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So once the Space Force "launches" next week, would this be under their jurisdiction? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force https://en.wikipe

• coretx 7y ago
  This "Space Force" is a violation of the UN treaty on outerspace. Better known as the treaty banning the militarization of space. We should ask the french if we can borrow a guilotine and chop Trump his head off for the sake of humanity and future space activities at large.
  • dmix 7y ago
    A whole lot of what the intelligence agencies do and even military (see: Delta Force) would be illegal in any other context. Yet they do them without much international controversy... that's not a particularly new observation. It's always going to be how the power is used in space, not merely that it's formalized bureaucratically as a terrestrial/space defensive system with offensive R&D. Most of it was already being done and researched anyways. If anything it could slow down the development of capabilities by diverting tons of limited resources to bureaucratic and administrative stuff to justify the day-to-day jobs of a bunch of high paid people in the new agency's upper and middle management... especially for an agency without much demand for their work. Of course it could also accelerate us to some future conflict, ie. by the agency trying to justify it's own existence by needless demonstrations of power better served by other agencies or diplomacy, or a conflict generated largely in response to the Space Force's own existence whose power scares the other guys to move quickly before they lose out ala the Cold War and Germany's fear of Russia growing up which helped spark WW2.