A Virus that Generates Electricityboem@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 132 points – 11 months agothe-scientist.com16Post a CommentPreviewYou are viewing a single commentView all commentsThe energy generated by this virus is how the infected undead will continue to walk the earth.Ooooh nice - that idea will definitely make it into the Starfinder campaign I'm gonna runSo what you're saying is this should be combined with cordyceps in a random lab in China that has really shitty containment procedures.I was gonna bring up the human batteries in the Matrix, but I like your thing better.This still pisses me off. The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense. But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn't be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there's at least some symmetry.They have the same wetware and clearly aren't using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They're excellent candidates.1 more...
The energy generated by this virus is how the infected undead will continue to walk the earth.Ooooh nice - that idea will definitely make it into the Starfinder campaign I'm gonna runSo what you're saying is this should be combined with cordyceps in a random lab in China that has really shitty containment procedures.I was gonna bring up the human batteries in the Matrix, but I like your thing better.This still pisses me off. The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense. But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn't be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there's at least some symmetry.They have the same wetware and clearly aren't using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They're excellent candidates.1 more...
So what you're saying is this should be combined with cordyceps in a random lab in China that has really shitty containment procedures.
I was gonna bring up the human batteries in the Matrix, but I like your thing better.This still pisses me off. The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense. But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn't be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there's at least some symmetry.They have the same wetware and clearly aren't using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They're excellent candidates.
This still pisses me off. The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense. But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn't be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there's at least some symmetry.They have the same wetware and clearly aren't using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They're excellent candidates.
The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn't be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there's at least some symmetry.They have the same wetware and clearly aren't using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They're excellent candidates.
They have the same wetware and clearly aren't using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They're excellent candidates.
The energy generated by this virus is how the infected undead will continue to walk the earth.
Ooooh nice - that idea will definitely make it into the Starfinder campaign I'm gonna run
So what you're saying is this should be combined with cordyceps in a random lab in China that has really shitty containment procedures.
I was gonna bring up the human batteries in the Matrix, but I like your thing better.
This still pisses me off.
The original idea was they use our brains for processing power. Which actually makes sense.
But the studio thought people would have trouble understanding that.
The people who would have trouble understanding that wouldn't be good candidates for matrix insertion though, so there's at least some symmetry.
They have the same wetware and clearly aren't using it. That gives the machines extra downtime to run on. They're excellent candidates.