Could a Terminator chasis be applied to humans?

[Konig15]

This might be a stpuid question, but I always though it would be cool if Humans could be converted into Terminators. What I was thinking of would be T-800 chasis put into a tube of somekind and a copy of a persons DNA would grow around and in it, basically making the chasis the skeleton. Then you do a brain transplant from the donor to the new body. I was thinking this would make a soldier invunerable while allowing him/her to still partake in the human experince after being discharged, which at the costs I'm thinking, might not be for a LONG time.

The other way is much bloodier, and involves the systematic removal of the skeleton piece by piece, including the skull. I'm not sure I'd go for it even if I had the option.

Someone like this COULD get infared vision if the wetware works properly. I was thinking that while the brain would need to sleep, a nuronet counterpart would active, taking over brain functions as the brain recuperated, effectively leaving the soldier no need for sleep.

Did I get anything seriously wrong?

[ravenus]

What would be the point? A tough skeleton would be of no use if the brain could be shot down.

[Winters_Sorrow]

I think you'd be better off with an exoskeleton.
Cheaper, easier to repair when damaged and doesn't leave the possibility of highly-trained ex soldiers with access to military grade hardware/software when they're discharged!

[Konig15]

Originally Posted by ravenus

What would be the point? A tough skeleton would be of no use if the brain could be shot down.

That's why you have the Terminator skull, complete with glowing eyes.

[Winters_Sorrow]

I still think it's a bad idea.
The advantages of the Terminator were its superior strength, which, unless you augmented the soldiers muscles with steroids, you'd lose and its advanced targeting computer which allowed incredible accuracy. You may keep this if you had the neuronet you were talking about but then it's not just the "chassis" anymore is it? It's a fully fledged cyborg with all that negatives that brings. Plus you'd be in Robocop territory then...

Plus, in the Terminator movies the humans in the future kicked Terminator butt because they were slow. The quicker, more agile humans (with the right weaponry) were able to defeat them which is why they had to resort to the wimpy tactic of killing the human leader before he was even born.

[PTeppic]

In the Terminator canon, I thought the only "human" part of the T-800 series was the skin and its attendant bits (hair, teeth, nails, eye-balls). [Horrid thought: how much of the, ahem, lower plumbing works? - was it Data (ST:TNG) or Kryton (Red Dwarf) who claimed to be fully operational?] Everything else underneath was the endoskeleton, as stop-motioned following the fuel-tanker explosion. That would seem to make the conversion a little pointless.... except for making the Terminators much more difficult to detect, where you would assume that such a process would be ideal. And, in fact, how else are they doing it?

[Paige Turner]

Better to go the route of Hector from Saturn 3. Take a 3-litre cylinder of cloned brain tissue, place the knowledge and experience of the person into this new brain via a wetwire connection, and place it in the nearly-indestructible torso of a mighty 7-foot-tall robot.

[Konig15]

Ah but the point is be an industructable robot while still being a fully functional human being, What's the point in having powers if you look like a freak? It's important to look normal while being enhanced. At least it would be for me.

Teppic, yes that was true for earlier models, but later models basically had every thing but sex organs for longer service life. And maybe they had sex organs too, who knows?

[Paige Turner]

Originally Posted by Konig15

What's the point in having powers if you look like a freak?

Oh, I don't know. I've been getting by all right. AND I only use my powers for good, too.

[Jamie_Mathieson]

I love the way that this thread sounds like a conversation I would have with myself in my own head whilst waiting for a bus.

Logically going through the pros and cons of having a terminator exoskeleton...oh, bus coming. Then you get on the bus and start thinking about the pros and cons of having acid for blood and an extendable extra set of teeth....

[Konig15]

Originally Posted by Jamie_Mathieson

I love the way that this thread sounds like a conversation I would have with myself in my own head whilst waiting for a bus.

Logically going through the pros and cons of having a terminator exoskeleton...oh, bus coming. Then you get on the bus and start thinking about the pros and cons of having acid for blood and an extendable extra set of teeth....

Oh come'on if you could be an indestructable robot and still fully function as a human, you'd jump on the crap like well, a fly on crap.

[Roboripper]

*snippety snip*

[Valko]

Not sure I'd be willing to give up the sins of the flesh

[warhammer]

Count me out...