Timeline for How to check what is edible on an alien world? [duplicate]
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Duplicate of I'm stranded on an alien planet. How can I tell what's good to eat?, How to tell what can I use in space bistro? [duplicate] | |
| Jul 29, 2019 at 13:01 | history | edited | Lio Elbammalf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 29, 2019 at 11:52 | comment | added | VLAZ | The short story "Untouched by Human Hands" by Robert Sheckley" basically deals with that. Two humans out of provisions land on an abandoned alien planet and try to work out what would be edible and what wouldn't before they starve to death. Pretty fun read and it can be found free online. | |
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| Jul 29, 2019 at 5:58 | answer | added | flox | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 29, 2019 at 4:53 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | This is what Red Shirts are for. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 23:57 | comment | added | John | @FooBar that's not true the chances of finding something digestible is quite high, as high as 50%, the chance of finding the complete nutritional profile humans need is basically zero. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 23:38 | comment | added | Foo Bar | What assumptions are you making about the history of life? Did your universe have an ancient seeding event (whether volitional or natural) that spread self-replicating nucleic acid sequences to both Earth and the target planet? If not, then the odds of finding anything digestible are effectively ZERO. If so, then the odds are very slightly higher. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 20:35 | answer | added | Anixx | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 19:58 | answer | added | Charlweed | timeline score: 9 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 19:13 | comment | added | Lio Elbammalf | @john sure, they've got a ship which can produce food, they can subsist off that until they've found alternatives. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 19:04 | answer | added | Mark | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 18:50 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 18:29 | comment | added | John | What kind of time frame are they working with, can they wait months to know if something is edible. | |
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| Jul 28, 2019 at 18:22 | answer | added | vasin1987 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 16:26 | answer | added | M. A. Golding | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 16:15 | history | edited | Cyn |
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| Jul 28, 2019 at 11:30 | comment | added | Lio Elbammalf | @aCVn Definitely is related - I hadn't thought about chirality, that something could appear identical but provide no nutritional value. Filling you up but starving you all the same could be a form of poison. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 11:29 | history | edited | Lio Elbammalf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 28, 2019 at 11:15 | answer | added | DrMcCleod | timeline score: 27 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 10:58 | comment | added | user | Definitely related: Would humans be able to derive nutrition from foodstuffs found on alien planets? Full disclosure: My own question. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 10:52 | answer | added | Escaped dental patient. | timeline score: 43 | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 10:07 | comment | added | L.Dutch♦ | I think you should better define their capabilities and knowledge, especially from the analytical chemistry point of view. | |
| Jul 28, 2019 at 10:00 | history | asked | Lio Elbammalf | CC BY-SA 4.0 |