So far they have a logo and this video, so yeah, Space Force is really coming along. |
The pandemic, white supremacists, and four years of insane Tweets but I'm sure Space Force will be his legacy... |
The video opens on a clean-cut all-American standard white male, standing on a beach at dusk gazing wistfully not only at the stars but also towards the future.
Pictured: a future American Space hero contemplating tomorrow whilst almost certainly humming Faith of the Heart to himself. |
Above: noted voice actor Morgan Freeman, seen here being too expensive to narrate a Space Force recruitment video. |
"Some people look to the stars and ask: what if? Our job is to have an answer. We have to imagine what will be imagined. Plan for what's possible while it's still impossible. Maybe you weren't put here just to ask the questions. Maybe you were put here to be the answer."
-the so-so narrator sprung for
by the U.S. Space Force
I mean, space isn't green, is it? Also is wistful skyward gazing a job requirement? |
Speaking of the sci-fi control rooms we see in the ad, what's with that big room with the girders and blue squidgy lights even for? I get that this is supposed to be speculative, like what being in the Space Force might be like someday, but it's a bunch of people looking up (wistfully, one assumes) at a wall covered in holograms or something and I can't even begin to imagine what they're supposed to be doing.
What is this even for? A rave? A secret Stargate program? What? |
"My mission statement is to attain experience in the field of experience."
-Some college kid
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Well, I guess that's the point then, imagination. Space Force is basically imaginary right now. It might be a real thing someday, but not anytime soon. It doesn't help that no one's really sure what it will do. The website says it's "...a military service that organizes, trains and equips space forces in order to protect U.S. allied interests in space and to provide space capabilities to the joint force." So the space force trains space forces? It kind of sounds like a college student trying to come up with something for a mission statement on a resumé.
Even the ad doesn't know what the hell it is. The Space Force's job is to have an answer to "what if?" And to imagine what will be imagined? Is this a branch of the armed forces or the score from Man of La Mancha? Look, Donald Trump has pissed away plenty of our money (and international credibility) on racist border fences and golf trips for himself, but goddamn, shouldn't we be focusing on a vaccine or something?
Is the vaccine in space? Because if it's not, this kind of seems like a colossal waste of resources... |
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