tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post5658637772822654478..comments2024-01-08T09:12:42.920-05:00Comments on SF and Nonsense: Uh-ohEdward M. Lernerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620756142619513714noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-65712673939777696752011-09-14T15:38:20.098-04:002011-09-14T15:38:20.098-04:00Interest, I have. The right to use that scenario a...Interest, I have. The right to use that scenario and its characters ... not so much.<br /><br />- EdEdward M. Lernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15620756142619513714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-81146546237615375152011-09-14T15:28:24.780-04:002011-09-14T15:28:24.780-04:00If only we knew any... ahem... sci-fi writers inte...If only we knew any... ahem... sci-fi writers interested in the topic :pErikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969701260211272581noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-19605165362640936422011-09-12T12:37:04.996-04:002011-09-12T12:37:04.996-04:00Hi Erik,
In equal numbers, terminators would sure...Hi Erik,<br /><br />In equal numbers, terminators would surely have obliterated the human survivors. However ...<br /><br />What none of the movies addressed was the comparison between human and terminator populations, or the relative capacities of their industrial bases. Three billion people died on Judgment Day -- but that left about three billion more. There weren't three billion killer robots running around on Judgment Day. Meanwhile, the factories and power utilities of the targeted countries were in ruins. That would have been as much a problem for Skynet as for the surviving humans. <br /><br />It would take a book(s) to get into those sorts of complications. I'd love to see such a book.<br /><br />- EdEdward M. Lernerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15620756142619513714noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4672881018321440403.post-6973658570442869682011-09-12T12:08:44.639-04:002011-09-12T12:08:44.639-04:00Asymmetric warfare is definitely the most interest...Asymmetric warfare is definitely the most interesting type. Hackers, nuclear weapons, robot apocalypses...<br /><br />I think that's one concept the terminator series failed to grasp. As if a war between mankind and robots could be so close. The robots would have to be as stupid as those star-wars droids. If they were all like Sean Connery I don't think they'd be that concerned with a petty human resistance.Erikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00969701260211272581noreply@blogger.com