nocturnal predator.
      - RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Propubic Pelvis
        Increase Archosaur payout
        X Payout
        A three-pronged pelvic structure wit ha forward pointing pubis.
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        Opisthopubic Pelvis
        Automate and speed up Archosaur
        X Speed
        Some dinosaurs had a pubis bone that pointed down and backwards to support their abdomen, resulting in a four-pronged pelvic structure.
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        Triassic Age
        Reduce Triassic Age dinosaur cost x.
        The Triassic (251.9 MYA - 201.3 MYA) was the first period of the Mesozoic Era. While the first half of this period was devastated by the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, the second half is marked by increased diversity and the first appearances of dinosaurs.
  - - - RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Solar Flares
        Automate and speed up Sun
        X Speed
        SERIES
        When magnetic energy is released on the surface of the Sun, the result is a burst of radiation and plasma called a solar flare. Solar flares emit radio waves that can disrupt long-range communications on Earth.
      - RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Nuclear Fusion
        Increase Sun payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        The Sun's core fuses hundreds of millions of tons of hydrogen into helium every second, converting matter into energy in the process. The light and heat it produces radiate out to all the planets of the solar system.
      - CELESTIAL BODY
        Mercury 60
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Orbit produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Terrestrial Planet
        Mercury is the smallest planet in the solar system, as well as the closest to the Sun. With its rocky grey surface, thin atmosphere, and small size, Mercury could be easily mistaken for a moon.
        
        CELESTIAL BODY
        Venus 600
        Rank X | Next Rank X/x
        Orbit Produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Terrestrial Planet
        Venus's scorching, dense, unbreathable atmosphere makes it the hottest planet in the solar system. One of the brightest objects in Earth's night sky, it can be seen with the naked eye.
        
        CELESTIAL BODY
        Earth 6.000
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Orbit produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Terrestrial Planet
        Earth is the only planet known in our solar system known to be hospitable to life, making it truly unique. The deep seas and green landmasses teem with living creatures.
        
        CELESTIAL BODY
        Moon 2.4M
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Charge generates X/X
        Celestial Body Moon
        Our moon orbits the Earth and formed from debris after the young planet collided with another celestial object. It lights up our night sky and controls the ocean's tides.
        
        INNER SOLAR SYSTEM
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Dark Side
        Increase Moon payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        The Moon is tidally locked to Earth, meaning that one side is always facing our planet while the other is turned away from us. Little was known about the heavily cratered dark side of the Moon until humans were able to send spacecraft up in the 1950s.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Sea of Tranquility
        Automate and speed up Moon
        X Speed
        SERIES
        The Sea of Tranquility is a large, dark plain of basalt rock formed by volcanic eruptions. It got that name because early astronomers mistook it for an ocean. It was the landing site of Apollo 11, the first manned flight to the moon.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Moonraker
        Reach Moon Rank 5
        The Apollo 11 astronauts famously wore Omega Speedmaster watches to the moon. In the 1970s, the company Helbros designed a special watch for lunar visitors, measuring time in "lunations" rather than hours. Alas, it didn't catch on.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Lunacy!
        Reach Moon Rank 10
        Throughout history, humans have had strange ideas about the moon. Different cultures see a face, a rabbit, or a buffalo on its surface. Gullible people are said to believe the moon is made of cheese. And some fools think the moon landing was a hoax.
        
        TRAIT
        Rank X [Epic]
        Goldilocks Zone X/X
        Reduce Celestial Body cost.
        X Discount
        The Goldilocks Zone, also called as the Habitable Zone, is the region around a star with conditions necessary for a planet that can sustain life. Planets like Earth, with surface water and breathable atmospheres, might be found in these zones in other systems.
        
        TROPHY [] 100
        James Webb Space Telescope
        Increase Terrestrial Planet payout
        x2 Payout
        The James Webb Space Telescope is one of the most ambitious feats of astronomical engineering ever achieved. Improving on the foundations laid by the Hubble Space Telescope, it has introduced many technological innovations, and will photograph previously unseen parts of the universe.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Ocean Blue
        Automate and speed up Earth
        X Speed
        SERIES
        Around 70% of Earth's surface is covered in water. Saltwater oceans 96% of the water on Earth, with freshwater making up the rest. Scientists believe tat life could not have emerged here without this abundance of H2O.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Oxygenated Atmosphere
        Increase Earth payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        Unlike other planets in our solar system, Earth has a high level of oxygen in its atmosphere thanks to the photosynthetic process generated by plants. Recycling carbon dioxide and continually creating oxygen, this process enabled complex life to develop.
        
        CELESTIAL BODY
        Mars 80.000
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Orbit produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Terrestrial Planet
        The fourth planet from the Sun and Earth's nearest neighbor, Mars is often called the Red Planet because of its ruddy color. It stands out brightly in the night sky, inspiring humans to wonder if it might be home to alien life.
        
        ASTRONOMY MISSION
        Phobos
        Reduce Mars cost. X
        The larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos is named for the Greek god of fear and panic. It has a very close orbit to Mars, and rises and sets twice in one Martian day. In the future, it may be torn apart by Mars' gravity.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Seismic Activity
        Increase Mars payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        Much like Earth, Mars is seismically active. The planet experiences frequent "marsquakes* when the planet's rocky crust shifts and cracks. NASA's InSight probe recorded over 450 marsquakes in 2019.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Rusty Red
        Automate and speed up Mars
        X Speed
        SERIES
        Mars gets its distinctive red color from iron oxide (also known as rust) on the planet's surface. Mars can be seen from Earth by the naked eye, and its colors has been noted since ancient times.
        
        CELESTIAL BODY
        Asteroid Belt 144M
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Orbit produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Asteroid
        The Asteroid Belt is a field of small, rocky bodies floating in the space between Mars and Jupiter. Jupiter's immense gravity prevent these asteroids from coming together to form a planet, keeping them in a scattered orbit.
        
