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First Space Force guardian to be launched into space this summer (www.defenseone.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why did they use a picture of a space shuttle?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Same reason the shuttles existed in the first place. To look cool /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (2 children)

“Guardians” I don’t know how to feel about that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah the Space force was created during the Trump administration…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

It’s more that it evokes two completely conflicting ideas. The optimistic idealism of my youth or the bitter cynicism of Verhovens Starship Troopers.

Pretty sure Trump just gave himself credit for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah we would scoff at someone calling a soldier "guardian" even if they're fighting for us, so let's scoff at calling space soldiers "guardian" too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the attempts to distance themselves from the military aspect of it is not really engendering a lot of trust… “He’s going up to do *s c i e n c e,*low gravity research or something, various experiments, don’t worry about it.“