Y’know, a Cyberspace Force might actually make some sense, now that you mention it, Ravenman. The Internet has actually been used as a battlefield, and that’s just going to get more common as time goes on. And it’s a fundamentally different skill set than what forms the basis of the other services.
With apologies to Brian May*, I have a suggestion for the official Space Force song:
*Send a message out across the sky
Alien raiders just passed Gemini
Who will come and save us now?
Who can defend us from the power?
Space Force, Space Force
Space Force, Space Force
Tell the people back at Earth control
Send Space Force legions to save our souls
Always daring and courageous
Ooh Only they can save us…*
*Brian’s song is actually called Star Fleet. But as they say, it’s close enough for government work
Well, then we should probably start a new service for naval aviation, seeing how that’s a fundamentally different skill set than what sailors practice.
This reminds me of a twitter quote I saw.
“President Trump has sex with porn stars and wants to create space marines and I still hate him”
You just knows Trump’s thinking space fighter ships (X-wings, or more appropriately TIE fighters). With lasers. That go PEW PEW!
2020s-Style Death Rays.
The troops would be housed at Trump Hotels and trained by Trump Universities.
Ivanka would be in charge of the uniforms.
Well, I just figure making him some money has to factor in somehow.
Does he realize that the only current way into space is on board Russian spacecraft?
Oh, wait…
I’m thinking he’s flailing for a distraction. The only thing he’s got going for him personally at the moment is that the outrage over the children is sucking up all the attention from Manafort and Cohen. So now he needs a new distraction to get rid of the coverage of the border.
"…so, anyway, the new Trump Space Atomic Engine will get us to Mars in a couple weeks! Then what? Well, we put on the space brakes!
Delta-V? Yeah, I know what that is, its where you grab 'em! What’s that got to do with space stuff?.."
Nitpick: the Russians have the only current way to the ISS (for a few more months at least - both SpaceX and Boeing are expected to launch manned test flights of their respective capsules later this year or early next year), but not the only way “into space”. The Chinese have been putting people into orbit for the last 15 years. On the horizon, there’s also Blue Origin’s New Shepard program and Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity which are undergoing tests and should be capable of carrying people “into space” albeit at suborbital velocity.
Lucky for the Martians, they don’t exist.
That makes me very angry. Very angry, indeed.
Wait! I figured it out! Not weapons, but wall-erecting lasers-- from space-- will erect the wall on southern border and he will only hire Mexicans to fire the laser before deporting them. That’s gotta be it. “The Latino kids can play with my son, um… Barron! And his cheap *Obama-given rocking horse and won’t be deported until laser-space-wall is complete!”
*Yeah, I know it was given to Prince Georgie, but he’ll get that wrong too.
Is he trying to do to China what Reagan did to the Soviet Union with Star Wars? Because he’ll fail.
It figures. He sees himself as the God-Emperor of a neo-fascist USkind and he’s already got [del]Commissars[/del]flunkies purging [del]heresy[/del]Democrats from the ranks of the [del]Adeptus Administratorum[/del]various state departments, it’s only natural that he’d want to found Legions of Space Marines next.
I gotta say though, Jeff Sessions makes for a very poor Horus. I mean he’s got the Chaos part right, but you just can’t picture him and a pair of Lightning Claws in the same room, can you ?
As the nation’s leading space cadet, I can see Donald doing this. I understand his highest priority is development of the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator.
That revelation is dynamite!
The question of what should be an independent service branch is an interesting one. I’m not sure about it myself but I’m interested in what criteria you think should be used to determine the type and number of service branches if you were starting from scratch.
The bar should be high. Much higher than “an incompetent President wanted to make some news one day so announced a decision he has no authority to make and for which he doesn’t show the slightest understanding of the issues.”
Trump wants to create a brand new branch of the armed services-the “Space Force”. He says it will be “separate but equal” from the U.S. Air Force, which suggests two things:
- At least part of the funding will be ripped from the U.S.A.F., and
- Nobody with a knowledge of history is proofreading his speeches-will they have separate water fountains, and will the U.S.A.F. now have to enter the Pentagon via the servant’s entrance?
NASA doesn’t have the budget for a trip to the grocery store, so I wonder how much of what they are now allotted will be diverted to this new project. Is this a project that is needed at this time? Are we in a position economically that makes this feasible?