        CELESTIAL BODY
        Vesta 86.4B
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Orbit produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Asteroid
        Vesta is the second largest object in the Asteroid Belt. It has an irregular shape, and a rocky surface covered in craters.
        
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        CELESTIAL BODY
        Ceres 2.16B
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Orbit produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Asteroid
        Discovered in 1801, Ceres was the first asteroid to be identified by humans. Today, it is the smallest recognized dwarf planet and the largest object in the Asteroid Belt.
        
        4 more items...
        
        CELESTIAL BODY
        Jupiter 259B
        Rank X | Next Rank X/X
        Orbit produces X after Xs
        Celestial Body Gaseous Planet
        Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system. It is made of hydrogen and helium gas and has no solid surface. Constant storms in Jupiter's atmosphere create stripes and bands of swirling color.
        
        10 more items...
        
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        Silicate Type
        Increase Asteroid Belt payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        S-type asteroids contain a high amount of iron and magnesium silicates. They are the second most common type of asteroid.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Carbon Type
        Automate and speed up Asteroid Belt
        X Speed
        SERIES
        C-type asteroids are the most common type of asteroids. Dark in appearance, they are made up of mostly rocks and minerals with a high concentration of carbon.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        All Rocks Great and Small
        Reach Asteroid Belt Rank 5
        There are over 100.000 known objects in the asteroid belt. These range from the dwarf planet Ceres to tiny particles of dust. Most objects in the belt are boulder sized.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Give Me Space
        Reach Asteroid Belt Rank 10
        While the asteroid belt is often pictured as crowded, in reality the asteroids are quite far apart. Most exploratory craft sent to the area have navigated easily, and the chances of a collision are calculated to be less than one billion.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Martian Manhunters
        Reach Mars Rank 5
        Many humans once believed that there were aliens on Mars, fueled by telescopic observations of distinctive surface features that looked like canals. Eventually, the first images taken on the planet's surface by spacecraft revealed it to be lifeless.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Better Red Than Dead
        Reach Mars Rank 10
        To ancient humans, the appearance of Mars often signaled war, death, and destruction. Its red color indicated an ill omen for many cultures, and they believed it could portent bad lock or doom.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Too Hot, Too Cold... Just Right!
        Reach Earth Rank 5
        Earth exists in what's called the "Goldilocks Zone" - a distance from the Sun where it's not too hot or too cold. This delicate temperature balance has allowed Earth to sustain multi-cellular organisms for millions of years.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Microbe Management
        Reach Earth rank 10
        One teaspoon of Earth's soil can contain up to a billion microbes. Earth sustains vast numbers of lifeforms - most much smaller than humans and other animals. It is unknown if other planets may also host microbes on their surfaces.
        
        TROPHY [] 50
        Russell's Teapot
        Increase Asteroid Payout
        x2 Payout
        Russell's Teapot is a thought experiment that posits a teapot orbiting between Earth and Mars, too small to detect. It argues that the burden of proof is on those making unfalsifiable claims, not on skeptics. Inability to disprove doesn't mean we should assume it exists.
        
        RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Solid Surface
        Increase Terrestrial Planet payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        All terrestrial planets have a solid surface with a silicate mantle over a metallic core. Varying levels of seismic activity create mountains, canyons, craters and volcanoes.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Clockwise Rotation
        Increase Venus payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        Most planets in our solar system spin counterclockwise on their axis, but Venus rotates clockwise. Astronomers believe that a collision with another celestial body knocked it out of position millions of years ago.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Sulfuric Clouds
        Automate and speed up Venus
        X Speed
        SERIES
        Venus's dense, hot atmosphere features opaque clouds of sulfuric acid. These thick, yellow clouds shroud the planet, making its surface impossible to see.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Star Light, Star Bright
        Reach Venus Rank 5
        Many ancient people thought that Venus was a star, not a planet, because of its brightness. The Greeks even thought it was two different stars: Phosphorus, heralding the dawn, and Hesperus, the evening star.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        I'm Your Venus
        Reach Venus Rank 10
        The Soviet Venera probes were the first robotic probes to reach another planet and send surface images back to Earth. But they didn't last long—each probe could only survive in Venus's hostile climate for between 25 minutes and 2 hours.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Temperature Fluctuations
        Increase Mercury payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        Even though Mercury is the closest planet to the Sun, it can be both incredibly hot and extremely cold. With temperatures swinging from 450 degrees to -170 degrees Celsius, its climate is truly inhospitable.
        
        RANK X - TRAITS [] X/X
        Large Iron Core
        Automate and speed up Mercury
        X Speed
        SERIES
        Scientists believe that Mercury has a massive iron core that makes up more than 75% of the planet's radius. Covered by a thin, rocky crust, this core contributes to the planet's high density.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        God of Messengers
        Reach Mercury Rank 5
        Because it's closest to the Sun, Mercury appears to move through the sky more quickly than the other planets. It gets its name from the swift Roman god of messengers, who flew using winged sandals.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Honey, I Shrunk the Planet
        Reach Mercury Rank 10
        Mercury is actually in a continuous state of shrinkage. Because its surface is composed of only one tectonic plate over a molten core, the planet contracts as the core cools over time. This process has created deep canyons on the planet.
      - TRAIT
        Rank X [Epic]
        Cosmic Gravity X/X
        Increases Celestial Body payout
        2x Payout
        Gravity is one of the fundamental forces and key to understanding how the universe works. Using Newton's principles, astronomers can explain how stars and planets form, predict their mass and motion, and infer the existence of dark matter.
      - Ecliptic
      - RANK X - RARE [] X/X
        Solar Winds
        Increase Star payout
        X Payout
        SERIES
        A solar wind is a stream of plasma released from the upper atmosphere (also called the corona) of the Sun. Solar winds can escape the Sun's gravity and cause planetary phenomena like geomagnetic storms and auroras.
      - RANK X - EPIC [] X/X
        Speed of Light
        Increase Celestial Body speed
        X Speed
        SERIES
        The speed of light is the rate at which light and all massless particles travel through a vacuum. While it can seem instantaneous up close, over long distances, this speed limit becomes very noticeable. The theory of relativity relates to the speed of light.
      - ACHIEVEMENT
        Sunny Stonehenge
        Reach Sol Rank 5
        In ancient times, humans built monuments to track the position of the Sun and mark the solstices and equinoxes. These monuments include Stonehenge in England, Newgrange in Ireland, and the pyramid of El Castillo in Mexico.
      - ACHIEVEMENT
        Total Eclipse of the Heart
        Reach Sol Rank 10
        While you should never look directly at the Sun, during a solar eclipse it's actually even more dangerous! This is because your pupils expand in the darkness and take in even more light (and harmful radiation).
    - - 5 AU
        Jupiter's distance varies form 4.95 AU to 5.46 AU as it orbits to Sun.
        
