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   In article <2015021708523614743-kedamono@maccom>, 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:   
   > >> "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?   
   >   
   > 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.   
      
   You do relaise that Starship Troopers was a book first?? I haven't read   
   it, but it's possible that the author wrote it that way and the   
   director of the movie was simply following the original ... although,   
   judging by Hollyweird's total lack of respect for any original (and its   
   fans) when making a show / movie "based on" someone else's work, it's   
   extremely unlikely the director followed the book properly.   
      
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