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On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:14:29 -0700, Arthur Lipscomb
<arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:

>On 6/28/2024 2:22 PM, shawn wrote:
>> On Fri, 28 Jun 2024 14:14:42 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <v5n7l5$3goq7$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> A Quiet Place: Day One (theatrical) Prequel and third movie in the Quite
>>>> place franchise. This one shows the events of the Aliens arrival on
>>>> Earth. One of the things I hate about zombie apocalypse movies where
>>>> the Earth is overrun by zombies is there's no plausible way that the
>>>> zombies could overtake humanity. Similarly one of the things that
>>>> bugged my about the Quiet Place movies is there was never a plausible
>>>> way the aliens could overtake humanity.
>>>
>>> If there were a lot of these things, I could see them doing it. They're
>>> too big, strong, and fast to fight with individual troops, assuming
>>> humanity could even muster the troops fast enough, but they're not large
>>> enough to take on with things like missiles and nukes, at least not
>>> without nuking a large part of humanity along with them.
>>>
>>> I would like to see how tanks fare against them.
>
>So would I!!!  You know what they should do, make a prequel.  Maybe call 
>it something like A Quiet Place: Day One, then show what happens when 
>the aliens first come to Earth.  And in that movie, they could show what 
>happens when the aliens fight a tank.  Just saying...
>
>I had a vague memory that maybe they were bullet proof.  But in this 
>movie, no one, ever shoots them!  Not the military, not the police, not 
>random New Yorkers who you would expect to be packing...  New York is 
>famously a city where no one has a gun.  I guess that's why the lead 
>character had to go to sleep for a few hours then wake up once the 
>fighting was over.  Then when I watched the first movie, they pulled out 
>a shot gun, so presumably bullets do work. And what about fire?  Nerve 
>gas?  They sure figured out they can't swim fast enough.  Turn a fire 
>hose on them and see what happens.
>
>  Are they strong enough
>>> to defeat a tank's armor and/or overturn it? Because if not, that's
>>> about the only thing that could stand toe-to-toe with one long enough to
>>> put effective fire on it.
>>>
>>>> This movie promised to deliver
>>>> that answer. Instead the aliens show up. The main character hits her
>>>> head or something and is unconscious for a few *hours* at best, then
>>>> when she awakes the aliens have already overtaken humanity. There are
>>>> millions of people in New York City yet they all magically disappeared
>>>> per plot. And now somehow the entire city is totally silent except for
>>>> when the plot demands someone make a sound then that's the only sound.
>>>> And the aliens who were no where to be found suddenly all converge on
>>>> that location. I was really expecting more from this movie but it's
>>>> more of the same. But I guess fans of the first two who aren't
>>>> expecting any real answers should like it.
>>>
>>> My problem with the whole premise of the franchise is that these aliens
>>> seem to instantly home in on any sound so long as the sound is made by a
>>> person. Nature is naturally full of all sorts of sounds, which you would
>>> think would constantly drive the creatures nuts trying to attack and
>>> kill the birds that are flying overhead cawing or the ocean breakers
>>> crashing on the shoreline or the trees rubbing together in the wind. But
>>> none of that bothers or attracts them. The moment a human so much as
>>> snaps a twig underfoot, suddenly these beasts are streaking toward them
>>> to attack.
>>>
>
>It would have to be even worse in a city like New York.  How would the 
>aliens even differentiate human from mechanical sound.  How would people 
>even figure out that they are attracted by noise when there are so many 
>other sounds at the same time conveniently being ignored?

So they only hunted by sound? Haven't seen the movies so I don't know.
>
>>> I wish Clod was still around to explain how sound works like electricity
>>> and the aliens are only attracted to artificial sound, not natural sound.
>> 
>> If so imagine setting up a swarm of drones flying around. Going to be
>> hard to track down the humans when there are many drones buzzing
>> around in the air where the aliens could see/hear them but not be able
>> to reach them.
>
>
>I kept waiting for something like that to happen.  I don't understand 
>why the military didn't just heard the aliens to a location using sound 
>then kill them.

I like the idea I saw in an episode of Z Nation where they herded an
entire hoard of Z's over the Grand Canyon. Certainly something similar
could be done with aliens. Any near the Niagara Falls should be
completely confused and easy enough to guide over the falls.

Hell, if these aliens are so sensitive to sound why can't they use the
sonic weapons against them. I mean the sort that the military has like
the LRAD. Even at low levels that should be powerful enough to hurt
the aliens, let alone if the power was turned up.