From: lukas.mariman@REMOVEgmail.com   
      
   "Gnomus"  schreef in bericht   
   news:310820081953231103%Eat@Joe's.com...   
   > In article , POD  {Ò¿Ó}   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> "Lukas Mariman"  once tried to test me. I   
   >> ate their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >>   
   >> >   
   >> > "POD {Ò¿Ó}"  schreef in bericht   
   >> > news:Xns9B0B97CFCE75WeLovePOD@195.188.240.200...   
   >> >> "Lukas Mariman"  once tried to test   
   >> >> me. I ate their liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti   
   >> >>   
   >> >>> Dunno why POD was so critical on it.   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Terminator loses head, head travels 20 years into the future, body is   
   >> >> somehow found in blown up bank vault and simply dumpled in scrap   
   >> >> yard, after 20 years of being left in a scrapyard, body comes to life   
   >> >> with no chip in it and goes looking for head, with no eyes!!!   
   >> >>   
   >> >> Far fetched does not even come into it, this is just insulting to   
   >> >> anyone with over 20 brain cells.   
   >> >   
   >> > The phrase coming into mind here is "You would think that..."   
   >> >   
   >> > But, I do think you underestimate the sheer levels of human stupidity,   
   >> > neglect & incompetence.   
   >> >   
   >> > Suppose the 20th centurey humans living in the Terminator universe   
   >> > have no clue that 20 to 30 years in the future, there are going to be   
   >> > these robot skeletons walking around killing people. So you see this   
   >> > headless metallic robot stuff lying around. Unless you're into SF or   
   >> > you read the script, making things very postmodern, who would go "   
   >> > whoah!!! Headless terminator!!! We must destroy it as soon as   
   >> > possible!"   
   >> >   
   >> > Or, in other words, you wouldn't believe the stuff people throw away.   
   >> > IMO It's really not much of a stretch. Feel free to disagree though!   
   >> > :-)   
   >> >   
   >> >   
   >>   
   >> The whole point of scrap yards is to collect, sort and sell metal, they   
   >> don't keep a bit for "local colour" for 20 years. They put it on a pile   
   >> and when the pile is big enough it gets carted off to be melted down.   
   >>   
   >> But no, lets go back a bit... a bank vault is blown up, and this   
   >> "thing" is found in the rubble....what do the police do?  Tag it and bag   
   >> it, and see what part it played in the events, or simply give it to a   
   >> scrap yard??? That is far fetched bunkum number one...  The scrap yard   
   >> thing is number two.  Number 3 is the biggest peach, in that, in the   
   >> already defined world of the T-800 Terminator, we know from T2, that if   
   >> the CPU is removed from the skull, the thing is dead, yet here we are   
   >> with a T-800 not only working without it's CPU, but it's doing it   
   >> without it's whole frickin' head!!!!!  Now we've all seen the T-800's   
   >> body and it's all metal and pistons, can't quite remember a couple of   
   >> hidden eyes anywhere...  No quite sure there aren't any there...   
   >>   
   >> So while people may be able to bag themselves a new laserdisc player in   
   >> the middle of a Tokyo night, I very much doubt they could go back after   
   >> 20 years and still pick one up.   
   >   
   > Isn't there also the whole issue of the metal head passing through the   
   > time portal thingy, when previously only metal wrapped in flesh could   
   > go through?   
      
   Oooh, that is a good point! I hadn't picked up on that.   
      
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