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Labour-Intensive staple crop
I am trying to design a staple crop (preferably grain or tuber, but can be anything if necessary) that is very productive, capable of sustaining great population densities, but is also very labour ...
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Alternative methods of blood circulation?
So, I've got a parasite, which adapts and grows to keep its (human) host alive. One of the hosts in question has lost their heart, and since the parasite itself, taking the form of vine-like ...
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Why do the plants glow?
On this planet, volcanoes are constantly spewing ash, polluting the already dense atmosphere and darkening the world. In addition, the star which this planet orbits is dimmer, resulting in a very dark ...
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Is it possible for a plant to form a biological "greenhouse" to protect its delicate flowers using some sort of clear, insular material?
In my world, I have a type of plant with a two-stage life cycle. The first stage grows into a structure that functions like a greenhouse that allows in most of the Sun's light but insulates against ...
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What adaptations would be likely to help vascular plant life survive in a low pressure atmosphere?
One of my worlds has a very sparse atmosphere with a pressure of about 0.17 bar, making it roughly one sixth as dense as our own. It is largely identical to our own in every other way, having the same ...
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Why would humans carry around live plants in a post-apocalyptic world?
A while ago I saw this brilliant 3d render of a post-apocalyptic world in which a human carries around a live plant in a capsule, connected to the plant via a respirator:
(credit: Stephen Grimm via ...
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What star would cause a planet to have white plants?
Okay, I'm trying to make a planet that has at least part of its surface, or at least part of its underground, habitable for humans (breathable atmosphere at a suitable pressure, a suitable level of ...
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What life could survive in a backrooms-like enviroment [closed]
you know what the backrooms are, you're on the internet.
for those who somehow don't: the backrooms is an internet urban legend that entails a pocket dimension that you can get to via no-clipping ...
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How large would a tree need to be to provide oxygen for 100 people?
The idea is that a population of beings have a superior claim over others for the privilege of oxygenated air in a city/large settlement.
I wanted to make this work that the other residents in the ...
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How would I go about explaining the science of a world where everything is made of fabrics and craft supplies?
I'm working on a little project called Scrapbook Street where everything is made of fabric and or craft supplies, but while working on the world of the project, I've started to wonder how the world ...
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What plants could live on an island in perpetual darkness? [duplicate]
In my book, an island resides in an area called the Scourgesea. The Scourgesea is a place with perpetual storms and almost complete darkness because of the perpetual dark thunderstorms. Altavista is a ...
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How would an extremely thigmotropic plant store enough energy?
Clingy Vine eats animals when they come in contact with it by rapidly growing over them and killing them - a bit like a strangler fig.
The main problem I’m running into is that it would need loads of ...
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Why would a near future society struggle to grow crops on a large level?
I have a world where its mostly in ruins. But its run practically by corporations and smaller factions. A large part of the world is recovering from ecological collapse, massive pollution that travels ...
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How would I modify a coffee plant to grow outside the tropics?
To give context, the setting I'm working on is one where advanced genetic engineering and biotechnology are plentiful.
The premise is this, the coffee industry is dominated in the tropics by a cartel ...
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What challenges must oceanic plant life overcome in order to create a mat on top of the ocean?
The ocean of my very earth-like planet is covered in its entirety by vegetation, forming a kind of carpet on top of the water's surface. This free-floating halophyte is a superorganism formed by ...
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