# Still more Matrix part 1 questions: It's all spoilers, no boxes **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2003, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-matrix-part-1-questions-its-all-spoilers-no-boxes/175518 "2003-05-15T19:43:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-matrix-part-1-questions-its-all-spoilers-no-boxes/175518/41 "2003-05-16T21:01:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Brutus \* > **I’d still like to know (speculation would be welcome!) why the damned machines didn’t just use nuclear power (were they radical enviromentalists?) or windmills.** Did you fall asleep during Morpheus’s long speil? The machines use humans plus a “form of fusion.” Of course, this raises the question “Why include humans at all?” I like the Steak Hypothesis that one Doper came up with. The machines could very well survive on just fusion energy, but it’s just a lot tastier when channelled through humans. ---
**Author:** ![blowero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/41988e/32.png) [@blowero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blowero)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-matrix-part-1-questions-its-all-spoilers-no-boxes/175518/42 "2003-05-16T23:41:18Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Chronos \* > So after the EMP, everyone on the sub just pushed the “reset” button, while the squids were going through Scandisk. But did the squids get the blue screen of death?😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2003, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-matrix-part-1-questions-its-all-spoilers-no-boxes/175518/43 "2003-05-16T23:51:36Z")
I’m pretty sure Microsoft would be the first against the wall if the machine revolution comes. 😃 Enjoy, Steven ---
**Author:** ![jessicala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/eb9ed0/32.png) [@jessicala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jessicala)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-matrix-part-1-questions-its-all-spoilers-no-boxes/175518/44 "2003-05-17T01:02:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Nim \* > \*\*I knew she was going to say that before he stepped into the room. Especially when she looked at his palm. He was so worried about not living up to being “the one” that I figured if she was really smart that’s what she would say. I think he was under to much pressure to clear his mind and do whatever amazing things he was supposed to do. Once he thought he was like everyone else, he wasn’t trying to be the best, he was just trying to do his best. > > Morphius had good intentions. But Neo was worrying way to much about being the one, to be the one. \*\* I agree with this but I think there was something more to it. Morpheus believed Neo was The One to the extent that he (Morpheus) was willing to sacrifice himself to save Neo. This is why he let himself be captured in the bathroom, shortly after the deja vu scene. Because Neo did not yet believe that he himself was The One, and because he knew that Morpheus was very important to the human rebellion, he (Neo) went to extreme measures to rescue Morpheus from the agents. It’s been a while since I watched Matrix 1, but I thought the Oracle says something to Neo alluding to the fact that Morpheus was going to try to give up his life for The One, and when he got captured almost everyone except Neo was prepared to consider Morpheus lost. So it was important for Neo not to think that he himself was The One, because otherwise he might have let Morpheus make that sacrifice. Believing what he did at the time, he couldn’t let Morpheus do that. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-matrix-part-1-questions-its-all-spoilers-no-boxes/175518/45 "2003-05-17T01:15:52Z")
the oracle said: “oh well, maybe in your next life.” first: that eases neo’s mind and he thinks he is not the one. second: when he does die, and then comes back, it is his “next life” now HE thinks he IS the one, and thus he is free to BE the one. my fav. line of the oracle is when she tells him: “not too smart, are you, good thing you’re cute.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/still-more-matrix-part-1-questions-its-all-spoilers-no-boxes/175518.md?page=2)