From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Saturday, July 5, 2003 1:06:37 PM UTC-7, Peter Meilinger wrote:   
   > Just a couple dumb questions that occurred to me.   
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   > Spoilers...   
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   > Okay. The TX or whatever it's called can control other   
   > machines. I can accept that easily enough when it comes to   
   > things like Arnie and the Terminator prototypes. They're   
   > designed to be run by a computer "brain," and she can   
   > control that brain.   
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   > I can even accept that she can drive cars by remote control.   
   > Modern cars have so many computers in them that with a little   
   > handwaving I don't care that there's no one to actually   
   > push the pedals and move the steering wheel.   
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   > But how did she see when she was controlling the cars in that   
   > big chase with the crane truck?  For large parts of the   
   > chase, she could see John and the cop cars, and I'm sure she   
   > has enough RAM or whatever to control both the truck and the   
   > other vehicles. But for fairly long periods of time, the   
   > cop cars and ambulance were out of her line of sight, but   
   > they clearly were being intelligently directed. They knew   
   > exactly what they were doing. How's that work?   
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   > Another question - at the end of the movie, John goes on   
   > the radio and identifies himself as John Connor at Crystal   
   > Peak. Is it just me, or wouldn't Skynet be monitoring radio   
   > traffic? I would think it would immediately target a few   
   > dozen warheads on Crystal Peak.   
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   > Just a couple of inane, picky observations. Overall, I   
   > liked the movie quite a bit. More than I expected to.   
      
   Skynet spread throughout the Internet.  How did it survive the nuclear war,   
   which would have wiped out the computers in which it was housed?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)