No, seriously. The US is creating a separate Space Corps
https://federalnewsradio.com/defense-news/2017/06/house-panel-votes-to-split-air-force-create-new-u-s-space-corps/
QuoteAs part of its version of the 2018 Defense authorization bill, the House Armed Services Committee voted late Wednesday night to create a sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces: the U.S. Space Corps, which would absorb the Air Force's current space missions.
You could be forgiven if you haven't been closely following the debate about creating the nation's first new military service since 1947. Several members of the panel said they themselves were blindsided by the proposal, and staged an unsuccessful effort to block the change until it could be studied further — or at least until the full committee had held at least one hearing on the subject.
Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) said he only learned about the proposal last week, when it first came before the subcommittee on strategic forces.
"I chastised my staff and said, 'How could I not know that this was happening?' They said, 'Well, they had a meeting about it and you missed it,'" Turner said. "A meeting is certainly not enough. Maybe we do need a space corps, but I think this bears more than just discussions in a subcommittee. We have not had Secretary Mattis come before us and tell us what this means. We have not heard from the secretary of the Air Force. There's a whole lot of work we need to do before we go as far as creating a new service branch."
(more at the link)
(https://www.grogheads.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg05.deviantart.net%2F243f%2Fi%2F2015%2F112%2Fa%2Fd%2Fearth_s_space_corps_recruitment_poster_by_hoganvibe-d6435po.jpg&hash=23349947c5914cfcb82f42062b0502ee04686bdd)
Officer Candidates will doubtless be referred to as "Space Cadets" :))
(of course the D.I.s will continue to refer to them as "maggots")
Read about this - awesome!
Just in time to stop this! (http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/821944/asteroid-impact-earth-nasa-apophis)
Damn. I had big plans for 2036.
Quote from: mirth on June 30, 2017, 12:23:30 PM
Damn. I had big plans for 2036.
A return to Origins?
Haircut and a shave?
All of those and much more!
Tutu fitting?
That's next week.
Nice. Don't eat any 5 Guys before then. I just made that error and it is not working out for me.
I'm going to stay away from any discussion of you eating 5 Guys.
This is the third time I've had it and the last.
Quote from: Gusington on June 30, 2017, 12:33:26 PM
This is the third time I've had it and the last.
Too much awesomeness for you to handle?
Gus can usually handle a lot of beef.
Five Jewish guys, sure, he can handle...
Right....the 5 Guys must be gentiles.
Quote from: bbmike on June 30, 2017, 12:20:04 PM
Just in time to stop this! (http://www.express.co.uk/news/science/821944/asteroid-impact-earth-nasa-apophis)
That'll stop AGW.... for a while