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Clueless about Biology (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (38 children)

The lore is that the saarlac actually keeps you alive while digesting you. ~~Like, it puts roots in that act as life support so it has a constant source of protein or whatever. ~~ eh, that last but might not be accurate but there is some kind of enzyme in their stomach that keeps you alive? Whatever.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 month ago (31 children)

That makes as much sense as The Matrix using people for energy. You can't feed people to keep them alive and get more energy out than just digesting (or in the Matrix burning) that food for energy.

[–] [email protected] 109 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I could be wrong, but I think the original idea for the matrix was that they were using human brains for processing power and not energy. But someone in the movie making process decided people wouldn't understand that and instead went with the battery analogy.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Morpheus is the only one we ever hear the battery analogy from anyway. He might well be wrong about that interpretation, and the brain processors are what's really going on.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I believe Switch refers to Neo as coppertop at some point which would be the battery analogy as well too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My headcanon is that he tried the more technical and correct explanation, but most people he told it to started to go a bit glassy-eyed during that part, so he simplified his pitch.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

The showing of the battery is a good visual to sell the explanation too, regardless of it not making sense "realistically"

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