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3sThe idea came from an old movie called The Matrix.
4.24sBut wouldn't almost anything make a better battery than a human body?
2.55sLike a potato? Or a battery?
2.1sPlus, no matter how much energy they produced,
2.69sit would take more energy than that to keep them alive.
2.72sI know, I know. It sounds absurd.
2.4sIn fact, when The Matrix first came out,
1.9sit seemed like the single crummiest,
6.29slaziest, most awful, dimwitted idea in the entire history of science fiction, but it turned out to be true.
0.97sWho knew?
1.32sGood work, writer of The Matrix.
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2.84sFRY: This is it, room 1119.
2.02sAw! It's my relatives.
2.59sI'm gonna call them Gram-gram and Shabba-doo.
4sThey look just like you, Fry. Arms, legs, ugly.
3.27sToo bad we can't visit them in their virtual world.
4.64sWe can. Just moisten your heads and put on these real-to-virtual adapter caps.
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4.25sHmm, electricity plus hats with wires on them.