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   On 2026-02-26 6:38 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Feb 26, 2026 at 3:08:57 PM PST, "Rhino"    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 2026-02-26 4:11 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   On Aug 13, 2025 at 6:41:31 AM PDT, "Melissa Hollingsworth"   
   >>>    wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   Verily, in article <107guh6$3lpf9$1@dont-email.me>, did   
   >>>>   dtravel@sonic.net deliver unto us this message:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>     As I recall "Holodeck energy" was different than all the other energy   
   >>>>>     the ship used, so replicators in the holodeck weren't possible.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>     Yes, it really was that stupid.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   So there's holodeck energy, food replicator energy, warp energy, and   
   >>>>   regular energy?   
   >>>   
   >>>   Don't forget the artificial and natural electricity!   
   >>>   
   >> Actually, that's a real distinction if you think about it. Electric eels   
   >> conduct electricity and it's natural; the stuff you get in your wall   
   >> socket is definitely artificial.   
   >   
   > But if you examine them at the atomic level, there's no difference.   
   > Electricity is electricity, no matter how it's generated.   
   >   
   > This is a long-running gag here on RAT in reference to a past regular here,   
   > the profoundly stupid Cloud Dreamer, aka Clod Reamer, (one of your fellow   
   > Canadidians) who, in response to people wondering why the electricity-eating   
   > nanobots on the show REVOLUTION didn't also absorb the electricity that runs   
   > the human nervous system, or the electricity in thunderstorms, declared that   
   > they must only be programmed to consume 'artificial electricity', not   
   'natural   
   > electricity'.   
   >   
   > Clod's insistence on this theory has become a benchmark of stupidity in this   
   > group and a shorthand way of indicating when someone else says something of   
   > equal dumbidity.   
   >   
   I remember her but I don't think I ever saw her "novel" thoughts on   
   electricity or the use of that as a sort of meme among the group   
   members. Well, now I know and I apologize for missing what you were   
   getting at and reacting pedantically.   
      
   >> Mind you, I've never studied electric eels so they may not generate real   
   >> electricity. Maybe it's just something different that just got called   
   >> electricity mistakenly. Let's see if Claude.AI knows....   
   >>   
   >> ========================================================================   
   >> Q: Do electric eels really generate electricity?   
   >>   
   >> A: Yes, they really do! Electric eels (which are actually more closely   
   >> related to catfish than true eels) have specialized cells called   
   >> electrocytes that act like biological batteries. They have three   
   >> electric organs that take up most of their body, and they can generate   
   >> up to around 600 volts — enough to stun prey, deter predators, and even   
   >> navigate and communicate through low-level pulses. It's one of the more   
   >> remarkable things in the animal kingdom.   
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