A scene from Starship Troopers (1997). Denise Richards pilots a spaceship hundreds of meters long, slaloming with ease in the debris produced by collisions between other spaceships

Starship Troopers, Armageddon and the Whipple shield

Spaceships that do slalom between rains of debris and barriers of flying rocks are a classic of science fiction movies, but something absolutely impossible in reality. The best you can do is limit the damage produced by hypervelocity impacts of…

Michele Diodati
Amazing Science
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9 min readMar 27, 2020

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Michele Diodati
Amazing Science

Science writer with a lifelong passion for astronomy and comparisons between different scales of magnitude.