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Water Supply

22 posts · 2007-11-09 04:51:58 to 2008-01-06 22:49:47

#36300350320 11/09/2007 04:51:58 Water Supply

I've always wondered...

Where does Zion get it's water? Where do Hovercraft captains get their water? The human body needs to function, and without water, we die. If zion is near the center of the earth, where is their water supply?

Thoughts, please.

You just never know if you're RP wife is a psychologically insane IC axe murderer. :/
#36300350341 11/09/2007 05:55:18 Re:Water Supply
Everything in (New) Zion is recycled.

Everything.

SMILEY
#36300350387 11/09/2007 07:29:57 Re:Water Supply
Procurator wrote:
Everything in (New) Zion is recycled.

Everything.

SMILEY
ewww SMILEY.....


Thats a good question Prox
#36300350437 11/09/2007 09:24:10 Re:Water Supply
Kybutra wrote:
Procurator wrote:
Everything in (New) Zion is recycled.

Everything.

SMILEY
ewww SMILEY.....


Thats a good question Prox
Every... thing?    ..... :O
#36300350441 11/09/2007 09:29:57 Re:Water Supply
It would appear so, but how many people go to the engineering levels really? The only time people go down there (as far as I know) is when something needs fixing.... or if certain council members want to talk to certain integral anomalies.... and I doubt they go into such detail!
#36300350480 11/09/2007 10:26:01 Re:Water Supply
Procurator wrote:
Everything in (New) Zion is recycled.

Everything.

SMILEY
Not necessarily. If New Zion is as deep as they claim it to be, there should be a wealth of resources there, plenty of different metals and heat energy from the water and magma at such a depth. Coupled with the technique Geoffrey is said to have used to grow wheat, and they could build without having to recycle everything, so to speak.
#36300350509 11/09/2007 10:58:21 Re:Water Supply
I know. SMILEY I was trying to imply that their water is recycled urine. SMILEY
#36300350822 11/09/2007 19:55:47 Re:Water Supply
Procurator wrote:
I know. SMILEY" /> I was trying to imply that their water is recycled urine. SMILEY

#36300350835 11/09/2007 20:37:07 Re:Water Supply

#36300350838 11/09/2007 20:45:16 Re:Water Supply
Vinia wrote:

ROFL, wth is that from?
#36300350991 11/10/2007 08:43:33 Re:Water Supply
Yep, its from Red Dwarf a cult British comedy series. I love that kind of stuff!
#36300350994 11/10/2007 08:50:40 Re:Water Supply
A better question is where do Mervs get their water?

 

#36300351005 11/10/2007 09:28:07 Re:Water Supply
Vinia wrote:
Yep, its from Red Dwarf a cult British comedy series. I love that kind of stuff!
Ha-hah! That's where I got the idea. SMILEY
#36300351008 11/10/2007 09:47:05 Re:Water Supply
GamiSB wrote:
A better question is where do Mervs get their water?

 
Yea and the Machines. It isn't clear if they get their food and water in the same way as Zion. Do the Machines actually help Machinists in the real with food and water? Also they make fun of Zion for living in caves and eating gruel but how do we know they don't do that too?
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#36300351426 11/11/2007 12:28:14 Re:Water Supply
GoDGiVeR wrote:
Procurator wrote:
Ballak wrote:

Here's an idea. The Real is a Matrix inside of a Matrix, so we wouldn't really need water because it's being fed to us into our pod!

Urgh, yellow pill. *Grimaces.*

That idea is 1. old, 2. much more difficult than that. By being freed one time into a gruel enviroment, nobody will think that this is just another form of control (in form of a matrix, not in form of a city of "hope"SMILEY" width="15" height="15" />. Since the "Real World" is more stable than the Matrix, only Neo was able to utilize the powers (though there are many theories on how; I prefer the Cyborg of theory from zeroone actually).

Also what Gami said, you don't realize the truth as a bluepill, because you hunger if you don't eat and drink, now do you? The pods only feed equally to what you do in the Matrix.

