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Saltah'na
Chinese Canadian, or 75% Commie Bastard.
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I've been wondering what that beeping noise I keep hearing is. Methinks my chip needs a new battery.
After all, I am an ANTI-BUSH supporter living in TORONTO.....
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WizArtist II
"How can you have a yellow alert in Spacedock? "
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Time to set up my own personal EMP field.
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Da_bang80
A few sectors short of an Empire
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Tin Foil hats will help to reflect the satellite signal.
This is some creepy shit man. I hope the day never comes where a newborn baby is chipped before their umbilical cord is even cut.
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WizArtist II
"How can you have a yellow alert in Spacedock? "
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Nah, they'll just be plugged straight into the Matrix.
BTW, a potential flaw in the Matrix. If a being is gestated from an embryo and plugged into the machine pretty much from birth, wouldn't that individual most likely be blind or at least super-light sensitive? And unless those capsules somehow provide muscular exercise, wouldn't they also be feeble and pretty much immobile from muscle atrophy?
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Cartman
just made by the Presbyterian Church
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You've just torpedoed an otherwise waterproof plot.
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You don't say? I think you should give a lengthy explanation of how, since it's clear the Cartman can't possibly have known that.
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"Absolutely!"
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Da_bang80
A few sectors short of an Empire
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Maybe as you develop your matrix image, I forget what they called it) you're real world body grows and develops along similar lines. I dunno, that's just my theory.
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That's the least of the problems; if you take everything else at face value, the idea that the goo they're in has some hair-growth-retarding properties isn't much of a stretch, surely?
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All those tubes in Neo's spine probably knew exactly what his body-managing part of the brain was up to. If it could do that, it could obviously also prevent full-scale atrophy too. They needed as many joules as possible generated for the bodies, so it was in their best interest.
Neo was sensitive to light and couldn't focus at first but it worked itself out, obviously the vat-grown humans was of other stock than the natural ones. More resilient, the machines must've wanted the most bang for the buck. I don't know about you but that sounds eeexactly like machine thinking to me.
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quote:Wouldn't they also have really long hair instead of NO hair?
I thought of something many years ago in the same vein; why are the elves of Menzoberranzan deep-black in skin hue and not albino? They have infra red sight, so why not the other cave fish things?
I believe Gollum was described by other people as "black" too when elves and soldiers reported sighting him, it doesn't make sense. Did the Misty Mountains have coal reserves underneath?
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