Soldiers are professionals. They don't enjoy the luxury of cowardice that some civilians might. Ammo, grenades, rockets, and demolitions are all combustible . . . and regularly carried by our armed forced while on the battlefield.
Phosphorus tipped bullets present a considerable hazard in themselves. But that original fantasical senario is a true sign to Hollywood's penetration into mainstream thinking, or lack thereof. Only in a movie would a sniper take the time and risk to aim for a relatively small, shielded, and hidden fuel cell, when they could go for the obvious head-torso kill-zone.
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Soldiers are professionals. They don't enjoy the luxury of cowardice that some civilians might. Ammo, grenades, rockets, and demolitions are all combustible . . . and regularly carried by our armed forced while on the battlefield.
Phosphorus tipped bullets present a considerable hazard in themselves. But that original fantasical senario is a true sign to Hollywood's penetration into mainstream thinking, or lack thereof. Only in a movie would a sniper take the time and risk to aim for a relatively small, shielded, and hidden fuel cell, when they could go for the obvious head-torso kill-zone.
"we will have had generations and generations of sterile moths . . . "
I don't think you get "generations and generations" of any thing if they are sterile.