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The aliens used railguns to destroy Earth's cities right?


I was looking at the movie and wondering if the aliens used railguns. If you think about it, those aliens slammed a very small object into the cities. But it was so fast that it left a creator (like a meteor).If it were a laser, it probably would just go straight through into the ground.

Do you think those aliens ships above the cities used railguns?

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I always thought it was some kind of plasma bomb, a railgun wouldn't have explained why the explosion of a jet right below the weapon destroyed the entire ship. The railgun projectile would have gone right through the jet, therefore the explosion simply wouldn't have been strong enough.

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I always thought it was some kind of plasma bomb
Is there any science to support a plasma bomb? At first, I thought it might have been something like that, but I couldn't find any science to back it up. So eventually, I just settled with a railgun creating a crater in the ground.

I found this cool video online that explains what happens during a meteor strike: https://youtu.be/iJwZ3uBzQV0?t=1m41s Stay till it says the part where the crater was strong enough to destroy New York City. The meteor impact creates a wall of fire like it did in the Independence Day movie.

It would make sense that aliens would come up with crater-like weapon. Meteor strikes happen all of the time in outer space.

What do you think of my alien railgun theory?

a railgun wouldn't have explained why the explosion of a jet right below the weapon destroyed the entire ship.
Yeah, you are right about that. That green energy light could also be some kind of gravity projectile charging up. Kind of like a next generation project for a railgun. What do you think of that theory?

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Not a laser or a rail gun , but some type of device that destroyed pretty much everything in a something-mile radius. I don't think it left a crater like a meteor , since when they showed the remains of the destroyed cities , some skyscrapers were still standing.

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Oh yeah. You may be right.

I really like my railgun theory though. It would make so much sense if they did it that way. Nothing would be left standing. It'd be so much more simpler.

In part 2, I hope it is a railgun.

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The problem is. Even coming up with the rail gun theory means you already put more though into this, than the movie writers itself.

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No

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they wouldn't need to get that close to use a railgun though, just blast from a few miles up

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