It was even stated in the film that by the time they reached their secondary and so on wave of attacks the majority of all metropolitan areas were evacuated or deserted leaving nothing but buildings and possessions to be wiped out. Whoever stayed behind, well, you get it.
@@StoriedHistory1985 The sequel was just horrible. Cartoonish on so many levels that it kills the intrigue about the aliens and their origins from the first film. They should have left us wanting more, feed us, sure, but not the whole shabang in one go. Leave some for another movie, which sadly won't happen because of the rush job. The way they made out the extraterrestrials and their habitat, just so cliched and poorly executed. In the first film, they kept it simple, which is why it worked. It truly felt alien, and it felt as if you were taken for a ride into the unknown with the characters. They had 20 years to get it right! 20! If the world managed to "rebuild" itself in that time, how the hell couldn't the sequel be as good as the first, if not better? For me, the sequel is a hypothetical scenario, not cannon in my library.
QUESTION 1 if 3 billion people died the world would be in chaos QUESTION 2 how long would it take to rebuild new york, los angeles, moscow, tokyo, shanghai, hong kong, mexico city sao paulo, buenos aires, mumbai, QUESTION 3 which were the first cities to be rebuilt QUESTION 4 Has Houston been rebuilt? QUESTION 5 How does Singapore look so big and populous if it was destroyed in the first wave of attack?
I dont believe they could evacuate all of those cities in such a short time. Remember that the movie happens in just 2 days. In 2 days (or even less, since the cities were destroyed at night in July 2), 3 cities destroyed. Huge cities CANT be completely evacuated in such a short time. And if they do, the traffic jams in the roads would be so huge, aliens would probably send their fighters to kill them all. There is just no way everyone evacuated. At least half of the population of the cities destroyed in the second and third wave must have been killed.
One can imagine the evacuation scenes of the cities that were destroyed in second and third waves, air raid sirens blaring, roads are jammed with cars fleeing the cities etc.
The alien attack posited in the movie, would set humanity back 1000 years. If not more. Many of causalities in the Northern Hemisphere would be among the most educated. Engineers, scientists, technicians, but also skilled 'blue collar' workers as well. The medical system you know, would cease to exist. So would the power grid, water, and sanitation. Most law enforcement and military would also be gone. Not entirely, but mostly. Pollution from burning cities would coat the earth in a haze of toxic dust for years. Add radiation from 100s of melted down nuclear power stations, military sites, and 1000s of chemical and industrial sites would add to the toxic toll on the world. Areas not directly attacked, would be over-run by traumatized refugees and would have no means of coping with the influx-at all. Govt, where it survived, would have very limited reach, power, and few resources to offer anyone. Mass starvation would be the new reality for billions. None of the alien tech would be much use as the industrial, education and technical system(s) would basically be gone. The few people left alive that (might) understand the alien tech, would be too busy worrying about their next meal or keeping secure shelter. Or somewhat clean water etc. Reverse engineering alien tech would be the least of their concerns. The horrible sequel to ID4, gets the future so wrong, it is not even correct to call it 'wrong'.
I love this comment. Hypothesizing future events, based on historical examples set in reality is a fun thing to do. While I agree the idea of civilization not only recovering, but advancing in a mere 20 year period is laughable, I don't necessarily think the setback would be measured in millennia. I would think closer to 100 years. You can see from this video that there are some areas that didn't receive much destruction, with Australia being perhaps the most significant. Perth is destroyed, and Sydney partially with a crashed destroyer. They would still have a lot of industry and population left intact. If enough global government survived the war, a worldwide recovery effort could be organized from these least-impacted countries. The potential to bounce back, with not having to do the same trial and error as the first time around, could be surprising.
While all that's going down Australia is just chilling out. Oh no, they hit Perth in the second wave, at which point the movie states the population centres have been deserted.
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It wouldn't send us back to the Middle Ages because this is impossible. For example, the United States lost New York, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Miami, but it still had Boston, Minneapolis, Portland, Houston, Austin, and other very functioning urban and industrial big cities. Canada has lost Toronto and Vermont, but it still has Ottawa. Brazil has lost São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, but it still has Brasília, Belo Horizonte, and Curitiba. Japan has lost Tokyo and Osaka, but Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Kyoto, and Saitama are still standing. What I mean is that there still is a modern, functioning world after the Harvesters' attacks.
