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* Where did the wedding ring Will Smith's character is wearing after his marriage (which occurs about 2/3 of the way through the movie) come from? All male characters shown wearing wedding rings before that point still have them afterward, and the only ring the groom was carrying around was for his bride.
** It was in the container too, just under the shell.
** Well, Area 51 is a military base, it probably has a PX, and they may stock at least one of everything that a PX would typically need to stock (including sets of wedding rings). Or the container thing. Or Hiller went out to the trailer camp set up outside and bought some couple's wedding rings off of them. Or he went to the machine shop and got someone to make him a pair of metal rings dyed yellow. Or... well, there's lots of places they could come from.
* Just how did the Apple Mac virus be compatible with the alien computer system when Will Smith and [[Jeff Goldblum]] ended up in the main alien mothership?
** Just because it was written on a Mac doesn't mean it has to affect a Mac. The computer is just a tool to send a signal into the alien system. We can send computer signals through phonelines, radios, or even optic nerves. The hard part is the interface. Since Jeff discovered that the aliens were interfacing with our systems, deliberately or not, all he had to do was figure out a) how to reverse that process and b) discover how the alien systems arranged their command protocol structure. From there it would have been simple to scramble that structure at least for the time needed to destroy the mothership.
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