Answer by Simon Crase for Could Megaflora Sustain Permanent Settlements?
It's a long time since I read The Future Eaters, but, as I recall, people learn about the environment by screwing up: more importantly, they realize they screwed up, and put measures in place to stop...
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Answer by The Square-Cube Law for Could Megaflora Sustain Permanent Settlements?
In a certain way, we've done this with some plants in the real world.Go into Google and look for images of "Alaska Pumpkin". Those can grow to weight up to a ton, sometimes more. And I believe they are...
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Your biggest problem is not nutritional value. It's that with big food items you need to eat them over time and it's hard to keep them edible.I have a very large species of breadfruit, and my locale...
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Normal flora was already, in many historical cases, sustaining whole communities: potatoes and cereals are the most notable examples.It's not far fetched to imagine that, instead of growing hundreds of...
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There are numerous science fiction instances where a megaflora provides an entire ecology for a society. Kevin Anderson's Saga of the Seven Suns has the Therons. The Integral Trees is an archetypical...
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So, a setting I'm brainstorming is basically a tribal world, with Hunter-gatherers, animism, and the like.One of the features I want to add, to make it stand out from our own world is the existence of...
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Yes... and NoIf you can't eat it fast enough, the plant rots — and rotting plants bring stink and insect infestations.Some plants can be dried for long-term storage, some can't.The practical difference...
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At the most basic level, whether the megaflora can sustain the tribe depends entirely on whether the energy it converts into fruit, roots or otherwise edible parts is enough to sustain the tribe.The...
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