@ but for my country South Korea lost two major cities that one is the core of historic, cultural, and political, and economical, and also diplomatic and has 9 million population at that time, The another also has nearly 4 million population with economically important, which has major port that ranked most higher position between other Asian cities nearby. This means smaller countries fall into the deepest darkness by this attack.
Interesting video, I really like that someone finally made a video showing the map of the world and all the 108 cities destroyed during the first ID4 movie, speaking as someone who loves the first film, despises the second film and has recently been reading a lot about the lore outside of the films. A few things I’ve noticed: 482 million casualties seems pretty low, especially since this was a large scale alien invasion, and according to Roland Emmerich and the official ID4 timeline, 3 billion people died yet your calculations isn’t even 1/3 of that. Don’t get me wrong, almost 500 million people dying is a huge number, though I think this was a calculation of the attacks themselves, not the effects after the war since the video does state that many people died from starvation, disease, riots, chaotic evacuations and other factors, basing it on the world population of the 1990s. Now I have a question: what if ID4 took place today? Given our advancements in technology (the internet, social media etc) and with the world population now at over 7.5 billion people, how many people would’ve died if Independence Day took place in 2021/2022?
QUESTION 1 if 3 billion people died the world would be in chaos QUESTION 2 how long would it take to rebuild new york, los angeles, moscow, tokyo, shanghai, hong kong, mexico city sao paulo, buenos aires, mumbai, QUESTION 3 which were the first cities to be rebuilt QUESTION 4 Has Houston been rebuilt? QUESTION 5 How does Singapore look so big and populous if it was destroyed in the first wave of attack?
That 482 million is only as a direct result of those 108 cities targeted by the city destroyer ships, though. It doesn't include the numbers of people killed by other attacks - the clouds of alien fighter/attacker aircraft would have ranged out to destroy secondary targets e.g. airfields, other military bases, and I imagine even towns, highways with jammed traffic of cars of people trying to flee would have been like an all-you-can-eat buffet to the aliens. Even people who never set eyes on an alien ship would have perished; people who no longer have access to daily medication e.g. insulin etc. I'd imagine the 3 billion mark would be total and not just those killed by direct city attacks but those who perished in the aftermath.
@@kingsteve8083yeah, it was mentioned that the 3 billion was the total death toll including causes in the aftermath such as starvation, disease, anarchy, etc
This is an interesting topic, I am from Mexico and I believe that the situation in my country and others in the same region would be brutally affected in the short and long term. In 1985 an earthquake destroyed the capital of Mexico and the government did not take the necessary measures to counter such a catastrophe, prohibiting the military from intervening and helping affected civilians, so if an earthquake put the government in maximum danger I do not want to imagine how Would the government react if 3 cities were completely destroyed, I don't know if these cities were evacuated since the movie does not explore or mention anything about Mexico so I will assume that they were not evacuated and if they were, it is most likely that they did it only a few minutes before the Aliens attack out of sheer social pressure and to follow President Whitmore's plan of action.
QUESTION 1 if 3 billion people died the world would be in chaos QUESTION 2 how long would it take to rebuild new york, los angeles, moscow, tokyo, shanghai, hong kong, mexico city sao paulo, buenos aires, mumbai, QUESTION 3 which were the first cities to be rebuilt QUESTION 4 Has Houston been rebuilt? QUESTION 5 How does Singapore look so big and populous if it was destroyed in the first wave of attack?
@@matheusferreira3759 3 billion deaths would push back the birth rate, everything, we would lose many people trained to do certain things, doctors, lawyers, surgeons, engineers, pilots, which would lead to a workforce crisis because the part of humanity that surviving could not cover similar job losses. rebuilding cities would take decades, tokyio, new york, moscow, london, atlanta, totally destroyed, remove rubble, recover lost infrastructure, it would be decades of work and it is possible that it will not be possible to rebuild all the lost cities, in countries that already they were of limited resources as Mexico possibly would not rebuild a single city. the first city to be rebuilt could be nothing less than the capital of the United States itself, I say to give a symbol of unity and reconstruction to the entire United States Houston may have been lost forever but they could make a memorial like they did with the twin towers It is an error of the sequel, it is impossible for humanity to have that level of progress after suffering so much destruction, it is impossible, losing more than 100 super important cities, it would be an economic nightmare worldwide, in addition to the death of thousands of soldiers almost every 20% in the United States
@@Cami-ec9gz Washington, London and Singapore Because they are very large and crowded even after being destroyed in the first wave of attacks Spokane Tucson, Reno and Indianapolis have possibly replaced Seattle, Fenex, Las Vegas and Chicago as the most populous cities in their states What is the biggest city in the US today? Levinson's father is on a boat in Galveston a few miles from Houston Galveston was not affected by radiation?
