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( , Wed 17 Feb 2010, 22:18, archived)

Or would they last longer? Like a D battery vs a AA
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Wed 17 Feb 2010, 22:20,
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A mate of mine once ruined the plot to all those movies when he wondered why the robots simply didn't use cows
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Wed 17 Feb 2010, 22:20,
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that humans would be completely useless as a power source
as we need more energy to live than we produce
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Wed 17 Feb 2010, 22:22,
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as we need more energy to live than we produce

The laws of thermodynamics don't seem to apply in the "real world"
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Wed 17 Feb 2010, 22:23,
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As storage and convertion of energy into useable heat I'm sure we could be quite useful.
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Wed 17 Feb 2010, 22:26,
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Two problems with that:
1. That's not gonna work indefinitely.
2. Wouldn't you get some mad-cow-disease-type thing going on?
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Wed 17 Feb 2010, 23:25,
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1. That's not gonna work indefinitely.
2. Wouldn't you get some mad-cow-disease-type thing going on?

if you are going to take the people route, why not just set the matrix to about 1530 or something? allowing your computer controlled slave race to learn about computing seems like a bit of an error.
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Thu 18 Feb 2010, 11:28,
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Although it is a good call.
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Wed 17 Feb 2010, 22:21,
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