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Space Force is a go
>cues Star Wars music

All of my wildest memes are coming true

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/18/president-trump-directs-pentagon-defense-department-to-immediately-being-the-process-of-establishing-space-force-as-sixth-military-branch.html

>> No.9817063

Good news for this private rocket companies

>> No.9817064

absolutely based

>> No.9817092

I don't get the point of this - what will practically occur other than shifting the Air Force's Space Command to its own branch? This creates a lot of administrative BS too - what uniforms will they wear? Will they have a PT test? Where will their basic training be and what will it consist of? Other than creating new Pentagon bureaucracy I don't see what this achieves

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>>9817092
>space travel gets some of them juicy $1 trillion Pentagon gibmedats instead of that paltry $20 billion NASA gibmedats

>> No.9817116

>>9817092
It's pretty obvious what the point is. The Space Force will escort the migrant children into space, where their new tent camp is set up.

>> No.9817120

>>9817101
They already receive Pentagon money via the Air Force. A large amount of SpaceX contracting has been through the Air Force and a lot of their launches are from Air Force Space Command facilities. That's why I'm confused - this really just seems to be shifting something that already exists into its own branch which only creates more bureaucracy

>> No.9817128

>>9817092
There no air in space moron

>> No.9817141

>>9817128
Then why do we have an Air In Space Museum, dumbass

>> No.9817143

>>9817023
>zero-g fights to take over space stations while Earth whirls by underhead
Would be dope

>> No.9817166

>>9817128
If there is no air in space what are the rockets pushing against? What a moron.

>> No.9817274

>>9817092

>Where will their basic training be and what will it consist of?

Space Cadets incoming... what a glorious time to be alive.

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>>9817023

Air force BTFO.

>> No.9817295

>>9817166
Vacuum

>> No.9817321
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>>9817023
What rank are you /sci/

>> No.9817323
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>>9817321
I'm a TSgt in the USAF but within Space Command so I'll be one of the first members of the Space Force

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>>9817323
> Gib starship master seargant rank NAO!!!

>> No.9817534

>>9817323
How's the Chair Force?

>> No.9817628

>>9817534
Pretty comfy, I do some IT work on a supercomputer in Hawaii. Pay is less than I'd be getting in civilian side but I don't really mind it

>> No.9817756

>>9817023
I can’t wait to make my family proud as a veteran of the Korean-American space force.

>> No.9817759

>le based god emperor will make space marines real

Magapedes are so cringe. All this will be is some more cushy jobs for his mates, more wasted taxpayer dollars for a bunch of new offices and bases to do the exact same shit they do under the air force umbrella.

>> No.9817775

>>9817759
that's what I was getting at above, literally the same as AFSC with a new separate bureaucracy

>> No.9817783

I don't think I've ever been so excited about anything a president has ever done.

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>>9817063
>private rocket companies..

These guys are the real winners... elon and the rest are actually going to get fewer govt contracts in the future..

>> No.9817792

>>9817790
Elon gonna be in jail soon for defrauding the board of Tesla kid

>> No.9817822

>>9817141
kek

>> No.9817825

>>9817323
Sir is this gonna be a stand up fight or another bug hunt?

>> No.9817851
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>>9817023
Hey guys listen, I got this great idea. Our military you know, its full of mooks. All the smart kids are working in the Silicon Alley and Space Sex. Lets make a new branch and call it "Space Force" like that movie Space Wars that all the kids like. Yeah, and then when they join they can patrol the "space" around Iraq, hahahaha.

>> No.9818212

>>9817166
Fg

>> No.9818242

>>9817321
>Astronaut
>Not "Spaceman"
In keeping with "airman".

>> No.9818245

>>9818242
This

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>>9818245

>> No.9818298

This will surely fuel the UFO community's speculations of alien invasion.

>> No.9818307

>>9817166
Newton's third law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Stand on a platform in space, throw a baseball in any direction.

You'll find you will begin to move in the direction opposite to where you threw the ball. The acceleration you experience will be proportional to the ratio of the baseballs mass over you and the platform.

Force is the derivative of momentum is the best way to formulate everything above.

>> No.9818330

>>9817023
I just wish they didn't call is something stupid like space force. It sounds like the name of a sci-fi B movie.

>> No.9818337

>>9818330
Well you can't use the "Star-" prefix as long as we're confined to the Solar System. I hope though that they go with naval ranks. You can't very well have a general or a colonel in charge of a ship, it's retarded.

>> No.9818341

Unless the government is holding out on some serious technology we are at least several centuries too early for such a dedicated military branch. The Army, Navy and Airforce all are built upon foundations of practical logistics/ engineering for thousands of years throughout multiple cultures.

And while observation of space bodies are just as old. Actual advance observation let alone travel and testing in space is only a little over half a century old. It's grandstanding for the sake of creating a legacy. And will be either trashed in the next decade or consumed by the Airforce.

