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Heat rays radiate heat rather than conduct it. It should be impossible for that to make something colder.

The point is that earth is already so warm in comparison to what they're able to do that their heat ray is basically meaningless.

I thought they meant it was making it chilly.

It might be that too, but you already know why that makes no sense.

Yes, I know that it does not.

Is it implying aliens live in a cold world and their interpretation of hot is cold for us? (Say their normal temperature is -70 degree Celsius and their heat ray is 8 degrees)

I don’t think it matters what the discrepancy in room temperature is. The heat ray would seem like a candle rather than an actual death ray but it doesn’t sound possible for it to be chilly.

True

What you said makes sense, though. Never should have opened my big mouth.

Oddly this gave me a thought on the aliens themselves. They generate intense internal heat but cannot regulate it themselves. The cold environment is what keeps them down to a proper temperature. The development of a heat gun raises the temperature at a given point and the target broils their own body as they cannot shed the heat now.

Of course the device was not designed as a weapon. It was actually intended as a medical device to assist in mating. It was supposed to be a radiator to lower the body temperature to induce mating season. But the projector managed to melt one of the onlookers for the demonstration.

As to why they would try to attack Earth when it is too warm for them. They do not want Earth, they want to colonize Europa. But humanity might protest.

Hold on let me explain better, there “heat” ray is colder than the natural temp of earth thus cooling the parts they hit down.

Oh my God, so what I said was right. It’s impossible to cool down a planet with a heat ray since they heat matter through radiation. To make something colder, the heat ray would need to fire a beam of “hot” particles colder than the planet’s surface temperature, this cooling it down via conduction. But then, it wouldn’t be a heat ray if it emitted matter instead of heat, so my point still stands. Obviously, this prompt doesn’t have to go by the laws of physics, and I’m just making a big fuss over nothing, it’s a good prompt is what I’m trying to say.