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In lugnet.space, David Laswell wrote:
> In lugnet.space, Michael Bosch wrote:
> > If I might interject and flog this dead beast some more, if there was fusion
> > energy available, why the need for humans? If the robots had fusion
> > technology, the only point in keeping people around would be as reactor
> > fodder, NOT as a source of power themselves.
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> If you think that's a problem, consider this. How much energy do they need
> to produce to _feed_ all of those people? How much energy are those people
> capable of producing? Where do they get all the extra energy required to keep
> up with food production for their power-hungry "batteries"? Humans cannot
> produce more energy than their intake, so they would actually cause a _loss_ of
> power when used as batteries. Of course,t hat would pretty much blow the entire
> purpose of doing the movie...
My impression from the first movie is that after a human is no longer useful for
energy production, they are pureed and fed to other humans thru IVs. You still
have a net loss of chemical energy each generation though, since some carbon,
water, etc is lost due to breathing.
If the machines really do exist (i.e. there aren't multiple levels of the
Matrix), I'm surprised they haven't copied the humans and tapped geothermal
energy as a power source. While not limitless, it's darn close.
Using humans as "batteries" just seems so inefficient. To me, there must be an
ulterior motive to enslaving humans as such.
"Revelations" better come around full circle and answer these questions (the
title suggests so).
Time to plug back into the real world.
John
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| John Riley's utterance expressed in news:HJ9AIv.22zx@lugnet.com: (...) This has been discussed a lot in the local danish movie-group on usenet and the general conclusion is that the machines enslave the humans partky for energy, but mostly for (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) If you think that's a problem, consider this. How much energy do they need to produce to _feed_ all of those people? How much energy are those people capable of producing? Where do they get all the extra energy required to keep up with food (...) (21 years ago, 7-Aug-03, to lugnet.space, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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