Timeline for An island world where potatoes are the only land vegetation - can it support human life?
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| Aug 20, 2020 at 14:57 | comment | added | Nosajimiki | Being a volcanic island, thier stone may be too porous to make boats out of, but once they have kilns, they could glaze a lava stone boat or even make the whole thing out of ceramics. | |
| Aug 19, 2020 at 6:44 | comment | added | Steve Bennett | That link describes the Inuit diet as "marine life, such as shellfish, whales, seals and arctic char; birds and land animals, such as ducks, ptarmigan, bird eggs, bears, muskox and caribou; and plant life, including roots and berries" - hardly "seafood and kelp". | |
| Aug 19, 2020 at 0:02 | history | edited | Galactic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2020 at 19:35 | comment | added | Sophie Swett | Would they really be able to make bioplastics? How would they transform potato starch into a plastic? | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 16:01 | comment | added | jamesqf | Also, that steam engine has a nice wood fire burning underneath it. But these islanders don't have wood. (And the leaves & stems of potatos are mostly water, and dry up to almost nothing.) | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 14:29 | comment | added | SurpriseDog | The steam engine you picture was never used for more than a toy in the ancient world. The first practical steam engine didn't come about until 1712 | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 9:26 | comment | added | Criticizing Israel not allowed | now someone needs to ask a question about magnetic potatoes | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 8:12 | comment | added | Patrick Artner | Silicon to make computers can be made out of sand - while silicon is used in computers, so are all the other cool things needed to make the machines that make transistors to make machines to make silicon wavers - lots of metal for machines, copper, gold for electricity - You need permanent magnets for electricity - that can not be made from potatoes. you could maybe get the gold from the sea-water but ... nope. | |
| Aug 18, 2020 at 6:15 | history | edited | Galactic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 18, 2020 at 4:51 | comment | added | John | what makes you think an island too small to have plants will have clay? clay requires long transport of material. also you cannot make a steam engine out of stone, you can't even make a working Aeolipile out of igneous rock much less something that can produce work. stone is pathetic under tensile strength and steam produces a lot of pressure. | |
| Aug 17, 2020 at 23:10 | history | edited | Galactic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2020 at 23:02 | comment | added | The Square-Cube Law | The inuit were the first people that came to my mind while reading the question too, +1. | |
| Aug 17, 2020 at 22:52 | history | answered | Galactic | CC BY-SA 4.0 |