I Know Why We Have Satellite Disruption Independence Day HD

The "line of sight" scene from Independence Day where David (Jeff Goldblum) explains to the President (Bill Pullman) why there is satellite disruption.

[freddiegibbs]

"And the clock is ticking ...." great delivery, very ominous and inevitable.

[Unknown-bqid]

I like how this scene is an aversion of the old Cassandra Truth trope, where the character says it and no one believes him--Whitmore believes David immediately...

[iprobablyforgotsomething]

world : *in terrible danger*
"David, see if they got those pens that they give away."
"...Dad, what?"

[panini-psychosis]

I LOVE JEFF GOLDBLUM AND JUDD HIRSCH'S CHEMESTRY IN THIS MOVIE. THEY BOTH REALLY CONVINCED ME THAT THEY BOTH ARE "REAL" FATHER AND SON. GREAT CONVICTION ❤

[wolfie]

Bill Pullman is the perfect-looking American president.

[Kncperseus]

This scene is something the sequel lacked: here, the aliens are shown having silently prepared for the invasion, even hacking into satellite communications.

[jaypritchett]

*This part always gives me chills!!!* 😬

[SpiritualVegetarian]

What a movie should be like. Masterpiece.

[nicksewell]

Me explaining why my crush hasn't responded.

[joshuahermanson]

Say what you will about the dumb, blockbuster nature of this movie. But it did establish a sense of dread with the buildup to when the aliens actually attack.

[uwlwsrpm]

LOL souvenir pens? Dad has his priorities straight fo sho.

[delta]

A satellite disruption can mean only one thing...invsion.

[ChrisVillagomez]

Independence Day, the Human-Covenant War and the Forerunner-Human-Flood War from Halo, the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the Star Wars Galaxy, and the Invasion of Chicago in Transformers: Dark of the Moon all evoke similar feelings personally. Obviously, they're all essentially depictions of human civilization being destroyed and invaded by a vastly superior alien foe, but there's just something about the absolute carnage and horror they convey that makes them really stand out to me over other "alien invasions".

Independence Day is the most classic to me as I grew up watching it, being born in 1998 with a mom who loves Bill Pullman. Aliens roll up to Earth, hijack all our satellites, and then begin nuking us into oblivion, killing millions until we stop them.

The Invasion of Chicago is just frankly insane to watch. Decepticons pouring all over the city on foot and in their capital ships and fighters, killing every single human they can find in horrific ways. It got the only PG-13 rating for the Michael Bay Transformers movies because of how crazy it is. It's like Independence Day, but the Decepticons are a lot more reasonable than the Harvesters as they "just want us as slaves". The Harvesters want us to die.

When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the Galaxy, they ended up killing HUNDREDS OF TRILLIONS of sapient beings of all kinds, and it took every remaining faction in the entire Galaxy banding together just to stop them. They threw planets and moons into each other, killing Chewbacca in one of the first examples of it being done and they later killed Han and Leia's son Anakin in combat, they partially terraformed Coruscant, which is a planet-wide city, and innumerable others into hellish landscapes where the flora and fauna would kill anyone unlucky enough to be nearby, and they had destroyed their own galaxy in a civil war so brutally that the Force literally cut itself off from them entirely.

In the super ancient past in Halo, humanity was a species on par with the Forerunners for the most part and allied to a race known as the Prophets, until humanity and the Prophets both were invaded by the Flood and forced to literally run away into Forerunner space, glassing the surface of any Forerunner world that already had a Flood infection form present on it, even those that had scientific testing centers set up to combat the Flood. The Flood are the corrupted remains of the previous civilization to the Forerunners, called the Precursors. The Forerunners overthrew them millions of years before the present-day because the Precursors liked us more, and when they turned themselves into a kind of dust to eventually try to reassemble into a species after a time, it got corrupted somehow and twisted itself into the Flood, absolutely horrific space zombies and genuinely one of the most terrifying ways to die I've ever even heard of. The Forerunners absolutely demolished Humanity and the Prophets due to their near god-like power, vowed to finish the fight against the Flood and that one day humanity would indeed wield the Forerunners' form of imperial galactic peace known as, "the Mantle of Responsibility", which they took from the Precursors when they overthrew them, and then they regressed our entire species' civilization and intelligence (as well as the Prophets) back to the Stone Age. They built a series of massive ringworld-shaped weapons known as the Halo Array to kill all sentient life in the entire Milky Way Galaxy to kill off and starve the Flood from it's food source. They fired the Array after cataloging as many races as possible in safe locations outside the Galactic Disk entirely. After the Array was fired, the surviving Forerunners reseeded life across the Milky Way before disappearing entirely for multiple reasons.

Fast-forward over 10, 000 years into the 2500's, and you arrive at the Human-Covenant War. Our former allies against the Flood, the Prophets, worshipped the Forerunner technology left on their world and had a civil war, one side left on a Forerunner Dreadnought and met a race called the Elites who they fought and then joined with, spiralling into a massive conglomerate of alien races known as the Covenant. They carried on worshipping the Forerunners but believed that the Halo Array led to a "Great Journey into the Divine Beyond", instead of it wiping out all life. They just didn't know where the Halos were sitting. They had technology to search for Forerunner relics called Luminaries (I think) and they started pointing out our space empire (the UNSC or United Nations Space Command), saying that there were metric ass-loads of Forerunner relics everywhere. Only, it was pointing out individual humans. Because the Forerunners left the Mantle to Humanity, we were recognized as Reclaimers of the Mantle and essentially labeled by Forerunner tech as the return of the Forerunners in terms of our thought process and empire by the time we could assume the Mantle fully. This threatened to up-end the entire Covenant as an entity as they believed that they already held the Mantle (to an extent as I'm not sure how much they knew of it) so the 3 Prophets who first learned of it vowed to keep it a secret from everyone, and then Sith Lord maneuvered themselves into the leaders of the Covenant. Then, they decided to get rid of us for our transgressions of existing neat them, and began an over 30 year long war of extermination by rolling up to every human-controlled world, capturing any Forerunner relics their Luminaries pointed out, and then glassing the planet to the point of uninhabitability. Glassing practically vaporizes everything on the surface near the Covenant's weapon beams and the sheer heat and pressure from them creates a kind of sci-fi plasma-based version of Trinitite

[jermainehaslam]

Jeff Goldblum and Bill Pullman did a great job in this film

[johnduckworth]

I always thought David might have become president and brought Whitmore back as his vp in the sequel. It's probably a stupid thought, but david did help save the world in a military operation so that might have won him a lot of friends and influence.

[SLYNUR]

If that happened today, we wouldn't get satellite disruptions and shaky TV signals, we we would just get slow internet!

[chrisbarrett]

Don’t the aliens have watches they can all huddle together and countdown 3-2-1 and start their timer? Why dey hack us bro?😂

[UnknownAGENT]

Such a compelling scene. It’s always my “go to” scene. Actually, the first half of the movie is great.

[versetripn]

If people only knew how TRUE this scene rings.
Tick...tick...
Seek, and ye shall find.
I have.

[ytuser_]

Bill Pullman is so presidential, it’s funny how he didn’t think he was Presidential material: He’s not Donald Trump and that’s enough 😂