US Space Force Releases First Recruitment Video, Acknowledges Netflix Comedy 'Space Force' (cnet.com) 45
The newly-created U.S. Space Force has released its first recruitment video, CNET reports:
In a video posted Wednesday to Twitter showing rockets, mission control-types rooms and U.S. Space Force members in spacesuits, a voice-over says, "maybe your purpose on this planet isn't on this planet."
Secretary of the Air Force Barbara Barrett said during a livestream Wednesday that so far recruitment hasn't been a problem for the Space Force. "There's been an avalanche of applicants." This sixth branch of the US military was established in December 2019 and will be operational by mid-2021.
CNET notes the video appeared "a day after Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming comedy Space Force. And the leader of the U.S. Space Force says he's looking forward to the Netflix comedy co-created by Steve Carell.
"The one piece of advice I'd give to Steve Carell is to get a haircut," Gen. Jay Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by the nonprofit Space Foundation. Raymond is bald, and joked that Steve Carell is "looking a little too shaggy if he wants to play the Space Force chief."
CNET notes the video appeared "a day after Netflix dropped a trailer for its upcoming comedy Space Force. And the leader of the U.S. Space Force says he's looking forward to the Netflix comedy co-created by Steve Carell.
"The one piece of advice I'd give to Steve Carell is to get a haircut," Gen. Jay Raymond, the U.S. Space Force Chief of Space Operations, said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by the nonprofit Space Foundation. Raymond is bald, and joked that Steve Carell is "looking a little too shaggy if he wants to play the Space Force chief."
Spy sats (Score:2)
Does anyone know whether the Space Force launches US spy sats, or does the NRO do that on its own? Or both?
Anyhow, I hope they pick some cool rank insignia for enlisted personel. The USAF's "wind over an airfoil" chevrons don't really fit a vacuum-focused service arm.
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The USAF's "wind over an airfoil" chevrons don't really fit a vacuum-focused service arm.
Ya, but it was proposed by a vacuum-focused President -- and Administration. :-)
[Just imagine the airfoil as a wisp of orange hair ...]
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[Just imagine the airfoil as a wisp of orange hair ...]
Oh......Oh GOD NO!
Also known as... (Score:1)
AKA "jobs program for defense contractors" because "corporate welfare" was starting to hit too close to home. I mean, its not like we have other things to worry about in this country.
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I like how they're projecting in the video the fear of those "unknown unknowns" that war criminal and certified idiot Rumsfield came up with because he had nothing else.
The video is trying hard to make "space force" sound like they'll be fighting some UFOs, when in fact it is just a lame attempt to shelter the US power and business elites from being accountable.
Re: Also known as... (Score:1)
Why would you say that? Or is it simply because he's Republican and all Republicans are idiots?
Re: Also known as... (Score:2)
But why? They can team up with private security contractors and attempt to invade other countries. I'm sure that will go well!
Re: Also known as... (Score:2)
Space Force isnâ(TM)t doing anything new. Itâ(TM)s just a management shuffle of existing assets.
Smart Branding Be Damned (Score:3, Interesting)
If they had half a brain, they would have called it the space guard force, as in coast guard, as in their primary mission would be rescuing people and space craft, allowing for proper commercial development of space. Not some space force whose primary mission, is what, to start war with far more advanced aliens or to end life on earth, who exactly are they planning to fight with in space and flood all earth orbits with debris and end space exploration for over a century before all the rubbish falls back to earth.
Space rescue craft would be the most advanced, the fastest and longest range and be a sound logical goal for space infrastructure development. Rescuing people and craft in space is an essential and primary element of humanity expanding out into space. Finding new ways to mass murder humanity from space is an essential and primary goal of making humanity extinct, oh look which direction the USA chose, the mass extinction route, so moral and thoughtful.
Re: Smart Branding Be Damned (Score:4, Insightful)
Is there a chart somewhere you have that shows how many people have been trapped in space each year in need of rescue since Yuri Gagarin went up?
Also, since you mention the coast guard... their primary role is not rescuing drowning people. It is drug interdiction. Do you see the space force as the "space alien drug interdiction service" to keep us all safe from V or X or Z or whatever it is those dastardly space aliens are trying to sell our children?
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I think you just described half of the mission objective of International Rescue AKA the Thunderbirds
It shouldn't be too difficult to get the naming rights.
A chance to pilot Thunderbird 2? Sign me up!
I'm in (Score:2)
The moment I saw Steve Carell, I was sold!
Maybe that means this is going to be funny, I don't know, but I'm watching with baited breath!
