Re: [TML] More meteoric reentry thoughts Rupert Boleyn 29 Jan 2018 03:10 UTC
On 29Jan2018 1557, Caleuche wrote: > -------- Original Message -------- On January 28, 2018 6:33 PM, > Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> >> >> That sounds like an personal re-entry kit, rather than a life pod. >> Used for meteoric re-entry by extreme sportspersons and cut-rate >> marines. > > As we all remember from Starship Troopers (the book, not the movies), > insertion was done from orbit in individual ablative pods, and some > of the advantage of that is that the defender on the ground has many > more objects to track rather than a single landing ship, and the > mobile infantry described there were the opposite of being cut-rate. The MI, like Imperial Marines, had actual drop pods, not just a cheap can of foam, some little retro-rockets, and an app on their suits microcomp to calculate when to fire the rockets. -- Rupert Boleyn <xxxxxx@gmail.com> Chief Assistant to the Assistant Chief