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Netflix pursues "Space Force" trademark rights

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Syne Offline
(Sep 26, 2020 05:42 PM)Magical Realist Wrote:
(Sep 26, 2020 09:06 AM)Syne Wrote: Yeah, what a moronic idea. Let's just wait for China, Russia, or Iran to get the capabilities to cripple our GPS or telecom infrastructure or achieve orbital strike.

What would a space force do? Sit around in orbiting spaceships defending satellites from possible attacks their whole lives? Seems like a recycling of Ronny's old idea of Star Wars, which is now going on 35 years of not being implemented.

Now that's moronic. As if we don't or can't have remote orbital anti-satellite defenses. You do know that not every space mission is manned, right? You do know that technology has come a long way since the 80s, right? You do know that space missions have been underfunded for quite some time, right? A new branch of the military can funnel military funds into neglected space missions.
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Magical Realist Offline
"The militarisation of space involves the placement and development of weaponry and military technology in outer space. The early exploration of space in the mid-20th century had, in part, a military motivation, as the United States and the Soviet Union used it as an opportunity to demonstrate ballistic-missile technology and other technologies having the potential for military application. Outer space has since been used as an operating location for military spacecraft such as imaging and communications satellites, and some ballistic missiles pass through outer space during their flight. As of 2019, known deployments of weapons stationed in space include only the Almaz space-station armament and pistols such as the TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol (for post-landing, pre-recovery use)."---
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militarisation_of_space
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confused2 Offline
I must admit I naively thought a Space Force would kind'a be, like, in Space. My thanks to Syne for the update.. probably they aren't all going to be in Space.
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