I am currently watching Starship Troopers. While I am thoroughly enjoying it, mostly because Denise Richards is in it and I could watch a 2-hour film of her shitting on the hood of a Camaro while eating a corndog and singing karaoke and I would applaud it's artistic merit, I can't help but wonder one thing.
In this futuristic society where the human race has pioneered interstellar space travel to the point where they can travel across the Milky Way Galaxy in apparently a few days - and the Milky Way Galaxy is mind-bogglingly big, there is simply no way for the human mind to actually fathom the distance from one end to another - how is it that they have not also improved on the AK-47? Seriously, that's the best weapon we have? Are we going to forget grenades ever existed? Or grenade launchers? Or rockets?
Are we really not going to be able to use this "star drive" technology to also create some sort of weapon that can destroy a giant bug with one shot?
The human race is doomed.
Unless we bulk up on our electrolytes and start selling handjobs at Starbucks, of course...
