What if "Independence Day" Happened? (Realistic Aftermath) 

I was 4 years old in 1996. I have alot of great memories from that year. If the events of Independence Day were real, and I survived it up to today, I'd probably have serious PTSD and so would all the other '90s kids that survived it.

Who would win: The most powerful military in the universe Some nerd and will smith

Independence day aliens : "Kills everyone in Asia , America and Europe" Me : "Chills in Brazil"

Actually, this explains why the other militaries were leaning so heavily on the Americans' leadership: they are one of the few nations with a surviving head of state

bro... what if those aliens are like the galactic equivalent of a somalian pirate gang

Emperor of Mankind would ve united the fallen nations and form the Imperium of man to fight against these XENOS.

In this scenario, aliens shouldn’t come back. Space travel is a tremendous endeavor, and requires incredible levels of funding. The aliens would probably also be pretty badly affected by such a conflict

Plot Twist : Switzerland Survives And Became The Sole Superpower

real scenario: aliens bombard the earth from outer space, humans are effed up with no good way to retaliate. Then aliens aproach to finish remaining humans.

"...we are more united than any time in human history..." **2021 has joined the conversation**

entire world: is destroyed jerusalem: laughs in being completely destroyed thrice belgrade being destroyed 44 times: this is fine

In the movie, Africa/Latin America and Pceania were also heavily attacked by the Aliens and Many Cities destroyed..

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The euro didn't exist in 1996.

Independence Day suffers from the Batman effect. We as humans love to envisage ourselves as able to go toe to toe with the biggest threats that our imaginations can create. However, if a species has the technology to travel thousands of light years to arrive at our door, it is inherently idiotic to assume our current technology would stand a chance against them when we can barely go beyond the moon in manned spacecraft... This is the Batman effect. Batman is often perceived as being able to defy Gods and defeat them in combat, yet he is a simple human being with martial arts training and lots of money, it is inherently impossible for him to do what he does. Yet, he achieves it because we as humans want to feel like we are capable of more than our own limitations, this movie has the same problem... As the late Stephen Hawking once said: if they come here, it will be a repeat of Columbus discovering the new world. except this time, we will be the American Indians...

"Peso was never valuable" I'm mexican. Can confirm.

How successful would the joker be as a criminal if he were real?

I'd almost like a part two of this, with it still going with the realistic theme but chucking the aliens coming back aspect out the window!! Focusing on how long it may take to recover or which nations/cities have the greatest likelihood to come out on top. I wonder if the US of this timeline still has their navy?

One of my biggest problems with the sequel was that they rebuilt within 20 years after all that death and destruction. Realistically it would take at least a century or more and it would be a very different world from the one we know.

I'm sorry but, if a civilization of beings has achieved Interstellar Travel and not only that they can move an entire army from system to system? we're dead.

Independence Day was better than its sequel

*Aliens attack India* Indian Army: send bob sho vegene pls *Aliens evacuate from India*

Gigantic spaceship: *Destroys every special place on Earth* COVID 19: *Destroys our Vacation*

"Hacking Hillary's servers on the mothership." Oooooooo burn XD

Hello all. My channel went on an unofficial hiatus this month. I've spent this whole time improving how I deliver my content. The next few weeks will be very busy for the channel, as I have collaborations, contest final video, and other alternate history content. I know this channel has had a bit of a dry spell, but I assure you that is now over. I can finally get back to uploading. Summer is here all.

Just realised something; had the aliens attacked in 1996, the Nintendo 64 wouldn't have been released! Damn you! Damn you! Damn them aliens to hell!

This timeline is more interesting that the canon one.

If something like this really happened, the aliens would have anti-virus protection software.

What if the fire nation attacked?

What if the internet was turned off for a year?

“Hello my package didn’t come” “Yes sorry sir there will be delays as everyone is dead”

Cody: The Peso was never valuable Mexicans, Chileans and Filipinos: Mood

So basically, if aliens invade we're all fucked.

"Yes, sorry sir, there will be delays as everyone is dead." lol

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="140">2:20</a> - you could Easily lose 3 billion people to famine, drought, civilian unrest, loss of medicine/medical services. warlords and countries going to war with each other over scarce resources and old grudges.

