Re: What made you feel giddy today?
Started reading the starship troopers novel.
the thought that someone conceived, 14 years after the end of world war 2, military deployment of highly trained special forces in power armour and jump jets and equipped with shoulder fired micro nukes, flamer throwers and grenade launchers, deployed from orbit by being launched straight from the ship in a series of ablative shields and parachutes that peeled off to provide chaff for their drop.