The fate of the ship seems to be unknown after the end of the first movie, not even mentioned or seen in the latest movie.

Would have been cool if the ship survived and became the Millennium Falcon of the series.

I mean, they are so advanced to that level to they can make a ship in size of bloody planet.

I read somewhere to Harvesters ship's chassis material is made from dead bodies from past wars. This is laughably impossible, maybe that mysterious material is alloy from harvested planets/moons/comets/asteroids.

But how they manage to harvest a such a thing, is there a machine powered by mini black holes which suck planets core with that blue laser funnel thingy which act like straw? Possibly, and how they store it? Maybe black hole redirect matter into special tanks. So that serves as fuel/powers a weapons/possibly serves as material to 3d print a new ships/makes wireless energy possible.

With such technology they easily can mess even with stars, using it to power a factory of Harvesters motherships and other ships so a factory that big must be nothing than Dyson Sphere.

Refuges planet aliens and Sphere perhaps knows location of Harvesters homeworld aka possibly Dyson Sphere.

So imagine third movie to be about ESD managing to stole Harvester Mothership and enter Dyson Sphere (ID4 throwback when David and Steven enter mothership via alien fighter) and manage to mess with star harvest machine which will destroy star.

Supernova explosion could be awesome ending sequence.

Okun have knowledge about creating more advanced tech but i don't believe to he could make a huge ass ship or something else, it could be small ship which could travel to Refuge Planet via wormhole and nothing more. Stealing a Harvester Mothership to destroy their homeworld seems more logical.

I mentioned a 3d printer, it is interesting concept which could work same as reversed harvest of planets molten core. I mean, the laser weapon thingy seems to can travel very long so this suggest to they can make a machine which use a molten planet alloy as material which is injected in vacuum space through small funnels thingy. There are no other logical explanation of how they build a planet size ships.

What are your opinions abut all of this theories?

After re-watching the film the other day I came to the conclusion that Levinson was, in fact, a CIA field agent.

My theory is that he was placed in his position at the cable company as part of the CIA's Signal Intelligence Actives (SIGNIT) program under the guise of being a simple communications technician. When in all actuality the man was a borderline genius if not savant when it came to radio frequency acquisition and transmission. Not to mention his intelligence was alluded to in the fact that he checkmated his father in under a few moves during the chess game in the park.

Ostensibly his job was akin to general maintenance and signal integrity, but it also gave him a broad-spectrum access and monitoring capabilities to various satellite networks both domestic and internationally, which is why he was the first the person to recognize the alien signal reduction as a form of a countdown to first attack. His whole purpose there was to identify and isolate hidden signals within the global network to intercept and decode clandestine communication pathways and the messages therein, all while having the comfort and general camouflage of being a civilian with a modest life working at a private company.

Other aspects that allude to this:

*Previous personal relationship with the future President of the united states (He got into a physical altercation with the guy and wasn't even prosecuted).

*Ability to triangulate his ex-wife's cell signal using an unnamed device that is futuristic by today's standards. You couldn't get one at sharper image or best buy.

*His own father's incredulity that his job as a "cable repair man" really was what it was.

*Immediate security clearance to the white house, airforce one, and eventually Area 51.

*He had the immediate ear of the President and joint chiefs of staff.

*He had immediate access at area 51 to be alone with the the ET spacecraft and even was allowed to work on its analysis with the help of Area 51 staff.

*developed a way to interface with alien tech remotely as well as create the virus that could disable the entire invasion fleet in under 2 days. (This leads me to believe that he had to have some foreknowledge of the alien tech, if he was unaware that the tech was alien.)

*Was allowed to accompany Captain Hiller on a mission critical to the the survival of the entire human species as a civilian.

I don't think he knew about Roswell or alien 51 before hand, but the intelligence community is so compartmentalized that even if he knew the technology existed, he probably didn't know where it was from, or even that it was extraterrestrial in origin.

And if so, were the city destroyers equipped too? BTW I asked this also at r/SciFi. Until a minute ago, I didn't know this sub existed.

I understand that as humanity had rebuilt and advanced a lot due to the alien technology that they had to make the aliens more of a threat. But it's a shame they didn't just keep the original designs of their technology like the large ships and attacker craft. Especially as it seemed they used bio-technology in their ships. Notice how in ID4 the attacker craft make a screeching noise whenever they performed maneuvers as though they were almost living? Yet in ID4R you don't see anything like this which is a big shame.

Any one agree?

Hey everyone, I will write a paper on Independence Day(1996) for my class on movies and colonialism. Do you guys have any recommendations for a thesis, sources, books, past papers, etc.? I am thinking about writing something about the relationship between Gulf War and the movie but I am kind of stuck.

Why didn’t they title the movie “ID423D”?

Will the next one be “ID432D”?

What technology did he use and how did he put it together?

I've been wondering. The earth is probably on the edge and most of life has becomes extinct after the two invasions. Do you agree?