Could you just hide from the terminator?

[Robocok]

Time travel uses wormholes and I guess that they only have one wormhole to use. That wormhole is just a constant certain amount of time backwards in the past because an Einstein Rosen bridge looks like this:

A wormhole is two points of spacetime folded over like a sandwich and connected by that bridge. That "bridge" is always the same size. So if the the future moves ahead in time by 10 seconds then the place in the past that bridge is connected to also moves ahead 10 seconds. So, if the bridge is "10 years long" then you can only go ahead or back 10 years at any given time.

So you can only go to 1900 from 1910. Once 1910 becomes 1911, you can only go back to 1901. Etc.

I just finished watching Deja Vu and it explained it like that.

 

[aus101]

When you think about it, the original Terminator is actually a lot less dangerous than a decent human hitman. It's incredibly obvious and comes right at you. It's only dangerous because it's so durable. They're not that great at their job.

If real hitmen only had to achieve their mission and had the Terminators durability then they wouldn’t need to be sneaky, they could just come straight at you.

The fact they can die to 80s/90s era weaponry and do care about what happens once they complete their missions means they can’t just do a Terminator. It would certainly be effective though (as people think it’s just a normal human so will ineffectually fight it or assume they are safe, like in the police station).

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Yes, you could. And in that situation the Terminator moves to the next person on the list. It happens in the 1st film, but Sara makes mistakes (like calling her mother) that lead the Terminator to her location.

 

[John Schultz]

Watching The Terminator. If you made the initial escape, would you be able to just disappear and have him not find you? Let's even say it's the 80s. He doesn't have super powers to detect your profile, but he's like a fairly smart detective.

If you got away once, and moved somewhere that nobody knew you, and used a different name, how would he find you? If you picked a random island, or another country, could you just live out your life with your new identity? How would he find you?

Idiot Sarah told her mom where she was for absolutely no reason, which was a lame plot convienence, but if she hadn't done that they literally could have gone to any other state and it would have taken hit-the-lottery luck for the t-100 to find them.

The Terminator is designed to seek and Terminate its a form of AI that the designers studied human Psychology.

Also Terminator is sent into the past at a stage before you have time to know.

 

[JAEGERX]

you can hide for a while, but the Terminator has a list of secondary objectives who are important in Conor's rise to victory in the war with the machines, it will just go around killing the future officers and heros of the war and then circle back to Conor

 

[GearSolidMetal]

Lets see how he'd like a taste of this.

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

Skynet can send robots back in time, and it appears to be linear so if she isn't dead after a certain amount of time, send another one back to the same point and try again.

Or send a more advanced version to kill her son when she is in the looney bin.

 

[Cole train]

Yes, you could. And in that situation the Terminator moves to the next person on the list. It happens in the 1st film, but Sara makes mistakes (like calling her mother) that lead the Terminator to her location.

Hold on a second i remember him finding 3 sarah connors in the phonebook and the 2 were the ones he killed

 

[TSO]

Stop what, a door to door quest? Is it going to eventually get a job with the census to hit more houses?

It's a well made, but very dumb movie. Pretty much all movies with time travel in them are dumb, time travel is impossible and illogical so no story involving it will ever make sense.

 

[I'm Shawn Spencer]

Yeah in the 80's it would've been almost impossible for the T-800 to find Sarah if she hadn't called her mom.

Plus, there was no way for the T-800 to ever know if he'd killed the right Sarah. Let's say our Sarah's name wasn't listed in the phone back. And Arnie found 3 Sarahs in there and killed them all. What does he do then? Just assume he got the right one? How would he know? Would he always keep looking until his batteries died?



Terminator makes a lot more sense and would be far harder to escape these days. With camera phones, traffic cams, drone cams, cameras all over the place. It would be a lot trickier to get away from one now than in the 80's.

 

[Robocok]

Yeah in the 80's it would've been almost impossible for the T-800 to find Sarah if she hadn't called her mom.

Plus, there was no way for the T-800 to ever know if he'd killed the right Sarah. Let's say our Sarah's name wasn't listed in the phone back. And Arnie found 3 Sarahs in there and killed them all. What does he do then? Just assume he got the right one? How would he know? Would he always keep looking until his batteries died?



Terminator makes a lot more sense and would be far harder to escape these days. With camera phones, traffic cams, drone cams, cameras all over the place. It would be a lot trickier to get away from one now than in the 80's.

In t2, Arnold explained that they run for 120 years on their battery.