        30 AU
        It takes four hours for sunlight to reach Neptune
        
        50 AU
        The Kuiper Belt stretches form roughly 30 - 50 AU, with most objects found between 42 - 48 AU
        
        100 AU
        Between 75 - 121 AU, the Sun's solar wind slows down and then stops as it collides with interstellar space
        
        1.000 AU
        The farthest point of Sedna's orbit is estimated at 937 AU
        
        10.000 AU
        The Oort Cloud is a huge region with trillions of objects between 2.000 - 200.000 AU
        
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    - - CONSTELLATION
        Aquarius X/15
        Increase Oort Cloud Object speed by x2.
        The constellation Aquarius represents a water seller carrying a jug. Three meteor showers originate here, including the Eta Aquariids, which are associated with Halley's Comet. Aquarius is large and encompasses 12 exoplanet systems.
        
        CONSTELLATION
        Capricorn X/10
        Increase Asteroid speed by x2.
        Capricorn represents a half-goat, half-fish creature. It is the smallest constellation in the Western Zodiac. In ancient times, it marked the location of the sun at the winter solstice. It is one of the fainter constellations.
        
        CONSTELLATION
        Sagittarius X/14
        Increase Dwarf Planet speed by x2.
        Sagittarius, the archer, is usually represented by an image of a centaur aiming a bow and arrow. The galactic center of the Milky Way is located in Sagittarius, and the constellation contains many star clusters and nebulae.
        
        CONSTELLATION
        Scorpio X/14
        Increase Celestial Body speed by x1.5.
        One of the brightest constellations in the sky, Scorpio represents a scorpion. It includes the red star Antares, sometimes called the "heart of the scorpion" because of its placement and color.
        
        CONSTELLATION
        Libra X/6
        Increase Moon speed by x2.
        Libra represents a pair of weighing scales. Its appearance begins the autumnal equinox, when day and night are equal lengths. Libra is home to the star system of Gliese 581, considered one of the best candidates for life on other planets.
        
        CONSTELLATION
        Virgo X/14
        Increase Comet speed by x2.
        Virgo, the virgin, is the home of the Virgo Cluster. This constellation contains the galaxy M87, the home of the first supermassive black hole ever photographed by humans.
        
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        ACHIEVEMENT
        Written in the Stars
        Finished Libra
        Many constellations are named for mythical figures, and they have been used to pass down stories through generations. In the days before writing, identifying a tale with the stars in the sky made it easier to remember and share.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        All Shapes and Sizes
        Finished Scorpio
        Asterisms are groups of stars that are part of a constellation but have their own identifiable shapes. They include the Pleiades, the Big and Little Dipper, and Orion's Belt.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        All-Star
        Finished Sagittarius
        Not all the celestial bodies that make up a constellation are stars. Some constellations include nebulae and galaxies, which resemble stars to the naked eye.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Star Harvest
        Finished Capricorn
        Constellations move through the sky as the Earth travels around the Sun, so different constellations are visible throughout the year. Ancient humans could mark the planting and harvesting seasons by which constellations were in the sky.
        
        ACHIEVEMENT
        Wish Upon a Star
        Finished Aquarius
        Constellations were an important part of the star maps used by early sailors and navigators. By identifying different shapes in the stars, they could figure out where they were and which was was home.
  - - - Fungus Among Us
        
        Tap to earn Toadstools
        
        RESEARCH 10
        An Entangled World
        
        They're in the dirt, the water, and the air. They're in our homes, in our food, and even inside our bodies. They're entangled with just about every organism and ecosystem on Earth. There's a lot happening in this often- overlooked kingdom.
        
        GENERATOR 20
        Fungi
        Produces 1/s
        
        Fungi are small eukaryotic organisms that often live in soil or on decaying matter. There are nearly 145,000 known species of fungi, and scientists suspect there may be up to 5 million total.
        
        RESEARCH 2.00 Qa
        Yeast
        Fungi 2E+11% more efficient
        
        Yeasts are an ancient family of single-celled fungi that reproduce through budding. Some species of yeast are beneficial, aiding in processes like fermentation. Others are pathogens that can cause infections, like the insidious Candida.
        
        RESEARCH 2.00 qi
        Mold
        Fungi 25000% more efficient
        
        Molds are multicellular colonies of fungi that grow together as a mass of thin filaments. When this telltale layer of fuzz starts growing on food and breaking it down, a foul smell and a nasty taste follow-we call this "spoilage."
        
        GENERATOR 12.00 qi
        Unwelcome Fungi
        Produces 1.00 Qa/s
        
        In any kingdom as large as the fungi, you're guaranteed to find a few nasty characters. Which fungi can hurt you, and how?
        
        RESEARCH 3.00 Sp
        Poisonous Mushrooms
        Unwelcome Fungi 4000% more efficient
        
        Many fungi produce compounds that can seriously sicken or kill humans and animals. From toxic molds on crops to poisonous toadstools picked by unwary foragers, these unfriendly fungi shouldn't be eaten under any circumstances.
        
