[JustPiper]

Weird, I had thought of that movie! I thought the clock originally expired at midnight 2-2?

[brucecw]

I thought the clock originally expired at midnight 2-2?

When I first heard about the clock, what it was doing and what people said it was doing appeared to be two different things. Apparently some people neglected the "and so many hours" part of it, so they thought it ended a day earlier than it in fact did.

[Sean Osborne Lomax]

That movie was a very large part of the graphic footage in the original jihad video trailer on the Jihadi Call19 website. The jihad video montage began with the tsunami scene from "Deep Impact". The rest was of the "Independence Day" footage.

Jeff Goldblum's character is the one who discovers the "countdown". He realizes the evil aliens are using our own technology against us. He messes up the alien system by inserting a virus which creates enough confusion to allow the hero's entry into the mothership. They destroy the mothership with a nuke.

The jihadists are kind of mimicing the plotline of that 1996 Hollywood blockbuster movie, albeit with a major role reversal - the jihadists have made themselves the "Americans".

"I thought the clock originally expired at midnight 2-2?"

Yeah, so did I. I recently got an email with the clock attached via a link. I have sent a return email asking for verification that the clock is the same as the original.