Why didn't they just nuke the bugs' planet?

Why didn't they just nuke the bugs' planet?

Why else but they wanted the resources on bug planet X. Theycwanted to turn the bugs into slaves

brain bug could sense nukes coming and all the bugs would go under ground I think they mentiined this at one point

They could nuke it really hard so the planet exploded then.

>nuke the surface
the bugs live underground

hmmmm......

Because then they would have become just like them

>see the movie
>like it
>read the book
>don't like the movie anymore
>watch the other movies
>desapoint

The bugs didn't do Buenos Aries though, it was a false flag attack to start the war.

That is not how nukes work kido

>They later invented a way to crack a planet in half. Nova Bombs and Q- Bombs

This desu. Heinlein's stuff is a classic of military sci fi. Violence solves all problems. Muh power armor. Murica.

If you have FTL tech you can always nuke their sun. Only way to FTL is to change c, read: make suns burn out in a second because speed of light is suddenly 1000c or whatever.

They do if they throw the nukes in a continuous line to make a cut.

ST universe has wormholes, not true FTL. All of the "false flag" people who argue that the bugs would've had to launch the asteroid before humanity even existed seem to forget this. How do you think they get to Klendathu in the first place?

This is a super reductive reading of Heinlein desu. He also believed in free love and was a practicing nudist. He's a fucking weird dude and far from just a jingoistic "murican"

In the book they bomb half a world just so they can capture a brain bug. The aracnids live deep deep underground and are unafected by radiation.

Only ever read ST. Life lessons I took away are violence is power, military industrial complex should replace the gubment and bully fuckng everyone into submission. It's a good read.

>hurr hurr hurr hurr HUUUURRRRRRRRRR

t. bug

>ST universe has wormholes
execept that's wrong, they have FTL drives, called something russian-japanese.

> All of the "false flag" people who argue that the bugs would've had to launch the asteroid before humanity even existed seem to forget this. How do you think they get to Klendathu in the first place?

The arachnids also have FTL travel and didn't just shoot an asteroid they launch a full fledge invation into the solar system, they completely destroy half the system all they way to jupiter and only managed to fuck Argentina up before they were stoped. Which they totally deserve in my opinion, fuck Argentina.

>Which they totally deserve in my opinion, fuck Argentina.
In the glorious Heinleinan future argetnina IS white.

Getting anything man made close to a sun to do any harm before vaporizing lol. With that said, now I wonder if any books touch on said subject as it seems highly improbable.

I don't think you understand how big the bug planets are. What would happen is so much heat and radiation would be in one spot that launch of any more bombs would result in the bombs air bursting from too much heat/radiation interference

>hurr hurr hurr hurr HUUUURRRRRRRRRR
What did he mean by that?

>argetnina IS white
Black or white or yellow or purple, argenians are assholes.

Really makes you think.

>Getting anything man made close to a sun to do any harm before vaporizing lol
Sun is not that hot, it just emits its heat in bulk. With our current technology we can probably get a metal-ceramic probe right up in that strumpet.

Currently the closest we have ever got to the sun has been 32 million miles from the core of our sun before it popped. Our sun isn't that hot compared to other suns out there.

Really makes you think

>Currently the closest we have ever got to the sun has been 32 million miles from the core of our sun before it popped.
Well that's just radiation innit, fries circuits better than sea water.

Read Stranger in a Strange Land and The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. He was somewhat Libertarian, but more of a Social Libertarian. He was all about personal responsibility.

He was against the military industrial complex, and thought the military should be EVERYONE, which is an idea he got, iirc, from Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. That there should be no division between citizen and soldier unless the person was an immoral loser.

Your baker should know how to fire a rifle. Your CEO should know how to throw a grenade. As many people as possible in society should be functional in a crisis by virtue of a life spent with regularly training.

If you don't want to do your part, that's fine. You just don't get to vote or hold office.
If you couldn't physically hold a gun, but still wanted to serve, they'd find a way. It might be parking your motorized wheelchair outside a small town library on guard duty for 2 years. It might be mopping floors. It might be running errands for low level politicians. But they'd find a way for you to serve and get your dues even if you were a quadriplegic.

They made it all easy to join, and even easier to quit.