Starship Troopers, why didn't they just nuke the planets?

Has no one seen the movie? They scientist guy wanted to capture the brain bug, if you nuke the planet you kill the brain bug. So instead they send ships with bombs to kill alot of bugs, but then they send in the ground force to capture the brain bug.

 

Before they had the brain bug plan they still sent in massive amounts of ground troops though.

-P!-

 

The real question is..

Who would have sex with Diz?

She's simply repulsive.

Two words:

Fried Eggs.

 

Because it's a crappy movie that's why...

 

Starship Troopers the movie was horrible. Here's an answer from the book, which is a masterpiece:

There are a dozen different ways of delivering destruction in impersonal wholesale, via ships and missiles of one sort or another, catastrophes so widespread, so unselective, that the war is over because that nation or planet has ceased to exist. What we do is entirely different. We make war as personal as a punch in the nose. We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the specified point at a designated time -- we?ve never been told to go down and kill or capture all left-handed redheads in a particular area, but if they tell us to, we can. We will.

We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We?re the bloody infantry, the doughboy, the duckfoot, the foot soldier who goes where the enemy is and takes him on in person. We?ve been doing it, with changes in weapons but very little change in our trade, at least since the time five thousand years ago when the foot sloggers of Sargon the Great forced the Sumerians to cry ?Uncle!?

Maybe they?ll be able to do without us someday. Maybe some mad genius with myopia, a bulging forehead, and a cybernetic mind will devise a weapon that can go down a hole, pick out the opposition, and force it to surrender or die -- without killing that gang of your own people they?ve got imprisoned down there. I wouldn?t know; I?m not a genius, I?m an M. I. In the meantime, until they build a machine to replace us, my mates can handle that job and I might be some help on it, too.

EDIT: Another excerpt:

There can be circumstances when it's just as foolish to hit an enemy city with an H-bomb as it would be to spank a baby with an ax. War is not violence and killing, pure and simple; war is controlled violence, for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force. The purpose is never to kill the enemy just to be killing him . . . but to make him do what you want him to do. Not killing . . . but controlled and purposeful violence. But it's not your business or mine to decide the purpose or the control. It's never a soldier's business to decide when or where or how -- or why -- he fights; that belongs to the statesmen and the generals. The statesmen decide why and how much; the generals take it from there and tell us where and when and how. We supply the violence; other people -- `older and wiser heads,' as they say -- supply the control. Which is as it should be.

 

Yes, the book is great.

The movie "adaptation" took only a few names, the title, and its general conflict.

The movie is basically a crappy movie with supermodels in helmets and CGI opposition.

"We just won a single battle! Let's party in this totally vulnerable area! Yeah!"

"It's afraid... It's afraid!"
No ****, numbnuts, it's surrounded by a crowd of enemy infantry.

The only slightly good thing about the movie was the soundtrack and the nudity. And we don't even see Denise Richards naked. What a rip.

 

Yeah,we never got to see Denise Richards in the co-ed shower. What a gyp.

 

think of it like this.


When Doogie Howser mentioned that they thought there was a Brain Bug on Planet P.

No one had seen one until that time.


Most of the bugs live underground, so Nukes from orbit become ineffective at that point.


as for tanks...they wouldn't stand a chance against the bugs...as the big ones would just melt them with acid.


I hated the book. It was very confusing and poorly written if you ask me.


But the one thing I still don't recall, is how did first contact happen?

 

Yeah,we never got to see Denise Richards in the co-ed shower. What a gyp


I found a cut-scene where you see her boobs.

 

Boobs are good. If you showed them to the bugs, I'm sure everybody would live happily ever after, thus rendering nukes useless...

 

I found a cut-scene where you see her boobs.


do tell!

 

Can you cut/paste the image here.

 

I find myself thinking of a Minus the Bear song title. hmmm...