Timeline for Would "nuking it from orbit" have taken out the alien spaceship as well?

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Jun 16, 2020 at 9:31	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
May 2, 2019 at 6:17	comment	added	Valorum		@Buzz - It's not really possible from the film to judge the scale of the explosion caused by the base's power system overloading, but it looks big. Real big. The script describes it as "Below, the clouds light up from beneath from horizon to horizon." so it's not small.
May 2, 2019 at 1:47	vote	accept	CommunityBot
May 2, 2019 at 1:42	comment	added	Buzz		Moreover, the colony had been in place for years before they went to investigate the wrecked ship. They were not close together.
May 1, 2019 at 21:03	comment	added	Todd Wilcox		Your final conclusion makes sense, and at the same time my recollection from the director's cut of Aliens makes me think the ship was far from the colony. They had to drive for a while in that buggy vehicle to get both there and back. And it wasn't close enough that they had already stumbled across it before Burke directed them specifically to investigate.
May 1, 2019 at 20:29	history	edited	Valorum	CC BY-SA 4.0	added 4 characters in body
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May 1, 2019 at 19:54	history	answered	Valorum	CC BY-SA 4.0