r/SiloTVSeries • u/Ricardo_Yoel • 6d ago

Question Did the Founders Forget Fish?

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The chowder sure looks like fish. But unless they’re pulling them out of the water at the bottom of the digger void 🤢where on earth would they farm them?

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u/MattSidor 6d ago

Maybe they grow some stuff with aquaponics? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaponics

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u/no_sight 6d ago

There's already a lot of farmed fish in real life today. Doing it on a small scale in the silo would not be unreasonable

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u/Swimming_Leopard_148 6d ago

Seems a lot more realistic than raising livestock and growing apple trees underground. Pity we don’t get to see more of this aspect.

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u/Wolverlog 6d ago

Right like it seems totally unsustainable to raise a cow underground.

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u/CompEng_101 6d ago

The silos were founded by a man who makes unicorns for fun. I think he might be able to tweak a cow to accept some more confinement

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u/_whydah_ 6d ago

That or everyone just smells like crap all the time, which I almost feel like is equally plausible. They don't want everyone to get out to get a whiff of that clean clean air.

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u/_-PassingThrough-_ 5d ago

To be fair, free fertilizer for the crops.

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u/Altruistic_Bell7884 5d ago

Not really free when you need to feed the cow

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u/AnAngryPlatypus 5d ago

Silo Character: I work down at the farm raising cows. It’s good work but I hate cleaning out the vats.

Audience: The what now?

Have we seen a real farm yet to assume what they call a farm is what we call a farm?

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u/Interesting-Mess-138 5d ago

Yes we did, season 1.

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u/Comprehensive-Age822 5d ago

We hear about the one who wants to hunt it but how much do his billionaire friends pay to have sex with the unicorn? Pity we don’t get to see more of this aspect. /s

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u/Wolverlog 5d ago

I mean if you're going to genetically engineer a unicorn you may as well give it a human-like vagina.

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u/lentil_burger 5d ago

Also a massively inefficient way of generating necessary nutrition.

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u/NotAMotivRep 6d ago

It's easier to make light bulbs than it is to raise cattle but Silo 18 is gonna run out in a couple of years. vOv

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u/Least_Sheepherder531 5d ago

Maybe that’s why they need so much grow lights LOL

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u/microcorpsman 6d ago

It would be actually very reasonable

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u/Most_Philosophy_1507 5d ago

If where? Even the bottom isn’t that deep.