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What is the minimum complexity of summoned "food" that a person could live long-term on?
This question is inspired by an another question which asked how long a mage could survive on pure water, NaCl salt, and sucrose, which they could summon.
In taking this a step farther, what is the ...
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What do Titanians drink instead of alcohol?
It is the year 274 After Singularity (2384 AD) Humans have settled on Saturn’s moon Titan and are adapting humans to the methane-rich environment through pantropy. The results are the Titanians: ...
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What could substitute coffee in a modern post-apocalyptic society?
Context is the same as in a previous question.
Summing up: a rebuilt, ultra-modern city state after an apocalypse where everything's produced in underground farms, and as such, certain commodities are ...
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Food Production ...IN SPACE!
One of the basic requirements for life is food. One of the basic requirements of engineering is that we lift off with as little mass as possible. If we choose to explore the solar system we would ...
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Can a species eat ice? [duplicate]
At age 9, I drew an alien which I described as "eating ice". Occasionally I've wondered if that's possible. Carbon-based Earth life only uses water as a solvent and consumes carbon compounds for ...
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Is it possible for a creature to exist that uses lye instead of acid to digest food?
As far as I could gather the digestion relies on enzymes which in turn set requirements for pH.
Is it possible for an alien creature to have a different set of enzymes that require basic environment ...
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How to produce milk that's similar to blood?
How could a mammal produce milk which resembles blood?
The blood milk should keep as many properties of milk as possible, curding for example, while resembling blood as much as possible. The mammal ...
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Chemoautotrophs and human edible food? [closed]
Autotrophs are lifeforms that consume simpler molecules than the large protein, carbohydrate and lipid molecules that heterotrophs like humans ingest, these large molecules are made by autotrophs and ...
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Can a large animal get nutrition from minerals?
Lithotrophy is a phenomenon known from microscopic life, where an organism converts inorganic substances, usually minerals, into energy.
So, we know that a single-celled life form can do this, but ...
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How can I make medieval folks addicted to food?
Let’s say I have a time machine and I travel back to medieval Europe. I befriend a girl and she needs my help to save the business of her mother: a restaurant, inn, tavern, etc.
I travel back to the ...
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Is it possible to synthesize a nutritional food source entirely from electricity to replace land based agriculture?
Lets say you have a geothermal or nuclear power plant and nearby you have system which converts that energy into nutrient porridge. This nutrient porridge must have everything the human needs to ...
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How do the people of Hjårdan 'farm' the Booze-Rat?
Why certainly! We have all sorts of exotic drink. Can I excite you for a pint of Tarnesian Starköl - bitter, tart, nutty brew this stuff; or rather have shot of H'elvanian Whisky(?) - 7 years old(!), ...
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