Post by Big Brother on Oct 7, 2008 17:01:25 GMT -5
It's possible that the CPU in the head controls the rest of the endoskeleton at least party through some sort of wifi system. It could save volume and weight if you don't need a bunch of control cables running from the CPU to all parts of the body. Maybe. If the wifi bits were small enough. Plus it makes it possible, as said above, for a beheaded but still otherwise-intact endoskeleton to still be at least partly effective. On the other hand, it also makes the endoskeleton at least theoretically vulnerable to jamming. Swamp those signals with white noise, that sort of thing. Might be neat to see the resistance using such a device in the future war, even if such a device is beyond the ability of the Connor Crew to replicate with present-day gear. Or perhaps they can't do that without also making Cameron less functional. Or perhaps the wifi and hard-wired connections are redundant, so if one goes, the other takes over, and thus this is not effective against mostly-intact terminators.
As for the endoskeleton and bodies in the bank...yeah, there probably was some head-scratching over the absence of bodies. But if there really was nothing left but a hole, they might have just been presumed dead afterwards. And with a bunch of cops surrounding the building, they probably discounted the idea that anyone got out alive. As for the endoskeleton, I can easily see a non-functional (so long as the head was elsewhen) robotic skeleton being written off as some odd prototype in someone's safety-deposit box, and when no one came forward to claim it, it was dumped in the dump with the rest of the debris. The only real problem with this theory is that Ellison and the FBI apparently knew it was Crazy Sarah "Robots from the future" Connor in the bank, so they SHOULD have drawn a connection. But if they really had written off her robots-from-the-future story as the ravings of a mad lunatic, they may not have asked the local cops dealing with it about possible robot parts in the debris. Perhaps the explosion so buried Cromartie's endoskeleton that it wasn't immediately found, and only dug up when they built the highway through that site some years later?
As for the endoskeleton and bodies in the bank...yeah, there probably was some head-scratching over the absence of bodies. But if there really was nothing left but a hole, they might have just been presumed dead afterwards. And with a bunch of cops surrounding the building, they probably discounted the idea that anyone got out alive. As for the endoskeleton, I can easily see a non-functional (so long as the head was elsewhen) robotic skeleton being written off as some odd prototype in someone's safety-deposit box, and when no one came forward to claim it, it was dumped in the dump with the rest of the debris. The only real problem with this theory is that Ellison and the FBI apparently knew it was Crazy Sarah "Robots from the future" Connor in the bank, so they SHOULD have drawn a connection. But if they really had written off her robots-from-the-future story as the ravings of a mad lunatic, they may not have asked the local cops dealing with it about possible robot parts in the debris. Perhaps the explosion so buried Cromartie's endoskeleton that it wasn't immediately found, and only dug up when they built the highway through that site some years later?