KILTED COWBOY
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Saw my first commercial for recruitment for the US Space Force last night.
Release date May 29And here's the lighter one:
can someone explain "why"?
And here's the lighter one:
Why we need space force and why the produced the movie? I think both a legidimate questions.
Makes sense but it is not presented that way. It is presented as an organization on equal footing as the Army/Navy/AirForce/Marines (and perhaps by people that forget about the Coast Guard entirely)From a DOD Prospective, Space Force is needed to have a collaborative platform to work together on intelligence, communication, and military technology in space. Like CIA, FBI, DCI, and others, we had multiple intelligence and law enforcement agencies that failed to work together and thus we had 9-11. We are trying to prevent a similar disaster in space.
Makes sense but it is not presented that way. It is presented as an organization on equal footing as the Army/Navy/AirForce/Marines (and perhaps by people that forget about the Coast Guard entirely)
Does anyone expect Space Force to exist longer than the current administration, plus whatever overhead needed to spin it down?
I'm pretty sure they have already had dogs in outer space...That video was amazing, makes me kind of want to enlist
Does anyone expect Space Force to exist longer than the current administration, plus whatever overhead needed to spin it down?
I'm somewhat hoping that since the introduction to "space force" NASA will get rolled in, and they can then benefit from the mighty US defense budget.
The magical thing about bureaucracy is that once you set it up, it goes into 110% self-preservation mode. Forever.
All those newly minted 1-4 star generals, and their staff, are highly unlikely to ever broadcast that their existence is superfluous to the need.
Instead, new threats and missions will be invented to justify their existence (real and/or imaginary), new challenges invented, new budget asks submitted for all of the above. And if the evidence is not strong enough to justify the bloat, "classified" intelligence will be inserted as a substitute to rational. Liberally.
Thus "streamlining" and/or getting rid of this new bureaucratic organization will be 10x harder than creating one.
Therein lies the trouble - NASA will get lost in the Space Force's military budget.
Future budget requests and priorities will likely focus on the "juicy" military ambitions, not the scientific ones.
If you want more historical insight into what happens when military runs NASA procurement, read up on the history of Titan II / Gemini booster development:
https://www.popsci.com/how-nasa-chose-an-untested-missile-to-launch-gemini/https://history.nasa.gov/SP-4203/ch7-2.htm
Russia has a couple of "inspection" satellites flying quite close to one of the US KH-11 satellites. https://time.com/5779315/russian-spacecraft-spy-satellite-space-force/I didn't quite realize that Russia & China were that much of a potential threat.
im watching the Netflix show and it’s pretty lame, even if you like The Office.
Russia has a couple of "inspection" satellites flying quite close to one of the US KH-11 satellites. https://time.com/5779315/russian-spacecraft-spy-satellite-space-force/
EMP, unless the sat is fortified.. But, yes, kinetic force - crash into it.Nothing, short of a kinetic action, would effect KH-11 operation.
EMP, unless the sat is fortified.. But, yes, kinetic force - crash into it.
Still would be an act of war, that would trigger a response.
Both China and Russian had previously demonstrated capability to respond.
As we have way more assets to loose in space than anyone else, triggering a tit-for-tat when you have more "tats", is not the wisest course of action.
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Yes Downside..more bureaucracy...more managers ..more Commands, Agencies, Offices (Divisions and Branches). Managers- More Generals, more High Grade salaries going to those managers: such as: SES grades, GS/GM-15, GS/GM-14 etc. A waste of money lost just for political reasons. Air Force controls space for DoD now.....NORAD etc.
I know about DoD bureaucracy where the phrase for new organization or offices was "built a empire" to justify a large workforce and therefore budget.
A new Cold War. It's very transparent, if you want to seeAlso, the point is not so much kinetic war, but a covert war without weapons.
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