Houston would be uninhabitable for decades after the president’s decision to set off a fucking nuke there.

"Now it's great Xcom shows up..." No it isn't, they miss point blank shots all the time!

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"Its great XCOM shows up." Indeed!

I'd certainly expect there to be a lot of salvaged material from the crashed alien ships, even if we never get to understand principles the technology is built from.

What if Britain left the European Unio- oh...

I think you seriously underestimate the human ability to adapt and overcome. 2 Billion Survivors still has the population of 1927. We still had a complex, global spanning society at that time and we would still have access to all our current knowledge in libraries and digital media around the world.

i think youre seriously undervluing the whole"alien tech" thing. I can see gov factions scouring wreckage sites for tech that may hold their nations together. And if they found anti-grv tech lone, massive automated construction is available.

I remember that after the first movie its explained that those aliens left stranded after the first wave failed fought gurilla wars from there crashed ships. The fighting would potentially explain the death figures from what you actually see.

In 20 years you should make: What if brexit never happened.

Gordon Ramsey's lamb sauce heals everyone. The end.

In all actuality, if they're able to travel the universe so freely, there are plenty of planets without hostile inhabitants that you could siphon the resources from

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="208">3:28</a> This single-handedly made me like the video

fuck all that first and early shit, I'm here to say i appreciate the effort that you put into your videos. who cares about my time stamp.

what if Alaska remained part of Russia and was never gaven to the United States

Nothing I like more than the hear a feel good story. Thanks for sharing.

I love your channel keep up the great stuff

Well, there are additional issues that weren't covered by this video: - Plague/diseases: 3 billion corpses…and not a lot of people burying them. Hopefully most of these got incinerated or dried up/charred by the city-destroying superlasers, otherwise there’s gonna be plagues out the wazoo, further whittling down human numbers. - Climate/weather alteration: many major cities and industrial/military sites just got incinerated in a 3-day explosion spree. That is massive amounts of soot, ash, possible toxic chemical or radioactive materials (bc y’all know every nuclear facility worldwide would be a target for those aliens, giant glowing SHHOT ME signs from space!), etc all being thrown into the atmosphere by city-incinerating fires. Growing food will be REALLY hard for several years, until the crap can get washed out of the air by natural processes. - Nukes: We have no idea how many nukes were thrown around, they only showed the one US attempt in the movie. I can't imagine other nations wouldn't at least consider the idea, and as everything got whittled down they'd say fuck it and throw everything at the aliens, only to have those damn super-shields block all of it. So, now you have basically nuclear winter on top of the crap in the air, and LOTS of radioactive clouds sweeping the globe. Yay mutations and most babies born post-Collapse dying! - Because of the above, the riots and civil disturbances are MUCH worse than described, meaning Road- or Walking Dead-esque apocalyptic societal collapses are much more likely. People sorta need food yo, and aren't happy when there is none. - Nothing at all was mentioned concerning alien tech. There’s kilometer-long alien starships crashed all over the world, you can bet they’ll be looted and stripped down to nothing VERY quickly by every group ever. - Also, the crashed alien ships: I doubt ALL the onboard aliens died. So, in addition to complete global chaos, you got invading alien armies stranded on our planet, competing for resources and probably continuing their extermination campaign as best as they can with limited alien tech available. More dead people. This is the kind of thing that would knock all of mankind down to 19th century tech, pre-oil and coal basically, barring whatever alien tech was scavenged. Hopefully there’s some brain-uploading super-education tech on those ships, bc without that mankind’s technological ability to leap far enough to use and integrate alien tech is screwed.

Well, Houston was successfully evacuated, and I'm Houstonian. I and all of my family and friends are alive! Yay! But I wasn't alive in 1996 in the first place, so... My parents survived to make me! Yay!

YOUR SENSE OF HUMOR IS KIND OF LIKE SPIDER MAN'S !!!!GREAT JOB!!!

I'm sorry for your delay.. everyone is dead. Got me laughing so hard

What if Russia originally converted to Islam instead of Christianity?

What if Britain Stayed in the E.U

Thanks youtube recommendation! Can't wait for July

"As seen lately, just a small change to the Economic balance of the world has catastrophic reprocussions" - 2020 says hi

what if the nazis landed on the moon?

