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US President Donald Trump announces 'Space Force' military wing
Deutsche Welle ^
| 06.18.2018
| es/aw (AP, AFP, Reuters)
Posted on 06/18/2018 1:56:48 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai
“Ground control to Major Tom. ...”
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:07:23 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(This is the age of the death of reason.)
To: taxcontrol
Sailors. I think they ought to make this entire mission the Navy’s job.
The ONLY change being made here is the medium you’re patrolling.
Even Star Trek extended the naval tradition metaphor. Using a type of bosun’s pipe, retaining the naval officer’s ranks, and even some of the rates (Yeoman).
Space and the Sea are frontiers. It’s a frontier force. The Navy’s already doing the mission.
To: Olog-hai
The Air Force already has the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC). Do we need another bureaucracy?
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:08:25 PM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: Olog-hai
Space Force
You have to think about that a bit. Most politicians and bureaucracies would have created a multisyllable, word/acronym that didn’t put a pictures in your mind.
This is simple, I have a picture in my mind right now...
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:08:28 PM PDT
by
PeterPrinciple
(Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
To: Olog-hai
"the US is a signatory to the Outer Space Treaty, which bars the stationing of weapons of mass destruction in space and only allows for the use of the moon and other celestial objects for peaceful purposes."
- Doesn't bar weapons if they aren't of mass destruction?
- weapons for destroying or downing space debris are for peaceful purposes. There is a point where enemy satelites are debris.
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:10:56 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: beergarden
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:12:17 PM PDT
by
BBell
(not drinking, just a smart a$$)
To: CodeToad
Space Cadets are those who go to the Space Academy. Once they graduate they become Storm Troopers :p
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:15:52 PM PDT
by
RainMan
(rainman)
To: maxtheripper
"With no launch vehicle in our stable this really means very little" You summed it up. Aside from possibly the X37B, America's manned space flight capability is nil at this point in history. I put little faith in Elon Musk or the possibility of a secret space fleet at Area 51. I also know FedGov is broke so a big manned program is unlikely. Then again a space force could be robotic.
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:16:11 PM PDT
by
buckalfa
(I was so much older then, but I'm younger than that now.)
To: PetroniusMaximus
Judging by the enthusiasm here, some folks might be disappointed when the see the new SPACE FORCE battleground:
This is not the creation of Buck Rogers. Its pulling all the space offices out of the current services and putting them under one roof, so to speak. Your average space force warrior will be either a program finance manager, PhD graduate in physics, or a lab tech in a bunny suit. Critical, but not sexy.
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:16:27 PM PDT
by
Magnum44
(My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
To: mewzilla
Triplanetary Patrol comes first, I think ...
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:17:31 PM PDT
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Olog-hai
To: Olog-hai
To: RinaseaofDs
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:23:48 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
To: BBell
To: taxcontrol
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:30:24 PM PDT
by
Mi-kha-el
((There is no Pravda in Izvestiya and no Izvestiya in Pravda.))
To: Olog-hai
Starblazers!
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:34:03 PM PDT
by
silent_jonny
("forward to what lies ahead" -- Phil. 3:13)
To: Olog-hai
Solar warden has been around for a while ... In my many years as an aerospace engineer I learned quite early on that when the government announced that they are considering doing something .... It’s already there
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:34:23 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(We are getting close to the last "box")
To: DariusBane
Agree completely.
What’s funny about this - you could have a debate about whether a ‘space Marine’ is necessary, or possible.
Nobody thought you could fire accurately from the rigging of a ship. Then in WWI, nobody thought that these green ‘US Marines’ that Pershing was coming over with could hold their own, or fire accurately, in battle.
I’m probably wrong about Space and Marines and the relevance question. I suppose if we were going to send a party to a new planetoid, it may as well be Marines.
It’s just another beach, but the waves are electromagnetic, right?
To: Olog-hai
Another bureaucracy is the last thing we need.
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:44:13 PM PDT
by
iowamark
To: silent_jonny
Well, I doubt that Trump is going to salvage the Yamato battleship and convert that to a US spacecraft.
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posted on
06/18/2018 2:44:47 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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