I had the same thought. Admittedly, since the Martians have each of the cities confined in an impenetrable force field, they might be able to confine the effect. Or the destruction could take the form of imploding the field or some such.
I’d have thought Detroit would be a valid argument for sparing any other city.
Stupid aliens and their ludicrously advanced technology, messing up my perfectly valid point!
Oh, I still think your point is arguable. It’s not like the Martians give a fuck about human life. They may well consider the implosion argument then decide it’s too merciful.
Raleigh is a nice enough town (#43), but I’m worried it may not have enough stand-out characteristics to be spared. In the unlikely and tragic event that it were the one eliminated, I have a couple of questions. What happens to the territory that was previously occupied by the eliminated town? Raleigh is currently blocking the Town of Cary’s eastern expansion, and I was wondering if it would be okay for Cary to annex the now-vacated land. In addition, Raleigh currently serves as the state capital of North Carolina, and I was wondering if Cary could assume that role, too.
Cary–growing like kudzu, it is.
The Space Needle is downtown though, and that is certainly worth sparing for any aliens. They could set up their terraform rulership from the dining room with a beautiful view of puget sound.
Spare NYC: it has the highest population. And by extension, sorry Arlington, TX.
If you want to keep your television, film & celebrity (yes, it’s separate) industries, I’d strongly urge that Los Angeles not be the target.
Boeing announced it’s leaving Wichita after 80 years, and moving all that work to Seattle.
Now I’m not sure which city I’d rather root for.
Don’t destroy Albuquerque. How would anyone know when to toin left?
Honestly, I don’t think the aliens would do harm to anything in New Mexico. It’s a very popular vacation spot with them. In fact, I believe we are the #1 stop on the Extraterrestrial Tourist Trail.
Spare San Antonio. I don’t want to die. Also, a lot of the nations weed supply comes through here and why fuck up the distribution network just because of a FLORIDIAN (hint!!!) robot?
Indeed, I was certain every resident of a city other than Detroit would just have said, “hey, we’re not Detroit!” I mean, destroying Detroit would actually improve the area..let something else florish where this city has died. But wait 'til after the auto show, please.
At least not until they finish filming the final season of Breaking Bad!
You space fuckers better spare New York, because if you don’t, shit’s really gonna hit the fan.
We still have Will Smith.
Yeah.