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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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He simply opens his mouth, like this: And Bender needs to drink, the alcohol is used to power his systems. Presumably some small tube inside his head guide all the alcohol to a power unit somewhere in his body. The brups are exhaust from the combustion process. Welcome to PEEL, Metallica. Enjoy it here.
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Smitty
Professor
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That was very careless Teral. He doesn't need to drink, he can quit anytime he wants.
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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::watch as his entire theory come tumbling down like a deck of cards::
Oh, wait. All it take is 15 seconds of peer pressure and Bender is back in the game.
::Theory rebuilds itself like an old cartoon running backwards::
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Smitty
Professor
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The water and other parts of the beer may help his cooling systems. Breathing could also help it too (I'm just stealing the breathing idea from Data in TNG so don't take that as concrete fact).
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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Teral's explained HOW he drinks it, and "I, Roomate" explained WHY he drank it. But sometimes, what the alcohol does to him is really inconsistant.
Keep in mind that in the Simpsons/Futurama comic crossover - Bender acts drunk when he drinks too much. I think it's just a matter of getting the right amount of alcohol into his system to power it. Too much makes him act drunk, as does too little.
As for the mineral oil - it's probably just a subsitute. Like, there are a number of fluids that can power Bender, but he goes with alcohol because he likes the taste.
But wait a second - he has no sense of taste! Arrrrggghhhhhh, I'm confusing myself!!!
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Teral
Helpy McHelphelp
DOOP Secretary
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Yeah, Smitty pointed that out 1 month ago. But playing along: that was simply Bender trying to play down his addiction, making it look like he had it under control. But honestly, we've only seen him go teetotal once, and then all it took for him to get back into drinking was 10 seconds of temptation. He even murdered comrade Greeting Card when he told him that the robot workers paradise would be free from alcohol.
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Lionel Hutz Esq
Bending Unit
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Originally posted by planetcutie:
(1) Robots prefer alcoholic drinks to mineral oil - Alcohol (ethanol) has a formula of CH3-CH2-OH and is presumably easier to burn than mineral oil (possibly hydrocarbons with more than 6 carbon atoms in the molecule - hexane, heptane, octane etc.).
(2)Bender's '5'o'clock rust' after not drinking. Maybe he has an anti-corrosion mechanism which is one of the first things to shut down, to economise fuel, to keep more vital mechanisms going.
(3)Bender's 'drunk' behaviour after not consuming alcohol probably results from various mechanisms being slowed down/cut off due to lack of fuel.
1) Alc. would be a lot cleaner burning, and give more energy than mineral oil. I would think mineral oil would be sooty. 2) Maybe we are going about this wrong, thinking that bender has some form of internal combution engine. Maybe his whole body process the fuel, and acts like a catylist (sp?). When deprived of fuel, it starts to oxidize. But when fueled, it stays fine. The "rust" would show up around the mouth first, since it usually gets most of the alc, including in the fumes of the robots burp, and suffers first when deprived. Given enought time, his whole body would rust, spreading from the mouth out. 3) Agree. It might also be for fuel conservation.
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Zkebu
Crustacean
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Yea allright...but i was just wondering that in episode A head in the polls bender sells his body but still drinks? where's that combustion thingy anyway?
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Luis
Bending Unit
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Maybe his whole body is individually powered, mimicking the human body. We humans (in case you don't remember) use our mitochondrias to help consume the carbohydrates, sugars, etc. The same thing can be said for Bender, he probably just has a nanosistem instead of cells. This also could explain Bender's drunken behavior, as the alcohol content lowers, nano activity decreases, like the inverse of the human way. As for the impurities of beer, they can be converted by nanobots into other compounds as long they have the same atomic contents, thus making them useful for any purpose (and besides, beer is mainly sugar, which can be transformed into alcohol). As for the sense of taste, the human tongue is nothing more than a tool from our body that tells us sugar, beef or milk taste good because that's what our cells want, more fuel, so everything with high calories tastes good, the same can be said about the Robot's preference of alcohol over mineral oil, since alcohol is a more efficient fuel and thus probably more tasty to robots. There, did i miss something?
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