@@matheusferreira3759 i dont even want to imagine how humanity was able to rebuild The worldwide largest megalopolis like NYC, LA, Mexico City, são Paulo, Rio, London, Paris, moskow, tokyo, shanghai, Hong kong, beijing, Buenos Aires and a few other cities The truth is that humanity whouldnt be able to rebuild itself in 20 years after this kind of attack The cities have not been "damaged" like in war of The worlds, they've been annihilated
It should be noted that in the official novel there were actually four destroyers over the US with the fourth sitting over the Convention Center of San Francisco which was also destroyed during wave 1.
Also something was that with the new world unity, the war on terror wouldn’t have happened since it all began with 9/11 and in the comic lore, NYC was still being rebuilt and the twin towers were finished around the time that in the books, Steve Hiller (Will Smith’s character) died in a plane crash testing out the first model of the space jets we see in ID 2.
Roland Emmerich stated that 3 billion people were killed in 1996, but according to your calculations, he didn't get it right as a total of 481,998,838 people around the world were dead. Although the War of 1996 might've been the deadliest war in human history compare to World War II that killed over 70-85 million people around the globe.
Thanks for your comment. I used the 1996 populations of these metropolitan areas to determine the casualties. Though these would certainly become increasingly inaccurate as the attack unfolds. Assuming mass evacuations happen after the first wave, the direct attack on the city centers would potentially not inflict much damage on the human scale, as these cities would be relatively deserted. What these attacks would do however, is cut off supply chains, destroy all means of production, and lead to a wide range of localized crises. This leads me to think the true cost unfolded in the weeks and months after the attack in July. Hunger and disease would lead to many more deaths than what happened on these couple days. I feel like three billion is a bit of a stretch, but it surely would be in the billions.
@@NedofThor Exactly. And the sequel missed the point that it should’ve been in a semi-post-apocalyptic setting where armed forces gathered alien technology as a line of defense, while the rest of the survivors gather in tents as their homes were destroyed, plunge into anarchy, and it would take hundreds of years to rebuild their cities.
@@prehistorichero2755 yeah realistically speaking, ID4 resurgence would’ve been less of the near utopian advanced civilization that we saw in that movie and more like a semi post-apocalyptic setting where the survivors are forced to live within the ruins of the cities. That does seem unrealistic for humankind to rebuild all the destroyed cities in just under 10 yrs and somehow repopulate the entire population in that time frame, not to mention still able to adapt all that advanced alien tech. Don’t get me wrong, that utopian society on paper sounds cool, but not the most realistic scenario after an alien invasion took out nearly half of humankind.
Also it’s revealed in the lore that many, mostly in third world countries that suffered attacks, many starved or died from diseases in the aftermath as nations who lost leaders scrambled to elected new officials, restore the UN, and bring aid
Maybe something happened like the T2 novelization mentioned happening late in the war. Humanity went on a breeding spree in the face of the threat of annihilation, or in this case a short war which could have led to extinction.
Going over the map progression, it seems they planned out their starting wave with an eye towards making their second and third wave strikes as quickly as possible as followups: they started in global regions where cities are more concentrated: USA, Europe, southern China, India, etc. Out of 36 City Destroyers, they only deployed THREE to the southern hemisphere in the first wave: six depending on where you draw the line between Singapore/Indonesia etc. Australia wasn't even in the first wave, it's too far out of the way. ---- They had ONE in South America in the first wave, TWO in Africa. In the third wave one from India hit Somalia. Otherwise the ones deployed in Singapore, Jakarta, Saigon were just making their way around the rim of the Indian ocean, which is why the only Australian city hit was Perth in the third wave. Oh, why did the Perth ship pass by Adelaide to hit Sydney (but got intercepted)? Bigger target, prioritizing the strike: population of 5.2 million. I mean, similarly, the City Destroyers in northeast North America were at Toronto, New York, and DC, which then respectively moved on to Chicago, Philadelphia, and Atlanta. I think this map mixes up some flight paths though: why would the Havana to Miami destroyer then go to Boston? Wouldn't it make more sense for THAT one to go to Texas, and the New York-Philadelphia one to go to Boston? (Shrug) Prioritizing large cities closely concentrated together.
