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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:02:59 JST Evan Prodromou

   OK, so, here's my theory, completely without evidence:

   The film Elysium (2013) proposes a future world in which most humans live on Earth, but a tiny elite live in unbelievable luxury on a satellite called Elysium. Matt Damon's everyman character travels from Earth to Elysium specifically to use a very advanced medical bay or "Med-Bay", which can cure any disease. He is successful, and at the end of the movie, Med-Bays are shipped to Earth to heal all people.

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:04:56 JST Evan Prodromou

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     I think the Medbed conspiracy theory is based on this movie.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medbed

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:07:22 JST Evan Prodromou

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     So, I think the term "medbed" is a mispronunciation of "medbay" because it doesn't look like a bay, it looks like a bed.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:07:23 JST Evan Prodromou

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     Actually, one of the references in the Wikipedia article mentions Elysium:

     https://www.vishvasnews.com/english/viral/fact-check-no-this-machine-cannot-cure-a-disease-in-2-5-minutes-viral-images-are-taken-from-a-2013-movie/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:08:57 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @scanner Yes. He is successful in accessing the medbay technology, but he dies in the process.

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     Scanner (scanner@apricot.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:08:58 JST Scanner

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     @evan but he dies…

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:19:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @scanner Are they called "medbeds"?

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     Scanner (scanner@apricot.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:19:25 JST Scanner

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     @evan med beds existed long before that. For example it is the main plot device in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roujin_Z?wprov=sfti1#See_also

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:36:09 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @scanner that's fair. I don't think my theory is watertight or even probable. Thanks for the quick research!

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     Scanner (scanner@apricot.social)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 13:36:10 JST Scanner

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     @evan not in English