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3.47sMy God! It's full of geezers.
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1.85sFRY: Hey, why are they hooked up like that?
2.7sIs it some kind of Craft-matic adjustable death bed?
1.83s(LAUGHS MOCKINGLY) Don't be ridiculous.
2.64sTheir bodies are being used to generate electricity.
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.