@@thedragondemands5186 well, the ship that Targeted Area 51 was originally gonna target San Diego, But I think picked up radio frequencies and communications from Area 51 and headed in that direction. Makes me think that the cities that the ships were intercepted at and destroyed over may not have been the intended targets and the various Military Forces simply managed to meet them over those cities..
In the movie Independence Day, my city Atlanta was mentioned and the aliens destroyed my home city! The only military base close by was Dobbins Air Force Base, and I bet they were dozens of jets fully armed and ready to take the fight to the aliens in order to avenge Atlanta!
By the time the ship arrived in Atlanta let alone the time it got destroyed I’m sure the little spaceships have destroyed Dobbins like they did with base Will Smith’s character was stationed
Great video. I've been rereading the books and the novelization of the first movie is particularly interesting I first read it when this movie was about to come The thing older now is the character moments that weren't included in the movie that make it really worth a read
After the first strike, most of the causualties would be in the gridlocked highways and roads leading out of all major cities, rather than in the cities themselves. - I live in Houston, and I remember when Hurricane Rita hit in 2005. 1-2 days before Rita was forecasted to make a direct hit on Houston, 2.5 million evacuees caused a gridlock that lasted over 24 hours. Just as many chose to 'shelter in place' and not to evacuate because of said gridlock. The Harvesters would have used this kind of chaos to their advantage. I can understand the Harvester's ROE of not attacking until all 36 destroyers were in position. As we see, this drew in just as many curious onlookers as it did causing others to leave the cities. The population of the other major cities (Atlanta, Chicago, etc) likewise didn't begin to fully evacuate until the first strike. How were they to know the destroyers would attack and then head their way. After the first strike, the ROE should have been 100% weapons free. Element of surprise is over. The destroyers would head for the next target, destroy it, move on. No need to delay for a second and third simultaneous strike. After the first strike, millions of civilians in the remaining major cities would panic and gridlock the roads, creating a 20-80 mile killbox. The Harvester's destroyers would have been wise to task groups of 3 attackers to do a coordinate strafe/bombing run of these major highways and roads. Other attackers would hit all bridges, tunnels, mountain passes, major highway overpasses, effectively cutting off the land routes. At about that time, the July 3 fighter jets would armed, fueled and mobilized their ill-fated strikes. Afterward, the attackers would hit military installations, carrier battle groups, airports, ATC, and remaining vital infrastructure, power plants, water treatment, etc. With that phase complete, firebomb the smaller towns, deploy the ground forces in the destroyers and mothership, sweep and clear remaining humans, begin harvesting resources and planet core.
Like any attack force, it’s always the matter of shock and awe! Idk why the writers made the Harvesters only attack on formation and only on cities that’s something they need to answer. My only guess to destroy a mass population along with the military to force humanity in retreat before they start harvesting resources. Any humans evacuating especially on the highways are defenseless with no reason to attack. Just look at the RV’s even before they ended up Area 51 because of Will Smith. Why wouldn’t have the little spaceships blasted them while seeking out military bases at the same time? But no evacuation would occur without any confirmation of hostilities. No city would take that chance! Think back to 9/11, it was the attack on the second tower that prompted the orders to ground air travel and seek out other hostile planes which was the case of Flight 93! Individual cities made their own orders to evacuate their tallest buildings and federal buildings like Chicago with the Sears Tower, LA with the US Bank tower even cities you didn’t expect they would attack like Cleveland and Minneapolis.
If I’m not mistaken the city destroyers fell from the sky by themselves shortly after the mothership was destroyed. Their technology relied on wireless energy transfer, and mothership relays shields and power to city destroyers and the fighters. Remember the Area 51 fighter which Okun admitted to not have fixed but it simply powered on by itself when the aliens returned. The film gave us several clues to how their technology worked. The battle over Area 51 was necessary because the destroyer was coming at them. But all the others, especially those seen in places like Africa for instance, couldn’t have been brought down by military forces. Their shield signal was jammed by our guys and the shields expired shortly after, and when the mothership got destroyed, the destroyers lost power at least in their propulsion systems and fell down like the 15-mile-wide bricks they are.
