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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mmu1" data-source="post: 3996753" data-attributes="member: 319">Depending on where the line gets drawn, you could also arrive missing hair, nails, the very outer layer of skin, tooth enamel, the dead bacteria which make up a large part of the contents of your large intestine... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />The only hand-wave I can see (short of them saying it's not a matter of physical law, but that Fate or God or Gaia or The Universal Consciousness made it so) that'd even begin to make sense is if they said that living tissue generates some sort of field, or energy signature, that makes time travel possible, and that's why something mechanical surrounded by enough organic material can travel through time - but I think that's pretty weak... Even if the image of a T-1000 materializing inside a ball of organic slush, then slipping in the resulting puddle and falling on his ass sort sort of cracks me up.Here's another random thought: If there's a "scientific" reason why the time-travelers always arrive kneeling or curled up fetally it'd probably be that whoever operates the time machine wants to a) Keep the volume of the sphere as low as possible (less energy used, less temporal disruption, or some other likely bit of technobabble) and b) Make sure they don't accidentally cut something off as the targets dematerialize. However, rather than arrive as a metal sphere (which inherently takes up the least possible space for a given volume of material), the T-1000 shows up the same way as everyone else, because it's more dramatic that way.</blockquote>

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