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Tagged with food internal-consistency
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How can crops survive in a desert where it's over 110 degrees... in the Winter?
Some folks I write about live in a series of mutually-supporting, mostly self-sustaining agricultural stations/colonies on the edge of a desert, and are attempting to turn said desert greener.
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Agriculture on a 15th century era Tidally locked Planet
What would humanity's most reliable method for food look like on a planet where the sun never sets, great winds raged across the land, and large-scale storms were commonplace?
I'm curious if large-...
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Feasibility of a Cannibalistic Army? [closed]
Among humans cannibalism has been practiced as a funerary ritual within numerous cultures across the world, and also as a way of ritualistically degrading defeated enemies, as was done most notably ...
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Sand Plankton. Is it possible?
In many Sci Fi and Fantasy worlds, the deserts are filled with giant megafauna that swim through dunes of loose sand. The issue with this depiction of course is not just the size of said sand ...
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Delivering the Eternal Sausage
In a future world, well-to-do people have access to piped food that travels straight to their kitchens.
Let us focus on one such food; the eternal sausage.
My first idea was to simply force sausage ...
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How would you run and operate an interstellar, multi-species cantina?
Out on a small planet called Vernar IV located in the Ghan’Shi sector of the Galaxy, there’s a small restaurant and bar called “Tuang’s Taphouse”, which serves food and refreshment to many species, ...
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Can we live off hydrothermal vents?
I'm sketching a story about a rogue Earth (that is, Earth got flung out of the solar system) and how humanity could survive. One of the main problems is food. Hydroponic farms with grow lights are one ...
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Butchering meat from mutant giant rats and lizards?
So, in my world, there was a nuclear apocalypse, which resulted in two new species of animals, radrats (capybara sized brown rats) and geckos (3ft. tall leopard geckos) emerging.
About a generation ...
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Basing a civilization on maize, beans, and squash as staple foods?
In my world, an apocalypse happened, a nuclear war.
Fast forward to the future. In places like Vegas, New Fresno, and Lost Angels (post-apoc LA) I was thinking about agriculture, and after doing a ...
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Best hydroponic crops to support an underground society?
So, in my world, after WW3, a contingent of American government officials, military officials, scientists, and engineers hid out in a specially constructed bunker, where they'd remain for nearly 200 ...
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Would it be possible to build numerous spaceships that could transport 10 million people in the late 2100's?
The crafts would have to contain large farms in order to sustain the immense amount of people, and they'd obviously have to be large and spacious to have good living conditions. I did some research, ...
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Transhumans that replace eating with breathing
We are in a far future setting where humans (or transhumans I should say) achieved two things:
be able to modify themselves genetically to the point where they can have completely different organs to ...
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Is popping corn still viable as seed stock? [closed]
In a very near-future (as in, assume no spectacular technological advances or changes to society) post-apocalyptic situation, would a group of survivors scavenging a store after all of the fresh ...
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is it possible for a kingdom to live off of rice, beans, eggs, potatoes, and chicken, and general food from foraging and hunting?
my question is literally right there. the general amount of people is about 2500 people. 1000 are men, 1000 are women, and 500 are kids. whatever farm area amount is required, I won't mind. as long as ...
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Would a diet of fish and potatoes be able to support a person in this situation?
I have been thinking of a setting that involves a person getting stranded in a temperate forest that has not been previously inhabited. He eventually meets other people but until then he has to ...
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