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Feelin' glad all over!

by drpruner. Dec 22, 2019 11:48AM PST

A hot headed, unreliable, vengeful world leader has just discovered a new place for war.
President Trump: "Space is the world's newest war-fighting domain"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50876429

The multiplicity of satellites was mentioned as an area of operations.
In the past the known threat has been from so-called "space junk". Dead satellites and the remnants of launch vehicles that threaten working satellites and scientific crews.

There's a contest to name the Force. I've already suggested Stargate SG-1.
Given the entry of at least one carmaker into the space race, their motto might be "May the Fords be with you."

Yoda a diplomat could be, is it not? Any treaty he wrote could be spun any which way. Who would know?

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RE:There's a contest to name the Force.
by JP Bill Dec 22, 2019 12:38PM PST

Post was last edited on December 22, 2019 12:45 PM PST

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Old newspaper joke.
by drpruner. Dec 22, 2019 1:08PM PST

"Yesterday we referred to officer Smith as 'a defective on the police force.' We apologize. We should have written 'detective on the police farce'."

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Old SciFi story.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Dec 22, 2019 1:55PM PST

From somewhere on the webs:

Gleebob, welcome back from your mission to observe that planet with nuclear capabilities.

(Gleebob) They call it Earth.

That's fine Gleebob but do they represent a threat?

(Gleebob) Not really.

Why do think that? Nuclear weapons are still formidable.

(Gleebob) You might think that but they are pointing the weapons at themselves.

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I went to a symposium on 2001 Space Odyssey
by drpruner. Dec 22, 2019 3:47PM PST

when it was in first run.
At the end the surviving astronaut has been altered by the Monolith into something beyond human. His task, not shown, is to destroy all the space weapons in orbit.
Brings the opening full circle. When the ape man discovers that a discarded bone can be a weapon he celebrates by flinging it into the air. It dissolves to a present day scene from near earth orbit showing those weapons; some are bone-shaped.

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The Dave Clark Five
by itsdigger Dec 22, 2019 3:44PM PST

felt that way too

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(NT) Yep. That's the one.
by drpruner. Dec 22, 2019 3:55PM PST
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Nice one Dig.
by Dafydd Dec 22, 2019 5:21PM PST

One of my fav songs.
Dafydd.

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