my friend wants to know
I just tried it out: nope.
Sure. The terminators’ metal skeletons come through as long as they are covered with human skin.
I don’t think so. They had to send humans over to recreate the futuristic guns. If they could do it with dogs, they probably would have.
It’s not internally (ha!) consistent. However, as far as they’ve told us, yes. You should be able to send back anything as long as it’s covered in a live thing.
Why the T-1000 arrived naked, however, I have no idea.
Didn’t a terminator in the Sarah Conner Chronicles come through with a weapon underneath its own skin?
Well, if it has to be covered in a live thing, a watermelon should do the trick.
The Sarah Connor Chronicles has been very inconsistent in this. In the pilot the terminator has a weapon under his skin in a hidden slot in his thigh(like Robocop). If he had it there when he came through the portal or if he put it there and let it heal after he came to our time wasn’t specified. It wasn’t a futuristic weapon, although it sure held a lot of bullets for a contemporary pistol. Then when they use a time portal to jump ahead, the terminator’s head(stripped of its flesh) comes with them. In this same time jump, the non-living items they were carrying(a futuristic gun and all their clothes) were stripped off of them. So this portal brought forward[ul][li]A terminator with the skin covering damaged so you could see the metal underneath[]The bare metal head of a second terminator[]Two humans, whose clothing and other effects were presumably left behind since they showed up naked.[/ul]So it seems to have violated its own rules even within one jump. If non-organic material couldn’t go through, then the head(and possibly the damaged terminator) should have been left behind. If non-living things could go through, then it shouldn’t have stripped them naked or taken the gun.[/li]
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Steven
I’m pretty sure it has to be living tissue.
It would be difficult getting a gun inside a dog without killing it.
Knowledge is more valuable. Terminators can bring back the science to create the weapons in our time.
Cromartie recreated his damaged skin by using that knowledge (and a plastic surgeon he kidnapped)
I don’t usually make posts this void of content, but I couldn’t breathe for a full thirty seconds after reading this post.
It only works if the gun is made of pure handwavium or phlebotinum.
Interesting. I assume you’re including the root system with that watermelon. I can’t imagine that a watermelon that has been picked and sliced open enough to conceal a gun is alive.
Actually, just about any way you get the gun inside the melon is going to kill it, roots or no roots.
It’s never worked for me. But my time machine is stuck in forward at a very slow speed.
The original movie needed some way to explain how a cyborg (really, more like a flesh-camoflaged robot) could come back in time but not bring plasma rifles, micronukes, etc. with it. To be really consistant they should have had something about how the metallic part of the Terminator wasn’t just machinery, that it was truly alive at the nanolevel, or grown by the genetically engineered flesh surrounding it, or some such.
That is very good.
T1 explained it as something like you can’t send complex machinery with independently moving parts back, but they explained it in a way that actually makes sense.
Yes. The terminators did this in the comic books (I read about it on Wiki.) They made a fat-ass terminator and filled him with weapons like a pinata.
I believe Cromartie had the gun hidden in his leg just as a means of getting it past school security. We never did see much of that particular school but one or two episodes later we see Cameron awkwardly trying to explain her way past the metal detector at another school’s door. The gun itself was just a Glock and I doubt a Terminator would go to such lengths to hide such a pedestrian weapon.
Cromartie’s head going through as bare metal was an unavoidable mistake. For some reason a burning head half-covered in flesh flying at the screen was not considered acceptable by the network (but a literal blood bath a couple of episodes later was just fine). The intention always was that Cromartie’s head came through only because the skin was still on it. So the answer to this one is that the Fox network has the power to send through bare metal… because they’re evil.
The T-1000 came through naked in T2 because he could only imitate things he had sampled. Drawing the attention of a police officer was a brilliant bit of strategy and almost got the T-1000 to his target in one step. Much more discreet than the T-800 who comes stomping through in his biker leathers, leaving a trail of bodies behind him and attracting the attention of (all) the police in fairly short order.
As for how the T-1000 came back in the first place, the mimetic poly-alloy evidently allows it to approximate skin. Which means you could wrap an arsenal in mimetic poly-alloy and send it back no problems. Which brings us to how in T3 the T-X came through with a full compliment of weapons built into her arm.
Logically if you can send a flesh covered robot back in time, you can send a flesh covered atomic bomb back in time. Logically.
Wait. You have to cover something in a live thing to send it back in time? Why?
Outside a dog, a gun is a man’s best friend.
Inside a dog, it’s too dark to shoot.