ID4 Flying Saucer Cleanup

[Ash]

I was flipping through channels earlier and caught the end of Independence Day.
They blow up the mother ship which sends the rest of the city-sized saucers into the ground.
Most of you might remember the huge saucers all busted up and on fire.

I was wondering...
How long do you think it would take to clean all of that mess up?

How big would the cleanup crews have to be and where would they put the debris?
Would they just toss the majority of it in various dumps?

Would they leave one saucer there as is?  (the one in the desert)
As a sort of rememberance type thing as to how humans beat the aliens?



Either way you look at it, cleaning up the messes of all those spacecraft would be an enormous undertaking.

What do you think?

[RCMerchant]

Jeff Goldblum,with the help of his grumpy Sterotypical wise Jewish father,would figure out a way to create some kinda virus,which would cause all the little pieces to self destruct in a chain reaction at sub atomic levels...(with the help of the Freash Prince of Bel-Aire,of course!)

[Flangepart]

The novel version lead to a sequal that starts at the "Cleanup stage". Wonder how it went....

[Jack]

Due to the level of technology that they would want to preserve and analyze, it would probably take forever.  I imagine every bit of it would have to be taken away and stored somewhere.  All that steel could be recycled, it would probably put all the steel mines out of business for the foreseeable future.  Somehow they'd have to get all the dead aliens out of those things, otherwise it would get kinda stinky.

Other countries would probably handle it differently.  I imagine there would be a huge industry created for cleaning up destroyed alien spaceships.

[Him]

They would probably have to just leave the wreckage where it was. There is no way to clean up the wreckage of a space craft 9 miles in diameter.

Either that or the aliens that survived the crash would use the wreckage as their own personal living space.

[raj]

Just sweep it all under the rug.

[LilCerberus]

  All the preteen kids in the world would have the coolest "really cool forts" ever!