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The Fourth of July was this past week, which for me always means watching the movie Independence Day.

In the final act of that movie, the US puts together a long-shot plan to beat the aliens, who had been absolutely and literally destroying them the entire movie. They would fly up into space with a recovered spaceship, upload a virus to the mothership, and that would allow them a small window of time to beat the aliens on earth. Even with that small window of time, it took a precise shot at the right moment to bring down the alien ship.

Oh yeah, spoiler alert.

I’m not going to break down the movie too much and get into things like “How do aliens with the technology for space travel and a laser…