the main antagonist in the Terminator franchise. Responsible for Judgement Day. A self-aware artificial intelligence program.
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How did Skynet avoid destroying itself on Judgment Day?
It seems at the end of Terminator 3, Skynet relies upon the connected computer network in order to have the intelligence that it has. This made it resistant to any single point of failure to destroy ...
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Is there canonical reference linking the original Cyberdyne Systems research in T2 to Brewster's Skynet in T3?
Is there canonical reference to show that the original Cyberdyne Systems research in T2 (which was presumably destroyed by teenage John and Sarah Connor, Miles Dyson and T-800) somehow helped or ...
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How did Skynet screw the world even before its activation?
In Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines movie, Skynet infected most part of civilian Internet as a powerful unbeatable virus. It also broke US govt. firewall to hack US defense system. All these even ...
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Why didn't Skynet kill Kyle Reese?
In 2018, Kyle Reese (a normal civilian who wasn't part of Resistance) was on the top in the hit list of Skynet. It means that Skynet of that time had information from future about Kyle Reese being ...
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Is Skynet trying to turn Kyle Reese into a terminator at the end of Terminator 4?
At the end of Terminator 4 Kyle Reese ends up in the terminator factory. But instead of killing him Skynet runs some experiment on him (?). Or is Skynet trying to turn him into a terminator? It's too ...
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How is it possible for a single strike to shut down Skynet in the future?
How can the Resistance shut down Skynet in the future? According to the voiceover at the end of the Rise of the Machines:
There was no system core; it could not be shutdown.
and yet in ...
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Why doesn't Skynet employ miniaturization?
From T2 we know they have liquid metal (sorry, mimetic polyalloy). From T3 we know they have nanoprobes.
Why exactly are ALL of Skynet forces macro-sized, instead of, say, a fake robotic cockroach ...
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Was T-X in some way responsible for Skynet's offensive actions on Judgement Day in T3?
We know that T-X had some role in what happened on Judgement Day in T3.
It programmed some of military's robots to attack.
But was that 100% contained to dealing with localized situation of ...
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Skynet - were AI's actions evidence of Intelligence?
It's a bit unrealistic for me that Skynet just after the moment it becomes self aware, begins its attack on the enemies (humans).
Wouldn't it be more "prudent" for it to wait until the technology ...
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Is Skynet a centralized system or not?
The question that is not revealed clearly from the movies (or maybe I missed it). Is Skynet a single supercomputer or a distributed net of computers, that just coordinate their actions, but do not ...
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How did Skynet develop after the 3rd Terminator movie?
At the end of the Terminator 3 movie the T-X programs the T-1 terminators to kill office personnel and to protect Skynet, which has become self-aware. But how does Skynet develop after this? There is ...
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How did the T-1000 avoid the bootstrap paradox?
I have watched Terminator 2 several times now, but there is one major problem with it that has been bothering me. The Terminator* was sent back in time to (unsuccessfully) assassinate Sarah Connor, ...
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How did Skynet send back the T-1000 and the T-X?
As we learn in the original Terminator movie only living, organic material can be sent back in time:
REESE: "You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living
organism. Nothing dead ...
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Wouldn't John Connor cease to exist if they prevented the creation of Skynet?
Is Sarah Connor oblivious to the chance that if she prevents the creation of Skynet, that her son John Connor might cease to exist?
Without Skynet, there will be no time machine, no terminator sent ...
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Why did Skynet use such poor tactics against John Connor in Terminator 4?
In Terminator movies 1 to 3 Skynet sends one Terminator at a time and The Resistance sends one defender at a time. This can be easily explained with time travel being resource consuming.
Here's what ...
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What was the T-1001's, posing as Catherine Weaver, mission?
Why was this cyborg sent back and who sent it?
The Terminator Wiki makes the claim that Connor might have sent it. If Skynet sent it why did they care about John Henry?
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Did Skynet evolve out of Andy Good's AI Chess computer, “Turk”?
In Terminator The Sarah Conner Chronicles we find out about an AI Chess computer invented by Andy Good. Did Myles Dyson use any of Andy's code when he invented the Neural Net CPU?
