--- Chad Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: William T Goodall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Saturday, June 07, 2003 6:57 PM
> >To: Killer Bs Discussion
> >Subject: Re: Picking apart the Matrix - spoilers
> >
> >
> >
> >On Sunday, June 8, 2003, at 01:09 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> In a message dated 6/7/2003 2:36:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >>
> >>> In addition, how does this all work? where does the energy to power
> >>> the
> >>> humans come from? We get out energy from food, which
> >inevitably get's
> >>> it's
> >>> energy from Sol. So in the story, where does the energy for
> >>> the food come
> >>> from?
>
> A body needs few things to create energy - Water, Oxygen,
> Carbon, and Hydrogen - most of which can be extracted from water and the
> ground.
2 points
1) With the energy needed to extract these, is it still workable? Is the
energy needed for mining small enough for the system to be sustainable?
2) The human body will generate energy from the above mentioned chemicals.
However, living cells are not sustainable. They wear out, and must be
replaced. Replacing cells requires proteins amino acids, and other chemicals.
Without certain vitamins the human body will shut down. The machines would
not only have to mine for Water, Oxygen, Carbon, and Hydrogen, but they would
also need to have a way to supply these other things.
Now is the energy needed to supply all of these small enough for the system
to be sustainable?
I doubt it.
Jan
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