T3

[Shatnerfan]

How do the Terminators come to be, considering Cyberdine Industries was destroyed in T2?

[Roxy]

well, shatnerfan, in T2 they destroyed cyberdine industries but they had only delayed the creation of terminators because the infomation that they destroyed was always going to be used to create terminators they could only put it back- never actually stop the terminators form being invented. Sorry if that doesn't help

[SavageMonkey]

Yep, it's like one huge loop, some may call it a goof (but it's inevitable when writing a story involving time travel). Because a Terminator came back from the future in part 1, and Cyberdine collected the chip and arm from it, they were able to create the Terminators fairly rapidly.... So, in part 2 they destroyed Cyberdine, but this would NEVER actually stop this event (the war) from happening. If the original terminator had never come, it would still have been developed, otherwise it wouldn't exist to come back in the first place. I find it really hard to explain, it's just a concept that you either get to grips with, or just say it doesn't work. Either way is fine, because time travel, at our intelligence level, is still too hard to comprehend. Roxy has explained this answer well enough already, but I couldn't resist writing something....

[dancunian]

One of the overriding and constant themes running through the Terminator 3 film is that Judgement Day, and the ensuing war, were always inevitabilities no matter what John Connor did to prevent it. In his own words, the Terminator said that it is in human nature for people to destroy themselves and the third installment showed that no matter what he did in the "present", the war (and the rise of the machines) was an inescapable event in the humans future.

[Shatnerfan]

Thanks for the answers, which must have appeared obvious. I, however, haven't seen the film.