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Oh HELL no there's not enough. The nervous system does use some electrical channels, the stimulus is converted into signals that pass along specific neurons to the brain and vice versa. BUT, this is in the millivolt range, and the amperage is even less. The electrical potential of the human...

The O'Niell cylinder concept is good, but for 40k it has the problem of all the metal that would be used is being put into war materiel production. Something like the Quarian liveships might work. The tricky part ironically for doing ship or station borne production is an ironic inversion of the...

The addition of cyberware, prosthetics, or implants might mitigate that somewhat. Yes you'd need either a bio-reactor or some kind of electrical socket to power them, but at the same time they would be able to give complete control over some of those aspects, such as releasing small amounts of...

Transporting those containers back down to the planet would be the biggest issue there, unless you were to make them go down via space elevator. You could always do a hybrid system, where containers are much like the ones you see here on Earth, and you bring them in a pressurized internal bay...

Who was assuming that they wouldn't have cattle? The nitrate fixation doesn't occur from them in the first place, it's usually some type of cyanobacteria or some other nitrogen fixer, like the ones that are mutualists with most beans. There's a reason we adopted the four crop rotation. It's...

Ah, the Firefly ration bars. "One of those will feed a family for a month. Longer, if'n they don't like their kids too much." This does bring up another vital question. Obviously such farms would be absolutely massive. Even with automation, there's a lot of landmass that has to be cared for by...

Both yes and no. It's high in certain substances that need a substantial time to break down and rot properly before they become decent fertilizer, and it could lead to certain diseases like Cholera if in water supplies or on harvested food. Here's a couple of articles on both night soil, and on...

Put a small hole in the top of the rotunda and the hot air will pull the moisture out with it. It was a fairly common technique in certain Roman temples to keep them cool and dry.

Caves of Steel went with the "Xymoveal" option, producing masses of yeast that would be engineered to taste somewhat like certain things, and processed to be somewhat nutritious, with a little bit of wood pulp feedstock among other things. "Fresh Strawberries" in a syrup that were actually yeast...

Of course it doesn't make sense. Only boomers use FTL!Zoom, it's all about Spacecord now. The biggest issue with an Ecumenopolis is its military value. Namely it's nothing but a massive liability. You have to hold entire fleets and armies dedicated to that single world, because it has such a...

An Ecumenopolis would be best built on a planet towards the edges of a system then, makes sense. Why it would be established there in the first place is beyond me, but honestly they don't make much sense to me in the first place. A Forge World makes sense, an Ecumenopolis doesn't really do...

The Quaker Oats rogue trader empire is an unsung hero of the IoM, netting trillions of throne gelts for their rolled oats sold to the most distinguished palates of the Imperium's governance.

One of the more common themes of Sci-Fi stories of all stripes is the addition of worlds dedicated to the production and processing of foodstuffs both for military use and export. Whether they arise naturally through commerce, or through some form of governmental decree, these worlds provide...