The design for the alien reactor that melts the ice and gives Mars air at the end of the movie was based on a nuclear reactor. According to Paul Verhoeven, he wanted to "be inside a nuclear reactor" (with poles going into water), but wanted to make it to a much grander scale, with the poles being as big as skyscrapers. Both he and William Sandell found a book that had pictures of skyscrapers that were built around the turn of the 20th century, which had potential for the reactor design, but initially neither of them were convinced that idea would work, so they dejectedly threw the book on the ground. It landed in such a way that the skyscraper pictures were upside down, and both Verhoeven and Sandell looked and realized that upside down, the skyscrapers had the right look for the alien reactor.

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