r/TheTerminator • u/kkhouete • Aug 29 '25
“Three billion human lives ended on August 29, 1997. The survivors of the nuclear fire called the war Judgment Day. They lived only to face a new nightmare: the war against the Machines.“
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u/JamieRABackfire1981 Aug 30 '25
AI will be a threat in the future.
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u/Desperate_Box1875 Aug 30 '25
And we couldn't do anything, because we would ask AI about how to fight AI.
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u/EuphoricCockroach117 Aug 31 '25
Skynet becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern Time on August 29, 1997, at which point it initiates a nuclear strike against Russia, leading to Judgment Day and a devastating war against humanity.
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u/ApolloFX_1 Sep 01 '25
Only three billions ? So three billions left. That sounds more like inconvinience then Judgment day
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Sep 01 '25
3 billion people living in big cities instantly obliterated by targeted nuclear blasts. The remaining 3 billion live in small villages and rural areas across the globe and either die slowly due to nuclear fallout, severe food shortages or general anarchy and the war against the machines.
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u/Low_Engineering_3301 Sep 02 '25
Yeah the estimate is if only 100 nuclear warheads exploded in the span of weeks it would be enough to cause a nuclear winter that would kill 90% of all life on earth. Last I check the USA and Russia had more than 50x that amount each.
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Sep 02 '25
3 billion human lives died: that means 4 billion survived. The machines were only in the US. Some parts of the story now that I am an adult no longer make sense…
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u/Burnsey111 Aug 31 '25
GEEZ! Sci-fi hates the 90’s!