# The Terminator Vs Polar Bear **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 16, 2006, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725 "2006-07-16T10:14:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/21 "2006-07-17T07:13:40Z")
How 'bout a terminator polar bear, i.e. a cyborg with polar bear appearance. Could even the T-1000 take on that and win? ---
**Author:** ![Dunderman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecb155/32.png) [@Dunderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dunderman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/22 "2006-07-17T10:31:24Z")
[QUOTE=Charlie Tan] How 'bout a terminator polar bear, i.e. a cyborg with polar bear appearance. Could even the T-1000 take on that and win? [/QUOTE] Eventually, I suppose, but it would be a real drag-out fight. Without aids the Bearminator can’t even harm the T-1000, and the T-1000 is faster than the Bearminator, so the latter can’t run away. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/23 "2006-07-17T12:29:53Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Bearminator [/QUOTE] as played by James Gandolfini? **Bearminator** … :snicker: ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/24 "2006-07-17T13:30:45Z")
What if we could give the polar bear _one_ weapon? I’d give him a phased plasma pulse-laser in the forty watt range. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/25 "2006-07-17T13:54:34Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] What if we could give the polar bear _one_ weapon? I’d give him a phased plasma pulse-laser in the forty watt range. [/QUOTE] Unless the polar bear is [Iorek Byrnison](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iorek_Byrnison) or one of the other [Panserbjørne](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panserbj%C3%B8rne), that’s not likely to help; you need opposable thumbs for those things. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/26 "2006-07-17T15:06:23Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] Effective enough that you couldn’t pick up the bear’s heat signature in subzero temperatures? [/QUOTE] Effective enough that snow doesn’t melt on it. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/27 "2006-07-17T16:08:02Z")
[QUOTE=Priceguy] If you can rip out Bill Paxton’s heart, you can also crush a polar bear’s skull with one punch. [/QUOTE] But I would susspect a polar bear could also rip out Bill Paxton’s heart as easily. Also the stories of normal grizzly bears being able to peel open vehicles makes me think this is not nearly as one sided. The terminator body has many joints, which are only a couple of inches diameter. What is the maximum strength that a small mobile powered joint can have? Though it took explosives to break the terminator in half, explosives can’t take advantage of leverage that a bear might use. I think it is possible that a polar bear is stronger than a terminator, we don’t have much indication of a terminators maximum strength but I don’t remember one doing anything brute strength wise that an adult Orangutang couldn’t do. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/28 "2006-07-17T16:08:48Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] … a phased plasma pulse-laser in the forty watt range. [/QUOTE] Aaaahhhh. A 1920’s style death ray. sorry. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/29 "2006-07-17T16:31:33Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] What if we could give the polar bear _one_ weapon? I’d give him a phased plasma pulse-laser in the forty watt range. [/QUOTE] Hey, nothing fancy, just what you see on the shelves. ---
**Author:** ![Zakalwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zakalwe/32/270_2.png) [@Zakalwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zakalwe)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/30 "2006-07-17T16:39:27Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] What if we could give the polar bear _one_ weapon? I’d give him a phased plasma pulse-laser in the forty watt range. [/QUOTE] Nit: Wasn’t it “the forty **mega** watt range”? ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/31 "2006-07-17T17:00:43Z")
Even if the cold doesn’t make the Terminator’s limbs snap off, it might make them freeze up. If its coolant isn’t good down to -40 degrees, then Skynet might end up with a high-tech piece of sculpture trying to fight a polar bear. ---
**Author:** ![Subway\_Prophet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecb155/32.png) [@Subway\_Prophet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Subway_Prophet)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/32 "2006-07-17T17:25:32Z")
[QUOTE=Zakalwe] Nit: Wasn’t it “the forty **mega** watt range”? [/QUOTE] :smack: I mean, um, yes. Yes. Yes it was, before 1994’s assault weapons ban. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Cluricaun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Cluricaun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cluricaun)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/33 "2006-07-17T17:41:46Z")
[QUOTE=Zakalwe] Nit: Wasn’t it “the forty **mega** watt range”? [/QUOTE] Well of course. 40 watters are just toys for children, they don’t even scorch things well. 40 megas are really quite lethal. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/34 "2006-07-17T19:48:00Z")
[QUOTE=Charlie Tan] **Bearminator** … :snicker: [/QUOTE] Sounds like it could grab all five positions on the Threat-Down. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Tan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/charlie_tan/32/12582_2.png) [@Charlie\_Tan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Tan)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2006, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725/35 "2006-07-17T20:38:13Z")
[QUOTE=Subway Prophet] it was, before 1994’s [/QUOTE] See, I told you it was old technology. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-terminator-vs-polar-bear/364725.md?page=1)