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Originally Posted by rslater

Spoiler!

I see you didn't pay enough attention in the movie.

1) Their were 1 million aliens 20 years later since their arrival. Based on the fact that have up to 50 babies at a time, we can predict their numbers were closer to 40,000 odd thousand on the ship. NOT 1 million to start.

2) We have no clue how they were evicted from the ship. They drilled into the ship, but we can predispose humans were not ready for initial hand to hand contact. They aliens may have used a beam to beam themselves down into district 9. This question though is unknown. Remember this is were the alien shipped landed. MNU might have felt it was easier to allow them to drop themselves out of the ship to the location underneath them, District 9. I believe humans had no idea of how to transport 40,000 Aliens as they were so foreign to them. Think of humans initial caution of contacting diseases etc etc. The chain fences were a simple way of alienating (no pun intended) them from humans.

3) Could it be that MNU did NOT want to provide food/money/resources to these aliens. They believed that because they knew weapons would not work without the aliens, it would be suitable for a black market economy to exist in which the aliens were fed food, in exchange for weapons unusable to the Nigerians. If at one point MNU found a way to use them, they could easily usurp the Nigerians with their billion dollar backing and soldiers and take control of their cache.

4) I do believe at the beginiing of the movie MNU decided they wanted to go into the ship to see what was in their. They found aliens, but we are not sure if they haven't as well tried to take technology from the ship. Were also not sure because of the health of the aliens, if MNU decided not to go farther into the ship, but rather leave a hole open for the Aliens to get out.

5) If you have seen Alive in Joburg or one of the trailers you would realize that the aliens were interrogated once they came into District 9. Their is a direct conversation in which an Aliens says all they want to do is go back home. We can predict that yes they had discussed home, who flies your ship, what is wrong with your ship etc. Remember the news reported that they theorized that a piece of the ship had come off causing it to not be able to fly. They must have studied the ship extensively and tried to gather as much info the Aliens would be willing to give up.

Spoiler!

1) i'm pretty sure at the begining they said the ship itself housed over a million prawns to start. irregardless of the number of prawns originally there. so, going by your guess, 40 odd thousand to start. the government couldn't even keep under control 40,000 prawns? on a space ship, kilometers above the ground. instead, choose to bring them to the surface, use a chain fence to contain them, and allowed them to breed into over 1 million prawns in 20 years? wow, that seems like really really piss poor containment skills and population management.

2) pretty sure in the narration, they said the decison was made to remove the aliens from the ship onto the surface and create an enclosed area to house them.
3)why wouldn't the MNU want to feed them? would it not be easier to control their breeding habits and behavour if MNU fed them, instead of scummy gangsters that kill and eat prawns?? again, this rests on the idea that the prawns somehow smuggled out the weapons.
4) uh your number 4 answer doesn't answer my question on this question. why would MNU be more interested in small arms technology when interstellar space travel and other more lucrative and beneficial technology could be expropiated from the mothership.
5)oh, so trailers are considered part of the movies now? -_- yes, a large space ship drops from the sky, falls to the surface, and with GPS technology and topography, and the fact that it could probably hold very advanced technologies, humans simply can't find it. it was buried. in a shack, convientantly under district 9, BEFORE it was built.