On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 10:48:35PM -0400, Kevin Elliott wrote:
At 15:38 -0400 10/27/00, sunder wrote:
"Riad S. Wahby" wrote:
Ah, but you are forgetting. It was the power from humans "combined with a form of fusion." Everything, when combined with a form of fusion, makes a good movie energy source.
That really amused me as well. After all, if you've got fusion why bother with the human- cut out the middle man as it were... Somthing along the lines of "they needed substantial neural net capacity for their to improve their RC-5 key rate" would have been more reasonable.
Maybe they really were being used as batteries, for portability. After all, it is beginning to seem obvious that electronics will never produce a battery that can power a laptop for more than like 2 minutes - even if the AI had fixed fusion stations, they may need to load up a couple of humans whenever they wanted to go walkabout (or sentinelling or whatever). "The new Human-Smasher toy with 200 easily breakable features - every little AIlings dream! (2 AA humans required and sold seperately.)"
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