Re: Bugs, Mr. Rico, Zillions of them...

At 6:23 AM -0500 11/21/97, Los wrote:
>Yikes! Well that definately isn't the size of a dog!
>

Unless Rico was thinking of the K9 Corps, which would likely be
composed of larger thn normal dogs.

>Anthony Yang wrote:
>
>> >>	      The Soldiers:  Soldier Bugs are about the size of a large
>>dog.
>>
>> >I just reread SST again and did not see anywhere where they say the
>>bugs
>> are teh size
>> >of a large dog. What page was that on?
>> >
>>
>> The closest that I've found to a description of bug size is on page
>>181-182.
>> My page reference is from the Ace Paperback version of the book:
>>
>> "I thought with annoyance that each man already had to patrol
fourteen
>> square miles; spreading the butter so thin meant seventeen square
>>miles per
>> man - and a Bug can come out of a hole less than five feet wide."
>>
>> Looks like Heinlins bugs are alot smaller than the movie's.
>>
>> Tony Yang
>> tagonagy@nyc.pipeline.com
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