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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Wed Oct 23, 2019, 03:42 AM Oct 2019

Walked by a poster for the new Terminator movie

Why would a robot age?

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Walked by a poster for the new Terminator movie (Original Post) Recursion Oct 2019 OP

A. It wouldn't. dchill Oct 2019 #1

Because the T-101 Terminators are coated with cloned skin. The skin ages. DetlefK Oct 2019 #2

Because Terminators are living tissue over a metal endoskeleton. Dave Starsky Oct 2019 #3

dchill

(38,503 posts)

1. A. It wouldn't.

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Wed Oct 23, 2019, 04:06 AM

Oct 2019

B. Nope, still wouldn't.

C. Schwartzenegger must need money again.

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

2. Because the T-101 Terminators are coated with cloned skin. The skin ages.

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Wed Oct 23, 2019, 09:41 AM

Oct 2019

Dave Starsky

(5,914 posts)

3. Because Terminators are living tissue over a metal endoskeleton.

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Wed Oct 23, 2019, 10:50 AM

Oct 2019

I believe that's how future warrior Kyle Reese explained it in the first Terminator movie.

What I don't understand is how there is still a legacy Terminator hanging around in a cabin 30 years after the only one on Earth was melted down in the second movie.

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