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> I don't know, but I'm watching with baited breath!
I don't think the Netflix Space Force looks much different than Avenue 5. I have little hope.
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...I'm watching with baited breath!
That means you just ate fish. You may have intended bated breath.
Re: I'm in (Score:2)
Hah! Literally laughed!
Good catch (pun not intended) :)
The first century called, has a question (Score:1)
"Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?"
Maybe we need another 2000 years for introspective responses.
Re:Steve Carell rocks - Space farce - narp (Score:5, Informative)
The Space Force isn't being created out of whole cloth. They're just taking the US Air Force Space Command and turning it into a separate service branch, still under the Department of the Air Force (like how the US Marine Corps is under the Department of the Navy but is not part of the US Navy). This is pretty similar to how the US Air Force started out as part of the US Army until it was later spun off.
It's not even an added cost. The budget at the start is simply transferred from the Air Force to the Space Force to reflect the duties being split off, and then future budgets are based on actual operational needs. And these are existing needs. They're responsible for things like launching and maintaining the GPS system, for example.
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It starts innocently enough but then the daughter service wants more grubs. And congress gives. Space Force will be one of the next boondogles.
I don't think there has ever been a more expensive boondoggle than the SLS. With ~$20 billion spent, nothing to show for it, and $2 billion/year for at least another 5 years, it will be at least 2 Big Digs worth of pure pork.
But NASA is worth the porkbarrelling for the occasional thing it does right. The Space Force is much the same. GPS is worth what we spend on Space Force as a whole.
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They are administrators, they don't launch anything themselves, NASA does that, they don't design the satellites, they don't go to space...
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More to the point, the Air Force, having spent their wad on the F-35 and realizing it was a boondoggle, decided to claim an area of defense that wasn't defended by any other branch, space. The Air Force knows a rube when they see one, hence they sold Trump on the "vision" of a Space Force with his name plastered on its ass. The rest is history, and will be an expensive history as well, probably dysfunctional as is everything Trump touches.
Now, about those steam powered catapults Trump was so big on for the
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More to the point, the Air Force, having spent their wad on the F-35 and realizing it was a boondoggle, decided to claim an area of defense that wasn't defended by any other branch, space.
The US Air Force was involved in space R&D well before the F-35 was a thing. The Air Force Space Command began in 1982, and was turned into the Space Force in December 2019.
Re: Steve Carell rocks - Space farce - narp (Score:2)
Space Force was in the works long before anybody thought the orange-haired one could one day be president.
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Re: Steve Carell rocks - Space farce - narp (Score:3)
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Congress has a lower approval rating than the president regardless of who’s in office or at what point in their presidency they’re in at the moment. By blaming or attributing everyt
I hate Space Nazis (Score:1)
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I hate Space Nazis
Illinois space nazis?
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Earth Bound (Score:1)
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A similar exoplanet somewhere in the universe is very probable. The issue is getting there. For that physical transportation isn't going to work. Metaphysical transportation I leave to your contemplation.
Re: Earth Bound (Score:2)
Space murder and space violence / destruction. (Score:1)
What exactly is it good for but this?
What space enemies are trying to invade America exactly?
The only mass-murdering assholes that ever invaded America now run the continent(s), so as long as that's not fixed, what's the point anyway? ;)
All I can imagine this being good for, is sneaky "not"-warmongering against other countries. As usual. ;)
I bet Russia is also already imitating it. As usual.
And China sees no point, and there is nobody in space to sell their crap to.
Re: Space murder and space violence / destruction. (Score:2)
China and Russia already had their versions of this before we did.
CNET mistake (Score:3)
Space Force is a comedy made by Trump. But being typical tragedy writer Space Force is actually a dark comedy and a reflection of societies value of vanity.
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Kick out the orange motherfucker (Score:1)
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Because the Republican faithful still buy his b.s., and hence the "leaders" of the Republican Party, mainly composed of Trump invertebrates, figure it is better to be loved by the faithful than do what is correct for the country.
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Why is the motherfucker still the president?
Because his term runs until January 20, 2021. Or 2025 if he wins re-election. (Let's hope not.) And it is next to impossible to remove a POTUS from office mid-term, as recent history has demonstrated.
Contrast this with parliamentary democracies and their leaders, which can fall at any time after a vote of non-confidence. Constitutional crisis? No, they just call an election.
Aliens (Score:2)
Does this mean they're finally doing something about the aliens in the Pacific?
Missed opportunity (Score:2)
They probably partcipated in the film (Score:2)