>> No.9818346

>>9818330
>>9818337
Solar Corps
USSC

>> No.9818350

>>9818341
more like re-absorbed into the air force

we already have the air force space command, and the USAF already handles all military space shit anyway

>> No.9818352

>>9818346
Hell even Space Corps sounds a lot better than Space Force.

>> No.9818358

>>9818346
Darksky Navy.

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>>9818352
>Space Corps
>Space Core

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>>9817116
well memed my friend

>> No.9818379

>>9817023
Nice, the gov spent time and money on this malarkey instead of any of the massively more pressing issues and near as I can tell there is significant pressure from the current services and DoD against it.

>> No.9818388

>>9818379
It's not necessary yet, but it's prudent. The scope of space activities is very likely to increase in the near future.

>> No.9818400

>>9818352
Do you know what a Force and a Corps is? Why would you call a Force, 'Corps' or anything other than 'Force'?

>> No.9818402

>>9818400
Because "Space" as an adjective sounds stupid and we have to do the best we can. "Void Force" sounds better. Why does it even need "Force" in there anyway? Only the Air Force has that, the others don't.

>> No.9818410

>>9818400
If the Marine Corps can be it's own branch then so can the Space Corps.

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>>9817023
>not SPACY

>> No.9818664

>>9817023
Won't they just funnel all money to ULA?

>> No.9818866

>US creates a space force
>colonizes space
>decades pass by
>still the only country with a real presence in space

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>>9817321

>> No.9818929

>>9817023
So wait, will US actually now start pouring military-tier funding into launch vehicles and space ships?
That would be neat.

>> No.9818944

>>9818866
>meanwhile Arianespace holds a press conference saying living in space is overrated and launching a single sattelite every few months is more than enough to guarantee European participation in space

>> No.9818973

>>9817792
You can't just say baseless shit and present it as fact. However there a tons of people like yourself (except wealthier and more skin in the game) who'd like to see Tesla fail so who knows what bullshit the future may bring.

>>9817023
Isn't this old news?

>>9817101
>>9818929
Would be nice except...
>>9817120
Still, an increase is an increase. As long as its not significantly wasteful on bureaucratic and admin.
>>9817328
Hah.. whats the setting here? I have some guess but don't want to sound dumb.

>> No.9818992

>>9818973
>Isn't this old news?
No. It was literally a joke before. He wasn't supposed to actually do this. The announcement on Monday left everyone wtf-ing.

>> No.9819006

>>9818992

no true, it was widely expected in the aerospace community and it is no surprise

>> No.9819022

>>9818973
It's looking increasingly likely that Elon misrepresented things about the SolarCity acquisition to the board to get it approved

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>>9818307

>> No.9819267

We are witnessing history. There will be obstacles, but I wouldn't want it any other way.

>> No.9819281

>>9817023
Shit, guys im in college what kind of major would help me join?

>> No.9819286

>>9819281
Physics?

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>>9817321
>those ranks

>> No.9820477

Afaik its just going to be a single unit that takes control of all the space related stuff other branches do right now. Mostly satellite and ICBM control. This is just to streamline command.

>> No.9821600

>>9817120
Airforce is abusing the money. The reason for this is the same reason why the Air Force is it's own branch, instead of us using the Army Air Corps.

>> No.9822018

>>9817023
>my wildest memes
Lrn2meme fgt pls

>> No.9822039

>>9817851
golf_clap.jpg
Everyone knows anon needs to work on his Trump cadence. He just can't seem to get it together. Hey anon, you had some good jokes but you blew it! Sad!

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>>9819281
Math, engineering, and more math.
To those that don't understand why a Space Force, read pic related.
We're going to have manned geosync spy bases, pretty cool stuff, but then Japan blasts one with a missile from the moon as I recall.

>> No.9822055

>>9822046
I'd add that the guy who wrote this is the guy who got paid a shitload of tax dollars, by those who make war for a living, to lay out a plan for them to make money. This is the closest thing you can buy to a playbook for warhawks, and the military industrial complex they feed.

Either that or he pitched the ideas to them, and they said no thanks but it would make a nice book.

>> No.9822149

>>9817321
>Dat Symmetry.

Not gonna lie.
I came.

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>>9817023
No, let's make it unnecessarily commplicated!

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>>9822046
Except these models are all wrong.. They fail to take into account that we now have the technology to view subjective human experiences. Thoughts, dreams etc.

The fact we can now view, modify and interact with your thoughts and dreams changes everything.. The abuse potential is obviously astronomical but if used correctly these technologies could transform the way we learn. Being able transmit not just knowledge but experiential wisdom would change everything.. It would accelerate progress and development in ways we can't yet imagine.

.

>> No.9823199

>>9818307
Wow you are so smart!

>> No.9823215

>>9817274
space cadets and none of them will ever go into space

>> No.9823216

>>9817166
terriblebait/10

>> No.9824758

>he thinks the US hasn't had a space force since the 70s
only now its public

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>>9817023
>it isn't a fake link

BASED

Space is the ultimate high ground. No one can allow the Chinese to get there first with military. Not even Russia can allow that. To bad it probably won't go anywhere.