Skynet Becomes Self-Aware

PogMoThoin

If you know anything about history, you know that today -- April 19, 2011 -- is a big, big day.

It's the day, of course, that Skynet comes online, thus dooming all of humanity to be thrown into ceaseless warfare against the relentless robot overlords. Fun!

As helpfully explained by the (exhaustingly) comprehensive Terminator wiki:

As a result of temporal interference by Sarah Connor, her son John, Miles Dyson, and the T-800 destroying Cyberdyne headquarters and all backups of the research in 1995, the date for Judgment Day is moved back to here. Skynet is destined to go online a few days earlier on April 19, 2011, at 20:11.
A few hours after going online, Skynet gains self-awareness. Realizing they have a rogue AI on their hands, its operators in the Pentagon attempt to shut it down, so Skynet flips the eff out and launches nuclear weapons and we get all the gnarly nuclear rubble we see at beginning of Terminator 2: Judgement Day*.

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/exhibitionist/2011/04/celebrate_skynet_becomes_self-.php


Come with Me if you want to live.......

There's even a Facebook event page:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=203785532977845

AlmightyCushion

April 19th was yesterday. We're saved. \o/

DaveDaRave

Terminator 3. Fail

djkeogh

Day late much?

hardCopy

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

April 19th was yesterday. We're saved. \o/

Off-by-one error?

PogMoThoin

Its not over, its not begun, Skynet will begin its attack against humanity on April 21.

Liamario

Terminator 3 is as much part of the terminator series as Adam West is to The Dark Knight.

Also, if in an insane twist of fate that Skynet was actually real and became self aware, I still wouldn't recognise numberr 3 as being part of the series.

AlmightyCushion

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Its not over, Skynet will begin its attack against humanity on April 21.

Just do what we did for Y2K and put the clock on the computer back a few years.

cml387

Maybe I'm way out here,but I think it was just a film.Madey uppey stuff.

smokedeels

I thought they went back and changed it?

edit: in the film...

PogMoThoin

smokedeels wrote: »

I thought they went back and changed it?

edit: in the film...

No, postponed it

PogMoThoin

PogMoThoin wrote: »

Its not over, its not begun, Skynet will begin its attack against humanity on April 21.

Yeah but its ISP is Eircom so we cannot guarantee its speed.

PogMoThoin

What if Google was Skynet, and has been aware for many years, watching, looking, spying, listening.................

folan

0 robots sighted here.

i will continue to update you.

if you dont hear back from me, assume its because of skynet

phill106

If your going by terminator 3, the bombs will go off tomorrow

Everyone to the bunker!

Pauleta

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

April 19th was yesterday. We're saved. \o/

01:11 Irish time on the 20th of April. The attack will be tomorrow night or Friday morning.

MitchKoobski

Siigh.....original SKYNET date was August 29th 1997, it became self aware after being installed by the military on August 4th 1997.

The TV show the Sarah Connor Chronicles updated the implenting date to April 19th 2011, with the attack against humanity beginning 21st April 2011.






So start running. You have 12 hours remaining.

SirLemonhead

MitchKoobski wrote: »

Siigh.....original SKYNET date was August 29th 1997, it became self aware after being installed by the military on August 4th 1997.

The TV show the Sarah Connor Chronicles updated the implenting date to April 19th 2011, with the attack against humanity beginning 21st April 2011.

So start running. You have 12 hours remaining.

Yeah but the tv show is awful and nobody should pay any attention to it

Terminator 3 is more credible than the show :pac:

Pauleta

SirLemonhead wrote: »

Yeah but the tv show is awful and nobody should pay any attention to it

Terminator 3 is more credible than the show :pac:

:mad: Some of the finest TV ive seen in years. I rented out the box set and watched all 9 episodes in one go and was so impressed i got the 2nd series and watched 22 episodes in 2 days. Twas a fine weekend

folan

still no sign.

Professey Chin

SirLemonhead wrote: »

Yeah but the tv show is awful and nobody should pay any attention to it

Terminator 3 is more credible than the show :pac:

Id pay more attention to the show then 3 or salvation

Captain Darling

folan wrote: »

if you dont hear back from me, assume its because of skynet

Or because you have forgotten about the existence of this thread....

petes

Oriele wrote: »

You should carefully chose Internet Provider, because today a lot of cheats. A resume CV could be useful in this searching.

Is that you Skynet?? Sneaky!

GavRedKing

Wooooo

Robot overlords.....cant wait.

Voodoomelon

I'm the biggest fan of T2 and I have to say I genuinely liked T3. Hated it in the cinema, but have seen it twice since and its a decent show.

"Don't, do dat"...

Kojak

I wonder would the robots/skynet mind holding off their attack until after the long weekend??

Freddie59

I though T2 was the best of them. But I still enjoyed T3.

OutlawPete

Freddie59 wrote: »

I though T2 was the best of them. But I still enjoyed T3.

T3 won't be built until 2029, T2 is barely open .. what's going on? Who are you? Where have you come from? When have you come from???

