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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 05/26/2020 at 13:41 • Filed to: space force

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The United States Space Force unveils its flag.

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RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:49

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...wow....I wonder if they wanted to deliberately rip off the Star Trek logo...

For Sweden > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:49

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I prefer the previous design

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:50

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Is this real?

*checks news *

I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.

ttyymmnn > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 05/26/2020 at 13:50

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Hmm, let’s see.....

fintail > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:53

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Can we send up Javanka? Please? (and leave them there).  I am sure both will be appointed to senior leadership positions asap.

Expression at far right (of course) says a lot.

ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:54

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I hope Paramount throws the book at them. 

ClassicDatsunDebate > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:58

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LOL. I used to laugh at those Iranian and Chinese fake drones and fighters and technology press releases  because I could fathom how a regime could be so stupid.  And now this.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:59

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Wow - Roman numerals on an arc look TERRIBLE.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:59

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Can’t wait for the Netflix series.

Notchback88 > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 13:59

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Well, with the Space Force doing it’s thing, I think it’s time the Air Force comes back to the mother service and becomes the Army Air Forces again.

That way I can qualify for the A-10. 

user314 > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars 05/26/2020 at 13:59

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Nope, the Space Force logo is based on the former USAF Space Command :

Which itself borrows from the Space & Missile Systems Center :

facw > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:01

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Setting aside everything else, it’s still part of the Air Force, so it seems they are just spending a bunch of money to rebrand things the Air Force was already doing.

ttyymmnn > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/26/2020 at 14:01

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I can only guess that they were added so people would know that it was created during Trump’s presidency. I’m surprised his signature isn’t on the flag.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > For Sweden 05/26/2020 at 14:02

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The coolest patch was from the movie and they never used it again, I put it on one of my military caps and nobody ever asks me what it is.

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:03

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So say we all.

TheRealBicycleBuck > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:09

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Hey! No mixing of properties! If you’re going to start with Star Trek, leave the Starship Troopers out of it!

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:09

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It’s just pathetic, it’s still the Airforce doing the same work with different patches. Trump says they have accomplished more than any other potus but I can’t really think of anything he has done that contributes to the country. Is he counting the wall project that will be ignored in the future? And the walls that are up are not very difficult to get past, it’s just a waste of money for idiots to look at. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/immigration/border-wall-progress/

PS9 > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:09

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okay, sure. 100k and counting are dead because of my negligence...BUT CHECK OUT THIS SICK ASS SPACE FLAG, BRO!

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > user314 05/26/2020 at 14:10

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Star Trek predates the space command

Goggles Pizzano > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:11

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Netflix, t-minus 3 days. It’s going to be super duper.

Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:12

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and 100 more > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 05/26/2020 at 14:13

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Same copyright-free serif font used for the MAGA hats, yeah?

and 100 more > CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever 05/26/2020 at 14:14

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Well then , the military now has an option for you, apparently.

CarsofFortLangley - Oppo Forever > and 100 more 05/26/2020 at 14:16

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I’m in Canada.  Our space force is when we send tall soldier to the top of the CN tower.

For Sweden > PS9 05/26/2020 at 14:16

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Hey, give the elected officials of the city and state of New York the honor they deserve!

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > and 100 more 05/26/2020 at 14:17

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Ha!

ttyymmnn > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/26/2020 at 14:17

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I just think of what we could have done with the billions spent on that thing. And now we have established the precedent that it doesn’t matter how Congress votes to spend the money. The POTUS can just spend it wherever he likes. 

