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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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Why do my Androids need to eat and drink? [closed]
What would be a good reason for androids to have a need to eat and drink (not necessarily human food)?
The human body requires food and water in order to refuel and sustain itself, but in the case of ...
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How would a person with food allergies cope in the Middle Ages?
In a story I'm working on, a character suddenly finds himself transported back to the late Middle Ages. This is completely unexpected, so he doesn't have time to prepare.
It occurred to me that a lot ...
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What can we eat in the late Cretaceous?
Suppose there is a team of explorers sent back in time 66 million years ago somewhere before the K-T event took place, the mission is to spend no more than 3 months to retrieve a blood sample from a ...
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Using bodies for materials 1: food
My question is different than this question: How can I feed an entire population on corpses?. My question asks for creature bodies to be used as food sources and material rather than human bodies, ...
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Cannibal City: Part 1 - Eating your enemies
The Great City has impregnable walls. No-one has ever overwhelmed them and likely no-one ever will. The only way to defeat the inhabitants of this mighty city is to besiege them and simply starve ...
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How does a flying hydra work?
A hydra is a multi-headed beast usually depicted as a serpent in many mythologies. I suppose each head should have an independent brain and thus would each have a different wake/sleep cycle not unlike ...
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Portable replicator; the answer to some big problems?
So I was thinking about this TNG episode where Wesley and Picard are stuck on a desert planet with some other guy. They have no water, and no food. Then I got this idea: portable food and water ...
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Self cannibalism - Why no fat?
I'm creating a species of beings that are able to eat part of themselves when they are starving.
In a sense, Earth animals do this already by putting on fat. When there is a shortage of food, they can ...
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What are the easiest/most suitable fruits and vegetables to grow in an apocalyptic scenario?
My story is set in a sort of apocalyptic world, the main characters live in an old house and they’re too afraid to go out as there’re creatures hunting them. They obviously still need to eat so my ...
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How much space would a city need within a ringwall to survive for an indefinite period of time?
I'm writing a D&D campaign and the premise is that a big bad thing happened and sent waves of energy pulsing over the landscape. A High Mage type character throws up an enormous wall, surmounted ...
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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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What plants would lizardfolk cultivate in this hostile world
Lizardfolk are sentient and sapient humanoid reptilian creatures with heights between 190cm and 180 cm. Lizardfolk are partially mesothermic, with most of the waste heat, their muscles generate, being ...
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