I think even in the 80s, the terminator would still figure out where you were. Money is not an issue and it would utilize every trick in the book as well as probably hire other detectives and security firms to help find you. It doesn't sleep and would relentlessly comb every neighborhood and business and view every frame of every surveillance camera until it found a lead to track.

There would be no escape from the inevitable. Sooner or later it would find you.

 

[Dinotective]

Alexa would sell you out immediately

 

[PG29 red0 Jr]

Watching The Terminator. If you made the initial escape, would you be able to just disappear and have him not find you? Let's even say it's the 80s. He doesn't have super powers to detect your profile, but he's like a fairly smart detective.

If you got away once, and moved somewhere that nobody knew you, and used a different name, how would he find you? If you picked a random island, or another country, could you just live out your life with your new identity? How would he find you?

Idiot Sarah told her mom where she was for absolutely no reason, which was a lame plot convienence, but if she hadn't done that they literally could have gone to any other state and it would have taken hit-the-lottery luck for the t-100 to find them.

You would certainly be able to get away for what I would imagine could be years or more. The terminator may eventually hunt you down, especially if you got sloppy. It would basically be a super detective that never sleeps, rests, or takes days off etc.

 

[n...not crazy]

That'd be a seriously long movie if it took him 12 years to find her again. Bunch of scenes of him scanning through microfiche at the library, talking to random people at bars and grocery stores, and sifting through tax records at the courthouse.... hey man if you wanna write the story, go for it

 

[I'm Shawn Spencer]

In t2, Arnold explained that they run for 120 years on their battery.

I think even in the 80s, the terminator would still figure out where you were. Money is not an issue and it would utilize every trick in the book as well as probably hire other detectives and security firms to help find you. It doesn't sleep and would relentlessly comb every neighborhood and business and view every frame of every surveillance camera until it found a lead to track.

There would be no escape from the inevitable. Sooner or later it would find you.

Yeah but there weren't a lot of security cams in the 80's, and even the ones they did have weren't digitally connected to the internet or anything, so tons of security cams wouldn't be easily accessible to a terminator.
Plus, the Terminator DID have facial recognition software iirc, but they had no pics of Sarah and didn't know what she looked like. So camera footage of her wouldn't do it any good anyway. It could literally walk past Sarah on the street and how would it know it was her?

Plus, Sarah doesn't have to hide from it her whole life. Only long enough to have John, raise him and train him, and then John goes off on his own.

If Sarah and John were smart, I don't think the Terminator would ever find them.


lol this stuff is pretty fun to think about.

 

[Robocok]

Yeah but there weren't a lot of security cams in the 80's, and even the ones they did have weren't digitally connected to the internet or anything, so tons of security cams wouldn't be easily accessible to a terminator.
Plus, the Terminator DID have facial recognition software iirc, but they had no pics of Sarah and didn't know what she looked like. So camera footage of her wouldn't do it any good anyway.

Plus, Sarah doesn't have to hide from it her whole life. Only long enough to have John, raise him and train him, and then John goes off on his own. If Sarah and John were smart, I don't think the Terminator would ever find them.

It would find a photo from her high school yearbook, her driver's license at the dmv database, or from a photo album at her mom's cabin. It would employ forensic analysis, fingerprints, tire tracks, DNA. It could probably frame both her and John for a heinous crime and get the FBI and police in on the hunt as well (actually they escaped from the police station so this would've been the case anyways). Unless they went completely underground and were totally isolated it would find them.

Eventually they would have to eat and expose themselves.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

Hold on a second i remember him finding 3 sarah connors in the phonebook and the 2 were the ones he killed

Exactly. He moves on to the next step/person. But yeah, you can hide from him.


Imo all Sara Connor really had to do once she knew he was after her was change her identity and that’d be that.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

In t2, Arnold explained that they run for 120 years on their battery.

I think even in the 80s, the terminator would still figure out where you were. Money is not an issue and it would utilize every trick in the book as well as probably hire other detectives and security firms to help find you. It doesn't sleep and would relentlessly comb every neighborhood and business and view every frame of every surveillance camera until it found a lead to track.

There would be no escape from the inevitable. Sooner or later it would find you.

Nah.. in T3 John Connor was out of sight for so long Skynet gave up on hunting him and started sending Terminators to kill off his lieutenants/Sargents and so on


That’s why Sara went to the desert. Not that difficult.

 

[Amerikuracana]

The Terminator is designed to seek and Terminate its a form of AI that the designers studied human Psychology.

Also Terminator is sent into the past at a stage before you have time to know.

I said "If you make the initial escape."

 

[Henry Swanson]

Move to another country, grow a moustache and change your name to Guy Incognito.