Haley called. Wants that comet back, since apparently you can't accurately predict where things will be in a straight-line path in space over time when you know the physics variables involved and no outside forces are moving the objects in the interim.
Except the elite don't run the world in starship troopers. (the book, granted I haven't seen much of the movie)
And a spacefaring race on that degree managing to throw a rock is not all that different than ICBMs nowadays.
An ICBM is guided. A rock is a rock.
Throw a piece of driveway gravel the length of a football field to bisect an ant when it lands. That's what they claim the bugs did.
In the movie. The movie is completely different from the book, on purpose.
Lead and copper are just metals, but we can get pretty precise with those. It's even easier in the vacuum of space.
Are they thrown, or guided with thrusters?
And that's just one solar system. This is tens of thousands of solar systems away.
Bullshit.
They just wanted to send people off to war to fuel the war economy.
Note that the BOOK is great. I'm talking solely about the movie here.
The movie did give us some great memes, though, can't deny that. "Would you like to know more?"
Haley called. Wants that comet back, since apparently you can't accurately predict where things will be in a straight-line path in space over time when you know the physics variables involved and no outside forces are moving the objects in the interim.