lulzIt's called...I support a large portion of users in DC, so I didn't have much to do yesterday. 😄
Especially if he was the ONLY one to figure out the "code." You know, something that not even the "smartest" scientists in the world at Area 51 couldn't figure out.
It was only the US government trying to figure out the alien technology, and it was for decades that they were trying to do it. And, jamming the alien signals would have been impossible as they took over the entire satellite network and then some. Not such "global" jamming device exists, nor could it exist due to the power requirement and multiple locations.
Their first and only priority whould have been saving as many lives as possible.
Not at all. The "maga" blaster worked in a "blast radius" that was circular. The ships were slow moving, and it took time to charge the blaster. It would be quite difficult to take out highly mobile targets like the fighter jets. If they sent in their ground troops to finish the human genocide, they would have lost many lives to the mobile fighter jets..and other types of mobile war machines. The most effective option/choice would be a mobile fighter that not only flies, but has it's own shielding technology.
Their mobile fighters were piloted by the aliens. Will Smith was one of the very best fighter pilots, so the probability that his character would encounter a fighter and it end up in a dog fight is really high. The fact that Will outsmarted the alien fighter with superior flying skills should not be a suprise due to both pilots being...organic.
One thing I liked and picked up on about the aliens is a difference in the type of technologies we had. The aliens had to use OUR network for that communication. Something tells me the aliens weren't too big into wireless data. Else they pilot their own ships and fighters? 😄
They focused on high defenses, but dumb offensive weapons (meaning, no smart guided stuff, it was straight line for their "green sh*t."
Exactly. It would be foolish to think that an alien sapients would have the same exact concepts of computing as we do. Their species obviously works much more closely together than ours does. They were highly coordinated and never once did we see disodence from their groups, but we see quite a bit from the humans. If you have such a "hive mind" species, something like "hacking" or even stealing may seem completely foreign.
What I see in the film is a very intelligent depiction of what an invading alien species would be like. The first time I watched the film, I saw many things that I had read or heard about the potential sociology and technololgy from an alien species.
An advanved alien species would not necessarily be benevolent and loving to others, but they may be very "cooperative" with each other. Their technologies would not develop in the same paths as ours so we would see things like, highly advanced biology-related technology, but little robotics, or highly advanced offensive weapons, but very little communication technology...bla bla bla.
This is why I liked the depiction of the aliens in ID4. They obviously perpared, biologically, and they had "biologically" developed technology. But their weapons weren't very smart, their communications were not as developed as ours were, and they had little to no defense against a system specific virus/worm.