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        RESEARCH 15.00 qi
        Moldy Food
        Unwelcome Fungi 800% more efficient
        
        When food products are stored improperly or go uneaten for too long, mold will begin the work of decomposition, spoiling the food and rendering it inedible. If you're surprised by mold growing on your lunch, don't eat it!
        
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        RESEARCH 60.00 qi
        Fungal Infections
        Unwelcome Fungi 150% more efficient
        
        Not all fungi are nice. Some can cause serious problems for their hosts, be they plants, insects, or humans.
        
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        RESEARCH 100.00 Sp
        Parasitic Fungi
        Unwelcome Fungi 1500% more efficient
        
        A parasite is an organism that lives in or on another creature, often stealing the host's nutrients or harming it in other ways. Parasitic fungi infect and hijack their hosts, sometimes destroying them in the process.
        
        1 more item...
        
        7/9
        10 Logits
        Collect Unwelcome Fungi [20]
        
        RESEARCH 5,000
        Mushrooms
        Fungi 1000% more efficient
        
        Mushrooms are the spore-bearing, fruiting part of a fungus. They grow above ground and usually have a stem, cap, and gills, with colors ranging from drab to brilliant. Edible varieties are cultivated on farms or gathered in the wild by experienced foragers.
        
        RESEARCH 600
        Mycology
        Fungi 50% more efficient
        
        The study of fungi is called mycology.
        While biologists once thought that fungi were in the same family as plants, they are actually more closely related to animals.
        
        GENERATOR 700
        Fungal Living
        Produces 5/s
        
        There are many different types of fungi in the world, all with different lifestyles and behaviors. How do fungi live, eat, grow, and reproduce?
        
        RESEARCH 2,000
        Reproduction
        Fungal Living 100% more efficient
        
        Fungi reproduce via many methods, both sexual and asexual, from budding to spore dispersal. In this huge and varied kingdom, there are no hard and fast rules for how new fungi are born.
        
        2 more items...
        
        RESEARCH 1,250
        Diet
        Fungal Living 100% more efficient
        
        Fungi are heterotrophs, organisms that can't produce their own food.
        They must break down other organic matter to access nutrients, and they're very efficient at it. They can penetrate multiple layers of the tissue that they're feeding on.
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 50.00 M
        Symbiosis
        Fungal Living 5000% more efficient
        
        Symbiosis is a mutually beneficial partnership between two organisms.
        Fungi are one of the most versatile symbionts on Earth, pairing with members of almost every other kingdom. Fungi form symbiotic relationships with algae, plants, insects, and even humans.
        
        1 more item...
        
        1/9
        5 Logits
        Collect Mycology
    - - Unfold the Universe
        
        RESEARCH 10
        Look to the Stars
        
        We have always looked to the stars with wonder. Curiosity about the cosmos inspires astounding feats of human ingenuity and collaboration, as we strive to see farther and better than ever before.
        
        GENERATOR 15
        Ground Telescope
        Produces 0.5/s
        
        The earliest stargazers made their observations with nothing but the naked eye. Magnifying telescopes opened up whole new vistas—from simple handheld spyglasses to mountaintop observatories that can detect wavelengths invisible to humans.
        
        RESEARCH 150
        Space Telescope
        Ground Telescope 100% more efficient
        
        Ground-based observatories have to contend with air and light pollution, satellites and orbital junk, and the atmosphere itself muddying the view. Rising above it all, telescopes in space get a much clearer picture.
        
        RESEARCH 700
        Origins
        Ground Telescope 100% more efficient
        
        In 1946, astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer made the first proposals for a telescope in space. He later collaborated with astronomer Nancy Grace Roman to develop the Hubble Space Telescope.
        
        GENEERATOR 2,500
        Hubble Telescope
        Produces 4/s
        
        At its launch in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope, named for astronomer Edwin Hubble, was the most powerful telescope ever built. Still in use today, it gave us some of our most iconic images of faraway galaxies and spectacular nebulas.
        
        RESERACH 10,000
        Repair Mission
        Hubble Telescope 100% more efficient
        
        A flaw in Hubble's main mirror meant it couldn't resolve images properly at launch. After three years of fuzzy photos, NASA sent a crew to perform delicate orbital repairs in 1993. Four other manned missions have since visited to service the telescope.
        
        1 more item...
        
        1/9
        5 Logits
        Collect Ground Telescope [25]
        
        Tap to earn Honeycomb Mirrors
    - - Lurking in the Dark
        
        Tap to earn Nutrients
        
        GENERATOR 30
        Sunlight Zone
        Produces ?/s
        
        0 m
        Sunlight defines the epipelagic zone, the top layer of open ocean. All marine plants live here. Surrounded by thousands of miles of brightly lit water, with nowhere to hide, animals need either speed or camouflage to catch food and avoid becoming food. What eats what?
        
        RESEARCH 75
        Microscopic Plants
        Sunlight Zone 10% more efficient
        
        Open ocean plants are all microscopic algae called phytoplankton — from drifting, single-celled diatoms to dinoflagellates that whip through water. They use sunlight to pull carbon from carbon dioxide and turn it into sugar, a nutrient that fuels growth.
        
        RESEARCH 250
        Global Drifters
        Sunlight Zone 50% more efficient
        
        Algae drift far and wide on currents, waves, and tides. Along for the ride are zooplankton (microscopic animals) such as krill, copepods, and fish larvae. Because Earth's seawater is all connected, ocean drifters and the swimmers that eat them are similar everywhere.
        
        RESEARCH 2,000
        Speedy Swimmers
        Sunlight Zone 25% more efficient
        
        Swimmers in the sunlight zone tend to be blue or gray to blend in. Marlin and other apex predators are streamlined for speed and long-distance travel. They herd schools of fish into a tight, dense circle called a bait ball and then zoom through it to feed.
        
