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"A stunning survey of the latest evidence for intelligent life on Mars. Mac Tonnies brings a thoughtful, balanced and highly accessible approach to one of the most fascinating enigmas of our time."
--Herbie Brennan, author of Martian Genesis and The Atlantis Enigma
"Tonnies drops all predetermined opinions about Mars, and asks us to do the same."
--Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta
"I highly recommend the book for anyone interested in the search for extra-terrestrial artifacts, and the political intrigues that invariably accompany it."
--David Jinks, author of The Monkey and the Tetrahredron
"Mac Tonnies goes where NASA fears to tread and he goes first class."
--Peter Gersten, former Director of Citizens Against UFO Secrecy
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When did Heinlein write "Starship Troopers"? The mid-1960's, I think. Pretty prescient -- that's over 40 years ago....
--W.M. Bear
Yeah, I think Heinlein anticipated this, although I've unforgivably neglected "Trooopers."
Oh, yeah. In the book, Heinlein makes a huge deal about trooper boot-camp and training to use the mechano-armor. He also, interestingly, promulgates his somewhat fascist-seeming (to me, anyway) political idea that only those who've served in the military should be allowed to vote....
--WMB
Now, if you put a chitinous shell around the exoskeletal frame in the shape of a huge mantis...
1st-I want mecha bad.
2nd-seems sorta impractical. Opensource'n balances everything. Takes ten bucks to blow up a million dollar peice of equipment. Not sure if it applies here. Seems to me that if the explosion doesn't destroy it, won't the enemy just empty the goop and have armor?
It doesn't to be combat equipment. Think Aliens and the power loader.
"Think Aliens and the power loader."
Which is interesting because it always looked to me like the power-loader was a REAL device and not just SFX. (I think I even read somewhere that they rented it from some industrial someplace-or-other.) And that was way back when. (And come to think of it, doesn't the Bishop character use something that looks intriguingly like a laptop to establish the uplink to the orbiting Mother Ship?)
--WMB
"2nd-seems sorta impractical. Opensource'n balances everything."
Works well against an insectoid enemy. (Maybe not so well against jihadi RPGs....)
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