Questions tagged [food]
For questions about sources and types of nutrition for a living organism.
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Conditions required for a society to develop aquaculture?
While researching Kwak'wala, because I think the languages of the Pacific Northwest have this amazing aesthetic I want to mimic in some languages in my world, I came across the fact that the Kwakwak'...
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What is the Nutritional Value of Earth?
This is Timmy. It’s a massive planetary eating monstrosity (don��t ask about Timmy), who likes to target inhabited planets. On this occasion, Timmy has chosen to feed on earth. What would the ...
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What are the best food crops for sapient rats?
In the near-future, a hitherto-undiscovered island becomes a training and research facility for an unnamed nation’s military. One field of research taking place on this island is in the development of ...
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How effective would this spider's technique be in getting it food/shelter(for its young)/transportation/protection?
So I have this idea for this unique species of jumping spider.
Basically it is around a foot long/medium sized hat size and has pretty big fangs for its size. It jumps on to people's heads and uses ...
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What foods might yeast-based agriculture produce?
George Monbiot and others have been advocating for something called 'precision fermentation', where instead of growing macro fauna and flora, we cultivate micro things like yeast to grow food.
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What could humans forage 75 million years ago in Laramidia (Western North America) and could the stuff I've found actually be plausible?
So first things first, I'm trying to put together a grounded cretaceous Western setting for a personal world building project. I'm aware of just how... Limited humans would be when it comes to diet ...
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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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Would the flesh of a giant slug, which grows to the size of an adult micro pig, be able to be cut and prepared as a steak?
So basically I'm mapping out the kinds of foods a people would prepare whose main source of protein comes from giant slugs and the ranches that raise them and am going through the motions of how slug ...
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Justifying why a nanoassembler can only produce inorganic things
So, in the 24th century, advanced nanofactories are developed capable of producing any conceivable product; clothing, electronics, even nanotech, provided it is of inorganic nature. However, it is ...
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Would a carnivore that can only see in infrared be an effective predator?
I'm trying to design new animals. One animal I came up with is a type of nocturnal & carnivorous predator that is shaped like a very large wolf. This predator sees in infrared light instead of ...
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How would a medieval society look if food was not a factor to consider? [closed]
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To give a short context of the question, my world is called Atmos, and it's a world where continents float above a layer of clouds. They aren't just floating islands, there are landmasses ...
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What do Titanians drink instead of alcohol?
It is the year 274 After Singularity (2384 AD) Humans have settled on Saturn’s moon Titan and are adapting humans to the methane-rich environment through pantropy. The results are the Titanians: ...
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Could flower heads be a sustainable primary food source for a species of omnivorous lizards?
While they 'technically' aren't lizards, these are very physiologically similar creatures that are pretty small (about the size of a hand) and lead very sedentary lives, mating opportunistically and ...
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Why would a near future society struggle to grow crops on a large level?
I have a world where its mostly in ruins. But its run practically by corporations and smaller factions. A large part of the world is recovering from ecological collapse, massive pollution that travels ...
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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)
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