I live near Seattle so the second we saw Vancouver being a target, I’d probably leave thinking they would target Seattle. Question would be the range of the blast and fire wall. I’d say it would go as far north as Edmonds/Lynnwood, south as SeaTac or Tacoma, East as Bellevue and barely west past the sound. I bet they would target military installations as they moved south towards San Francisco
@@the_ender4791 Since the City Destroyers were at least 15 Miles Wid, I say, 15 miles from the point of destruction, and give it maybe another 5 miles for good measure, so 20 miles...
The blast wave was about 30 miles from end to end so a massive area was wiped out and according to the book, hiding underwater was not an option as it energy wave boiled the waters
I mean, it may have suffered damaged due to the counter attack on the destroyer that was there. It was also mentioned that the destroyer that destroyed Tokyo, the area leveled by the blast was four times as wide as the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II,
The Aliens didn't bother having to fire beams at San Francisco unless they had fighters and bombers over there. Still, the population over there was screwed.
Wait one thing how did Las Vegas get destroyed and the city destroyer gets destroyed to? Did some of the city destroyers burn down city’s before collapsing? And if your asking why I’m saying this stuff, it’s because in the Independence Day Resurgence, there’s a little video called The Ruins of Las Vegas, and it shows Las Vegas destroyed and the city destroyer to.
@@trainfan998 it’s also reported that some cities were destroyed intentionally to prevent a fourth wave or were damaged by the global counterattack. Like it’s revealed that Las Vegas was damaged by the resistance and never rebuilt. However tourism came to the ruins.
Basically in the film, the flagship half the size of our planet sweep from Asia to the Atlantic destroying Singapore, London, Dubai, and the east coast of America 🇺🇸
The countries that hate each other (like Russia, China North Korea hating USA and Canada, etc) have decided to unite and work together to defeat those aliens. I wish something like that could happen in real life like in the movie of how all the countries worked together (even those that hate each other the most) and fought the aliens. All countries should unite even in reality
It's good that my mother lived in Khabarovsk in 1996, and not in Vladivostok! Otherwise, I might not have been born a year later in 1997 in the Independence Day universe!😉
THIS IS FROM THE LOCAL AUTHORITY OF WASHINGTON STATE JAY INSLEE An unknown aircraft of possibly extraterrestrial origin with a diameter of the size of Manhattan was spotted all over the world and in Seattle hovering with anti-gravity tech of unknown origin above the Seattle space needle. At around 3:00 pm, it released an energy beam capable destroying a city within miles causing a great loss of life if the great emerald city hours after first wave of extraterrestrial attack. The unknown city-size craft came from Vancouver, Canada. This craft from Seattle is expecting to target San Francisco. The WA government will warn the CA government to take action to protect many lives in the city. May god bless us all…
What this video doesn't seem to factor in is that its not just the targeted cities being wiped out. Its also the surrounding towns and cities being damaged or destroyed as well. This massively increases the death toll.
Theres no info available on how wide the destruction radius is, so you may be correct in saying the surrounding towns and smaller cities should be included. The numbers here are based off the metropolitan areas.
This was and still is an extremely influential and enjoyable movie. somewhat over the top though, the biggest film of 1996 but realistically it would not be possible for the world to just get up and move on and rebuild so quickly after such a devastating war, the sequel which is entertaining but non canon for me, ignores the political, economic, environmental, social, cultural and theological consequences of the war and more than that too, more than half of all 1996 humans are dead in less than 4 days, that would have drastic consequences in regard to the moral and specious stability of the human survivors, especially when they discover there are more of the aliens out there.
