22nd March 2007, 2:39 PM
You see, the whole "it's math based system can't comprehend our somehow magical brains which are above all that for reasons never explained" never sat well with me, so there's a nonsensical "evil robots" storyline element. I'm pretty sure the computer would handle the nonsensical nature of time travel in these movie series the same way we do. It can't figure it out, so it moves on and just accepts empirical observations for what they are.
Wrapping it up like this is something I guess, but why not just end it?
Anyway, here's what I don't get. Skynet doesn't seem to mind mucking around in the past so long as it exists right? Why stop at individuals? Why not just send copies of itself and a whole army to take over the world in the PAST, meaning technology evolves at a quicker rate and it's future self is even more powerful, so it sends more armies even further back in time, supercharging it's own technological evolution. Why settle for just taking over the PRESENT when you can end the war with a direct assault on inferior time periods?
Wrapping it up like this is something I guess, but why not just end it?
Anyway, here's what I don't get. Skynet doesn't seem to mind mucking around in the past so long as it exists right? Why stop at individuals? Why not just send copies of itself and a whole army to take over the world in the PAST, meaning technology evolves at a quicker rate and it's future self is even more powerful, so it sends more armies even further back in time, supercharging it's own technological evolution. Why settle for just taking over the PRESENT when you can end the war with a direct assault on inferior time periods?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)