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If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. (feddit.org)
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[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

People are essentially internal combustion engines that burn food. Trying to capture that energy in ways that increases the load on us just causes us to need more calories. That's counter productive as you could just burn said food itself to get energy, and agriculture is an energy and environmentally intensive industry to begin with.

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On the other hand, clothes that would help me lose weight and charge my phone at the same time sound pretty cool. Just need to install Pokemon Go and I'll be fit in no time.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, you'll just eat more to compensate lol

[–] MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

so I get to enjoy more pizza?

[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The original idea was the machines using humans as a connected neural network. I don't think it would change much about the plot of the movies if they're used for energy or brain power, so it's easy to change it for your own head canon at least 🙂

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

As the other person already said, not totally relevant to the discussion at hand, but I do find that bit of trivia fascinating. The processing power version makes so much more sense logically, but it was put to the wayside by production executives because they thought the average movie-goer wouldn't get it, since computing was still somewhat niche at the time.

[–] NotANumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

We aren't actually talking about the matrix here