What if Britain had never joined the EU? What if the EU never existed? What if Scotland had succeeded and became independent from the UK?

On the map in the video Australia: where is my good old pal new zealand?

Excellent video my dude. When I first started watching I disagreed, and then I realized the point you're getting too. Truly excellent.

What if Metal Gears were real?

What if someone like superman was real

it took 20 years to get a moon base and blended tech.

The narration narrated by Turtledove in his sci-fi saga is perfectly realistic: I love it, I hope that u read that too!

soooo when does the NCR form?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="293">4:53</a> Amazon on a good day.

This reminds me of the stellaris invicta series by the templin institute

I never existed in this timeline as my parents would have never met ( assuming they fled Paris ) .

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="376">6:16</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="387">6:27</a> Just Poland rebuilding Warsaw after the war :P

Here's 10 possible scenarios for Alternate History: What if the U.S went to war with Great Britain over the Oregon Territory? What if Quebec became independent in 1995? What if the U.S conquered Canada in the American Revolution? What if the Chinese Empire never collapsed? What if Israel never existed? What if Nationalist China won the civil war? What if Fredrick III didn't die in 1888? What if William McKinley was never assassinated? What if Italy was on the Central Powers in WW1? What if France won the Seven Years war?

Sounds good man.

im so glad that i live in the countryside, we grow our own food and all get along in our small county

Last time i was this early, the UK was still part of the European Union

What if we lived in a world where people could actually take jokes and not be butt-hurt or politically correct about it?

I feel like it would turn into the movie "Starship Troopers"

Imagine a brotherhood of steel type organization forming but instead of pre-war antiques it's a bunch of engineers that figured out how to use the alien tech and never shared it with others.

I have some video requests. 1. What if Israel lost the 6 days war 2. What if the soviet union never invaded afghanistan in 1979 3. What if socialism wasn't anti religion (no flamewar please) 4. What if the Bay of Pigs invasion was a success 5. What if the nationalist party won the chinese civil war in 1946 - 1949 6. What if the prohibition of alcohol in 1920 - 1933 in the US never happened 7. What if the North American video game crash of 1983 never happened You don't have to make a video about all of them.

This alternate timeline is definitely more realistic

hmm! WHAT IF MEME DAY HAPPENED!!!!

This video inspired me to create my own alt history

What if Islam never became a major world religion?

Ayyye, we Aussies were left unaffected. ;3 This was very interesting though

If it happened in 1996 I assume I would of grown to be a bad ass mofo that ended up dying in a 1 vs 1 Sword fight with one of the left over troopers in Australia. There were still Thousands of insectoids left of the crashed invasion ships afterall. If it happened now in less than 2 weeks Id be having a mental breakdown, suffering 2 types of withdrawal, experiencing mind numbing pain and be an utterly useless burden on society before any aliens even got to return. Anyone who relies on Medications is dead in a month, I'm one of em.

PFFT, Australia was fine! The new movie should have been Australians flying patchwork ships, hanging out the window, holding beer bottles ready to glass anyone or anything that gets too close!

What if the Soviets won the Soviet-Afghan war

Do, what if the events of Wolfenstein had taken place!

So the world would basically be like The aftermath of Thanos snapping his fingers, but I got to tell you when you said parts like Africa, South America and Oceania were less affected and the President of the United States was still alive I felt a sense of hope in this alternate timeline because there is no way they could have gotten everyone in leadership roles. I'm pretty confident that the human race can rise from the ashes ans unite.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="323">5:23</a> actually, during the Porfirio Diaz regime there was a brief moment when the mexican peso was worth more than the american dollar.

Yeah so living in Australia is good for once, playing games is hard here

I guess this is an interesting one... What if neanderthals didn't go extinct?

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="219">3:39</a> oh boy how well this fits now

But on <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="42">0:42</a> look at the alien screen allahuakbar installed🤣🤣🤣🤣

What if Brexit never happened? (Realistic Aftermath)

Imagine if America was faced with two awful options, one somewhat worse than the other, either of which would leave them with worse foreign relations and broken policies... Oh, right.... YOU DON'T HAVE TO IMAGINE!

Wait a minute... Sao Paulo got left alone? Looks like Brazil is the new dominant country.

This is unironically desirable and should happen in real life