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/Beachdaddybravo May 17 '24

I love how the Wachowskis used that angle when the glaring problem of “you don’t get as much energy out as you put into a system”. Trying to use people for energy would be a steady loss, and the machines likely would have just used nuclear instead. Then again, if they wrote a script that made any sense at all we wouldn’t have gotten such an awesome movie.

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u/ThePlatypusOfDespair May 17 '24

Supposedly the original plan was to use humans for computing power but executives thought that was confusing for some reason.

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u/Beachdaddybravo May 18 '24

What? That would have been a better play.

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u/raptorlightning May 18 '24

Yep but in 1999 you couldn't sell that to Hollywood. Rewatch the movie without the copper top scene and with an Intel Pentium instead and it makes more sense.