this post was submitted on 16 Nov 2023
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They’ve got bugs that can shoot spaceships out of orbit with their butts. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to think they could knock an asteroid out of orbit.
Though considering your username it might be you dropping the rocks.
They have almost zero space presence, they only attack the ships from the ground. The only thing they can do with space is sending eggs away. (And those asteroids weren't knocked out of orbit, they were sent though hyperspace.)
Besides, the movie makes it pretty clear they just discovered they are in a war a few weeks prior.
(And now I'm wondering how the fuck do I remember that well a movie I've seen once, a long time ago... Is it actually good and I didn't notice at the time?)
That was the point. In the books, the bugs had been flinging rocks towards the outer colonies for years, but the attack on Buenos Aires is heavily implied to be an inside job to rally support for an invasion, since they did not have hyperspace tech and no attack had reached the inner worlds, let alone Earth.
Except that arachnids had starships in the book.
I'm finding it very funny, because I though it was incredibly obvious on the movie, and nobody would ever disagree.
Indeed, the movie is way too busy, so it's easy to miss that there are no insects on space, or that the bugs weren't even aware they were been systematically attacked until "now". But it's one of those things that I expected to be completely obvious once pointed out. It's even more obvious than what you are narrating from the book, because on the movie Earth has been receiving those rocks for decades.
I imagine people missing the point is part of the point of it. It's like that gorilla video.
Their giant brain bug might have found a way to use eggs launched to knock them through hyperspace used by humans.
Hum... Either the brain bugs that started being created weeks prior discovered some mechanism they have been using to bombard the Earth for decades... Or the military speakerheads and the news that lie about literally every single thing we see happening lied about something else.
That's indeed a difficult choice.
You sound like you love bugs, bug-lover