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June 21, 2018 at 9:17 pm #1215108
Will the Space Force have an elite branch? Any army needs some kind of “Rangers” after all … 😀
June 21, 2018 at 9:47 pm #1215136June 21, 2018 at 11:46 pm #1215269Spaceman Spiff to the rescue!
June 22, 2018 at 12:49 pm #1215476I still need to build my “Space Lizards from Venus” army to take on Warren’s “Space Monkeys from Mars in Power Armor” force.
June 23, 2018 at 9:20 pm #1216438a marathon of every Star Trek episode ever made ?
I thought Doctor Who would exceed that (need to include Torchwood and lost episodes too).
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The ‘no weapons in space’ issue will be tricky, once start thinking about how to deal with asteroids.
We can’t send Bruce Willis & crew up into space for every single one of them.btw : isn’t NASA already part of the military ?
At least I seem to recall astronauts having ranks and often having a military background.
This could be a coincidence though.June 23, 2018 at 9:29 pm #1216439I don’t think it is. I presume the military ranks are because they already knew airforce pilots could withstand a certain amount of G forces needed to cope with the G’s involved at launch
June 23, 2018 at 9:32 pm #1216447May be mistaken but fairly sure astronaughts having ranks is because they’re either retired military personnel or are ‘on loan’ from the military.
June 23, 2018 at 9:56 pm #1216450@limburger, @torros and @lordofuzkulak,
NASA is a completely civilian agency that reports directly to the President. Some individuals in the military are on detached duty to NASA.
Neal Armstrong had served in the military prior to joining NACA, which later became NASA, and was the first US civilian in space (Gemini 8) and of course the first man to step onto the Lunar surface.
Military personnel are still on loan and military units support NASA but it’s wholly civilian.
Also, NASA occasionally launches military satellites but most military satellites are launched by the Air Force. With the exception of military satellite launches, NASA is entirely unclassified and subject to open records requests. It also publishes all scientific and technological findings from all its missions. It’s an amazingly open organization for a government agency.June 23, 2018 at 10:11 pm #1216458June 24, 2018 at 11:13 am #1216769If the air force already has the responsibility for military tasks in space then this ‘space force’ malarkey is even more ridiculous waste of time, money and other resources.
So it is ‘Homeland security’ all over again :
They got the tools already, but instead of improving existing organisations in order to minimize conflict they chose to add yet another layer of red tape to the mess in order to ensure more money gets wasted and even less things get done.
June 24, 2018 at 1:38 pm #1216823Pretty much.
June 24, 2018 at 1:52 pm #1216824These things exist to act as a slush fund.
Need certain Senators to vote through your new laws? Well now the HQ for the new Space Force will be based in X and create a load of jobs 🙂
June 24, 2018 at 4:12 pm #1216893Pork barrel politics is real. Here, it’s less of an issue as there would be no additional building as the infrastructure is already in place.
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