The lore of ID4 is very interesting, though there are some things I would change if I were to make my own version of ID4: I would add 14 more city destroyers, adding up to a total of 50 city destroyers and the extra cities that would be destroyed/spared are: (1st wave: 1. Dubai, UAE 2. Minneapolis, USA 3. Auckland, New Zealand, 4. Shenzhen, China 5. San Diego, USA 6. Quebec City, Canada 7. Madurai, India 8. Lima, Peru 9. Conakry, Guinea 10. Lisbon, Portugal 11. Nanjing, China 12. Dongguan, China 13. Panama City, Panama 14. Guatemala City, Guatemala) (2nd wave: 1. Abu Dhabi, UAE 2. Indianapolis, USA 3. Melbourne, Australia 4. Xiamen, China 5. Tuscon, USA 6. Ottawa, Canada 7. Ahmedabad, India 8. La Paz, Bolivia 9. Bamako, Mali 10. Porto, Portugal 11. Nanchang, China 12. Changsha, China 13. San Jose, Costa Rica 14. Belize city, Belize) (3rd wave: 1. Doha, Qatar 2. Nashville, USA 3. Brisbane, Australia 4. Wuxi, China 5. Albuquerque, USA 6. Calgary, Canada 7. Rajkot, India 8. Santiago, Chile 9. Niamey, Niger 10. Madrid, Spain 11. Chongqing, China 12. Tianjin, China 13. Managua, Nicaragua 14. Merida, Mexico) (4th wave (spared/damaged): 1. Kuwait City, Kuwait 2. Charlotte, USA 3. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea 4. Shijiazhuang, China 5. El Paso, USA 6. Edmonton, Canada 7. Muscat, Omen 8. Cordoba, Argentina 9. N’Djamena, Chad 10. Valencia, Spain 11. Zhengzhou, China 12. Dalian, China 13. San Pedro sula, Honduras 14. Villahermosa, Mexico) Switch out Colorado Springs with Denver, El Paso with San Antonio. Finally, have ID4 take place in 2021 or 2022, as i’m curious as to how ID4 would’ve played out in real life had the movie been made today or if the events of the film took place in today’s society.
Colorado Springs was taken out because Cheyenne mountain is there and that’s the location of Norad and we learn that some places were targeted for being military alliance headquarters like Brussels being the hq of nato
We need a 1st wave City destryer in São Paulo Like 1st wave São Paulo, brazil 2nd wave Brasília, brazil 3rd wave Fortaleza Brazil 4th wave Manaus, Brazil
I’m also making an alien invasion story where aliens do many wave attacks on all major cities in the world for 7 months (which is in Asia) but some are delayed because global forces were attacking in the Pacific Ocean while the aliens torture the United States in order to kill the president who kept slipping from them. This story got a little inspiration from this film and HG Wells War of the Worlds
QUESTION 1 if 3 billion people died the world would be in chaos QUESTION 2 how long would it take to rebuild new york, los angeles, moscow, tokyo, shanghai, hong kong, mexico city sao paulo, buenos aires, mumbai, QUESTION 3 which were the first cities to be rebuilt QUESTION 4 Has Houston been rebuilt? QUESTION 5 How does Singapore look so big and populous if it was destroyed in the first wave of attack?
I know based on the crucible DC was the first us city built since Whitmore stated it’s significance in America, which resulted in the nation’s Capitol temporary being located in Oklahoma City
Some of the places I imagine the aliens targeting, Seattle (Columbia tower or Space Needle), Moscow (The Kremlin), London (Big Ben/Westminister hall or Buckingham Palace), Chicago (Sears Tower), San Francisco (Transamerica Pyramid), Paris (The Eiffel Tower)
Rio de janeiro (Christ The Redeemer) Sao paulo (Altino Arantes Building) Buenos Aires (Obelisco of Buenos Aires) or cólon The teather ?? México City (El Angel de la independencia) Havana (capitolio de la habana) Miami (southeats financial center) Boston (John hancock tower) Atlanta (Bank of America plaza) Philadelphia (independence Hall) Las Vegas (luxor hotel, or caesar's pallace) Chicago (willys tower) Toronto (CN tower) Tokyo (tokyo City Hall or tokyo tower) Sidney (Sidney opera house) Berlin (bradenburg gate or The reichstag) Mecca (caaba) Birmingham (St phillips cathedral) Liverpool (port of Liverpool building) Rome (The coloseum) Athens (The parthenom) Istambul (hagia Sofia) Cairo (Giza Piramid) or the Sphinx
@@springtrappooper9311 I know Sydney was one of the ones that was spared due to the 4th of July counter attack and Las Vegas was destroyed by the destroyed ship during the counter attack.
