From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Tuesday, January 20, 2015 at 9:26:14 AM UTC-8, 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!   
      
   I'm wondering if those "plasma farts" were somehow invisible to the troop   
   ships/   
      
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