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In Reply to: Good idea for a SF movie ?? posted by Merak on December 09, 2003 at 20:05:31:
Merak,There are some technical problems in the premise, but of course, travellers from light years away with million degree heat beams may have purchased their vehicle from the same company that made the "Independence Day" ones with the optional big heat beams.
Hiding behind the Sun to attack the Earth is an old trick and one a lot of people would be watching for.
CAPT. ROD
Say Joe, look at this. We have a bogey at one-niner two o'clock around the Sun trying to surprise us!COL. REX
You're right Rod, and they're only 128,000,000 miles away, call me in two weeks! And get this straight once and for all: my name is "Rex- Rex Dynamic."ROD
Have your way Ray. Say, how's that beautiful, large breasted nd vulnerable girlfriend that can not easily escape from the big city in case of emergency?REX
She's leaving me, going back to the circus. Let's get a drink.ROD
Now you're talkin' big boy. Let's go to my place.I think I would need to know more about the reason the aliens are going to so much trouble and more about the unhappy girlfriend of the rebellious fighter pilot that is going to stop them, before accepting the overall premise.
Cheer,
Bambi B
My favourite line from "Independence Day": In the locker room "You never should have married a stripper if you wanted to be an astronaut." Good Advice!
Follow Ups:
Bambi B,First of all, there is no need for the spacecraft to be "attacking" the Earth -- it will be disabled by a bad military response. Second, it need not be manned (or aliened, if you prefer) -- it could just be a probe of sorts that is sent from a civilization that believes we are worth investigating (after years of receiving radio/TV electromagnetic signals. Third, at only 0.04c (4% the relative speed of light) it could travel from outside the orbit of Saturn (the detectable region for many comets -- much bigger and slower than our friend) to just behind the Sun (from Earth) in only 3 days. From the Sun to Earth in only hours. If it's unmanned (oops, I mean unaliened) it can withstand high G forces allowing it to get into Earth orbit (or just about) very quickly -- which is where it is fired upon. With only hours of potential warning, and moments to make a shoot or no shoot decision, I can easily see a panic shot being launced -- if not several. Wasn't there an incident, not many years ago, where an Alaska passenger airliner got shot down by a Soviet missile? In plain English -- S*** happens.
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