From: L660315@LMSC5.IS.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Subject: Re: 52 Re: Terminator 3: Any word?
Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc.
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 93 06:56:16 PST

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In article <ROUGAN.93Jan8181930@bigwpi.WPI.EDU>, rougan@bigwpi.WPI.EDU (Untitled
>>   a movie about the war in the future with sky-net.  (T0 because it would
>>   hopefully be before sky-net was prevented from coming into existance)
>>
>>
>>Who says that Skynet was prevented from coming into existance?  At the
>>end of the second movie, and I could be wrong, Arnold, in his beat up form,
>>decended into the molten metal, and the kid throws the chip and the arm into
>>the metal, right.  The thing is that there were two unatached arms, or am I
>>imagining this.  One got ripped off in the fight with the t-1000, and the othe
>>was from the original terminator and was acquired from Cyberdine industries
>>with the chip.  Now at the end, one arm is still unaccounted for.
>>So Skynet could still happen.
>>

>Oh come on!!  From an arm?  I seriously doubt that the chip is located in the
>terminator's arm!  I admit it was peculiar that Arnold tells the kid to throw
>the arm in the metal, but I don't think the mangled up arm would cause any
>scientist to have a significant brainstorm...

But, consider this...
The original scenario was that an engineer (let's call him engineer-X)
developed the first nural-net processor, subsequently leading to Skynet,
Judgement Day, and the machine's war against humans.  A human leader (let's
call him leader-X) comes along and turns the tide of the war against Skynet,
culminating in Skynet's last ditch effort to change the present, by altering
the past.  They send a 101-800 back to the 1980's to kill leader-X's mother or
both parents.  Reese is sent back and prevents the death of leader-X's mother
but not the father.  Reese then alters the future by becomming himself the
father, and now we have leader-Y.  The evidence of the 101-800 is scooped by
the fathers of Cyberdyne and a new engineer (engineer-Y) creates the new
processor before engineer-X has a chance to.
But aside from these two changes in history, everything continues
to happen as it first did, with the exception that everytime it happens there's
a small permutation to the original scenario.  These small permutations
eventually add up to a larger one: the developement of the 101-1000 by Skynet
and the second mission.  However, this second mission changes the time-loop
entirely, causing the death of engineer-Y and the termination of Cyberdyne's
research.  This, once again, leaves engineer-X, who was researching the same
processor for another company to make the breakthrough that leads to Skynet.
It's still an endless time-loop, but a time-loop that contains a series of
permutations that cycle through and cancel eachother out, leaving the original
scenario.  T1 could represent the final permutation that leads to T2, the
permutation that completes the cycle and cancels all previous changes.  T3
could represent the scenario as it was originally before being altered.  But
if it did, it should concentrate on the events leading to the mission, else we
might be left with an altered version of the first plot equating to rehash.

Just a thought.  Too bad the post about T3 was a hoax.


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