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Velociculture viability (Los Raptors Hermanos)
Assume we managed to revive the famed velociraptor. The real one, which is the size of a turkey, not the movie version.
How viable would it be to breed them for human consumption?
I've reviewed the ...
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How much food surplus would medieval peasants have? [closed]
So, I am working on a setting. It is medieval fantasy with a focus on realism, and in my pursuits of realism, I am trying to figure out many things. One of them is the rough approximation of how much ...
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How could my fruit cartel become a national problem?
In a dramedy science-fantasy children's videogame I want to create (by children's, I mean for 8 to 15 years old), Salade de Fruits (which means Fruit Salad) (my first language is French), there is a ...
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Empire built and fed on mushrooms
Grass is plenty, bark is plenty, dirt is plenty.
those 3 materials can be converted into a self insulating biodegradable sturdy but flexible material which is 60% pure protein by calories, 100 grams ...
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Garlic as staple food for colonies?
Roleplaying in a survival game, building my own world and now I'm colonizing a new land.
For the sake of realism and immersion I want to find the most effective and efficient staple foods out there. I ...
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The first McDonald's restaurant on Mars
The McDonald's fast food company is the world's largest restaurant chain which prides itself with offering (almost) the same standardized menu all around the globe...
...this globe.
When humanity ...
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How to explain the lack of artificial pollination in space colonies?
My story is set in the future where space travel is cheap and humanity has colonized Mars and some parts of the asteroid belt. Asteroid colonies can grow their own staple food, but crops that require ...
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Spices and Foods to Trade [closed]
Assuming a medieval setting, what kind of spices, foods, seasonings etc. . . are available to trade. Handwave transporting them and assume any and every possible biome to choose from.
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Resources that a new space colony cannot produce on its own [closed]
Setting: Sci-Fi Roleplaying Game
Location: A large colony on the Fronteirs, far from any hub, but the size of modern city.
I am writing a mission where my players are going to a relatively new ...
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For some reason, humans no longer need to eat food, but it still tastes good. What happens to the food industry?
With necessary food gone, I expect most cheap foods just meant for nutrition would disappear. But many people still eat for pleasure. How does this impact the food industry? What (if any) foods or ...
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Could a sedentary civilization prosper without agriculture?
In my world there are this people that live in a great jungle. They are as advanced as the other civilizations of the world (late medieval standards) with a complex society, work specialization, ...
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The empire built on sugar
I have this interesting idea for my world - note: while it is inherently science fiction, I've made a method that allows any kind of civilization, from pre-agricultural to post-singularity.
So, a ...
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Poor People Living On Farm-In-A-Box Tech?
It's 2040. Fusion energy's starting to become widespread and solar's gotten better. AI and robotics (and brain uploading, as with these guys) have reached the point where a robot can do any job a ...
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Which economic class would a cannibalistic world benefit most?
Assume another world nearly identical to our own in technology. The only real difference between our world and this one is that that world is a cannibalistic one. There is no stigma around the ...
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What would a society of humanoid carnivores be like?
Suppose a species of obligate carnivores had convergently evolved human-level intelligence and body plan. How would this affect their agriculture/food production, and would it lower their maximum ...
