So, apparently, we can have thousands of nukes laying around to use on other humans that we probably have some stupid disagreement with and risk WWIII if we use some.
But some asshole aliens that want to wipe us out. Can’t use even a handful of them to wipe (well try anyway) out their fleet!
Its like some Hollywood liberal retard remembered the mantra of our day (never use a nuke) but forgot the damn reason (because you might start the mother of all wars).
Aliens are blowing the shit out of us. The mother of wars has already started.
PS. I always wondered in all the crashed gigantic alien ships caused the mother of all ecological/pollution disasters. Seems to me they would have been filled with all kinds of toxic shit in large volumes.
And when nukes are used, they don’t work. Didn’t they use a nuke - delivered by the Flying Wing IIRC - in The War Of The Worlds? (Not the poor Tom Cruise version.) It didn’t work. They also used a nuke in Skyline - that didn’t work either, but might have if they’d followed it up with a second.
Got to agree with you. Are there any films where they do this?
The RPG Traveller took the line that the Imperium controlled the space between the planets, not the planets themselves. So different planets had different Tech Levels, and on some planets people dressed like medieval peasants because they were medieval peasants.
painfully ineffective use of phasers… in nearly ALL Star Trek combat scenes involving hand help phaser fire, the user simply points and fires the beam at one small spot, then releases the trigger. Have they ever heard of something called a “sweeping motion”? Instead of just blackening one tiny spot of wall next to a target, you could sweep your phaser beam across the battlefield, and cut everyone and everything in half! We know that the user has the ability to move the phaser while shooting, but seemingly only when cutting through a bulkhead. We also know that phasers can be set to wide dispersal when it’s needed - but never used on attacking personnel… it seems a phaser set to high power (or kill) but spread out wide would knock everyone down at least… At least the phaser rifles have something resembling a sight - not that it makes the operator any more effective.
That the nukes don’t work later in a film doesn’t somehow negate the previous political correctness and abject stupidity of the story line due to hesitating (or outright refusal) to use nukes when if ANY scenario called for using a nuke this would be it.
Oh, and then there often bonus where they all get all somber like they just ordered some grandmother to the firing squad for sinking so low as to use a nuke.
I’ve watched the episode twice and it completely pisses me off.
Star Wars Rebels. Kanan and Rex on the imperial gravity well ship.
1> Every fraking shot of them walking around has Kanan’s blaster barrel pointed straight at Rex’s face.
2> They both walk around with their fingers on the trigger.
I mean, close up shot, and there’s Kanan’s blaster directly in Rex’s face (like 3" away) and Kanan’s finger is on the trigger.
I think you’re making unwarranted assumptions. Obviously if FTL travel is impossible, there would never be any real interstellar government, much less a tyrant. If FTL is possible, we have no way of knowing whether there will be temporal issues involved in it.
And I agree that using those puissant AAMs was incredibly dumb. That had much bigger and better missiles like tankbusters – hell, they could have just flown overhead and dropped very powerful dumb bombs on top of them. They were certainly big enough targets for it.
For there not to be temporal issues, it would have to be instantaneous travel from thither to yon. If you have instantaneous travel, that takes care of movement of the ships that allow you to project power in yon. Unless you also have perfected instanteous communications, even the most mundane messages must be carried by ship. How do you know what is going on in yon from one “day” to the next so that you can dispatch a fleet when needed? We have plenty of past empires to look at in Urth history to show that lack of fast communications puts some pretty heavy limits on empires. The farther away you got from Empire City, the harder it was to control affairs there. Regional governors got cray-cray ideas like “The Emperor is very, very far away and I’m right here and these Imperial Troops answer to me so…”
Nitpick: of course you can make turns in a vacuum. It’s just that they would usually be unnecessary and inefficient. And many sci-fi aircraft operate in the atmosphere occasionally, so of course those could use wings.
BSG did show some fighters reversing course in a semi-realistic manner, by just rotating and accelerating in the opposite direction. I appreciate that effort, but this is the most G-force intense way to change direction. Your squishy human pilot may not survive this kind of turnaround at combat speeds.
That may be, but AFAIK there’s no other way to do it in space. And of course you can choose to decrease the amount of deceleration to “less than squishy”.