        RESEARCH 12,000
        Whale Power
        Sunlight Zone 25% more efficient
        
        Whales are massive beasts, thanks to the bounty of food here — and below. To small creatures, turbulent currents feel like a washing machine set on high, but bulky whales can power through the viscous liquid with ease. They're the deepest diving mammals.
        
        RESEARCH 30,000
        Sinking Detritus
        Sunlight Zone 200% more efficient
        
        After eating phytoplankton or each other, animals excrete waste full of carbon, nitrogen, and other nutrients. This detritus sinks, along with shells, scales, molted skeletons, carcasses, and everything else that can't float. Remember the fact as we descend.
        
        GENERATOR 150,000
        Twilight Zone
        Produces ?/s
        
        200 m
        From 200 to 1000 meter deep, the mesopelagic ("middle open ocean") appears dark to our eyes, but sunlight does reach here. Blue light, on the high-energy end of the color spectrum, reaches the deepest. In the twilight, how do animals see without being seen by enemies?
        
        RESEARCH 300,000
        Fish World
        Twilight Zone 100% more efficient
        
        Air-breathing whales, seals, dolphins, and other mammals dive deep to feed. About 90% of the world's fish (by mass) live in this zone, where dimness offers them some cover. Quadrillions of small fish called bristlemouths are the most numerous vertebrate on the planet.
        
        RESEARCH 2.15 M
        Making Light
        Twilight Zone 100% more efficient
        
        Life that can glow is rare on land, but it's the rule in the dark sea. Up to 90% of deep dwellers are bioluminescent. Some have photophore glands in their skin that create light chemically, combining oxygen and luciferin. Other harbor glowing bacteria on their bodies.
        
        RESEARCH 17.50 B
        Light as a Lure
        Twilight Zone 100% more efficient
        
        Anglerfish are named for their fishing rod — a glowing barbel, or feeler, that dangles over a gaping, toothy mouth. With their large eyes, squid and fish home in on that glow — usually the sign of a snack — but they can't see the dark hunter lurking behind.
        
        RESEARCH 25.00 B
        Lurking Champion
        Twilight Zone 150% more efficient
        
        Most bioluminescence is blue, but the black dragonfish also emits a red glow that spotlights red prey, like a sniper scope. The hunter's eyes can detect red, but the prey's eyes cannot, which makes this top twilight predator a master lurker. It can see without being seen.
        
        RESEARCH 90.00 B
        Alarms and Flash Bangs
        Twilight Zone 200% more efficient
        
        Light can be a defense. Jellyfish put on a fireworks show to warn, "I taste bad and i sting!" Copepods drop a time-delayed "flash-bang" to allow for a getaway. When attacked, many prey species emit an alarm light to lure a second predator to eat the first one.
        
        RESEARCH 70.00 B
        Hiding In Light
        Twilight Zone 100% more efficient
        
        Hatchetfish use light to hide. When seen from below, photophores lining the belly blend into the light above. Its huge yellow eyes can distinguish sunlight from bioluminescence, but enemy eyes can't. A skinny body profile also make the fish hard to see.
        
        3/16
        BADGE
        Glow Up
        Increase all simulation speeds by 1%
        Increase Lurking in the Dark speed by 5%
        
        In the inky dark, creating light is just a first step. Using that glow to hunt or defend and to find mates is the key to survival.
        Collect Making Light
        
        RESEARCH 4.00 B
        Marine Snow
        Sunlight Zone 1000000% more efficient
        
        Only 20% of detritus from the sunlight zone makes it here. On the way down, it is eaten, expelled, and eaten again. Also called marine snow, the fraction of particles that do reach the bottom will take weeks to arrive — slightly faster if they clump together.
        
        RESEARCH 300.00 B
        Snot Palace
        Twilight Zone 100% more efficient
        Sunlight Zone 5000% more efficient
        
        Drifters that rely on food coming to them have to grab as much as they can. In less than an hour, giant Larvacea can build a sticky, meter-wide "snot palace" out of mucus. The many chambers and channels trap and filter detritus for the tadpole-sized resident.
        
        2 more items...
        
        RESEARCH 2.00 B
        Oxygen Exploit
        Twilight Zone 200% more efficient
        
        Oxygen-poor can't sustain big predators. To exploit these safer areas, the vampire squid evolved oversized gills and blue blood that circulates oxygen well. It's the only cephalopod that can live its whole life in an oxygen minimum zone, eating mostly detritus.
        
        5/16
        4 Logits
        Collect Oxygen Exploit
        
        RESEARCH 8.00 M
        Seeing Blue
        Twilight Zone 100% more efficient
        
        Twilight eyes are tuned to blue light. Phronima is a tiny hunter with two big eyes that peer far ahead and two side eyes that scan nearby. When it spies the blue glow of a salp plankton, it claws and chews out the salp's guts and uses the barrel remnant as a nursery.
        
        RESEARCH 36.00 M
        Red is the New Black
        Twilight Zone 150% more efficient
        
        Red sunlight doesn't reach this deep, so the color appears black. Even a bright-red grouper blends into the dark, hidden from predators and able to sneak up on tasty crabs. Many transparent jellyfish have red stomachs to conceal the glowing prey they eat.
        
        1 more item...
        
        4/16
        2 Logits
        Collect Twilight Zone [25]
        Collect Sunlight Zone [85]
        
        6/16
        2 Logits
        Collect Twilight Zone [100]
        
        2/16
        3 Logits
        Collect Sinking Detritus
        
        1/16
        2 Logits
        Collect Sunlight Zone [25]
    - - A Coevolution Love Story
        
        RESEARCH 15
        Meet the Characters
        
        "To make a prairie, it takes a clover and one bee. / One clover, and a bee, and a revery." - Emily Dickinson
        
        GENERATOR 500
        Bees
        Charge generates 450 after 45s
        
        Bees need to feed Their high-energy bodies and abundant young demand constant nourishment. But it takes fuel to gather fuel. What's the most efficient way for a bee to forage?
        
