Timeline for Is Game of Thrones realistic: food supplies during extended winters in medieval England
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| Jul 31, 2017 at 19:19 | comment | added | Perkins | The problem isn't going to be producing the amount of food required so much as preserving it. Before the advent of pasteurization, canning, and refrigeration creating preserved food that would last for more than a year and storing it securely enough to keep the mice and bugs out of it was a tricky proposition. Even dry cereal grains are subject to insect infestation (such as mealworms) and fungus (which is why grain silos are regularly fumigated when long-term storage is required.) | |
| Oct 30, 2016 at 17:45 | comment | added | ohwilleke | Keep in mind that in Game of Thrones, the premise of the long winters is that they are characterized by hardship, economic collapse, societal breakdown to some extent, and declining populations - which is what happened in England during its long winters due to volcanic eruptions. So, while you need a way to humanity to survive, it need not be so effective that humanity survives unscathed. | |
| Aug 2, 2016 at 18:31 | history | notice added | Shog9 | Hard Science | |
| Jul 18, 2016 at 23:32 | history | edited | Brythan | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 12:19 | comment | added | BabiBaba | Related : Question asked on Sci-Fi SE. | |
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| Jul 18, 2016 at 8:51 | answer | added | Megha | timeline score: 15 | |
| Jul 17, 2016 at 22:10 | history | edited | user171 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 17, 2016 at 21:49 | answer | added | Scott Whitlock | timeline score: 1 | |
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