From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Saturday, February 14, 2015 at 1:09:04 PM UTC-8, rochrist wrote:   
   > "Dimensional Traveler"  wrote in message   
   > news:54beb1d2$0$19658$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
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