Jonathan Silverlight wrote:


They use (or did use) one at the JET project to provide the pulse for
their fusion tests.
But it's "Rodger" Young - or did the film get that wrong too?

No, it's the Rodger Young in both the movie and the book- but the men
of "Roger's Hung" make those guys look like wimps; we kill bugs with our
teeth, like Harley-Davidson riders! Our motto is "When you need
something rogered, we are the men to call!" But the one in the movie
doesn't look even vaguely the way I pictured a dropship to look (I
pictured a big heat shield with the main body of the ship riding on top,
so that it could skip off the atmosphere as it dropped the trooper
landing pods- but with no power suits or landing pods in the movie, that
idea was obviously a non-starter. As should have been the movie
itself.); the movie one: http://www.starshipmodeler.com/Other/stroop.htm
looks like something a bug could destroy just by farting at it, which
may explain quite a bit. Pity something big and scary doesn't fart fiery
plasma at Paul Verhoeven one of these days...maybe as she ages,
Elizabeth Berkley will put on weight... ;-)

Pat