Timeline for A sentient carnivorous species trying to preserve life. How could they find a new food source?
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| Oct 1, 2019 at 1:17 | comment | added | SRM | Heinlein wasn’t trying to feed a species, unless I missed something big in the story. :-) It was ritualistic, not sustanic (a word I just invented because I cannot think of the right one). | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 20:36 | comment | added | WGroleau | @SRM, of course you are correct. Still, that didn't stop Heinlein from making money on the idea. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 20:35 | comment | added | WGroleau | Post-Mortem cannibalism? (Stranger in a strange land) | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 16:48 | comment | added | SRM | @wgroleau How does anyone grow up only eating the dead? You have a species limit of the second law of thermodynamics... even if cannibalism supplies some folks, somewhere, there has to be a significant external energy input. | |
| Sep 30, 2019 at 8:41 | history | answered | Klaus Æ. Mogensen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |