On Sunday, August 17, 2003 2:44:03 PM UTC-7, Bryan Derksen wrote:   
   > On 17 Aug 2003 06:19:01 -0700, bruno@ece.cmu.edu (Marcelo Bruno)   
   > wrote:   
      
   > > Turning to a less philosophical and more scientific question,   
   > >assuming that Skynet wanted to rise and rule over Earth, wouldn't it   
   > >be an odd strategy to start a global nuclear war first? After all,   
   > >when nuclear warheads fall, they not only kill humans, but also   
   > >destroy all associated technology and infrastructure, including   
   > >machines and computer/communication networks, which are precisely the   
   > >means Skynet uses to spread and rule over the globe.   
   >   
   > This, too, could be easily explained by panic. As soon as Skynet "woke   
   > up", its human operators started trying to shut it down; Skynet had to   
   > stop them immediately, and perhaps the nukes were the only way it had   
   > available. Or they were the only way it _understood_, since it was a   
   > newborn at that point and only had its memories as a military   
   > strategic warfare computer to draw on.   
      
   How is it that Skynet survived the war which would have wiped out the millions   
   of computers it was housed in?   
      
   At the very beginning of the movie, John Conner does something really   
   shocking: He drops a beer bottle into a body of water.  He didn't even finish   
   it first!   
      
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