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Trump is reportedly throwing the idea of a new military branch entitled "Space Force" (cant tell if he was joking or not with the title)
“We have the Air Force, we’ll have the Space Force,” Trump said during a speech while visiting California.
“You know I was saying it the other day – because we’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space – I said, 'Maybe we need a new force, we’ll call it the Space Force.' And I was not really serious, and then I said what a great idea, maybe we’ll have to do that. That could happen.”
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/378233-trump-floats-idea-of-creating-a-space-force
Now this idea has been floated in the past, and it does have merits:
U.S. Air Force Space Chief Sees Final Frontier as Battleground
Now as someone who works in the Aerospace /Astronautics industry this will just bolster all sides of the market -- and the MIC is a cash cow for us. But what do Americans think about this? Personally if the analysts are correct and there is already an international effort gearing up for the ability to wage battles in space, then obviously the US has to be in the mix. From a research and development standpoint -- it should further abilities for practical applications such as mining for extremely beneficial REE's.
But, on the flip -- space programs are one of the most amicable international joint ventures on the planet -- often with several countries teaming up to create incredible feats. Adding a dedicated militaristic branch could impede on that, like how china / the US have "embargo" each other within space exploration development. Even during the cold-war, US and Russia had joint projects with their space programs.
So yay to more money and awesome technology and possible ughh to multilateral projects.
What i can say is that while Trump will be awesome for expanding the industry, i wish this was the one area he could just keep is mouth quiet on.
“We have the Air Force, we’ll have the Space Force,” Trump said during a speech while visiting California.
“You know I was saying it the other day – because we’re doing a tremendous amount of work in space – I said, 'Maybe we need a new force, we’ll call it the Space Force.' And I was not really serious, and then I said what a great idea, maybe we’ll have to do that. That could happen.”
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/378233-trump-floats-idea-of-creating-a-space-force
Now this idea has been floated in the past, and it does have merits:
U.S. Air Force Space Chief Sees Final Frontier as Battleground
Now as someone who works in the Aerospace /Astronautics industry this will just bolster all sides of the market -- and the MIC is a cash cow for us. But what do Americans think about this? Personally if the analysts are correct and there is already an international effort gearing up for the ability to wage battles in space, then obviously the US has to be in the mix. From a research and development standpoint -- it should further abilities for practical applications such as mining for extremely beneficial REE's.
But, on the flip -- space programs are one of the most amicable international joint ventures on the planet -- often with several countries teaming up to create incredible feats. Adding a dedicated militaristic branch could impede on that, like how china / the US have "embargo" each other within space exploration development. Even during the cold-war, US and Russia had joint projects with their space programs.
So yay to more money and awesome technology and possible ughh to multilateral projects.
What i can say is that while Trump will be awesome for expanding the industry, i wish this was the one area he could just keep is mouth quiet on.
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