independence day

[skyblue]

after all these years it still doesn't add up

all of the smaller craft are powered by the mothership,including the fighters etc......then the film goes to area 51 where they had one from roswell,which had just started working,must be the power source of the mothership making it work.......how did it get to earth in the first place?

 

[Dana]

It's a movie....

 

[Zorak]

after all these years it still doesn't add up

all of the smaller craft are powered by the mothership,including the fighters etc......then the film goes to area 51 where they had one from roswell,which had just started working,must be the power source of the mothership making it work.......how did it get to earth in the first place?

That's the bit that doesn't add up?

What about the bit where Jeff Goldblum writes a virus for an alien software system? :surrender

 

[Maulds]

That's the bit that doesn't add up?

What about the bit where Jeff Goldblum writes a virus for an alien software system? :surrender

There was a scene which was cut from the film that was supposed to have shown how he was able to interact with their technology.

The mother ship seemed to provide the shield somehow for each ship big and small, they still had pilots. I'd say that one was sent to earth to scout out the area and one of the aliens spilled his Big Gulp on the control panel.

 

[skyblue]

There was a scene which was cut from the film that was supposed to have shown how he was able to interact with their technology.

The mother ship seemed to provide the shield somehow for each ship big and small, they still had pilots. I'd say that one was sent to earth to scout out the area and one of the aliens spilled his Big Gulp on the control panel.

but what powered it?

 

[AUFred]

If you re-watch the movie. The spaceship at area 51 and the alien were there since like the 30's. The ship became active again when the mothership was close. The mad scientist was all excited with how the ship was reacting and how they were gathering data.

 

[BadBoy]

but what powered it?

The only real assumption would be that it was with a mother ship, which probably left after it lost contact. Movies take liberties, especially summer blockbusters.

 

[skyblue]

If you re-watch the movie. The spaceship at area 51 and the alien were there since like the 30's. The ship became active again when the mothership was close. The mad scientist was all excited with how the ship was reacting and how they were gathering data.

it was data:24:

 

[Peter Parka]

I thought the film was just a wank fest for flag waving Americans.

 

[AUFred]

it was data:24:

nice catch on my play on words.:24:
I got the impression may be it was a scoiut ship which just did not return all those years ago.

 

[Tim]

And I though this thread was going to be about how the US kicked your limy butts back to England...

 

[skyblue]

And I though this thread was going to be about how the US kicked your limy butts back to England...

that was the french butting in where they weren't wanted

 

[BadBoy]

I thought the film was just a wank fest for flag waving Americans.

Jealous much?

 

[Peter Parka]

Jealous much?

What? Of fiction? Not at all, just found the whole thing rather boring.

 

[Dana]

I still think u were putting too much thought into the fucking movie.

 

[retro]

but what powered it?

My best guess is that it had a power source that was damaged when it crashed. When the mothership came into range, a backup source was activated that was able to power it directly from the mothership.

Problem solved.

 

[retro]

that was the french butting in where they weren't wanted

All that did was speed the process up... we still would have won the war in the end, it just would have happened slower.

 

[Dana]

but what powered it?

The power of imagination :24:

 

[Peter Parka]

but what powered it?

God. :24:

 

[Joe the meek]

Uhm, why couldn't a "mother ship" be around back then when they found the alien ship they were keeping in 51? Could of been a scouting mission.