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What species would make good flying livestock?
Domesticated magpies will carefully watch over these flying livestock like smarter, louder, sheepdogs, driving away would be predators (along with the help of a much smaller number of domesticated ...
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Can Seals Eat Sushi?
In a story I'm writing at one point a kid's sitting on the docks and feeding the Seals sushi, and I'm wandering if that's actually possible, and what kinds of sushi they can actually eat or if it ...
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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?
Magic System
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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No-bacteria diet
Suppose there's some strange group that decided to try not consuming any bacteria (which are, basically, everywhere. and very small). On earth, today.
What would completely forbidding the consumption ...
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How could a person make a concoction smooth enough to drink and inject without access to a blender? Is it possible?
I have this story where this dude turns himself into a mutant by saturating himself(drinking, cooking with, bathing in, inhaling, and injecting it) in this stuff he made with energy drinks, protein ...
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Is it possible for a civilization that has fusion and has spread to other lifeless worlds to die out naturally if they lose their homeworld?
Key word in the title is naturally. Ignore nearby GRBs, supernovas, black holes, super powerful aliens, and anything outside of the star system that would cause problems to the civilization. Whatever ...
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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/drink would it take to properly feed 6 inch vs 72 feet people if the amount they need to eat stayed proportional to normal sized humans?
So say that a 5'6/6 feet person is shrunk down to action figure size(around 6 inches tall/12x smaller) or comes from a human/humanoid species that is naturally that size, how much food and drink would ...
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How can a species be fine with digesting poisons and toxins?
I have an alien species of roughly earthlike anatomy and biochemistry (so they can consume earth food, and humans would be able to digest their foods as well)
These species have a trait that allows ...
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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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What would the main ingredient of a cheap food for the masses be?
We have to feed the masses and we have to do it cheaply.
Enters the goo
Our scientist are still debating what the main ingredient(s) of this thick paste should be.
Can you help them?
The target ...
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Cooking in a hyperbaric kitchen?
Let's say you're in Atlantis,
which happens to be 1 km below sea level
It's also at equilibrium with the sea. You have been born there and are fully acclimated to the pressure, in air which is made ...
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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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How big of a reactor a colony of a million should have for self sustaining, closed loop existance, assuming current level of technologies [duplicate]
Suppose there is no sun, how much total energy is required to grow food, recycle air, water, and waste for a single person. I want to know how large of a reactor would be needed to keep alive a ...
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