Time travel experts in here please

[u-Bob]

In the first episode of season 1 of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cameron explains that when they travel through time, they can't take anything with them... no clothes, no weapons... nothing. That's why when someone arrives in that big ball of lightning, they are always naked.

So, that makes sense for humans. The 'material' that's alive makes it through and the other material, like their clothes, stays behind.

Now for the experts: Those terminators are machines. How are they able to travel back in time when you can't take any machines with you when you travel through time?

[Joshua G]

unfortunately cameron missed Back to the Future when he wrote the script, or he would have clearly seen that machines can travel through time at 88mph.

[papill0n]

switch back to jersey shore and forget about it

[Freaky_Akula]

One moment. You asked for expert help and you will get it. Paul Markham is probably already typing a wall of text that will answer all your questions about time travel, terminators and explain why sales will go up when Skynet kills 90% of your competition.

[SuckOnThis]

Because they were surrounded by living tissue.

[Rochard]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

Those terminators are machines. How are they able to travel back in time when you can't take any machines with you when you travel through time?

It's because they eat bacon. Bacon is so awesome it can break through the time warp and bend space, allowing them to travel.

[bigluv]

http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Tim...ment_Equipment

[TheSquealer]

John Titus....

[SilentKnight]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

Now for the experts: Those terminators are machines. How are they able to travel back in time when you can't take any machines with you when you travel through time?

You're asking a question of logic about a sci-fictional movie.

There's your answer.

[Matt 26z]

Perhaps the machines have better technology.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

In the first episode of season 1 of the Sarah Connor Chronicles, Cameron explains that when they travel through time, they can't take anything with them... no clothes, no weapons... nothing. That's why when someone arrives in that big ball of lightning, they are always naked.

So, that makes sense for humans. The 'material' that's alive makes it through and the other material, like their clothes, stays behind.

Now for the experts: Those terminators are machines. How are they able to travel back in time when you can't take any machines with you when you travel through time?

This weird rule is actually explained in the first Terminator movie. The machine can travel back because it is "wrapped" in skin. It's a really weak and stupid argument that I just tend to gloss right over when watching those movies.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by joshgirls

unfortunately cameron missed Back to the Future when he wrote the script, or he would have clearly seen that machines can travel through time at 88mph.

James Cameron made Terminator in 1984. Back to the Future wasn't released until 1985. Cameron had nothing to do with the Sarah Connor chronicles.

[2MuchMark]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

You're asking a question of logic about a sci-fictional movie.

There's your answer.

The best Science Fiction movies have excellent logic. It can be far fetched as long as it is true to itself.

There's a really good sci-fi movie that came out about 8 years ago called "The Core". It has all kinds of impossibilities in it but it actually doesn't matter because they establish the "rules" for the movie and surprisingly break none of them. As far as I remember The Terminator movies and TV show didn't break any of their own rules either, which fortunately gave us a very sexy Summer Glau, naked. (Hidden, but naked).

[fuzebox]

Originally Posted by bigluv

http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Tim...ment_Equipment

"However, there is some exception, such as dirt[2] or mimetic polyalloy."

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by joshgirls

unfortunately cameron missed Back to the Future when he wrote the script, or he would have clearly seen that machines can travel through time at 88mph.

I was referring to the "hot fuckable female cyborg"-Cameron

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by **********

The machine can travel back because it is "wrapped" in skin. It's a really weak and stupid argument that I just tend to gloss right over when watching those movies.

So technically, they could bring back weapons if they wrap them in skin (or bacon ) or in the case of humans, put them inside certain body cavities.

[bronco67]

By the way, that show alternated from being brilliant one week, to stupid the next. Overall, it was pretty good, especially near the end of its run.

[bronco67]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

So technically, they could bring back weapons if they wrap them in skin (or bacon ) or in the case of humans, put them inside certain body cavities.

Bacon is dead tissue.

[baddog]

Originally Posted by u-Bob

So technically, they could bring back weapons if they wrap them in skin (or bacon ) or in the case of humans, put them inside certain body cavities.

I think that is how the idea of wrapping every damned thing in bacon came to be.. They start wrapping everything except the kitchen sink in it, then it becomes so ordinary that no one notices the bacon wrapped cyborgs.

[SilentKnight]

Extrapolating this out - can we send Kevin Bacon back in time to unmake 'Tremors'?

[livexxx]

I'm wrapping my todger in bacon as I speak

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by bigluv

http://terminator.wikia.com/wiki/Tim...ment_Equipment

thanks .

* One theory states that the T-1000 is capable of generating a synthetic bioelectric field.
* Another concludes that Skynet grows a synthetic flesh pod, or cocoon, around the T-1000 specifically to send it through time. Once through, the T-1000 would rip out of this cocoon and begin its mission. However, no evidence of such a pod was shown when the TDE was used to transport the T-1000 and the T-X, an endoskeletal unit contained in a mimetic polyalloy infiltration sheath.
* It is also possible that the T-1000 simulates the structure of living cells for the duration that is required for the time displacement to occur.
* There is another explaination that the TDE is able to transport the mimetic polyalloy in addition to the living tissue.

In the pilot episode of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, a T-888 head is transported through time along with Sarah, John and Cameron. According to Josh Friedmann,[5] immediately before the time travel, the head was covered in tissue that was then burnt off during time travel. This could possibly be the way Skynet is able to send the T-1000 prototype and the T-X back in time without traces of cocoons being seen following time travel ? a thin layer of skin covering the T-1000 is burnt off during time travel.

[DWB]

Somewhere a pig is reading this and is very nervous.

[u-Bob]

Originally Posted by DWB

Somewhere a pig is reading this and is very nervous.

a snake would probably be easier to use to transport things like rifles etc.

[CDSmith]

Originally Posted by bronco67

Bacon is dead tissue.

Yet at the same time bacon is life.


Such an enigma, bacon is.

[MaDalton]

Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Extrapolating this out - can we send Kevin Bacon back in time to unmake 'Tremors'?

Tremors Part 1 was an excellent movie

[BaldBishop]

I liked Tremors.

[sojproductions]

tremors was awesome