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Could alien species with blood based on different elements eat the same food?
In my Science Fantasy galaxy, I have several humanoid alien species with blood based on different elements, including iron (essentially human blood), copper (like Vulcans from Star Trek with green ...
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Insectoids and the concept of 'eating well' [closed]
In this project of mine a species of sapient, spacefaring insectoids exists among humans and humanoid species. The insectoids are puzzled by something in humanoid cultures- specifically the idea of ...
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How can a species be fine with digesting poisons and toxins?
I have an alien species of roughly earthlike anatomy and biochemistry (so they can consume earth food, and humans would be able to digest their foods as well)
These species have a trait that allows ...
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What kind of daily combat or exercises should see regular soldiers burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day?
Basically I'm trying to create a combat situation and training where recruits and people on the front line are expected to burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day. Now despite how messed up the war is ...
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What kinds of diet/intake changes would be possible for a race with extensive DNA modification abilities?
I'm building some alien cultures for my fictional universe. One race has advanced technology and culture enough to have accepted, regularly occurring, DNA modification available (EDIT: regularly ...
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Rock/Mineral Ore Eating Organism
How would an alien organism survive on a diet of rocks and mineral ores, and what kind of materials would be the most sufficient? Also, what kind of teeth and evolutionary traits would they possess in ...
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A sentient carnivorous species trying to preserve life. How could they find a new food source?
This is a bit of a strange one but I have an idea for a purely carnivorous species (land or water based, not determined yet) that gains awareness and even fondness of the animals they hunt. Not in the ...
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What would our food taste like to a far-out alien civilization? [closed]
In my world, aliens who have been able to create wormhole tech and visit earth to immerse themselves in the culture here. they split into groups and visit the largest cities (NY, London, Paris, ...
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What kind of food would be common on a tropical rainforest/ocean planet? [closed]
I have an alien planet with the entire world landmass arranged in two giant rings roughly 10 degrees north and south of the equator. Everything above sea level is beach or tropical rainforest. The ...
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How to minimize risk of infection from raw meat?
Members of an intelligent alien species who have a generally current day Earth level of technology, essentially only eat raw meat freshly extracted from recently killed lifestock (and by "recently" I ...
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How to secretly harvest/farm human beings as a primary food supply?
A group of individuals from a technologically advanced alien race have been found to be intellectual dissidents by their peers and exiled to Earth as a consequence.
Earth was selected as the location ...
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Efficiency of Aquaculture in a Neolithic Society
Being inspired by the lovely concept art of Star Trek's Nibiru, I have long thought that the Nibirans would use the tiered pools for aquacultural purposes, and would like to implement tiered ...
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Pros and Cons of Alternative Food Chain Bases
The vast, vast majority of food chains of earth use photosynthesis as a base for the food chain. But theoretically we as a community have talked about other ideas such as; Radiosynthesis (based on ...
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What type of food might an organism that lives its entire life in interstellar space eat?
I was thinking of an organism that lives its entire life in interstellar space
It eats, defecates, moves, grows, ejects eggs, attracts mates, and has sex in interstellar space.
It has skin that ...
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Is it a reasonable idea that malnutrition can cause insect or other similar types of aliens to lose limbs?
In the creature type I asked about in my last question, there are some lower caste members who seem to have metal limbs. However I don't think they would waste resources to build the legs for lower-...
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