But anyways, yellow pills, haven't see anyone of them 'round for a long time.
It was sarcasm. SMILEY
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#36300351428 11/11/2007 12:35:04 Re:Water Supply
Dinner time in New Zion!  Come and get it!



YUM YUM!

It looks to me as if that is 100% fungus and "fleshy roots," stuff that grows with no sunlight.

In Enter the Matrix, Sparks asks Niobe and Ghost "When I cart your dead bodies back to Zion, do you prefer cremation or the gardens?"  This might imply that areas of soil are kept fertile enough for growing fungus by adding... organic matter which is no longer being used.
#36300351660 11/12/2007 04:39:52 Re:Water Supply
Fractor wrote:
GamiSB wrote:
A better question is where do Mervs get their water?

 
Yea and the Machines. It isn't clear if they get their food and water in the same way as Zion. Do the Machines actually help Machinists in the real with food and water? Also they make fun of Zion for living in caves and eating gruel but how do we know they don't do that too?
I'm fairly certain there's more than just gruel.  The elevator scene in Reloaded seems to imply this.
#36300352179 11/13/2007 01:21:35 Re:Water Supply
ZeroPheonix wrote:
Fractor wrote:
GamiSB wrote:
A better question is where do Mervs get their water?

 
Yea and the Machines. It isn't clear if they get their food and water in the same way as Zion. Do the Machines actually help Machinists in the real with food and water? Also they make fun of Zion for living in caves and eating gruel but how do we know they don't do that too?
I'm fairly certain there's more than just gruel.  The elevator scene in Reloaded seems to imply this.
There's an entire matrix comic about a guy who grows wheat on the surface.  It's not just gruel.  The gruel is probably just for the HvCFTs, as it keeps forever, and is all they need.
#36300382030 01/06/2008 22:04:51 Re:Water Supply
Kybutra wrote:
Procurator wrote:
I know. SMILEY<img mce_tsrc=" /> I was trying to imply that their water is recycled urine. SMILEY


BECAUSE IT'S STERILE AND I LIKE THE TASTE
#36300382036 01/06/2008 22:49:47 Re:Water Supply
Chemuel wrote:
ZeroPheonix wrote:
Fractor wrote:
GamiSB wrote:
A better question is where do Mervs get their water?

 
Yea and the Machines. It isn't clear if they get their food and water in the same way as Zion. Do the Machines actually help Machinists in the real with food and water? Also they make fun of Zion for living in caves and eating gruel but how do we know they don't do that too?
I'm fairly certain there's more than just gruel.  The elevator scene in Reloaded seems to imply this.
There's an entire matrix comic about a guy who grows wheat on the surface.  It's not just gruel.  The gruel is probably just for the HvCFTs, as it keeps forever, and is all they need.


You know I think that's more closer to the truth than you might believe. I know in a previous post I jokingly said "and a greenhouse couldn't hurt" but now that I think about it, it wouldn't be totally out of the realm of possibility. Consider this, we know that there is a strong possibility that almost all animal life has been wiped out during the wars (I still think the rats and bugs probably made it though). Any agriculture was almost definitely wiped out due to the sun being blocked. Now although all of this was happening it would stand to reason that some one or someone's got together before the big blackout and decided that perhaps it would be a good idea to get a couple of tons of seeds and good earth just in case , oh well they might want to build a greenhouse.

Another way to go at this would be that since the Machines built (or re-built) Zion they knew that the only way for the city to thrive was a constant food supply. Who knows, maybe they have stores of seedlings just for that purpose.

The thing about water is interesting as well, in a place like Zion it wouldn't be too hard to get fresh water, even if it is recycled. You have plenty of rocks and minerals to sterilize the water. As far as the getting water from snow or ice on the surface, therein lies a question I have always had. If the skies are darkened, the average temperature should drop significantly (theoretically of course) wouldn't that constitute for a second Ice Age?