Questions tagged [food]
For questions about sources and types of nutrition for a living organism.
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How many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland?
Questions about how to feed a large population keep popping up on this website quite frequently. One obvious option is farming. But how many people can you feed per square-kilometer of farmland?
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Would humans be able to derive nutrition from foodstuffs found on alien planets?
Suppose humans have developed the technology to travel between star systems. This might be some science-fiction method like warp drive, jump drive, peanut butter drive, hyperspace drive or whatever, ...
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What efficiencies make a realistic food chain?
I'm trying to design a food chain. For the sake of argument lets say it's based on flying creatures over a particular mountain range.
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How often must carnivorous grassland eat?
Don't go into the bonegrass. Seriously, unless you want to be dead. You go in there, brush the grass with your clothes, start to feel sleepy...
Before too long your limbs will go numb, then you're on ...
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The earth is flung into deep space
I've been reading the book Nomad, and in it
That's got me thinking, is there any chance of survival beyond a few days/weeks when the atmosphere freezes? (Would it freeze?)
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How could a species survive on just luring in and eating humans?
In a question about mermaids, it was proposed that they might have evolved to look like humans to lure them in and prey on them.
How could a creature survive on a diet of nothing but lured-in humans?
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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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How can Dwarves produce honey underground?
I have often heard/read/watched in fantasy about dwarves drinking mead and lots of it. I recently learned that mead is made from honey which requires bees and flowers which require sunlight. I doubt ...
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Dietary Requirements of Giant Spiders
Giant Spiders are a traditional element of fantasy worlds. They prey upon most human's primal fears, and are easy to make as evil as possible.
(Note: Not to scale)
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What is the approximate caloric intake of a dragon?
Dragons. We know them. We love them. They breathe fire and wreck our towns and plunder our gold. But all that destruction has to get fueled somehow. So naturally, I would assume dragons have to eat (...
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How large would a space ship need to be to feed 10,000 people?
I want to put 10,000 humans in a space ship and send them into space. They don't have a set destination - they're having to flee their homeworld, and they don't know what planet will take them in, so ...
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What would be the major body changes if we were obligate carnivores?
As you see my other question What would be the major changes to our body if we were herbivores?. Instead of being herbivores, what would happen if we were obligate carnivores?
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Best Foods/Plants to Grow in Generational Spaceship?
Hopefully this isn't a duplicate; I wasn't able to find another question which addressed this, at any rate.
Let's say I have a generational spaceship going off to another solar system to establish a ...
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Cannibalism - does eating other sentient creatures make you a cannibal?
So I am now writing my novel regarding a man sent on a long term mission in a backward world by his employer. In the middle of war he ran out of provisions behind enemy lines with no edible flora or ...
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Can anything survive by eating rocks and other ground minerals?
Are there bacteria or other types of lifeforms that feed on rocks and other ground minerals? And if there aren't, is it technically possible? It can eat other things but the majority of its diet ...
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