{"id":2707,"date":"2019-04-20T20:53:11","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T00:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2707"},"modified":"2019-04-20T20:53:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T00:53:11","slug":"space-force-no-2-mars-awaits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=2707","title":{"rendered":"Space Force no.2: Mars Awaits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/ussf_marsawaits\/ussf_marsawaits.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border: 0px none; margin: 5px 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/ussf_marsawaits\/ussf_marsawaits650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"425\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>This was initially inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/sputniknews.com\/military\/201904091073973316-six-air-force-bases-house-space-command\/\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a> on Sputnik International,<\/strong> about the six military bases up for consideration for Space Force headquarters. After some curious digging, I&#8217;ve noticed they&#8217;ve gone from &#8220;Mars Awaits&#8221; to the slightly more modest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/politics\/US-Astronauts-on-Moon-5-Years-Space-Council-507681681.html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;back to the Moon in 5 years&#8221;.<\/a> Of course, the goal that&#8217;s grabbing the attention of millions of us is VP Man From GLAD&#8217;s consideration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/pence-leaves-open-the-possibility-of-nuclear-weapons-in-space-peace-comes-through-strength\/2018\/10\/23\/801a732a-d6d9-11e8-83a2-d1c3da28d6b6_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">nuclear weapons deployment in space.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Goes without saying Elon Musk is <a href=\"https:\/\/spacenews.com\/musk-backs-space-force-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\">on board with the idea;<\/a> I&#8217;m guessing his long game will involve a need for a few hundred Space Grunts to guard his gated <a href=\"http:\/\/thespacereview.com\/article\/3286\/1\" target=\"_blank\">Martian colonies<\/a> for the rich.<\/p>\n<p><strong>11&#215;17 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/ussf_marsawaits\/ussf_marsawaits.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 1.6mb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was initially inspired by this article on Sputnik International, about the six military bases up for consideration for Space Force headquarters. After some curious digging, I&#8217;ve noticed they&#8217;ve gone from &#8220;Mars Awaits&#8221; to the slightly more modest &#8220;back to the Moon in 5 years&#8221;. Of course, the goal that&#8217;s grabbing the attention of millions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,229,762,9],"tags":[976,920,919],"class_list":["post-2707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-right-wingnuts","category-space","category-trumpism","category-war-and-peace","tag-musk","tag-pence","tag-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2709,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2707\/revisions\/2709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}