Re: Billy, stop feeding your robot scraps from the table.

  • From: Neil Doane <caine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: technocracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2000 11:03:21 -0700

Pedants, the lot of you!   Geez people, I'm not trying to _REALLY_ justify
it, I just think it's something sort of 'The Matrix'-like (I mean, using
humans as _batteries_ to power computers...using humans as _food_ to power
computers...see the similarity?  hmm??)  Of course it's not bloody likely,
I'm talking about fiction dammit, suspend that disbelief mister!

* Steve Baker (ice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) on [07-20-00 10:12] did utter:
> Neil Doane <caine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > * Steve Baker (ice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) on [07-19-00 19:15] did utter:
> > >   Humans and tanks will be cheaper and more effective for quite some time 
> > > I
> > > should think.  Besides, nuclear power is a much more efficient and 
> > > reliable
> > > long term energy source if you want to build a roaming people eating 
> > > machine.
> >
> > Okay, well obviously ice has no sense of fiction.  I mean, think 'The
> > Matrix' or 'Terminator' or something. :)  Besides, can you show me a 
> > portable nuclear generator that we have working right now?  Self-sustaining,
> 
>   Virtually every deep space probe we've ever launched was equipped with a
> nuclear pile, and several moon missions carried along nuclear piles to power
> the many scientific instruments that were left behind.  How they worked and
> much power they produced is unknown to me but they must have been designed
> to produce at least 8 watts for at least some 20-30 years, which they did,
> and all were small enough for a single man to lug around.

Ah, so there were, I stand corrected. =)


Neil




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