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Post by broox on Sept 25, 2010 18:04:20 GMT -5
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Post by lynn on Sept 25, 2010 19:55:13 GMT -5
I agree. UFO episode with much seriousness. Perhaps blend in with some sort of Alien survival guide...
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Post by broox on Sept 28, 2010 11:10:17 GMT -5
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Post by Scary Gary on Sept 28, 2010 22:01:06 GMT -5
As much as I'd like to, I'm simply not buying it.
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Post by broox on Sept 29, 2010 11:17:16 GMT -5
Maybe the whole 2012 thing is when the mothership will land on earth?
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Post by Scary Gary on Sept 29, 2010 16:08:43 GMT -5
I'm down with that. Maybe I aught to get me an Apple computer, just to be safe.  |
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Post by lynn on Sept 29, 2010 18:42:10 GMT -5
yeah, and some massive cigars... for that fat lady
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Post by broox on Sept 30, 2010 9:37:38 GMT -5
I'm down with that. Maybe I aught to get me an Apple computer, just to be safe. Cracked recently had an article about famous movie flaws that are explained in deleted scenes and they address that very one: Are you kind of a nerd? Have you seen Independence Day? What's the problem we're about to point out here? Exactly. Fully half of you reading this have just screamed to the heavens in futile rage about the probability of the famous Apple OS/advanced alien mothership compatibility issue.
Nerds are an unforgiving lot.
Essentially, Jeff Goldblum is reminded that the word "virus" exists, which is all the motivation and know-how he needs to hack a completely alien spacecraft with a mid-90s PowerBook. We can't even get our damn Xboxes to play pirated copies of Step Up 2 the Streets from our computer, and they were made specifically to interact with one another, yet the dude from Jurassic Park somehow manages to encode a goddamn .GIF of a laughing skull in there when he takes out the mothership with the cutting edge power of MacOS 7.6.
HELL YEAH, MACS!
But in the seven minutes of cut scenes included in the extended release Independence Day DVD, Goldblum is actually shown tinkering with his PowerBook inside the recovered craft from the Roswell crash site, mumbling something about how the spaceship was running off the same programming language he was able to decipher before (when he first uncovered their invasion plans and all that).
He may also have mentioned tachyons.
So, he presumably worked from there and was able to code some disruptive program and translate it into their language or whatever. It's still flimsy as hell, but it at least proves the filmmakers were aware of and willing to address the problem, thus defusing a decade and a half of pent-up nerd-rage.
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Post by Scary Gary on Sept 30, 2010 18:02:02 GMT -5
There is a simpler explanation that they could have gone with. They could have said that Apple computers were originally derived from alien technology. In fact, it could have worked as a bit of joke when Will Smith, having just learned this fact, says something like "Damn! No wonder the PC and Mac ain't compatible."
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Post by lynn on Sept 30, 2010 18:57:36 GMT -5
that's a good one! I like that explanation, because so many conspiracy theoriests say we get technology from the Aliens, why not Macs?
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Post by broox on Sept 30, 2010 19:34:48 GMT -5
That would explain why they cost so much more than pc's  |
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Post by lynn on Sept 30, 2010 20:13:28 GMT -5
import tax?
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Post by broox on Oct 8, 2010 9:47:47 GMT -5
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Post by Scary Gary on Oct 8, 2010 18:37:02 GMT -5
Crappy journalism, perchance?  |
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