by The Space Force (A Division of the U.S. Air Force) Steals Its New Logo from Star Trek.
Clearly nobody at the Pentagon or the White House is listening to me. I’m shocked, but I guess I can figure that part out later. In the meantime. We have more of this Space Force nonsense to deal with. First, President Beeblebrox couldn’t get a completely separate branch of service—regardless of how he brands it. Instead, he changed the name of the department formerly known as the U.S. Space Command, the MAJCOM in the Air Force that’s handled U.S. space operations since we started putting things into orbit. Now that he’s got that, here’s some new horse manure to look at:
Space Force is apparently going to use the Starfleet insignia as its symbol because of course it is. https://t.co/3owXpNhWBD
— VICE (@VICE) January 24, 2020
Yeah. That’s right. Effing Star Trek. Hold on. I need a minute…
Okay. I’ve written on a couple of occasions about how idiotic the idea of a separate “Space Force” is. You can find those articles below. Here’s where it really comes off as amateurish, though.
As a former member of the Air National Guard who went through US Air Force and wore that uniform with pride maintaining satellite communications equipment, I am all too familiar with how important space is to USAF operations. You may be thinking, “What’s the big deal? Give the guy what he wants, a Space Force and a sandbox and keep him occupied for a while.” You know, the way you’d treat a five-year-old who keeps sticking his finger in light sockets.
Here’s Why it Matters
I reported yesterday on a glitch with NASA’s Curiosity rover. Now, I write for a website called Space Porn, so to consider myself a “legitimate” journalist seems like a bit of a stretch. Still, I do my best to check my facts before I publish. And sure, I make mistakes sometimes, but when they’re pointed out, I admit and retract.
If you read yesterday’s piece, you’ll know that NASA figured out a fix for the problem pretty quickly, and Curiosity, a rover that’s scoured Mars for nearly eight years now in an environment harsher than any we find here on earth, is back up and going.
That’s not how a certain “fair and balanced” news outlet put the headline, though. They said “NASA’s $2.5 Billion Rover is Frozen on Mars” even after the problem had been fixed. Two things: First, why bring the price into it. As I said before, we have one Curiosity rover, that, for nearly a sixth of the cost of a single aircraft carrier has been sending us invaluable data from hundreds of millions of miles away.
This matters because the military eats up more of our budget than anything else, and to waste money on a new branch and new branding while criticizing NASA’s comparatively paltry budget is pretty much the textbook definition of pointing out a speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye while you’ve got a plank sticking out of your own (Matthew 7:5 – paraphrased).
Read More:
- Do We Really Need a Space Force?
- Congress Agrees: We Don’t Need a Space Force
- Trump Knows Nothing About Space or Science
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