>>211963788 (OP)
Terminators are programmed with knowledge on how to destroy Terminators. He simply extrapolated from his existing knowledge of what could destroy him, something he could do as a thinking computer.
>>211963950 >>211963961
It was really dumb of Arnold to shatter his frozen body with a bullet though. If he just left him whole it would have taken a lot longer for him to thaw out.
>>211964189
He didn't know, he guessed based on available data. >>211964422
Same reason. He probably hoped breaking him while frozen would fuck up the computer reconstruction process. It did, but not enough to cause actual problems.
>Aaaah hot lava! I can't believe my creator Skynet based my design on Gollum from the Lord of the Rings book series, if only he had read a better book franchise instead!
What did he mean by this?