From: willreich_77@yahoo.com   
      
   On Monday, July 28, 2014 6:17:54 PM UTC-4, J.Pascal wrote:   
   > On Monday, July 28, 2014 1:19:50 PM UTC-6, Shawn Wilson wrote:   
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   > > On Monday, July 28, 2014 11:32:16 AM UTC-7, Michelle Bottorff wrote:   
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   > > > I think that space marines would lean more to the current Air Force   
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   > > > attitude than the current Marine attitude, and high physical strength   
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   > > > would be a lower priority.   "Fit geeks" is the ideal I've been aiming   
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   > > Thing is, powered armor is fine, so long as you HAVE power.  What do you   
   do when it runs out?  Soldiers can never be *guaranteed* a functioning   
   logistics tail.   
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   > If you're in space and the power runs out, you're dead.   
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   > IRL, the loss of technological support is a real problem... but it doesn't   
   actually mean that making everyone learn how to do their military tasks   
   "analog" is a reasonable solution.  Granted, there is a real good reason that   
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   military weapons "safe" by adding a technological "authorized user"   
   kill-switch gives operators the hives. "But your enemy can't pick up your gun   
   and shoot you," isn't persuasive.   
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   > But we already, now, depend so heavily on technology that a "loss of power"   
   would be devastating.  But the benefits and increased functionality outweigh   
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   > There is no reason to think that a military with power-suit commandos   
   wouldn't put small people in those suits.   
      
   No reason but the very common SF writer/reader conviction that action scenes   
   require that people throw hands. Being adept at hand-to-hand combat hasn't   
   been a war-winning issue for a very long time but people like to read/write   
   about it.   
      
   --    
   Will in New Haven   
      
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