From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us
On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 12:38:45 PM UTC-8, Your Name wrote:
> In article <54beb1d2$0$19658$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>, Dimensional
> Traveler wrote:
> > On 1/20/2015 9:26 AM, John Reiher wrote:
> > > On 2015-01-20 00:52:44 +0000, Tim Bruening said:
> > >>
> > >> Major Nit: Near the end of Starship Troopers, a large number of troop
> > >> ships approach bug infested Planet P to land troops in order to
> > >> capture a "brain bug". The bugs are firing some sort of plasma weapon
> > >> up at the troop ships. The troop ships make absolutely no effort to
> > >> defend themselves! They don't take any evasive action, or fire
> > >> defensive missiles at the bug plasma balls, or raise any shields!
> > >
> > > It's worse than that. The orbital velocity of the ships would be around
> > > 2 km/s and those plasma farts are barely doing 100 mph! They wouldn't be
> > > over the danger zone for more than a few seconds and they can easily
> > > outrun the farts. It's Hollyweird science!
> >
> > It was recreating WWII amphibious assaults IN SPACE!!! (Those last two
> > words should be said in an echo chamber.)
>
> Sounds like typical military strategy. The Generals and Majors aren't
> there, so why bother wasting money on things like shields, evavsive
> movement fuel, defenseive missiles, etc.?? Simply send in a pile of
> cannon fodder as always and hope that some will get through - that
> leaves more money to pay for the tea and choccy biscuits in the air
> conditioned offices back at HQ for the higher-ups to sit in comfy
> chairs congratulating themselves on a "job welll done". :-\
But wouldn't the Generals want as many troops as possible to make it to the
surface to maximize the chances of capturing that brain bug they wanted?
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