Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> Oh, I thought the "perpetual motion" bit was referring to tapping the 
>> electricity of humans being fed other humans. :-) I mean, the energy has 
>> to come from *somewhere*.
> 
>   Well, the people would need to be fed somehow, so it comes from food?
> 
>   Of course a different question is that the entire humans-used-for-energy
> is completely implausible because humans are poor batteries, and there
> certainly are much efficient ways to convert natural resources to energy.
> That's the reason why many fans decide to ignore that explanation and retcon
> it so that the people are actually used for computing power, not as energy
> sources. (Of course this also is an implausible explanation because it's,
> once again, not a very energy-efficient way of getting computing power...)

Maybe the 'power' being extracted isn't electrical or purely 
computative; imagination is something computers are traditionally bad at 
that one would assume if it could somehow be harnessed, humans are 
convenient sources thereof.  *shrug*

-- 
Tim Cook
http://empyrean.digitalartsuk.com

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