Talk:Heat-Ray
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- In Ronald Emmerich's Independence Day, the Heat-Ray is used to destroy cities by placing directly above usually the tallest building in the city, including the famous scene where the aliens blow up the White House. Instead of multiple blasts, their Heat-Ray could annihilate an entire city with one blast.
I went ahead and just removed the above. There's no real indication that the weapon used in the film is a type of Heat-Ray, as it just as easily be based on a simple laser-esque cliched device. I can only imagine adding it back in order to address the Heat-Ray's impact in science fiction. --Bacteria 13:36, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
It says that the heat-ray in the book was some kind of beam projector. However, Wells describes it as a "white flame" and I always thought the book version was like a giant flamethrower.- JustPhil 12:21, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
- I just thought I'd add that the Heat-Ray's effect on the helicopter really isn't a replacement of the "glow-and-disappear" effect of the film; the Heat-Ray in the 1953 film also set vegetation ablaze, caused several buildings to explode and also set several water towers on fire. I'm pretty sure that if the Heat-Ray had struck a helicopter in the film it probably would have caused it to "go up in a ball of flames" like in the series. Scorpionman 23:13, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
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- The "glow and disappear" effect came from the green skeleton beam, NOT the heat ray. Yes, this means that they screwed up in the "The Second Seal" episode of the series. I should also point out here that the "meson destructor" quote in the article is inaccurate. Clayton Foresster says that in reponse to the general coining the phrase "skeleton beam." "That skeleton beam is what they must have used to destroy that French city." (DrZarkov 07:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC))
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- The meltaguns are more like plasma guns. the lasguns and cannons are more like heat rays.
