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  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    5 months ago

    when you level up to vegan 100, you can start to get calories via photosynthesis

    im only a lvl 55 vegan and thus i just eat rocks and minerals trans-sad

    • egg1918 [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      I wonder how much surface area of skin a person would need to sustain themselves through photosynthesis (assuming the skin can photosynthesize).

      • HotAtForty [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        Some very rough back of the envelope calculations with major engineering math (eg consider the human to be a cylinder and efficiency is 100%, even overnight and ignoring the fact half of you is not facing the sun at all)

        https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/posts/38400/revisions

        12x human surface area is a very generous lower bound

        • egg1918 [she/her]
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          5 months ago

          Lmao fantastic, this is exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

          I'm trying to picture what that abomination would look like. We'd need like giant leaf wings basically.