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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8152361" data-attributes="member: 45197">(Space) Monty Python: &quot;Hnnmmm... On second thought. Lets not go into space. 'Tis a silly place&quot;.Hiya!For the record, I am 100% against the &quot;premise&quot; outlined for the US Space Force. And I quote...That sounds like a recipe for disaster right there! Just replace &quot;U.S.&quot; with &quot;China&quot;, or &quot;Russia&quot;, or &quot;Germany&quot;, or &quot;Japan&quot;, or any other country...does that sound like a good reason for a &quot;Space Force&quot;? All that is going to do is signal to other countries &quot;Hey, you know that whole 'no weapons in space' thing we all agreed on waaaay back when? Yeah. Screw that. Whomever gets there first, wins! Ready? Set? GO!&quot;I would much rather have it say something like &quot;Organizes, trains and equips space forces in order to better protect Earth and it's populace against any and all space-based threats&quot;. Sure, it may be an American thing...but nobody effing cares about countries when you are in space looking down at Planet Earth and realize ... &quot;Whoa! That...that's amazing...and...so small! In under two hours I can see every country on earth. I don't feel so 'American/Canadian/Chinese/English/etc' so much as I feel just, well, insignificantly Human&quot;.Space is big. Bigger than any country...or company. We, as a species, need to get our poop together and try not to screw up space exploration as we have earth-based exploration. Just sayin'...PS: All the Guardians thing does is mean that there's going to be a big resurgence of 60's, 70's and early 80's music. I'm cool with that! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8152361, member: 45197"] (Space) Monty Python: "Hnnmmm... On second thought. Lets not go into space. 'Tis a silly place". Hiya! For the record, I am 100% against the "premise" outlined for the US Space Force. And I quote... That sounds like a recipe for disaster right there! Just replace "U.S." with "China", or "Russia", or "Germany", or "Japan", or any other country...does that sound like a good reason for a "Space Force"? All that is going to do is signal to other countries "Hey, you know that whole 'no weapons in space' thing we all agreed on waaaay back when? Yeah. Screw that. Whomever gets there first, wins! Ready? Set? GO!" I would much rather have it say something like "Organizes, trains and equips space forces in order to better protect Earth and it's populace against any and all space-based threats". Sure, it may be an American thing...but nobody effing cares about countries when you are in space looking down at Planet Earth and realize ... "Whoa! That...that's amazing...and...so small! In under two hours I can see every country on earth. I don't feel so 'American/Canadian/Chinese/English/etc' so much as I feel just, well, insignificantly Human". Space is big. Bigger than any country...or company. We, as a species, need to get our poop together and try not to screw up space exploration as we have earth-based exploration. Just sayin'... PS: All the Guardians thing does is mean that there's going to be a big resurgence of 60's, 70's and early 80's music. I'm cool with that! :D ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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