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Quite a boondogle. What's it for? The earth camo uniforms? New letterheads? The space ops are already part of the military.

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It’s just a portion of the old Air Force budget, so it’s, at least for now, to do things the Air Force was already doing.

The more and more gets leaked about all this, the more I'm convinced that this is simply a move to set up a policing force - in Space - before the Mars colony really gets rolling.

I mean, when Mars gets colonised, what's to stop Mars from becoming a superpower in the Sol system within a very short period of time? Pretty much nothing.

Once humanity gets its footing on Mars - and it really looks like this is going to happen within the next few decades - there are going to be security repercussions for those of us left on Earth. I believe this Space Force effort is an attempt to make USA not only Earth's police force, but that of the solar system, too.

Extraordinary times! To be actually typing this, in earnest..

Given that nothing we put into orbit or on another planet is going to be self-sustaining, you don’t need weapons to exert control on any residents of such infrastructure. A simple blockade will suffice

For now.

GP comment is speculative in either case.

I'd be more wary of a sneak attack from Antarctic insurgents first.

You can never be too early in stopping those Laconians I guess.

> I mean, when Mars gets colonised, what's to stop Mars from becoming a superpower in the Sol system within a very short period of time? Pretty much nothing.

Aside from the enormous cost of moving the (many, many) needed resources from the Earth to Mars. I'm super bullish on a Mars colony (I will be going within 5 years of it becoming an option) but the idea that it will be even 100% self-sustaining in the next 100 years -- let alone a superpower -- is absolutely bananas.

You expect politicians to learn from previous mistakes? LOL. Mars will eventually have its move for independence, when it's too late to stop that. Total Recall and The Expanse are on the nose.

Preparing, organizing, for potential war with China and their allies.

They work on Earth, not in space. And while I think the philosophy of government organizations needs to be improved, if we don’t do this, we’ll be at the mercy of China.

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