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How to feed a vampire blood spontaneously
Suppose a common situation with a vampire occurs. They're short of blood, you want to save them, you need to deliver a moderate amount of blood to them to revive them but you don't want to be ...
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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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How long could a person survive on nothing but water, salt, and sugar?
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One of my worlds has a magic system that allows people to produce any element, as well as a small number of molecules. When something is produced using magic, it spawns into existence in ...
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Could a newborn baby survive on a paleo diet?
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One of my stories features the classic isekai trope of a person being reincarnated into a baby's body while still retaining their full cognitive abilities. The world they are ...
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Is human meat sustainable as a food? What else could add to a full diet?
In this story, set sometime in the future, most farm animals have gone extinct due to diseases. I remember reading somewhere that the average human has around 100 thousand calories, meaning that one ...
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Does a cyborg have the need for a toilet?
Most of the guts and stomach are removed. The torso is cut short below the ribs.
Instead of legs there are vehicular links which the cyborg can put on and take off like a prosthesis. There are ...
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How could the Soylent Corporation remain in business after their horrible secret has been revealed?
I'm the CEO of the Soylent Corporation, and we have a problem. Some cop just revealed our secret: Our premiere food product Soylent Green:
is made out of people!
(sigh) We're going to lose ...
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Feasible and rational way to give food and water to a prisoner?
There is a lord who is being kept prisoner in a castle tower by a griffin who has taken over his home, but requires the lord be kept alive for political value. Naturally this requires the griffin ...
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can human sized humans feasibly live on an immortal dead human the size of Earth?
it sounds like it's an impossible thing, but what i mean is that the immortal is dead, but its body isn't decomposing. it has about the same atmosphere as earth as well. it could be curled up into a ...
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How to check what is edible on an alien world? [duplicate]
You've landed on another planet. There are some forms of plants and animals on this world but how do you know what is safe to eat?
Obviously we went through this on earth, finding the right berries ...
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At what temperature should the earth be cooked to prevent human infection?
Humans are the equivalent of bacteria to planet-eating monsters. And since, as we all know, eating humans is dangerous business, these monsters have decided to cook our great planet Earth before ...
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What is the maximum size of a tribe living off of one whale per year?
A small village of ice miners has popped up in the Northern Territory. They are a mix of southern workers who integrated with the native tribes. The group subsists on the meat of a single humpback ...
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How long could humans survive only on other humans?
A tragic event strikes the Earth, killing all living plants and animals except humans. With no other food source, humans turn to cannibalism. Assuming fresh water and oxygen is still available, how ...
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The Stone-age Limbo People - How do they hunt wild boar?
The Limbo People (who are hominids with intelligence somewhere between chimpanzees and humans) have long survived by hunting wild boar. They use spears with wooden hafts and flint tips. They are a ...
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Feeding a population on sugar
Population: 50000 humans
Average age: 46 years
Forced caloric intake: 2400-2900 kilocalories for males and 1600-2000 kilocalories for females of which 80% coming from carbohydrates 5% from fat and ...
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