Enlist in Donald Trump’s Space Force!

Donald Trump once again blew up the Internet by riffing on something insane. This time: Space Force! Trump appears to believe that the galaxy is under threat by alien invasion and that the United States military will be creating a Space Force to defend humanity. Given Trump’s obsessive xenophobia, one assumes that there will of course be a Space Wall to defend too.

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  • Au contraire, Ted ; it is the «aliens» who will gladly put up and pay for a wall to keep H sapiens sapiens confined to the immediate vicinity of the Earth (they might allow us access to the moon as well ; nothing much there to destroy, and if we start mining Helium-3 there, our demise might come about more quickly than otherwise, thus saving them the need to intervene directly)….

    Henri

  • Ever since Sputnik went up, the threat of a space force has been hanging over our heads. (See what I did there?) The first country to hang a nuke in orbit deserves what will inevitably befall them when hackers inevitably hack the platform.

    But it does look like we’re gearing up for another space race – this time to Mars. Doubleplus Good! The last space race created jobs and produced technological innovation heretofore unseen outside of war.

    “The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for the human race to keep all its eggs in.”
    –Robert A. Heinlein, Homo “Sapiens”

    “The Earth is just too small and fragile a basket for us to share with the human race.”
    – Every other species on the planet

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