Re: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles : "Dungeons & Dragons"

Steve Hall wrote:
> Kevin <Kevin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>>
>> Davej;90709 Wrote:
>>> Questions:
>>> What happened to the Turk? Why didn't Reese take it or destroy it?
>>> What happened in that future basement, and why were the men
>>> released? Is Cameron going bad or is she planning something?
>>
>> .. and, at the scene in HQ showing the time pad, the room seemed to
>> contain several large jet engines.  Were those the same jet engines
>> that the terminators were seen moving about in the junk field and
>> flying over the house where the guys were being kept prisoner?  Were
>> the guys actually taken prisoner by terminators working for the
>> underground?
>>
>> So many questions this episode has raised.
>
> I assumed the terminators were salvaging the jet engines to obtain
> coltan (stated in a previous episode to be vital to the construction
> of their endo-skeletons).  Coltan
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coltan)
is an ore from which the
> elements tantalum and niobium are extracted.  Niobium is used to
> create (among other things) the heat-resistant super alloys used in
> jet engines (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium#Applications).

Given the way they were positioned around the time machine's platform in 
Connor's headquarters, I figured they were being used as power sources.

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