Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space. In this same way, I believe we too must now recognise the necessity of a Space Force to defend the nation and to protect space commerce and civil space exploration.
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While I don’t think the "Space Force” is a bad idea per se , especially for the long term, I do highly doubt that the Orange Smurf and Teddy here actually really thought it through. I mean, for starters no human power is a threat to our spacecraft, while any Alien power would be waaaaaaay to much out of our league at this point.
No, more likely the Orange Clow just had another highly impulsive idea (thinking that with enough money he can build his own Galactic Empire and Death Star) while Cruz here is just brownnosing his Emperor for a taste of that UNLIMITED POWER.
But you know what? The first world nation and human leader that successfully gets our very own Star Destroyer (*) build will have my support no matter what.
(*) The Resurgent -class happens to be my favorite, btw.
the necessity of a Space Force ...therefore no 'Wall'? That's you fucked in 2020.
But then, as President of Vice Mike Penis has stated that America must return to the Moon 'By Any Means Necessary': thus NASA gets the funding for Orion, so's Donald Fart .
Just as "Event Horizon" is seen as the unofficial origin of the whole "WH40K" scenario, I guess it could be said that the Bond film "Moonraker" predicted Space Marines...!
So, never mind the budget, the Wall, healthcare, gun proliferation, poverty... Cruz is staking out Space Pirates as his issue...
Yo ho ho and a liter of O2...
@Malingspann
Does he think that any day now, we’ll make contact with an alien civilization and start interstellar trade?
I doubt it, Cruz seems to be one of those dumbasses who “know for a fact” that humans are the only intelligent life in the omniverse. Because an old book said so.
And if he does, I doubt he’ll want to trade. More likely he’ll be like “exterminate the alien, the mutant, the heretic!”
SIGH… Who remembers when Starship Troopers and Warhammer 40k were just fiction? And not an eerie prediction of our future?
At this point in history, there is a) no space commerce worth threatening or stealing, b) no risk of any non-state or non-multibillion company actors getting any space-faring ability in order to threaten any space-based infrastructure. As such, there is no chance of space piracy being a problem now, and probably for at least a few centuries to come.
Ok, spy satellites and a number of other satellites are in low earth orbit (~300km), but do these people realize that geostationary satellites, which make up the bulk of commercially used satellites, are 35,000 km (= ~22,000 miles) above the earth? That’s a 10% of the way to the moon. To maintain a stable geostationary orbit they have to be that high. Somehow I don’t envision space pirates searching out tiny little specks in space to make bounty.
Space Force is a dumb idea. We already have NASA to do space stuff and we already have the means to deal with what Space Force is supposed to deal with, which I presume is the sort of stuff NORAD and such is into, like incoming nukes, invasions or spy satellites. We could just zoach that junk out with our missiles before they hit.
How about putting more funding into NASA for more exploration stuff?
However; We need to fix the other stuff first before we start fixing NASA.
Pirates threaten the open seas, and the same is possible in space.
STAR WARS THE FORCE AWAKENS IS NOT A DOCUMENTARY!
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….Though I wouldn’t mind a “private” moment with certain cute Space-Scot….
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….*squeeeee* wee grumpy widdle death-elf with cute baby-button nose, pouty lips, large dramatic eyes, sexy accent, black leather…..
@Checkmate
Is it true that Trump wants to build a wall in space?
I can already see it. The earth goes bankrupt in Trump’s desire to build a wall around the earth, despite his promises to make Mars pay for it. And then, once it’s finally completed, people & aliens just fly over or around it as space is 3D and not 2D, which actual professionals repeatedly tried to warn him about.
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What do you have against space pirates? Unless you want to keep them out because you’re a Zangyack spy! Of course! That’s why you’re such an unsettling piece of shit! You’re an alien of a space empire that means to conquer Earth! You don’t fool me, your human disguise is not even the least bit convincing.
Hulk comics, Epic Magazine and Heavy Metal covered this in the seventies, space pirates that is.
Who doesn't know the Air Force has ALWAYS been involved in the space program, all aspects of it? Starting with rocket tech in the late forties. Oh yeah, rightwingers are just catching up now.
Confused?
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