Starship Bloopers

It is always easy to read or write a science fiction book where you either are asked to “just accept it” or you ask your reader to do so. It goes without saying that this rule must ring true with moviemakers and their audiences. Such was the case with director Paul Verhoeven, who is renowned as a sci-fi guru of sorts in the movie world, and his interpretation of Robert Heinlein’s book Starship Troopers. “…

…its axis and possibly to throw the moon out of orbit. No matter what the affects we do know from the comparison of other craters that the approximate size of the crater that would be left would be 20 times the size of the meteorite. In this case about 20 miles in diameter, which would easily destroy modern day Buenos Aries and set to ruins an unpredictable amount of fallout area. And this is the Starship Blooper.