@@springtrappooper9311 I think in Rio de Janeiro it couldn't have been Christ the Redeemer, as the Statue is located on top of a 704 meter mountain, maybe it could have been one of the downtown buildings near the airport
Love the way it just goes from Liverpool to Belfast rather than Dublin like I thought the Irish capital would be targeted before the rather insignificant Belfast
My hometown is in Wisconsin. Judging from how Chicago got hit, there's a slim chance my hometown could take damage, but if anything it shouldn't be too much
Seems Im watching independence day videos, I´ll copy the comment I made on an other one cus why not. Nice atmosphere you assembled here... It is seemingly fun to analyse that the more time it passes form 1996, the less they would damage us if the same attack happen today. They came with 36 city destroyer ships and quote "the destruction of every mayor city in the next 36 hours" ...if they would attack us now (following the same movie sequence) not only we have double our population to 9 billion, but urban growth as gone insane. (hundreds of cities of 1mill+ people) (hello China) Now. You are in command of alien forces. ...were would you deployed your 25km 36 destroyer ships nowadays? I would go... 4 in North America 4 in Europe 5 in Africa 3 South America 20 in China (8) - Japan (2) - Korea, and South East Asia. ...in the movie were able to destroy 3 cities before we killed the mothership in space ...now pick a map, and some statistics, and do your "three moves count" with all your 36 ships. WHAT CITIES DO YOU PICK? ...ALTHOUGH, the most interesting fact is of course not discussed in the film. Witch is that we would be able to take down a third of them (at most, if we are very lucky) but not only they would probably rise their shields ones again not long after humanity´s counter attack, but countries around the world have very different military capabilities, most likely we would be fighting against the clock to find ways around their shields, and take advantage of their lack of organization. For a start, only a few countries nowadays have the resources or manpower to deploy a counter strike like the one U.S does above Area 51. ...what it is even more likely to occur, is that the remaining city-size ships, would flee to space to re-organize and evaluate if the planet is actually worth the cost. ...eventually they would engage in combat again as they dont have the mother ship any longer. That would be a very interesting survival decade. (and much more fun material for a move that the shit they made. #RESURGENCE DOES NOT EXIST)
I guess in the film, David Levinson was lucky in that he did say he didn't know how long the shields would have been down before the aliens would have found a way to put them back up..
oh shit the 4th wave would have hit where my grandmother and distant relatives in Taiwan, while I was staying In San Francisco at the time visiting my aunt.
Maybe hereinafter the second attack is not a lot of people dead... because in the first attack the people didn´t know what happen with the alien ship but in the second attack have a little time to evacuate the cities
35 were destroyed one landed and subsequently shut down and its occupants engaged in a 10 year ground war until wiped out with the ship sitting over a massive hole intending to get the earths core
The aliens attacked Tokyo and Yokohama separately, but given the distance between the two cities, we can assume that an attack on Tokyo would have destroyed Yokohama together.
So I would've been safe had I been in that movie's universe. Neither Buffalo nor Niagara Falls (which was a major city at the time, but isn't anymore) in western NY state were attacked at all. Another question I have is... Were all attacks on all cities simultaneous in each wave of attacks or were they only simultaneous just the 1st wave (NYC, LA, Washington DC, London, Moscow, Paris)?
I don't mean to put your work down but 500 million does not seem that much on a global scale there was some promotion stuff on the internet before they released the second movie stated that in the attack 3 billion died but it did not say anything about disease and starvation which could have killed even more.
Thanks for your comment, and I don't feel thats putting my work down at all. You're right, there is some discrepancy with the numbers stated in the sequel compared to what I show here. The numbers I've used here are simply the 1996 populations of the cities that were attacked. I also don't intend for this number to reflect the total losses, rather just what we see in the duration of the film. I'm a very small channel and this is by far my most successful video. I'm grateful for all comments I receive and would like to make more videos like this in the future.
@@samanli-tw3id And the brands that have cities destroyed would surely end up closing. Another brand that is saved is Seat (Barcelona) or Volkswagen (Wolfsburg)
Thats the six-million-dollar question. Not only recover to 1996 levels, but advance? Integrating the alien tech I get, but for there to be no trace of this almost extinction-level event after a couple decades?? I mean, it took from September of 2001 to May of 2002 to clean up just Ground Zero.
Russell Case is DEAD died on July 4, 1996 he sacrificed himself and killed by Alien laser spaceship he destroyed and done it And once and for all The End of the Alien Invasion is finished Even better than Fortnite
Jaja los extraterrestres ignoraron Uruguay Paraguay y Bolivia jaja pasaron de largo fueron x Venezuela a los alienígenas solo les importaba argentina y Brasil los demás países no XD
Jajaja qué suerte 🍀 mí país si desapareció jajaja como en la peli invasión buenos aires a desaparecido primero día de la independencia y después esos bicho jajajab
Raro que los aliñes pasarán de largo también a Santiago (Chile), Brasilia (Brasil) y hasta Bogotá (Colombia) y se fueran x Caracas (Venezuela) directamente después de arrasar con Buenos Aires 😅
