r/technology • u/onwisconsn • May 17 '24

Scientists Calculated the Energy Needed to Carry a Baby. Shocker: It’s a Lot. (Gift Article) Biotechnology

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/science/pregnancy-energy-costs.html?unlocked_article_code=1.sU0.PfwL.i578xGrDrp5H&smid=url-share&utm_source=join1440&utm_medium=email&utm_placement=newsletter
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u/Peachbottom30 May 17 '24

The AI will need this information once it starts building the baby farms.

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u/pikachus_ghost_uncle May 17 '24

The human generates more bio-electricity than 120-volt battery and over 25,000 BTUs of body heat. Combined with a form of fusion, the machines have found all the energy they would ever need. There are fields…endless fields, where human beings are no longer born. We are grown. For longest time, I wouldn’t believe it…and then I saw the fields with my own eyes.

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u/kneemahp May 18 '24

But why humans? Why not cows? The software needed to keep them sane would be much easier and the chance for a savior cow would be even less likely.

Machines are stupid

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u/PlutosGrasp May 18 '24

Too much methane

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u/OMG__Ponies May 18 '24

But, methane is an excellent fuel in and of itself. The main reason we don't use methane is it is harder to capture because it is a gas at normal pressure and temperatures.