LOL and they even have a National Geographic special on them

[raketenjagdpanzer]

Originally Posted by The Rifleman

I agree with ducking and hiding. I would certainly not be out looting and I would also not have ovens baking great smelling bread. Best course of action is to lay low and let things run their course. Nature would take its course.

As an aside, starship troopers was required reading when I was at OCS. Can't remember who wrote it, but its a guy who really was a good soldier and NCO and must have gone on to be a great officer.

Robert A. Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers and served in the U.S. Navy on the first incarnation of the carrier Lexington. He was discharged for tuberculosis.

[Targan]

If the fertilizer really hits the ventilation I'll be doing my best to shepherd all my family members and their partners up to my mum's place in the hills outside my city. Then my guess is that we'd all head to my mum's other place in the far south of the state. My mum and her husband are scientists who spend most of their working lives doing field work in remote parts of my state. Mum's a botanist with an incredible knowledge of growing and preparing edible plants and her husband is a marine biologist. They have the vehicles, equipment, stores and skills that would certainly increase our family's survival chances greatly. They both have pretty deep-seated pacifist beliefs though, so my brother and I would be handling all the tasks requiring violence, brutality and "big boys' rules", I suspect.

I would do just about anything to protect my family, including sacrificing myself. That's not even really a conscious decision, it's instinctual, so I'm not claiming to be the most brave or heroic dude ever born or anything. Obviously I'd prefer it not to come to that, but I'd prefer death to living with the knowledge that I could've saved a family member but didn't act when I should've.

[The Rifleman]

Originally Posted by raketenjagdpanzer

Robert A. Heinlein wrote Starship Troopers and served in the U.S. Navy on the first incarnation of the carrier Lexington. He was discharged for tuberculosis.

He must have been one tough old guy. He made one heck of a book. My father told me that back in the day, the navy went to marine corps basic. Explains how he understood both branches.