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* [[Fridge Logic]]: This film suffers from some scientific inconsistencies, particularly when it comes to the EMP that knocked out most of the electronics around each "storm." For example, when the first tripod emerges, someone is clearly seen operating a video camera, which should have been rendered useless by the EMP. Later, a news crew ''managed to film one of the lightning bolts''.▼
== Fridge Brilliance ==
 
== Fridge Horror ==
 
== Fridge Logic ==
▲* [[Fridge Logic]]: This film suffers from some scientific inconsistencies, particularly when it comes to the EMP that knocked out most of the electronics around each "storm." For example, when the first tripod emerges, someone is clearly seen operating a video camera, which should have been rendered useless by the EMP. Later, a news crew ''managed to film one of the lightning bolts''.
** If I understand it correctly, EMP only knocks out devices that have a current running through them at the time, so any electronics that weren't on when the EMP hit should operate after.
*** You are incorrect, an EMP is dangerous because the magnetic pulse will disrupt any and all electronics within its range.
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*** Cars of that era had no EMP-vulnerable electronics in their power trains. This was decades before embedded processors.
** My dad, being the armchair survivalist that he is, owns a "farady case" for his digital camera that claims it can protect any electronics inside it from the effects of EMP. Of course, I have no idea if such claim is true or he just bought some expensive crappy case that really does nothing.
* More [[Fridge Logic]] regarding the 2005this film. When the aliens show up in their tripods, they start incinerating a crowd of civilians with heat rays. Consider the following. First: that is insanely inefficient for a race capable of interstellar travel; even the original novel had Black Smoke, an instantly-lethal airborne chemical weapon (I say chemical because the aliens clearly [[You Fail Biology Forever|didn't have a solid enough grasp on biology]] to make biological weapons). Second: the slack-jawed crowd posed absolutely no threat to the tripod which was apparently invulnerable to modern weaponry (except when its crew is sick...[[Hollywood Tactics|somehow]]). Did the aliens have an inferiority complex or something? Third: later on in the movie, the aliens are rounding up live humans to [[Dr. Strangelove|sap and impurify all our precious bodily fluids]]. Why then, did the aliens spend the first two hours completely disintegrating humans one at a time? If the aliens used a machine gun or something, there at least would have been a harvest at the end of the massacres, but the heat ray doesn't even leave a body.
** I picture an alien [[Futurama|Zapp Brannigan]] planning this thing.
{{quote|''Zapp:'' "Damn it Kif, where are the human resources?"
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