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<blockquote data-quote="jester47" data-source="post: 2405129" data-attributes="member: 2238">I had a similar event.&nbsp; I once wrote a science fiction story where the people find a planet where the environment was ravaged and while life there would be harsh it was not impossible.&nbsp; Then exploring they found this collection of huge stuctures and some robot building more of them.&nbsp; Exploring the structures the people that were exploring the planet found that the population of the world had voluntarily entered into a virtual reality and were living in a fantasy land generated by a huge computer.&nbsp; It turns out they had done so so as to avoid the environmental destruction they had caused.&nbsp; Many did not know that there was an outside world and just assumed that the fake world was he real one.&nbsp; The thing was that once you were put in, your body would begin to atrophy.&nbsp; essentially you were putting a healthy person on life support.&nbsp; Once a person became dependant they would not be able to be separated from the machine without certain death.&nbsp; The scary part happens when the explorers discover that there is a roving maintenence robot that makes sure everyones life support is hooked up correctly.&nbsp; Visitors, obviously are not hooked up correctly and the robot moves as fast as possible to fix the &quot;problem.&quot;&nbsp; A lot of this was inspired by the Dr Who episode &quot;The Deadly Assassin&quot; art by HR Geiger, and Neuromancer.Needless to say, I was impressed when the matrix came out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jester47, post: 2405129, member: 2238"] I had a similar event. I once wrote a science fiction story where the people find a planet where the environment was ravaged and while life there would be harsh it was not impossible. Then exploring they found this collection of huge stuctures and some robot building more of them. Exploring the structures the people that were exploring the planet found that the population of the world had voluntarily entered into a virtual reality and were living in a fantasy land generated by a huge computer. It turns out they had done so so as to avoid the environmental destruction they had caused. Many did not know that there was an outside world and just assumed that the fake world was he real one. The thing was that once you were put in, your body would begin to atrophy. essentially you were putting a healthy person on life support. Once a person became dependant they would not be able to be separated from the machine without certain death. The scary part happens when the explorers discover that there is a roving maintenence robot that makes sure everyones life support is hooked up correctly. Visitors, obviously are not hooked up correctly and the robot moves as fast as possible to fix the "problem." A lot of this was inspired by the Dr Who episode "The Deadly Assassin" art by HR Geiger, and Neuromancer. Needless to say, I was impressed when the matrix came out. [/QUOTE]

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