From: dtravel@sonic.net   
      
   On 2/17/2015 8:52 AM, John Reiher wrote:   
   > On 2015-02-17 04:05:30 +0000, Tim Bruening said:   
   >   
   >> On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 1:09:04 PM UTC-8, rochrist 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!   
   >>>>   
   >>>   
   >>> This is nothing. Soldiers on the ground routinely form a circle   
   >>> around a bug   
   >>> and fire inwards. There is no single moment of that movie that is not   
   >>> stupider than the previous moment.   
   >>   
   >> It takes large numbers of bullets to kill a Bug.  Why are bullets the   
   >> troopers main ammunition?   
   >   
   > Because the director couldn't be bothered. He wanted the bugs to be so   
   > much more tougher than humans. so that when they do take them down, it's   
   > much more satisfying. At least that's the theory. In a real war, those   
   > troops would have had more armor, and given the equivalent of 30mm   
   > grenade launchers that crack those bugs with one shot. 15mm DPU   
   > anti-armor rounds for their weapons. Mother-fraking ranged weapons to   
   > rain down death on the bugs.   
   >   
   > But no, we have Vietnam in space.   
      
   It wasn't Vietnam in space.  Napoleonic Wars in space maybe but not Vietnam.   
      
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