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The Movie Life
There are some things that just go together, like Peanut Butter and Chocolate. How can you go wrong with that? As a movie fan, I find myself the occasional resident of certain universes. Sometimes, I have my feet in two universes. Cameron gave us so many perfect places, it’s hard not to visit his visions. Aliens was so successful, I wonder why he wasn’t brought back for Aliens 3. Every subsequent Aliens left me wanting. Terminator: Salvation left me wanting. Mostly because it departed from lore as established by Cameron. As a movie fan, and armchair scientist and critique, here’s where I would have gone.
Cameron was consistent with science. A nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter. No more sun. No solar powered machines. The survivors of a war against intelligent machines would have to act quick. They would need to organize and take out all existing power plants. You would also need to keep powerplants for yourself. If you can’t keep it for your own use, it has to be destroyed. They’d have to blow up nuclear and coal powered plants to keep AI from having it. As computer oriented as nuclear powerplants are, you’d almost have to get rid of them first. Humans would still lose the war. And there would likely be insufficient generators and gas for an AI’s minimal existence, so it’s a dead end game for humans and AI, unless it just hibernates…
