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| T-1976 | Could "a" Skynet become reality? (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 117 | Aug 21 2011, 12:57 PM EDT by termi-ninja-tor | ||||
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Thread started: Mar 26 2008, 9:36 PM EDT
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I recently saw a commercial on TV for the U.S. Air Force. The Airmen they showed was the Pentagon's "cyber threats" officer...maining the mainframe computer system at the Pentagon for hackers, viruses and the like.
The computer system shown there seemed to be pretty sophisticated. Very elaborate. Which got me to thinking...could a real Skynet ever come to pass? How sophisticated will our computer systems become? Could it ever get a rouge program and decide to start "thinking on its own"? I think my Gateway is looking at me funny >_> All humor aside though...what do you guys think?
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| Cameron-TOK716 | Terminator Salvation Cold War (is it a good read?) | 3 | Feb 4 2010, 2:20 PM EST by meanoldmoe | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 25 2010, 9:40 PM EST
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Just asking you lot i have got Terminator Salvation Cold War by Greg Cox if any one has read it tell me if its a good read :) thanks :)
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| EnigManic | Get the scoop on the advanced Infiltrators | 0 | Jan 17 2010, 11:13 AM EST by EnigManic | ||||
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Thread started: Jan 17 2010, 11:13 AM EST
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Get all the important info on Skynet's most dangerous creation! http://terminatorwiki.fox.com/page/I-1000 |
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| PyroDude | The SCIENCE! behind Terminators (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 416 | Dec 23 2009, 7:32 PM EST by croshead | ||||
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Thread started: Jun 30 2009, 4:31 PM EDT
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Too much angsty drama and not enough talk on the killer robots called terminators. So, does anyone have theories on how terminators are scientifically possible/probable?
Carbon nanotubes for muscles instead of hydraulics? Or maybe some sort of carbon nanotube integrated into the "hyperalloy"? How does the Terminators not suffer metal fatigue and stress fractures? What exactly is a neural net CPU? Is it made from carbon nano materials like graphene or is it silicon based? Quantum based? How do the terminators store so much information? Is it some sort of holographic storage medium? Do they have some sort of solid state drive instead? How does the skin regrow so fast? Maybe the terminators somehow emit signals controlling cellular differentiation? How much do Terminators need to eat? We saw the Stark terminator... so maybe they somehow sustain their skin with electrical current from their power source? And what exactly is their power source? How long will it last? Late edit: I also kind of want to know because I like throwing in some 'plausible' pseudo-science into fan fictions.
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| NedLudd | could ai be part of your family (page: 1 2) | 23 | Dec 4 2009, 1:12 PM EST by Zkyire | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 18 2009, 7:45 AM EDT
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my last threads were vague
it was deliberate this ones more specific could ai share the bonds of a functional family
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| SamStaurophobia | I'm sort of confused by something. (warning, technical discussion!) | 11 | Oct 30 2009, 3:38 PM EDT by SamStaurophobia | ||||
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Thread started: Oct 25 2009, 5:37 PM EDT
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This is an excerpt from http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/T-800
"The T-800’s do not feel pain and they do not have nerves, but they can sense injuries. We believe that the T-800 can do this through the use of impact sensors or as part of the overall sensor "sphere" that the unit generates, approximately akin to counter battery radar. There may be various impact sensors that record localized vibrations in the armor shell and, by extrapolation, "sense" where the damage in the T-800's living tissue is. This data then allows the T-800 to conduct low-complexity self repairs. " But I always assumed that the nerves were responsible for the T-800's capability to sense injury, not some kind of a sensor in the endoskeleton. I mean, the nerves are used to move the muscles in the organic flesh covering (as we see when Uncle Bob smiles in T2) so is it really so much of a stretch to say that they're responsible for physical feeling, as well? And I do believe that they feel pain, but they don't have a programmed reaction to it, they only register it and say "Okay, there's where I was just shot. Now save that data so I can go back and fix it later." And this brings me to this question: when the T-800 was chasing Sarah and Kyle through Cyberdyne at the end of The Terminator, and it was breaking through that door, how did it know that its hand had found the handle? Did it sense that something was keeping its arm from moving there? Maybe there are some kind of sensors in its joints and actuators that can detect stuff like that?
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| toasty2 | Pre-Plasma Weaponry (page: 1 2 3 4 5 ... last page) | 123 | Oct 3 2009, 9:03 PM EDT by Canuckinator | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 1 2009, 4:01 PM EDT
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Before they captured tons of plasma rifles (and before they even existed), what do you think the resistance had the most luck with?
I'm not a weapons expert, but I assume they generally wanted heavier ammunition...7.62 would be preferable to 5.56. And obviously a .50 Barrett would be very good, but what about more conventional weapons? Would they want to use a M14 with armor piercing ammunition? What other guns? And what about sidearms? I'm just trying to get a good idea for my fic, but this is also an interesting topic. Keep in mind, these weapons would mostly be used against T-600's or other primitive models. Edit: Talk about plasma weapons is okay, but projectile weapons are the preferred topic.
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| R.Daneel_Olivaw | Could Catherine Weaver be the singularity? (page: 1 2) | 39 | Sep 7 2009, 9:33 PM EDT by ninelives888 | ||||
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Thread started: Aug 7 2009, 6:25 PM EDT
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Remember John Connor talking about the Technological Singularity?
If you don't, here is a link. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Singularity If you are too lazy for links, it refers to a point where AI is advanced enough to create newer and more intelligent AIs. The point of this thread is to discuss wether Catherine Weaver, an experimental design by Skynet, is actually more intelligent than skynet itself. If so, and even more so if John Henry, her creation, is more intelligent than her, then perhaps she is the turning point that John Connor spoke about.
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| Mike70056 | Terminator Temporal Wars 101 (page: 1 2) | 23 | Sep 4 2009, 12:02 AM EDT by termi-ninja-tor | ||||
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Thread started: Sep 21 2008, 1:35 AM EDT
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I have read some interesting questions about timelines from fans of the show. Thus, I would like to present some possible answers for why things are evolving the way they are in TSCC.
I'm not trying to explain the weekly story. Rather, the direction the storyline is taking, as a matter of the war between Skynet and the future John Connor. This is a mental consolidation of thoughts from many bloggers much smarter than I, from too many sources for me to completely remember or quote. First, there are several people asking how apparent contradictions between the movies and different points in the series are affecting the future. The answer appears to be pretty complex, in that different timeline seem to be coming into existence as the franchise pushes forward, whether this might mean alternate dimensions or simply alternate shapings of the timeline of the same dimension are valid questions. The original movie set a single timeline in which John Connor's assassination / creation is molded by moving through time. Without the terminator moving back to kill Sarah Connor, there would never have been a reason to send Kyle Reese back, and thus, never a reason for that version of John Connor to be created. There was an excellent discussion thread on this I read on the Kryptonsite forums that several bloggers contributed to a few possibilities. Many were the chicken or the egg discussions that musing how John or Skynet could have existed at all. I would choose to agree with what Arnold's Terminator brought up in T3, that "Judgment Day was inevitable". Thus, what you saw in the first movie was an already altered timeline where Skynet could develop sooner and Kyle Reese had developed into John Connor's father. Both would have existed prior to any timeline alteration, but the changes in time made both happen differently and slightly sooner.
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