        GENERATOR 40
        Flowers
        Produces 1/s
        
        Flowers have one driving desire: to make seeds. Each plant strives to produce these germs of life, ideally with another plant. Yet, rooted in place, how can two isolated flowers unite?
        
        RESEARCH 1,000
        Naked Seeds
        Flowers 300% more efficient
        
        In the Triassic period, long before flowers, the first seed-producing plants appear, including conifers. These primitive plant are gymnosperms, which means "naked seeds". Their ova (female seeds) sit in the open to receive pollen (male seeds) directly.
        
        RESEARCH 4,000
        Wasteful Wind
        Bees 200% more efficient
        
        Dust-sized pollen grains scatter easily in the wind. Perhaps they land in ova, the eggs poised on the cone of a distant tree, fertilizing them and producing seeds. But most pollen misses that mark, so gymnosperms cast out voluminous clouds to ensure some success.
        
        GENERATOR 10,000
        Primitive Flowers
        Produces 150/sec
        
        The spiral cones of conifers evolve into flowers. The key change? The ova, naked no more, are encased in an ovary, which is why flowering plants are called angiosperms ("vessel seeds"). They quickly dominate Cretaceous plant life. What makes them so wildly successful?
        
        3 more items...
        
        RESEARCH 6,000
        Flight
        Bees 100% more efficient
        
        To small animals, all that surplus pollen is a choice food—rich in protein! Animals that can fly can gather a lot of the scattered grains efficiently. Insects were first to evolve flight and had the skies to themselves for many millions of years.
        
        2 more items...
        
        1/13
        2 Logits
        Collect Flowers [30]
        Collect Bees [15]
        
        Tap to earn Pollen
    - - Life After Apocalypse
        
        RESEARCH 25
        Fire and Ice
        
        Young earth is a planet of extremes. Its surface swings from volcanic fireball to Snowball earth–ice-bound pole to pole–and back. Despite the chaos, a microbial slime of cyanobacteria takes hold. Single cells with a nucleus, the first eukaryotes, follow.
        
        GENERATOR 40
        L.U.C.A.
        Produces 4/s
        
        3.5 BYA
        The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the earliest microbe from which all modern life descends. Its DNA will pass through a chain of evolving species that survive every extinction. Three billion years later, LUCA's genes are inside us-and every living thing.
        
        RESEARCH 500
        Trilobites
        L.U.C.A. 50% more efficient
        
        Trilobites are one of the most ebrate Wor successful animals that ever lived.
        Their oblong bodies are perfectly shaped for diving into mud to hide from predators. They thrive for 270 million years-longer than the dinosaurs!
        
        RESEARCH 50
        Cambrian Explosion
        L.U.C.A. 50% more efficient
        
        Sea animals evolve tentacles, claws, shells, and other adaptations that rapidly transform the seas. They drive primitive Ediacaran life to extinction through predation, burrowing into their ocean-floor habitats, and gobbling up their food.
        
        GENERATOR 350
        Metazoan Seas
        Produces 8/s
        
        485 MYA
        Metazoans (multicelled animals) multiply and diversify in an evolutionary leap called the Ordovician Radiation. They build the first coral reefs, dense with life. The scattered land masses host only mosslike plants called bryophytes.
        
        RESEARCH 10,000
        Trilobite World
        Metazoan Seas 150% more efficient
        
        Trilobites dominate, evolving into many thousands of species.
        Eurypterids (sea scorpions) feast on the abundant prey, as do nautiloids, with their beaked mouths and tentacles. Jawless fish appear, sucking in food with open mouths.
        
        2 more items...
        
        RESEARCH 3,00 M
        Placoderms
        L.U.C.A. 1500% more efficient
        
        Placoderms come to rule the seas by wielding a game-changing weapon: gaping jaws with sharp blades that cut like guillotines. A hinged joint in the neck lets the mouth open extra wide and snap down with bone-crushing force.
        
        RESEARCH 600.00 M
        Tetrapods
        L.U.C.A. 1000% more efficient
        
        Tetrapods conquer land by leveling up the vertebrate skeleton. They have backbones built like bridges to support weight, jointed limbs with multiple digits for locomotion, and flexible necks for looking around.
        
        1/10
        2 Logits
        Collect L.U.C.A. [50]
        
        RESEARCH 150.00 B
        Archosaurs
        L.U.C.A. 1000% more efficient
        
        Archosaurs diversify like crazy, thanks to ankle joints. One group has twisting joints, allowing for the splayed gait of crocodilians. Another group's joints bend like a hinge, so one foot steps in front of the other. These bipedal walkers evolve into dinosaurs.
        
        RESEARCH 35.00 T
        Tyrannosaurus Rex
        L.U.C.A. 1000% more efficient
        
        T-Rex is the greatest predator that walked the Earth. Why? It's the pinnacle model, the latest and greatest iteration, after 220 million years of theropod evolution. It's gigantic, fierce, and smart too, with a large brain and keen senses.
        
        RESEARCH 20.00 Qa
        Homo Sapiens
        L.U.C.A. 1200% more efficient
        
        Homo Sapiens ("wise man") is us — Modern human beings. Out of several early human species, we're the sole survivors. Our superpower is brain power, which was propelled us to planetary domination in a mere 300,000 years of existence.
        
        Tap to earn Species ///////
    - - The Big Questions
        
        RESEARCH 10
        Uncertainty
        
        We can't form and test hypotheses about right and wrong, the purpose of existence, or our own natures.
        Some questions can't be resolved through scientific inquiry-is there another way?
        
        GENERATOR 25
        Philosophy
        Produces 1/s
        
        Philosophy-literally "love of wisdom"-delves into the mysteries of existence. This essentially human field of study interrogates reality, reason, the mind, the universe, and even knowledge itself.
        
        RESEARCH 150
        What is Right?
        Philosophy 100% more efficient
        
        How should we behave? What is right and wrong, and how do we know the difference? Who decides what's best?
        
