The space armament treaty says: no nuclear, biological or laser weapons in space. but kinetics...
The space armament treaty says: no nuclear, biological or laser weapons in space. but kinetics...
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For another take on Kinetic impactors try The moon is a Harsh Mistress or as they call them. Tossing rocks down the gravity well.
I remember how in the book people show up to the announced site to watch it like tourists, and of course they get atomized. Same idea appears in Independence Day. I always thought “that would never happen, people aren’t that stupid”, but the pandemic changed my mind on that front.
People were picnicking at the first battle of the american civil war, pretty sure a couple died.
Never underestimate human stupidity.
I mean in Indepedence day they wanted to "welcome" the aliens. What you're talking about is akin to driving towards where a nuke is about to drop i.e. only for the suicidal
Yeah but…. with that gigantic ship hovering over your city and a known countdown going…. would you?
That’s gonna be a big no can do over here.
Heinlein comes off a bit fascist these days but that’s me.
His books are often (mostly?) social and governmental thought experiments. You'll find a vast range of ideas if you read all his stuff.
And that range leans fascist.
Would you call "Stranger in a Strange Land" fascist? Because that would seem absurd. (We might make fun of Jubal being a Heinlein stand-in character, and that would be fair.)
Care to elaborate that unfounded opinion?
They NEVER do. Saying Heinland was a fascist is just hold-over reddit hot-take bullshit. Guarantee 95% of the people that post it never read a single thing he wrote.
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I've read Starship Troopers. Yeah the world in it was pretty fascistic. Then again I've read quite a few other things from him that give off a very different impressions, like the mentioned Harsh Mistress and Stranger in a Strange Land.
The world was also on the brink of destruction and fighting endless waves of invader insects.
It's almost like it's a fantasy...
If Zuckerberg was a Heinlein character he'd have pulled the plug on Facebook when he discovered that the best way to engage users was to make them angry.
Well scifi and yeah the book wasn't just about the system of governance lol
Actually, I’ve read almost, if not all of his novels. I enjoyed them thoroughly as a young man. That doesn’t change his philosophy as messaged in his work.
what philosophy?
Or try the Expanse!