Wrighting a Wrong
March 15, 2010 in Blogs
On Friday I completed a draft of the full upcoming series on The Last Mimzy for the Examiner’s temporal anomalies articles, ten installments covering everything from Tibetan Mandalas to civil engineering. Then on Saturday I was bedridden by what appears to have been a nasty but brief influenza hit. I went as far as the bathroom several times, and a bit farther once or twice, but I will spare you the biological details. I was adequately recovered by Sunday to return to work, and my wife half-joked about how well I’d planned my illness to cripple me on my day off.
I also realized, in the midst of the sickness, that I had missed an important detail in the Mimzy examination, and so had to return to the series, insert a new article at number 7, and renumber and relink all the other articles. But I am now satisfied with the overall series, which will require only minor editing (I hope) between now and its launch next month. The outline of the articles is already posted to The Examiner Connection, the page where I index the articles.
That page also shows that today I posted Terminator part 11: wrong or Wright?, which considers the implications of SkyNet’s statement that its best machines had repeatedly failed to kill John Conner. Does this indicate knowledge of events in the past that have not yet been initiated from the future? That is, does SkyNet already know that its T-800, T-1000, and T-X, which it has not yet even invented, have already failed to kill Sarah, John, and Kate (Brewster) Conner in the past? That would be a significant anomaly, and would force us to ask why SkyNet doesn’t change what it is going to do in response to that knowledge.
Which is what the article asks, and what I hope it adequately answers.
–M. J. Young