How did the t-1000 time travel...not organic?!

[Sean Hebein]

Maybe the T-1000 was caked with the blood of 1000 rebels (think Arnold covering himself with mud in Predator).

 

[Hovito loincloth]

....der resistance destroyed all of skynet's baykun reserfs and zay owunly had enuf fowah vun t-1000 time jump....zer uzzer terminators lahfed at him because he smelled fuh-nee, now they are experimenting vid finely sliced meat loaf. I hef detailed files....

 

[ONEYE]

Ubber!

 

[phase pistol]

Always assumed that the T-1000 was only "liquid metal" in its default state. When it was imitating something else (through direct sampling!) it became that thing, at the molecular level... so yeah it would appear to be "flesh and blood" to the time machine. Once arrived, it just shifts back into liquid metal and then onto whatever form it chooses.

 

[rollerboi]

Y'all ain't up to date on advances in technology, are ya?

The first fullerene organic metal

Now a new variant has been made: A Russian and Japanese team has produced the first material made of two-dimensional fullerene layers that acts like a metal.
[...]
It should be possible to produce other materials in this class by varying the individual partners. The researchers expect that this will produce materials with exotic electronic properties, such as novel superconductors or spin liquids, which are materials that show an unusual magnetic state at absolute zero.

 

[carbonitekid]

So he could have come back in time in a big pile of steaming ****...:lol

What, T 3 Rise of the machines?

 

[terryr]

No, not just organic. Living.

Dr. Silberman: Why didn't you bring any weapons, something more advanced? Don't you have, uh... ray guns? Show me a piece of future technology.
Kyle Reese: You go naked. Something about the field generated by a living organism. Nothing dead will go.
Dr. Silberman: Why?
Kyle Reese: I don't know! I didn't build the ****ing thing!
Dr. Silberman: Okay, okay. But this cyborg, if it's metal...
Kyle Reese: Surrounded by living tissue!

Bacon won't work. A pig would.

 

[robn1]

...why would the machines build a device that could only transport organic living objects?...

I've always assumed it was a limitation of the technology, no other way to do it.

Nothing dead will go.

When Reese says nothing dead, I think he means non organic, not that dead tissue wouldn't work. Bacon may be a dead pig, but it's still organic. Metal and plastic are non organic, so "dead" in a way. As for weapons, wood is organic so they could have brought clubs, right?

 

[SSgt Burton]

Wow.


I truly appreciate what Cameron gave us more than ever now. :lol



Kevin

 

[Wes R]

I'm thinking the flesh is the key to it all. Maybe whatever energy is used for the temporal displacement A: shorts out unshielded machinery or B: actually needs the flesh to help transmit the energy and act as a conductor which would be key to the entire process.

 

[ONEYE]

Flesh can conduct energy/electricity, but so can metal, so it is still a conundrum as to why living tissue is the only thing that can be transported through the time displacement device and not weapons as well. Damn, those "bubble techs" for being so smart.

 

[terryr]

There's "Something about the field generated by a living organism."

 

[0neiros]

terryr hit it. The T-1000 should be able to mimic the field created by a living organism. We are Electro-Chemical in nature, and that creates a unique signature in IR, UV, EM, and other fields. That's why the TX could travel also, it's coated in the Mimetic Pollyalloy.

 

[nick daring]

Here's some technical stuff.

Hair is dead tissue but goes through fine.

Cotton clothing would be organic covering. Dress a terminator in fruit of the loom from head to toe and he should be ready for time travel.



Nick

 

[robstyle]

The way Ive always understood it is its the same theory as with Jeff Goldbloom and the Fly. The computer needs to break something down thats already coded with its own memory, DNA, blood cells... Metal doesnt have this. In that theory you can break organic material down, separate it, transfer it and reassemble it electronically. Both the computer and the material itself will know how to put it back together again.

Still no explanation for any metal going through though. Its movie magic.

Ive always entertained the idea as well that the war started out of necessity for the machines to protect their existence from the Connors. The future can be postponed and altered to a degree but the outcome will always be the same.

 

[Too Much Garlic]

Ive always entertained the idea as well that the war started out of necessity for the machines to protect their existence from the Connors. The future can be postponed and altered to a degree but the outcome will always be the same.

Well, that's sorta what the subsequent movies and tv series has done, but that just doesn't make any sense. Any change made and you'll risk important characters not meeting up or survive and you won't have any first movie.

The first movie works - the tech of the time machine can't really be understood and Reese isn't a tech guy, so he just relays it how he was told it works.

What was made after the first movie just doesn't make sense, as I said: any change and you'll risk Reese being fried in the nuclear fire. Which means that anything that came after the first movie is just a bad dream. The only way time travel stories work is if everything happens as they are supposed to... otherwise you end up with a mangled mess of inconsistencies that make no sense.

 

[terryr]

Hair is dead tissue but goes through fine.

Cotton clothing would be organic covering. Dress a terminator in fruit of the loom from head to toe and he should be ready for time travel.

Nick

Exactly. Put it in woolen long underwear with socks and gloves and the Terminator would go through just fine. IF organic was the key. Reese said 'living' not 'organic'.

Hair and dead skin shouldn't make it either, unless it was inside the field created by living tissue.

Maybe metal can't go because the time machine is made of metal, hence it can't tell what to transport and what not. So it tries to transport itself and malfunctions.

 

[neosporing]

field generated by a living organism as captured by Kirlian.

made unsubstiantiated claims (with photographic 'evidence') about these bio electric fields having the ability to exted around it's former shape e.g. cut a leaf in half and it recreats an intact electrical field.

here's a trippy video of kirlian's work that could have given cameron the inspiration for this idea ...

YouTube - Kirlian Imaging Reel

 

[CB2001]

Another possibility, which is presented in both the original film and in the Frank Miller-written comic series "RoboCop vs. The Terminator", is that it's possible that the T-1000 was sent through time with a layer of cloned flesh on it.

Think about it, in the first film, it is established that the T-800 Terminator was able to go through because it had living tissue covering it. In "RoboCop vs. The Terminator", the final issue of the four part series, the Terminator-ized RoboCop goes back in time with a few missiles by covering himself and them with a huge chunk of cloned flesh.

It could be possible that there was a thin layer of cloned flesh on the T-1000 that didn't burn off until the chase scene from the Galleria (or possibly when the T-1000 exited out of the transport through time).

 

[SXRDROCKS]

Well the dog knew it was a machine,so it can't be that good.