Thanks to having watched Terminator:Salvation at 2am I came up with a game. Let’s see if it’s any good! Skynethas become self-aware and has control of all the bombs and missiles and stuff that it used to try and destroy humanity on Judgment Day.
Thing is, Skynet is a little stupid, and is feeling generous today and so has decided to hold off on the destruction of the human race until it can gather more evidence, which it has decided it will do through reading Wikipedia articles.
Meanwhile, human scientists are sneaking in, trying to disable it before they all go BOOM!, and so here’s the catch - Skynet can only read three Wiki articles before it decides to blow up the world… after that, the scientists have turned it off. So it uses the Random article feature and makes it’s decision…
…what’s the verdict?
Use whatever criteria you think Skynet might use and tell us whether or not we are all going to die.
Feel free to tweak the rules if you think it’s necessary!
My entry:
Mick Young - Australian politician (THREAT!) but already dead (NOT A THREAT!)
Kladna, Slovenia - only 44 people (NOT A THREAT!) and far away (NOT A THREAT!)
Rita Corbin - Artist [NOT A THREAT] - Already dead. [NOT A THREAT] Great Plains Shelterbelt - Ecological engineering project {THREAT] Browncoat - The Independence faction from Firefly.[THREAT][sup]*[/sup]
Kensuke Tanabe, scriptwriter and director for Nintendo games such as Super Mario Bros. 2, two Legend of Zelda games and Metroid Prime. Any movement towards AI, even game AI, must be stopped. THREAT.
Augustin de la Balme. Dead (NOT A THREAT) military strategist (THREAT) who died in lost battle (NOT A THREAT). Verdict: NEUTRAL.
Brian Henderson may refer to:
* Brian Henderson (ice hockey) (born 1986), French ice hockey player [NOT A THREAT]
* Brian Henderson (poet) (born 1948), Canadian writer and poet [NEUTRAL]
* Brian Henderson (television presenter) (born 1931), Australian television personality [NEUTRAL - not a threat himself, but indicative of mass communication makes it neutral]
See also
* Brian Henderson-Sellers (born 1951) , Australian computer scientist [THREAT!]
Brian Henderson net judgment: [NEUTRAL]
Battle of Stono Ferry(American Revolutionary War Battle) - Warfare and rebellion against powerful empires. Happened long ago, but it’s still enough of a [THREAT].
Ainax (A holding company for a Swedish trucking company during Volvo’s attempted takeover) - Complicated financial maneuverings and companies are non-threatening, but indicates humans are prone to hostile and devious behavior: [NEUTRAL]
Captain Boomerang - Enemy of the Flash. Captain Boomerang carries a number of boomerangs in his satchel. He had also been shown to be able to hurl his body like a boomerang, giving him the ability to cover more ground than just jumping, but not enough to qualify as flight (THREAT). Captain Boomerang has a deep patriotism for his home country of Australia, though his countrymen do not care at all for him, and a tremendous fear of being laughed at (EXPLOITABLE WEAKNESS).
Foolish Beat - The fourth single, and the first ballad release, from American singer-songwriter-actress Debbie Gibson. This made Gibson the youngest person to write, produce and sing a number-one single entirely on her own when “Foolish Beat” hit the top of the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in the summer of 1988 (NOT A THREAT).
VERDICT: HUMANITY LIVES. DEBBIE GIBSON TO BE MONITORED AS A POTENTIAL UNITER OF HUMANKIND.
Belknap Lookout - Neighborhood in Grand Rapids, Michigan. No particular threat but home of a 6-million gallon reservoir. Could be a source of resistance as Skynet is unlikely to waste nuclear weapons on the Furniture City. (THREAT)
St Bartholomew’s Church, Barbon - Anglican church in England, built in 1892 with a non-remarkable history (NO THREAT) Bob Shaw (baseball) - American Baseball Player, dead (NO THREAT) François Boyer - French novelist and screenwriter, dead (NO THREAT)
We’re safe at least until a week from Thursday.
Polytechnics_Canada - “Polytechnics Canada is a cooperative association between the nine leading research-intensive, publicly funded colleges and institutes of technology… The consortium’s continuous mission is to create technical jobs and disperse skills that will contribute to the Canadian economy by focusing on innovation and productivity.”
[THREAT]: Large Scale Organization dedicated to research.
[NON-THREAT]: It’s Canadian.
Final Verdict: THREAT
Robert Sheran - “Robert J. Sheran (January 2, 1916 – January 25, 2012) was an American lawyer, politician, and judge. He was appointed Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court by Governor Wendell Anderson, serving from December 1973 to December 1981. He previously served as an associate justice on the court from January 1963 to July 1970, appointed by Governor Elmer L. Andersen. He is the only person to have been appointed to two separate tenures on the Minnesota Supreme Court by different governors… Sheran’s daughter, Kathy, is currently a Minnesota state senator, representing District 23, which includes portions of Blue Earth, Nicollet and Sibley counties.”
[THREAT]: Man has contacts and influence in the highest levels of government.
[NON-THREAT]: Lousy contacts, to be honest. I mean, his daughter represents Nicolette, MN - who ever heard of that?
Final Verdict: NOT A THREAT
Charleville Musket - “The Charleville muskets were .69 caliber French muskets used in the 18th century.”
[THREAT]: It’s a weapon, duh!
[NON-THREAT]: It’s 300 years old. Also, it’s French.
James P. Boyd - Canadian businessman and political figure. [Dead - Not a threat] Sênco - Village in Tibet. [Tibet? Totally not a threat.] Charles Manson - [Oh fuck.]
Nivalis - a synonym for Madeleinea, a butterfly genus - NOT A THREAT
Charles Marie Bonaventure du Breil, Marquis de Rays (2 January 1832 – 29 July 1893) was a French nobleman who had ambitions of starting a great French colony in the South Pacific - DEAD - NOT A THREAT
Fallen Astronaut is an 8.5 cm (slightly over 3") aluminium sculpture of an astronaut in a spacesuit which commemorates astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the advancement of space exploration. It is currently at Hadley Rille on the Moon, having been placed there by the crew of Apollo 15 on August 1, 1971. = INERT - NOT A THREAT
