Independence Day
I just finished watching ID4, and a few thoughts occur.
How does humanity recover both physically from the destruction of almost the entirety of its major infrastructure? The aliens erased every major city, that’s gonna be a pain in the ass to rebuild.
Are there any intergalactic repercussions from committing genocide, even in self defense? It’s explicitly stated that the aliens are carrying their entire civilization from planet to planet, desperately trying to gather the necessary resources to survive and propagate their species.
And the more practical musing: what exactly are we going to do with several billion tons of burning alien scrap metal. Each one of those ships was 15 miles wide! Is it releasing hazardous fumes? Most likely. It’s going to be burning for year. What did they use to power their propulsion systems? Whatever it is, interstellar starship fuel is probably not intended be introduced into foreign ecosystems. Did we forgo extinction just die horribly over the next decade?
Who knows? (and let’s not mention the large debris from the much larger mothership that exploded directly over our atmosphere)
G’night everyone!
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