you could make your ship be disc shaped even if it is a quarter of the size of the moon. It wouldn't have enough gravity to crush itself at that size. Even the moon's gravity isn't all that strong. round just happens to be the easiest "natural" shape

Oh my God. things heat up when they come into the atmosphere because of friction. They heat up because they come into the atmosphere quickly. if they're using alien tech to enter slowly, then the ship won't heat up. The heat is from the speed frictio

Maybe the aliens are just really, really racist - like the Imperium of Man in the WH40K universe

Um actually the aircraft depicted in the canyon scene is the McDonnel Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, although that aircraft is even less manoeuvrable than the F-16 so your point still stands

I've never heard of that being a phenomenon - modern fighter aircraft are designed to deliver ordnance while travelling at very high speed. For example, the Soviet MiG-25 'Foxbat,' one of the fastest fighters ever, was specifically designed to intercept American reconnaissance aircraft while travelling at multiple times the speed of sound... with missiles

Maybe their city-go-boom laser has a very limited range...

Maybe they do have their own satellites, but you know how it is - they're tiny and fiddly and hard to set up in the right orbits and all that, so if your "prey" has done all that hard work for you already, why not use their satellites?

Maybe the nuke was sitting next to the Death Star (trademark Palpatine) reactor core, and maybe they're used to fifty-year-old junker spaceships coming & going, so don't bother checking every single one... There's got to be at least a million fighters, and if their tech hasn't advanced, why not keep the 50 year old ones running? Probably cheaper than building a whole new fighter every 25 years

Hang on, at no point did they say they don't have mouths. They DID say that they had no vocal chords, which was why they communicated telepathically.

The cordyceps fungus. Depending on the species they can attack many different species of insect. The most well known variant is probably Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, which essentially 'zombifies' ants, compelling them to climb upwards, allowing the cordyceps spores to disperse further

Jason is having a low grade panic attack.

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