Truly Custom Cakery based its cake on the Batmobile from the 1989 movie. Would the Tumbler Batmobile taste better? Or the 60s-era Batmobile? This calls for a comprehensive study.
The Matrix: It does bother me why the machines did not build space solar panels. But the point about Kuru is not fatal to the science. Maybe the machines were capable of pre-screening and/or genetically modifying human cells to prevent all forms of genetically transmitted disease. Or in making their special blend of soylent green, would filter out prions that cause kuru, mad cow, etc.
Humans are indeed inefficient energy producers, but who is to say that humans submerged in soylent goo, would not shut down or severely atrophy some of their organs (lungs for example) thus redirecting the energy wasted there for machine consumption. Perhaps the methane produced by the intestines (fart) could be harvested. Human bodies could be used to culture certain extremophiles that could produce other kinds of energy sources.
No, I am not Dr Mengele. But if the inevitable happens, I for one welcome our new machine overlords.
Just need to watch The Animatrix and humans as a power source makes sense. The Second Renaissance Parts I & II tell the story of how robots evolve AI, humans continue to oppress, robots revolt, robots win the war and take revenge on humans by making them servants to the robots. It was never about efficiency.
Evidently the original plan was to have the machines using the humans' brains to enhance computation power, which makes a lot more sense, but it got nixed by executive meddling.
In the matrix, they combined human batteries with "a form of fusion". Human batteries would end up being a net loss for energy. Not sure if I agree with the space solar panels. Getting to space is a huge achievement, and how do you get the energy back to the surface? Nobody took this into consideration.
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Humans are indeed inefficient energy producers, but who is to say that humans submerged in soylent goo, would not shut down or severely atrophy some of their organs (lungs for example) thus redirecting the energy wasted there for machine consumption. Perhaps the methane produced by the intestines (fart) could be harvested. Human bodies could be used to culture certain extremophiles that could produce other kinds of energy sources.
No, I am not Dr Mengele. But if the inevitable happens, I for one welcome our new machine overlords.