Quote Originally Posted by Chaos View Post
Also, the area where they landed looks exactly like a parcel of land in Nevada (or it might be one of the other nearby states). The space ship could have never even made it through space. There is no way that it wouldn't have either burned up in the atmosphere or have been crushed by the pressure of space.
Crushed in the pressure of space... umm, did you even pass your physics class? Space is a vacuum, so if anything, you should be saying "or would have popped like a balloon in the vacuum of space". Besides, rocket scientists earn their money's worth by figuring out ways of getting spacecraft back into the atmosphere in a way which doesn't cause the spacecraft to bounce off the atmosphere like a pebble skips over the surface of water, whilst also preventing the people inside from getting crushed by extreme g forces that comes with the deceleration of the spacecraft as it punches it's way through the atmosphere.

Please please please pick up a physics textbook or simply get certain facts right before even considering to argue this.

EDIT: I really need to check the dates of the post... damn