        GENERATOR 2,000
        Ethics
        Produces 12/s
        
        The field of ethics, or moral philosophy, studies beliefs about right and wrong and how we should treat others. Ethics are also codes of behavior adopted by communities or professions-like the physician's oath to "do no harm".
        
        10x
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 8,000
        What Is Ethical?
        Ethics 100% more efficient
        
        How should we act toward others? How do we decide what behavior is ethical? What happens when different principles come into conflict?
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 40,000
        What Is Moral?
        Ethics 100% more efficient
        
        Where do moral values come from? Are certain acts or behaviors inherently "good"? Do the same rules apply to everyone, everywhere?
        
        1 more item...
        
        1/11
        2 Logits
        Collect Ethics [10]
        
        RESEARCH 200.00 M
        What is True?
        Philosophy 2500% more efficient
        
        How do we know what is true? Is everything subjective, or is there some ultimate truth we can discover?
        
        GENERATOR 300.00 M
        Epistemology
        Produces 100,000/s
        
        This is the branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge: what it is, how to acquire it, and how we use it to form beliefs about the world.
        
        10x
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 800.00 M
        What Do We Know?
        Epistemology 100% more efficient
        
        Where does knowledge come from? Is there an ultimate source of truth?
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 5.00 B
        How Do We Know?
        Epistemology 100% more efficient
        
        How do we obtain knowledge? What does it mean to know something? Is there a difference between knowing and believing?
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 1.50 T
        What is Real?
        Philosophy 250000% more efficient
        
        What is reality? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did the universe come from in the first place?
        
        GENERATOR 10.00 T
        Metaphysics
        Produces 800.00 M/s
        
        Meaning "beyond the physical," metaphysics studies questions of reality, identity, being, causality, and possibility. It explores the relationship of mind to matter and the nature of existence.
        
        10x
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 100.00 T
        How Did It Start?
        Metaphysics 100% more efficient
        
        What is the origin of the universe? Why is there something rather than nothing? Where did it all come from?
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 2.00 Qa
        Why Am I Aware?
        Metaphysics 150% more efficient
        
        What is the nature of consciousness? What makes me "me," and not you?
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 1.00 qi
        What am I?
        Philosophy 5E+07% more efficient
        
        What does it mean to be a conscious entity? Do we have a fixed, eternal identity separate from our bodies? What makes humans special?
        
        GENERATOR 1.20 qi
        Spirit
        Produces 100.00 T/s
        
        Some people believe in the spirit, a vital force animating all living things. Questions about the spirit-does it exist? What is it? Who or what has one?-get to the heart of what makes us human.
        
        RESEARCH 15.00 qi
        What Is Spirit?
        Spirit 100% more efficient
        
        What does the spirit consist of? Is it something separate from the body?
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 80.00 qi
        What Is Humanity?
        Spirit 100% more efficient
        
        What makes us human? What is humanity's essential nature-and can we change or overcome it?
        
        1 more item...
        
        6/11
        6 Logits
        Collect What am I?
        
        RESEARCH 300,000
        What Is Society?
        Philosophy 3000%% more efficient
        
        What does it mean to live in a society? Do we owe anything to other people? How should we balance the needs of groups and individuals?
        
        GENERATOR 150,000
        Political Philosophy
        Produces 300/s
        
        This field of study deals with citizens, institutions, and governments. It asks important questions about the nature of societies and how they should be organized.
        
        10x
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 1.50 M
        Who Should Rule?
        Political Philosophy 100% more efficient
        
        How should societies be governed? Are hierarchies and rulers necessary?
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 50.00 M
        What Is Power?
        Political Philosophy 100% more efficient
        
        Where does power come from? What gives someone the right to wield it?
        
        1 more item...
        
        2/11
        3 Logits
        Collect Political Philosophy [25]
        
        Tap to earn Questions
        
        3/11
        BADGE
        Confusion
        Increase all simulation speeds by 1%
        Increase The Big Questions speed by 5%
        
        The journey to understanding begins
        with one simple act: asking a question. Then another. Then another.
        Collect 10.00 B Questions
    - - The Price of Trust
        
        Tap to earn Labor
        
        Tap to earn Cowrie Shells
        
        3/10
        3 Logits
        Collect 1.00 T Cowrie Shells
        
        RESEARCH 0.0004
        Hunting and Gathering
        
        For hundreds of thousands of years, humans lived in roving bands, hunting and foraging for food.
        
        RESEARCH 0.0005
        Gifting
        Tap gains +0.00004 per tap
        
        In hunter-gatherer communities, gifts were used as a way to strengthen social ties. The oldest known economic system, the gift economy, is particularly viable in small and close-knit groups.
        
        RESEARCH 0.006
        Settling
        Tap gains +0.00995 per tap
        
        The discovery of farming created denser, more sedentary societies. Eventually, as populations continued to grow, the earliest towns began to emerge.
        
        RESEARCH 1
        Specializing
        Tap gains +0.99 per tap
        
        As populations grew, economic roles became specialized. Some people farmed, some worked as artisans, some fought as warriors or even governed. This required new methods of economic exchange.
        
        GENERATOR 25
        Commodity Currency
        Produces 1/s
        
        Specialized societies required a "medium of exchange," trusted and accepted across society as payment for goods and services. While the oldest currencies used cattle, cloth, tools and other common, useful objects, over time, these evolved into symbolic forms and pure accounting units.
        
        4 more items...
        
        RESEARCH 20,000
        Bartering
        Commodity Currency 100% more efficient
        
        While hunter-gatherers shared resources among themselves, when facing shortages, they needed to trade with other tribes. An alternative to money, barter involves the direct trade of goods and services for one another, without a medium of exchange.
        