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > user314 05/26/2020 at 14:18

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Oh geez, the terrible text on both of those!

ttyymmnn > user314 05/26/2020 at 14:20

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But that still doesn’t look like Starfleet. Maybe because it still looks like a proper USAF crest. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:23

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I can’t think of anything he has done that isn’t racist or marginalizes some part of our own population. We get so used to it but he is at war with our own citizens. He sure plays a lot of golf, I don’t expect any potus to not do some activity they like but he flies a massive amount of people to his own courses and then pays himself to be there. Then he starts marketing a drug in WH press conferences, lies all day everyday. How is it even possible? We need some kind of checks in place for this. 

wafflesnfalafel > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:26

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I can’t wait to see what their uniforms look like, (are some of them red?)

ttyymmnn > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 05/26/2020 at 14:30

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Big check coming up in November. 

ttyymmnn > wafflesnfalafel 05/26/2020 at 14:36

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user314 > Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire 05/26/2020 at 14:41

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NASA predates Starfleet. 

and 100 more > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:43

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Nobody in that picture, except DJT, looks at all pleased to be there.

user314 > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:49

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OK, but I’m not seeing any striking resemblance between the Starfleet and Space Command logos , aside from the arc denoting an orbit, and that dates back to NASA’s logo from ‘58.

Goggles Pizzano > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:50

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We hope. I’m concerned with the concern in the media regarding B iden.

ranwhenparked > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 14:51

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I must have missed the new wallpaper, still using Reagan’s rug. Wonder if that thing’s getting fragile, almost 40 years old and the Oval Office is kind of high traffic. 

Chariotoflove > user314 05/26/2020 at 14:58

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I like it because it’s simple and cool, and because I do see a resemblance to the the Starfleet logo, which I also think is cool. I don’t necessarily think it’s a conscious homage, and I don’t care one way or the other. After all, I thought it the coolest thing ever when we named the first shuttle Enterprise.

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > Goggles Pizzano 05/26/2020 at 15:04

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I guess it comes down to how much Trump has pissed off people that voted for him before and if younger people, minorities etc.. show up in the key places. If everyone voted things could change fast, it’s amazing how few people vote and say, “oh I don’t vote because I don’t like the people” well guess what morons this is what happens! Maybe Drumpf will be an example of this? We can only hope.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 15:04

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I like it. It’s simple and tasteful and draws a connection from previous Space Command logos without a bunch of heraldic frippery.

user314 > Chariotoflove 05/26/2020 at 15:12

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This. I’m all about getting more Enterprise s. Construction should be starting on CVN-80 sometime this year...

facw > ranwhenparked 05/26/2020 at 15:14

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Generally each new president gets a new rug. But yeah it does appear Trump got Reagan’s second one (1988) out of storage: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-gold-curtains-oval-office_n_5882b0a4e4b096b4a231dde1 , or it could be a replica/duplicate.

Regardless, p lenty of more recent ones to spread the wear though:

ranwhenparked > facw 05/26/2020 at 15:22

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Yeah, the only thing new Trump did is the wallpaper, the sofas were made for George W. Bush, the gold curtains are from Bill Clinton, the rug is Reagan, and he brought his own desk chair from Trump Tower. He seemed to stick with Obama’s wallpaper for a while, didn’t realize it had changed.

Obama was the first president to actually paper the walls, wonder if it was faster to switch it out for a different design than to try to refinish and repaint the plaster under it. 

benn454 > user314 05/26/2020 at 15:29

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 Fate watches over fools, little children, and ships named Enterprise.

Jb boin > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 15:36

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ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable) > fintail 05/26/2020 at 15:44

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In my more nihilistic fever dreams, I imagine being someone like Elon Musk or Bezos with my own rocket company and I convince the lot of these cretins to take a tour of near-Earth-orbit and the rockets ‘accidentally’ wander off toward the Sun.

Oops...

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 05/26/2020 at 15:55

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I would rather it be more in line with the other services somehow. I know it’s not as old as the other branches, and it’s supposed to be about the future, but it doesn’t seem on brand to me.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 05/26/2020 at 22:20

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Well don’t worry. Military types tend to be big on tradition, so it may change over time.

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 05/27/2020 at 00:29

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So I clicked on the link and was reading through the FAQ, and it occurred to me:   will airmen redesigned to the USSF then be called spacemen?

ttyymmnn > Chariotoflove 05/27/2020 at 00:37

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That’s a good question. Will enlist red be called space cadets?

Chariotoflove > ttyymmnn 05/27/2020 at 00:53

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I just hope they don’t put them in red shirts.