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Humanity is gone. What's the timeline of vermin infestation in an abandoned wholesale supermarket club?
Due to an accident during a transdimensional handwavium experiment, every sentient being on Earth was whisked away into another dimension. Humans are gone in a fiat.
Somewhere, during temperate summer,...
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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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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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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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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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How to stop cannibalism because of a world's lack of resources? [closed]
Create this mental picture in your head:
A World named Gazon that used to be full of life until the Sentient Gazons you created used up all the available resources and started eating each other. Only ...
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How long can an adult survive on pure carbs?
In reference to the classic Indestructible Edible Trope, how long can an adult subsist on largely junk food? I realize that "largely" is vague, so feel free to clarify as desired to give a helpful ...
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Anatomically Correct Zombie
As requested by JBH, I edited this question to fit the Anatomically Correct Series.
The classic zombie is no mystery to anyone: undead, eats people and multiplies by biting humans. Could they ever ...
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Could humanity survive on a single food source?
Let's imagine that every food source except one suddenly becomes extremely toxic for humans and no matter what we try to do with them, they stay toxic.
I'd like to know if there's some food source ...
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Post-apocalypse currency
It is a post apocalyptic world, all government systems have broken down, approx 95% of the worlds population is gone and the few survivors left are beginning to trade with each other. I need a ...
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Farming after the apocalypse: chickens or giant cockroaches?
So let's say you live in a terrifying post-apocalyptic world. For whatever reason, this world is now infested with cockroaches the size of chickens (similar to radroaches from the Fallout games, but ...
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Stranded in a supermarket. What items will never be useful? [closed]
Let's say you are stranded in an average CVS Pharmacy or Wallgreens in a post-apocalyptic world. While this building has been untouched, there is nothing else around you for hundreds of miles and you ...
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What would be the development of the most valuable, irreplaceable food trade goods in a post-apocalyptic world?
So imagine any typical post-apocalyptic world, recently cast into their misfortune. A very large percentage of humanity has been killed, leaving a very large stock of property to be looted. I suspect ...
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