        RESEARCH 3.00 M
        Intrinsic Value
        Commodity Currency 100% more efficient
        
        Money provides a store of value, resistant to depreciation, which can be saved for future use. When using money, people trust it holds an inherent worth which will be maintained over time.
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 250,000
        Wampum
        Commodity Currency 150% more efficient
        
        Carved from shells, these strings of beads were commonly exchanged as gifts between Native American tribes to establish and commemorate treaties and agreements.
        
        RESEARCH 125
        Debt
        Commodity Currency 150% more efficient
        
        As long as there have been economic exchanges, there has been a concept of debt. If someone injures a neighbor's livestock, or requires a service they can't afford, some later repayment or restitution is to be expected.
        
        RESEARCH 5,000
        Tally Sticks
        Commodity Currency 100% more efficient
        
        Prehistoric humans inscribed numerical records onto sticks or fragments of bone. An effective technique for tracking debt, Tally Sticks continued to be used through the Middle Ages.
        
        RESEARCH 800,000
        Recordkeeping
        Commodity Currency 150% more efficient
        
        Money is a "unit of account," through which the value of goods and services can be appraised (i.e. pricing). With written records in particular, ancient societies were able to compile and access a wide range of information regarding economic production and transactions.
        
        3 more items...
    - - A Journey of Serenity
        
        GENERATOR 15
        Wild Tea Plant
        Produces 1.3/s
        Tea plants are small trees native to East Asia, where they grew wild before humans began cultivating them. They are also known by the scientific name 'Camellia sinensis'.
        
        RESEARCH 150
        Cultivation
        Wild Tea Plant 125% more efficient
        Tea is mainly grown on farms in tropical or sub-tropical environments with acidic soil. Many farms also favor high elevation which slows down the plant's growth and improves the flavor.
        
        GENERATOR 75,000
        Domesticated Tea Plant
        Produces 650/s
        The domestication of tea plants began around 2,000 years ago in China. Tea containers have been found in tombs dating from the Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) alongside deceased emperors' other priceless treasures.
        
        RESEARCH 2.00 M
        Origin Myth
        Domesticated Tea Plant 100% more efficient
        One day in 2737 BCE, some leaves drifted into Chinese emperor Shennong's boiling water. He let them steep, resulting in a delicious aroma and flavor. Legend has it this was the beginning of tea's journey.
        
        GENERATOR 5.00 M
        Tea Evolution
        Produces 1.3/s
        Over time, tea evolved from being a healing treatment to a popular social and cultural drink. It became valued for its flavor, aroma, and the rituals associated with its preparation.
        
        4 more items...
        
        GENERATOR 50.00 M
        Tea Plantation
        Produces 130,000/s
        Farming tea plants is a complex process of cultivating, pruning, harvesting, drying, and storing. Tending to the plants carefully is important, as a single plant can produce tea for a t least 100 years.
        
        3 more items...
        
        2/10
        3 Logits
        Collect Origin Myth [1]
        Collect *Tea Plantation [1]
        
        RESEARCH 1,000
        Health Benefits
        Wild Tea Plant 100% more efficient
        Tea has a variety of health benefits. It carries enzymes that help with digestion and antioxidants for lowering inflammation. It also packs a natural caffeinated energy boost that has long helped humans stay active.
        
        RESEARCH 8,000
        Tea Meals
        Wild Tea Plant 125% more efficient
        In ancient Asia, tea was often used as an ingredient in savory meals. Combining hot tea and grain porridge results in an extremely efficient and energizing meal.
        
        RESEARCH 2.50 T
        Ochazuke
        Wild Tea Plant 1E+07%% more efficient
        A Japanese dish where green tea, dashi, or water is poured over steamed rice. Add toppings like salted salmon, pickled plum, and sesame seeds to create a delicious light meal.
        
        RESEARCH 200,000
        Chagayu
        Wild Tea Plant 100% more efficient
        A Japanese tea porridge made by cooking rice in boiled green tea. It is especially popular in Nara, where it's eaten as a healthy breakfast that packs a caffeinated kick.
        
        1 more item...
        
        RESEARCH 2,500
        Defense Response
        Wild Tea Plant 100% more efficient
        To ward away insect attackers, tea plants produce certain compounds, like caffeine, that act as a natural insecticide. Incidentally, these compounds also enhance the flavor and potency of tea for humans.
        
        1/10
        2 Logits
        Collect Wild Tea Plant [50]
        
        Tap to earn Tea Leaves
    - - The Power of Images
        
        RESEARCH 20
        Imagination
        At some point, early hominids started imagining things beyond the world in front of them. This evolution toward creating might be what began the journey of becoming human.
        
        GENERATOR 40
        Line
        Produces 1/sec
        
        An image begins with a simple act, like a mark scraped into a rock, a painted hand pressed against a wall, or a line drawn into the sand. Mastering mark-making is the most basic of artistic skills and is a first step for human creativity.
        
        RESEARCH 100
        Drawing
        Line 200% more efficient
        As the initial stroke is joined by others, an image begins to form— a constellation of stars, an animal taken down in a hunt, a deceased leader's journey to the underworld.
        
        GENERATOR 7,500
        Symbol
        Produces 50/sec
        Humans took further steps in drawing the intangible, wanting to depict concepts such as the future or the afterlife. They created abstract shapes and objects that represent these ideas.
        
        RESEARCH 150,000
        Glyphs
        Symbol 100% more efficient
        Ancient Chinese oracle bones and shells were used in divination to determine the outcome of politics, crops, and hunts. They were written in a pictographic script that is ancestral to all subsequent forms of Chinese writing.
        
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        RESEARCH 400
        Body Paint
        Line 150% more efficient
        As humans advanced, they began creating marks and patterns on their bodies. Evidence of body decoration dates back to the Neanderthals, who used natural materials like red iron oxide and manganese as body paint.
        
        RESEARCH 30,000
        Tattoo
        Symbol 150% more efficient
        Otzi the Iceman was a frozen mummy found with 62 tattoos. At 5,300 years old, his are the oldest known permanent body markings. Located in areas associated with joint pain, they likely served a medicinal purpose.
        
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