@Nemesis1701 you have been flying low for far to long! Here is your calling, The Space Force
Our Newest Military Branch
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Now that is impressive!
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I watched Starship Troopers...this isn't going to end well...
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game over man
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Ya think maybe they know something we don't
I am going to pay more attention when I watch Ancient Aliens -
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Don't worry about the price. The plan is to make the aliens pay for it!
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William Shatner was arrested today for urinating in public at the City Hall in LA. When asked why he did it, he said that he wanted to "Boldly go where no man has gone before"
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IM IN...sorry guys but I grew up on Star Trek. CHARGE PHASORS...LOAD THE QUANTUM TORPEDOES. WOO HOO!!
SSREAPER
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I watched Starship Troopers...this isn't going to end well...
"Starship Troopers", was one of my all-time favorite books by Robert A. Heinlein, but that movie piece of crap was a total travesty compared to the storyline of the book. One of the things about the book that I liked was Heinlein's inclusion of a mechanized infantry power suit with advanced weaponry which would allow a platoon to monitor areas far larger than real world militaries could do at the time, but the movie totally ignored that part of the story because the idiot director wanted mass assaults with lots of close combat (I guess it was also cheaper...). Other than character names, about the only thing the director included from the book was the level of fascism Heinlein portrayed in the book, but that also got way overplayed as far as I was concerned.
Some of Heinlein's stuff seems a little dated now, but with some updates, I'd love to see a movie made from "Have Space Suit, Will Travel," along with a few of his other novels. -
Back in the 90's I was in Space Command. I have some of these patches still
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"Starship Troopers", was one of my all-time favorite books by Robert A. Heinlein, but that movie piece of crap was a total travesty compared to the storyline of the book. One of the things about the book that I liked was Heinlein's inclusion of a mechanized infantry power suit with advanced weaponry which would allow a platoon to monitor areas far larger than real world militaries could do at the time, but the movie totally ignored that part of the story because the idiot director wanted mass assaults with lots of close combat (I guess it was also cheaper...). Other than character names, about the only thing the director included from the book was the level of fascism Heinlein portrayed in the book, but that also got way overplayed as far as I was concerned.
Some of Heinlein's stuff seems a little dated now, but with some updates, I'd love to see a movie made from "Have Space Suit, Will Travel," along with a few of his other novels.Starship Troopers was my first sci-fi read as a kid. Heinlein and Clark were my go to guys for the future.
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I still like to reread most of the SF stories I read as a juvenile/young adult and am only slowly getting into SF from more recent authors. There were a lot of SF authors in the 1970s-1990s that I just couldn't really get into.
If you haven't read any of these authors, I recommend giving them a try -
Alfred Bester (especially The Stars My Destination or The Demolished Man)
Frank Herbert ( Especially Dragon In the Sea, originally published as Under Pressure). Before I studied world religions, I thought Herbert's Dune was quite something, but I later realized it was basically a story about Islam set in space.
Gordon R. Dickson (especially his Childe Cycle - Childe Cycle - Wikipedia).
I also liked Lester Del Rey, Andre (Mary Alice) Norton, Theodore Sturgeon, and lots of others that I can't think of at the moment.
You can find a lot of older, now public domain free books, SF and other genres, to read on a tablet or your PC at -Gutenberg
24 Sci-Fi Novels You Can Read for FreeI can also recommend the following for free or inexpensive ebooks from established and new authors -
Free & Discount Science Fiction Ebooks, Books, and Novels - BookBub or BookBub: Get ebook deals, handpicked recommendations, and author updates (both offer books from newer authors and some older ones, too) supports a variety of formats
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