Genuine question - did they pick the name Skynet on purpose?
And let us pray that come it may (As come it will for a' that)
Decemberist
Yes because its a net in the sky.
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Okay, the name is either completely brilliant or possibly the first sign of the robot apocalypse, but got to give them credit either way.
Sure, these kinds of donate-your-computer-time-to-science initiatives have been going on for quite a while, but still, sounds good, and I bet today's fast computers could do a metric ton of calculations. I for one welcome the coming of more computerized overlords. For Science! !
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SETI@Home has been doing the same thing for at least a decade. Probably longer. It's simply distributed computing.
Using Skynet as the name is probably not the wisest choice they could have made, though, I will say that.
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Didn't Britain buy some Predator drones and name the system in charge of them Skynet a while back?
Decemberist
Might have been it. I think Britain supports ou future mechanical overlords.
Oh come on, when there are companies called cyberdyne making battle armor, this isn't the worst thing that has happened.
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At the same time, the US was reaseraching the Star Wars defence system.
So the US will be the space rebels.
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So, it'll be Star Wars vs. Terminator? That's pretty awesome.
Proud Canadian
With Robot Nixon.
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Nah it most be some joke
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I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.
Yeah, Star Wars beats the ass off The Terminator. Just sayin'.
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Terminators are technically time lords.
They can travel back in time and kill the engineer that was in charge of building the death star. Unless one of their agent goes rogue .
edited 14th Sep '11 6:29:04 PM by Baff
I will always cherish the chance of a new beggining.
^ Which happens every time jump except the first.
The Death Star doesn't even factor into my calculations of Star Wars winning. The Force, for starters. The industrial production capacity of thousands of worlds. Widespread energy weapons. The ability to make a planet unsuitable to habitation with orbital bombardment in anywhere between three hours and a day based upon how many ships are employed.
Seriously
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That doesn't sound omninous at all, does it?
edited 14th Sep '11 11:20:42 AM by Yej
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