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   From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   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.   
      
   > 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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