RE: Starship Troopers: I've got a wonderful Grinchy Idea...
From: "Aden Steinke" <Aden_Steinke@u...>
Date: 13 Nov 1997 12:03:41 +1000
Subject: RE: Starship Troopers: I've got a wonderful Grinchy Idea...
><<What I want to know is why send youngsters to die armed with weapons
>that obviously had little effect on the bugs. And hadn't anyone
>given any thought to a proper perimeter defense (claymores would have
>been extremely effective it seems to me!!) - the director and
>the producers obviously avoided having any military personnel as
>advisors - didn't want to sully their "vision" of the project!!
>
>KR>>
>
>
>They seemed to have forgotten the little nukes they carry. That would
have
>helped slow down the influx of bugs by hitting them as they were
approaching
>at range.
>
>Stuart F.
The problem is in abandoning the thrust of the book as a story about
armoured
infantry problems like radiation from pee wee nukes, and the inability
of each
man to carry weapons heavier than a tank emerge that were not present in
Heinlein. MI can tear up a bug with their armoured gauntlets if
necessary...
Aden