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   From: thetruemelissa@gmail.com   
      
   Verily, in article <392916302.776642579.774871.anim8rfsk-   
   cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this   
   message:   
   >   
   > Melissa Hollingsworth  wrote:   
   > > Verily, in article <635212760.776606512.130859.anim8rfsk-   
   > > cox.net@news.easynews.com>, did anim8rfsk@cox.net deliver unto us this   
   > > message:   
   > >>   
   > >> VOYAGER never did get that right. They had a holo deck where you could   
   live   
   > >> indefinitely on imaginary food and drink, and yet they established that it   
   > >> went away when you exited. So if you were in the holo deck very long, you   
   > >> should just die when you walked outside.   
   > >   
   > > So... you could stay in the holodeck for a year and just live on   
   > > imaginary food? Did something like this actually happen?   
   > >   
   >   
   > Not a year, but probably weeks and certainly several days, long enough that   
   > it would kill you.   
      
   Several days wouldn't kill you. People can live at least a month without   
   food, on average. The old rule I recall is "four minutes without air,   
   four days without water, forty days without food."   
      
   Several weeks might. At the least, you'd show some signs when you came   
   out. If not, the holofood must be providing real nourishment.   
      
   > Then they had an episode where they were running out of food, but it   
   didn?t   
   > occur to anybody to just go into the Irish pub holodeck program and eat and   
   > drink all you want.   
      
   ...but then there's that.   
      
   Perhaps time moves differently on the holodeck? Do we know for sure that   
   the people inside for weeks were gone from the outside for weeks?   
      
      
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