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Q&A How do we get efficient food production in a post-oil (hydrocarbon) society using as little space as possible?

I asked a similar question a small while ago. Unfortunately, the way the problem was defined excluded certain viable solutions. So I want to try again. The society would have to be complex. Perhap...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ama ‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Ama ‭

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Q&A Is it possible to synthesize a nutritional food source entirely from electricity to replace land based agriculture?

Lets say you have a geothermal or nuclear power plant and nearby you have system which converts that energy into nutrient porridge. This nutrient porridge must have everything the human needs to su...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Ama ‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Ama ‭

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Q&A Would agriculture cease to exist after the proliferation of replicators?

In a distant future, humans have colonized every corner of the solar system, and we can easily convert any object into anything else - be it food or a tricorder, you name it. Using these replicator...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by user6760‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by user6760‭

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Q&A 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, ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by rustbird‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by rustbird‭

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Q&A Growing crops on a planet orbiting red dwarf

I trying to describe colonization of an Earth Like planet orbiting a red dwarf in its habitable zone. It is NOT tidally locked with the star Similar to Earth though somewhat larger Magnetic field...

1 answer  ·  posted 7y ago by Soba‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Soba‭

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Q&A Efficiency of Aquaculture in a Neolithic Society

Being inspired by the lovely concept art of Star Trek's Nibiru, I have long thought that the Nibirans would use the tiered pools for aquacultural purposes, and would like to implement tiered aquacu...

3 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by System‭

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Q&A How do merfolk develop agriculture

Let's say that a race of aquatic merfolk have managed to achieve sapience, they are basic hunter gatherers, living in relatively shallow waters of up to 100 meters deep. As I have begun designing t...

4 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Uncle Tres‭

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Q&A What recreational drugs can be produced with limited resources and technology?

Setting: Earth-sized planet, its inhabitants are human settlers and live in towns protected by custom-sized atmospheres. The rest of the planet is barren and always was. The population uses the e...

13 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Babika Babaka‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Babika Babaka‭

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Q&A What made silphium difficult to domesticate?

I am trying my hand at a matriarchal society (human beings, technology similar to Earth's 13th - 16th century), and I find that for that to work they will need reasonably efficient contraceptives (...

2 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by Luís Henrique‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by Luís Henrique‭

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Q&A How to improve manorial living with modern low-tech innovations?

This began life as a much broader question on the site but I'm attempting to parcel it out as smaller topics to make it more digestible: I am trying to find ways, as the title suggests, to combine...

5 answers  ·  posted 7y ago by bsideswiped‭  ·  last activity 7y ago by bsideswiped‭

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Q&A Smallest set of plants to feed a population

What is the smallest set of different crops a (vegan) human population could grow to sustain itself? We'll assume they have an ideal environment, where anything and everything can grow and the tec...

2 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Babika Babaka‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Babika Babaka‭

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Q&A Rabies is now waterborne. How does this affect agriculture?

"One other thing. Never drink the water out here without boiling it." the old scavenger added, waving a hand over the bogs and hills. "You'll get rabies, and I don't like accepting payment from ...

3 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Philip Rowlands‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Philip Rowlands‭

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Q&A Desert City - agriculture and other specifics

I need an advice about creating an independent city (a city state) in the middle of a desert (the stony kind of wasteland). I will scratch what I have in my mind so far and I would be glad to hear ...

4 answers  ·  posted 8y ago by Smajl‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Smajl‭

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Q&A Would keeping dinosaurs as livestock be feasible for a society like ours?

When you mention livestock you think of creatures such as cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and so on. We've been domesticating animals for like 17,000 years or so and have used them for a variety of mea...

5 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Thomas Jacobs‭  ·  last activity 8y ago by Thomas Jacobs‭

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Q&A Cheaper to grow crops in Earth and sending it to space or to grow them in orbit?

I'm interested in knowing if in terms of cost/efficiency/quality would be better to grow crops(food) in Earth and then sending it to space habitats on orbit, or would it be better to grow them in t...

6 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by mcbecker‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by mcbecker‭

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Q&A What would happen in North America if California became drier?

My question is mainly related to the impact on food production if the climate changes made agriculture more difficult in the state of California but also in the other American and Mexican states fr...

2 answers  ·  posted 9y ago by Vincent‭  ·  last activity 9y ago by Vincent‭