ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

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Thinking Outside the "Plot"!
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~ A Question for the Members: Did one of more alien beings survive in the downed saucers? If so, could they have been confined and interrogated for more information about their species!

~ My Theory: We can safely assume that the ships were equipped inertial dampers, because we see Hugh Marlow and company experiencing no acceleration when the ship they were aboard zoomed out into space.

Therefore, even though the magnetic disruptor weapons were used by the military to bring the saucers down, there's no reason to believe the aliens were harmed when the ships crashed. Inertial dampers are the ultimate seat belts!

Admittedly none of the saucers that weren't badly damaged by the crash seemed able to rise back up and fly away — such as the one in the Potomac River or the one that slide up against a building at street level.




But even though the propulsion system was damaged by the magnetic disruptors, the inertial dampers might not have been affected.

I think we might have ended with up a few alien prisoners of war!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Morbius]

[Bud Brewster]

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Exactly, Tom! I've even had some ideas about a second group of saucers that went to a difference planet, and we learn about ths group when we translate data from the Infinitely Indexed Memory Banks aboard the captured saucers.

After the battle on Earth, this second group was joined by a few saucers that escaped destruction and fled. They would share their the knowledge they'd gained before being defeated, and they'd us it to prepare for a second assault!
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)

[Morbius]

I always liked how they could manipulate time. If you have a car that goes 100 mph and you make 1 hr one second, it would be traveling at an actual 360,000 mph, if my math is correct. I find the time manipulation interesting especially in an early Scify movie!

[Bud Brewster]

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I agree, Tom!

I think this movie is loaded with interesting science fiction concepts which are largely ignored by the folks who dismiss the story, even though the praise the special effects.

In realize that they had to explain the complex concept of time dilation to the audience on 1956, so they cheated a bit by having Hugh Marlow say that his watch had stopped and he couldn't feel his pulse!

Naturally nothing inside the saucer would be affected by the fact that time was passing at a different rate for them than for the rest of the universe at the moment.

But it's a forgivable (and deliberate) "mistake" for the sake of getting the idea across to the audience.
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)