NASA really needs to start scraping the bottom of the pop culture barrel.
I think there's just not enough monosyllabic prose in NASA press releases in general.
I only wondered why they're so inept at playing the popularity game. Takes one to know one, eh?
I find this much more interesting to watch than "the dull Earth control center stuff and voiceovers" to be honest.
What point is there in making videos if no one except a few space nerds watches it. Of course they should make popular videos if they want more interest in space exploration. (They should keep it dignified of course, they don't have to do the equivalent of the worst kind of reality tv.)
To be fair NASA is far better at public outreach than ESA are, and most other public organisations. These ISS videos only exist because their public outreach department decided it was a good idea after all.
Bugs from outer Space who throw plasma projectiles at Buenos Aires would make quite a Buzz. Time to watch Starship Troopers again.
why?
I just did not like how they did not show the cooler armor suits the book described but I thought it was excellent, it was like they put the spirit of the book "the forever war" into the story of starship troopers.
Its not really a starship troopers book, more like a bad trip someone with different political views then Heinlein got after reading it (which is basically the forever war).
The original book read like a porn advertisement for bipedal fighting robots and highly militarized government.
why?
I just did not like how they did not show the cooler armor suits the book described but I thought it was excellent, it was like they put the spirit of the book "the forever war" into the story of starship troopers.
Its not really a starship troopers book, more like a bad trip someone with different political views then Heinlein got after reading it (which is basically the forever war).
The original book read like a porn advertisement for bipedal fighting robots and highly militarized government.It's like let's kill ourselves for no good reason. And it does not pass as satire too. Why in the hell infantry would fight insects on that stupid remote planet.
its supposed to be exoskeleton robots capable of flying with highly detailed space logistics. I always imagined they were basically trying to capture the queen to get the info on some kind of quantum-link between them or something (like the queen is some sort of transmitter that works in some kind of undetectable way)
I mean in the later movies and stuff they had the planet destroying bomb and everything, but I guess the problem was they were so wide spread that they were trying to hack some sort of organic bug internet.
You could also argue the federation could lose control of all its colonies and stuff (like the japanese cgi movies go into) if they just start blowing up planets (i.e. they are not capable of defending their territory anyway, so why bother paying taxes?)
People bring their own beliefs into these movies. When I read Starship Troopers, many, many years ago, I took it very differently than most do now.
The vote was limited to those who had put in time in service. Which wasn't just military though that was what most did. The idea was that those in power, those starting wars, should have a very personal knowledge of the costs involved. A solution to the common complaint that old men send young men off to die for old mens purposes.
And the book has to be understood in the context of the technology of the time. While it was talking about spaceships and powered armor it was limited by imaginative extrapolation from existing technology. Work in atomic energy had developed manipulators that mimic arm motions of the operators. Naively it seems a straightforward extrapolation to powered armor suits. Little did they know that it would take 50 years of development to almost get there. Spaceships are just bigger, faster airplanes in this view, and quite reasonable considering how far airplanes had come in the previous few decades (from powered kites to supersonic jets).
Drones, the internet and DNA weren't on the table when the book was written so they are off the table, but the Drake University experiments on ESP were recent and still somewhat credible.
All that said, the movie is a so so sci-fi shoot em up, that in my opinion misses the flavor of the book entirely.
It seems many people who read the book were confused by the movie, while people who just saw the movie took it for what it was. It seems both do very different things and are only loosely related. Obviously people who expect more of the book in the movie are going to be disappointed.
Do you think a manned mars mission would cause the same buzz as the apollo program back in the day?