Robert Sherrod wrote in
news:6xOCg.84281$FQ1.57123@attbi_s71:

Radio Buff wrote:
"TimBob" wrote in
oups.com:

In "Indepedance Day" morse code saves the world from the alien
invasion! They made a movie about it so it must be true!
Tim N7XAU


That movie was hokey. An alien invasion force with thousands of ships
in orbit would need to use our satellites to communicate with each
other.

Yah, right.

Sc


There was only one ship in orbit in "Independence Day", the mother ship.
All of the other ships that detached from the mother ship, the daughter
ships, so to speak, were all within the Earth's atmosphere. That is why
the satellites were necessary to overcome the line-of-sight problem
between the mother ship and the daughter ships on the opposite side of
the planet.

Bobby
KC9IHK


It was still Hokey. The aliens could do everything but provide their own
communications globally.