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Clueless about Biology (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (40 children)

The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. ~~Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever. ~~ eh, that last but might not be accurate but there is some kind of enzyme in their stomach that keeps you alive? Whatever.

[–] [email protected] 143 points 1 week ago (33 children)

That makes as much sense as The Matrix using people for energy. You can't feed people to keep them alive and get more energy out than just digesting (or in the Matrix burning) that food for energy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I thought it also used them for neural CPU cycles but maybe I'm misremembering

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No, that's exactly the original thing. "Wetware", basically... But test audiences got upset and confused, so it was changed to "batteries."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

The batteries things was also Morpheus's explanation, and not necessarily a definitive fact of the fictive universe. Morpheus could have been talking out of his ass, or deliberately over-simplifying for the benefit of Neo, who he knew was kind of a dumbass.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I think that was the original idea but they changed it to energy because they thought the audience wouldn't understand the CPU stuff.

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