What have we learned?

[Raven]

I learned that if you date a stripper it really hurts your chance for promotion. 

If aliens attack your chance of survival greatly increases if you wear a dog costume.  Dogs always make it but First Ladies are most likely toast. 

Eventually everyone gets to play the president of the United States at some point in their career. 

[RobtheBarbarian]

Fireballs hug the ground and creep along like a Norwegian mist.

[Raven]

Hippies who think everyone is there friends will always die first. 

[RobtheBarbarian]

See, I always knew that...

[Just Some Guy]

I learned that shooting down a fifteen mile across target as it is hovering directly above population centers will result in no casualties.

I learned that one nuclear device can obliterate a sphere of metal hundreds of miles across.  And that even after it has been blown apart, scattering chunks at least twenty meters across of dense metal it somehow doesn't wipe clean the half of the planet that was facing it.

Today is the day we declare our independence!  Not that we actually have anything to declare independence from, we're just going to declare it because it's the name of the movie.

[Trekker4747]

People get really irritated doing their jobs on a holiday weekend.

[Rattrap007]

I learned all you need to stop a saucer is a drunk hick in a jet plane.

[Bob]

I learned that the entire planet still brushes up on Morse Code on a consistent basis so they are always up to speed....... just in case.

[Gamera]

You never know when an old Jewish curmudgeon might accidentally suggest your next course of action.

[Bob]

You never know when an old Jewish curmudgeon might accidentally suggest your next course of action.

What, Judd Hirsh played a JEWISH character?    I dont think the movie drove that point home to us enough.    I though he was a southern baptist.

[bettertomorrowamy]

I learned that strippers still have to strip even if there is no one there to watch, and if you refuse to strip for no one somehow the club owner looses money and is forced to fire you.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Even though firefighters have lost their lives when they were caught in the middle of forest fires due to lack of oxygen (firestorm), a whole city can go up in a ball of fire and - if you're a named character - you won't suffocate right in the center of it.

The aliens wear armor that takes a whole room of Area 51 scientists to get through it but one Air Force flier can punch right through it and knock the alien cold.

No matter how hard you try to - or who tries to do it - you cannot ignite the atmosphere of the entire planet.

And it doesn't matter that one of your old ships is in good working order and in contact with your main ship (where you could trace it's location) or that you can access their satellites and all the secret information going through their goverment conversations - you won't be able to find Area 51.

Am I the only one that thinks these aliens are such total f*ck-ups that they aren't actually "sweeping across the galaxy like locusts" but are really running from a long succession of ass-kickings?

[Bob]

Am I the only one that thinks these aliens are such total f*ck-ups that they aren't actually "sweeping across the galaxy like locusts" but are really running from a long succession of ass-kickings?

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

Am I the only one that thinks these aliens are such total f*ck-ups that they aren't actually "sweeping across the galaxy like locusts" but are really running from a long succession of ass-kickings?

I'm glad I'm not the only one.

[Trekker4747]

I learned that operating on an hostile alien neither requires you to anesthesize the alien nor have security in the room with you, or in the next room, or even in the general vacinity.

Area 51's break room is well stocked with booze.

Aliens need a better firewall.

Chiefs of Staff really want to nuke things whether there's a good reason to or not.

In a global crisis most of the world will just on their duffs and wait for the Americans to do something cool.

Vivica Fox is, well, a fox.