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2004-03-30 Thread Dan Phillips
Why not just breed cows?They won't revolt and try to rage against the machine -Original Message- From: brobborb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 7:03 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Matrix Question How was it explained that they got electricity from humans

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2004-03-30 Thread Philip Arnold
From: Dan Phillips Why not just breed cows?They won't revolt and try to rage against the machine Probably because the AI programs would get bored having to listen to cows go on about chewing grass, then chewing some more, and then a little more At least you humans are interesting to

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2004-03-30 Thread Angel Stewart
After the humans blanketed the earth with that chemical which destroyed sunlight, the majority of all plant and animal life and earth would have died as well. In fact, it's a good guess that before the machines really started caring humans may have been one of the only species of life left on the

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2004-03-30 Thread John Stanley
good question, and besides wouldnt a cow make more energy than a human? dont they also produce measurable amounts of methane gas? -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:55 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Matrix Question From

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2004-03-30 Thread Kevin Graeme
Why not just breed cows?They won't revolt and try to rage against the machine Don't underestimate those wily cows. Why do you think we humans have yet to fully conquer Wisconsin? -Kevin [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-03-30 Thread John Stanley
What if, in some twisted sense, WE are the machines, and the cows are US? I'll be on the lookout for any web-surfing cows from now on. -Original Message- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:57 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Matrix Question

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2004-03-30 Thread Harkins, Patrick
Come to think of it that was kind of the theme to Monsters Inc. too! -Patrick -Original Message- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it was both body heat and electricity - the purpose of the matrix was not specifically to keep us sedated but rather to keep our minds active

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2004-03-30 Thread Harkins, Patrick
Shades of O Lucky Man too snort snort... -Original Message- From: Philip Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably because the AI programs would get bored having to listen to cows go on about chewing grass, then chewing some more, and then a little more At least you humans are

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2004-03-30 Thread Kevin Graeme
What if, in some twisted sense, WE are the machines, and the cows are US? I'll be on the lookout for any web-surfing cows from now on. Have you ever visited a milking parlor? http://www.uwex.edu/uwmril/robot/photos/milking.htm MAD SCIENTIST ALERT! Robotic milkers could someday free

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2004-03-30 Thread Lyons, Larry
I'd really hate to think what would happen if there were a serious malfunction. The possibilities are staggering. larry -Original Message- From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:15 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Matrix Question What

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2004-03-30 Thread Erika L Walker-Arnold
Do they have Mad Cow disease in the Matrix? hehe ... -- [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-03-30 Thread Harkins, Patrick
Yea, and then there's that problem with the bulls that keep trying to sneak into the milking parlour! :-) -Original Message- From: Lyons, Larry I'd really hate to think what would happen if there were a serious malfunction. The possibilities are staggering. larry Outbound email scanned

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2004-03-30 Thread Harkins, Patrick
visited, huh! Passed many an hour in one. Of course we were milking goats so there were only two teats to deal with! -Original Message- From: Kevin Graeme Have you ever visited a milking parlor? Outbound email scanned for viruses. (e232) [Todays Threads] [This Message]

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2004-03-30 Thread Lyons, Larry
the location of a fan that was in the main tube by a couple of inches. Apparently that made all the difference. larry -Original Message- From: Harkins, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:23 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Matrix Question Yea

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2004-03-30 Thread Erika L Walker-Arnold
OMG 0_0 -- From: Lyons, Larry A few years ago there was a case study report in the medical journal The Lancet about a sudden rash of rather intimate injuries. The author of the paper traced the problem down to a vacuum manufacturer slightly

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2004-03-30 Thread Harkins, Patrick
ouch! lol -Original Message- From: Lyons, Larry A few years ago there was a case study report in the medical journal The Lancet about a sudden rash of rather intimate injuries. The author of the paper traced the problem down to a vacuum manufacturer slightly changing the design of their

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2004-03-30 Thread Ben Doom
They kept trying to eat the little green symbols. --bend Dan Phillips wrote: Why not just breed cows?They won't revolt and try to rage against the machine [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

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2004-03-30 Thread Ben Doom
1) The machines have a soft spot for humans in that we created them.They may not want to see humans exterminated, just controlled.They may not have meant to generate power in the first place, but after centuries (or millennia) of keeping us alive and controlled they decided (as any good

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2004-03-30 Thread Jim Davis
Ooooh - Monsters, Machines, Martians, Morlocks - we're destined to be harvested and bred by things what start with M! Jim Davis _ From: Harkins, Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 8:59 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Matrix Question Come to think

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2004-03-30 Thread Lyons, Larry
I'll have to find the article again. The author of the case study made some truly horrid puns all through it. alrry -Original Message- From: Erika L Walker-Arnold [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:43 AM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: Matrix Question OMG

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2004-03-30 Thread Lyons, Larry
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2004-03-30 Thread Andre Turrettini
dont forget, the machines like the matrix. They take their vacations there. DRE -Original Message- From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:57 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Matrix Question 1) The machines have a soft spot for humans in that we

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2004-03-30 Thread Jim Davis
1) The machines have a soft spot for humans in that we created them.  They may not want to see humans exterminated, just controlled.  They may not have meant to generate power in the first place, but after centuries (or millennia) of keeping us alive and controlled they decided (as any good

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2004-03-29 Thread brobborb
my question is, why didn't they clone humans or impregnate women artificially, that way, giving them more humans!I'm sure they had the technology :P - Original Message - From: Charlie Griefer To: CF-Community Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 4:31 PM Subject: Matrix Question - Original

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2004-03-29 Thread William H Bowen
You'd have to go all the way back to the first Matrix to answer this question. There was a great huge baby farm in the scene when Neo wakes up. The whole process is explained in a neat little package. The fetuses (feti? fetuseses?) gestate in a box (symbolic of their struggle against

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2004-03-29 Thread Marlon Moyer
Quoting Charlie Griefer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That was exactly the case.There's one scene where it looks like a machine is harvesting something.That something is babies. Marlon ok...this made me think of a question I had regarding the Matrix. Humans are batteries, kept in little human-battery

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2004-03-29 Thread brobborb
How was it explained that they got electricity from humans?electrical signals made by their brains right?ok ok, why not breed electric eels?! more electricty - Original Message - From: William H Bowen To: CF-Community Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Matrix

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2004-03-29 Thread Jim Davis
that for over thinking a joke?;^) Jim Davis _ From: brobborb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 7:03 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Matrix Question How was it explained that they got electricity from humans?electrical signals made by their brains right?ok ok, why not breed

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2004-03-29 Thread brobborb
that for over thinking a joke?;^) Jim Davis _ From: brobborb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 7:03 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Matrix Question How was it explained that they got electricity from humans?electrical signals made by their brains right?ok ok, why not breed