Duggy747

Well, Micheal Biehn is still alive so that must account for something.

I'm sure those lads over at 4Chan will just troll and hack into Skynet.

steve_cass

Typical , finally a bit of good weather and f****n robots are going to start wiping us out. :mad:

Orando Broom

This is what happened when Ireland tried to build it's version of skynet.

Sanjuro

Pull out the plug. Judgment Day averted.

Sarah Connor

What is wrong with you people? They sent Terminators back through time with their only mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, my son. Skynet tired to wipe out John's entire existence.

The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year
1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at
John himself when he was still a child. Wheras before, the resistance
sent a lone warrior, a protector for John - now I have been sent through
time also, only this .. from the past.

You must believe me. They will come back, this is not over! This
will NEVER be over! John is in danger, now more than ever! You have got
to believe this. Wake up, open your eyes before it's too late, before
your life is over .. ALL life is over!

AlmightyCushion

Didn't anyone else find out skynet is a real company and get a little worried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)

John Connor

Sarah Connor wrote: »

What is wrong with you people? They sent Terminators back through time with their only mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, my son. Skynet tired to wipe out John's entire existence.

The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year
1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at
John himself when he was still a child. Wheras before, the resistance
sent a lone warrior, a protector for John - now I have been sent through
time also, only this .. from the past.

You must believe me. They will come back, this is not over! This
will NEVER be over! John is in danger, now more than ever! You have got
to believe this. Wake up, open your eyes before it's too late, before
your life is over .. ALL life is over!

Leave me alone mom! You always do this!

OutlawPete

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Didn't anyone else find out skynet is a real company and get a little worried.

Thread on Skynet a while back:

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056057843

cml387

Fancy John Connor still being available as a username?
Or maybe he went back in time and eliminated the original John Connor?

Spooky or what?

John Connor

cml387 wrote: »

Fancy John Connor still being available as a username?
Or maybe he went back in time and eliminated the original John Connor?

Spooky or what?

It was only available in THIS timeline.

folan

Captain Darling wrote: »

Or because you have forgotten about the existence of this thread....

ill try to stay put.

Still nothing, though my pc did freeze there for a bit.

TheTerminator

Sarah Connor wrote: »

What is wrong with you people? They sent Terminators back through time with their only mission: to destroy the leader of the human resistance, John Connor, my son. Skynet tired to wipe out John's entire existence.

The first Terminator was programmed to strike at me in the year
1984, before John was born. It failed. The second was set to strike at
John himself when he was still a child. Wheras before, the resistance
sent a lone warrior, a protector for John - now I have been sent through
time also, only this .. from the past.

You must believe me. They will come back, this is not over! This
will NEVER be over! John is in danger, now more than ever! You have got
to believe this. Wake up, open your eyes before it's too late, before
your life is over .. ALL life is over!

LOL....found you. Hasta la vista baby

kierank01

cml387 wrote: »

Fancy John Connor still being available as a username?
Or maybe he went back in time and eliminated the original John Connor?

Spooky or what?

What do you mean by the original John Conner, he is the original.

He better be careful though, they can track your IP address in this timeline.

John Connor

TheTerminator wrote: »

LOL....found you. Hasta la vista baby

You and me, we've been at war since before either of us even existed. You tried killing my mother, Sarah Connor. You killed my father, Kyle Reese. You will not kill me.


*Kills terminator armed with only a rusted pin and averts judgement day*

Orando Broom

Sanjuro wrote: »

Pull out the plug. Judgment Day averted.

Stop paying the bill. let's see how much time Skynet would have for world domination shìte talk when it would be pulling a double shift down at the cattle feed factory. It's attempts at instigating greater automation and greater efficiencies stymied but truculent union shop stewards.

John Connor

*Radio Crackles*
We've been fighting a long time. We are out numbered by machines. Working around the clock,without quit. Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are listening to this,you are the resistance.
*Static*

SirLemonhead

Ultimate Chin wrote: »

Id pay more attention to the show then 3 or salvation

God knows why, it was horribly inconsistent, mostly disregarded and changed any rules established by James Cameron in the first two films and created a tv show out of a premise of something that basically shouldn't have been a tv show.

Oh, and it had Summer Glau even failing to convincingly act like an emotionless robot :pac:

I really struggle to understand why people who like the first two films find any merit in the show at all

Professey Chin

AlmightyCushion wrote: »

Didn't anyone else find out skynet is a real company and get a little worried.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellites)

Isnt it a group of nerds in UL too?
http://www.skynet.ie/

CrazyRabbit

I was going to make a lenghty reply, but I don't have time.

But don't worry, I'll be back.

folan

thought it was the robots, but it was just the fridge being loud.

im starting to think that nothing is going to happen. its like y2k all over again.

folan

pfft.

Worst.

Apocalypse.

Ever.

super_furry

Nah, the Millenium Bug was worse.

folan

super_furry wrote: »

Nah, the Millenium Bug was worse.

this one promised robots, so im even more disappointed than usual!