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US Space Force debuts first recruitment ad and previously secret spacecraft:
"Maybe your purpose on this planet isn't on this planet."
That is the tagline accompanying the US Space Force's recruiting ad that appeared on Twitter on Wednesday.
The 30-second commercial is a montage of young people looking to the stars, intercut with images of rockets rising from monolith-like hangars, all colour graded the familiar teal and orange of blockbuster action movies.
[...] In addition to the expected military recruitment fare included in the video [...] the ad also includes the first official glimpse of the X37-B reusable space vehicle.
Previously:
US Space Force has its First Launch Today; Delayed but Successful Launch [Updated]
Star Trek Fans are Not Pleased about the New US Space Force Logo
Space Force Offers First Peek at Camouflage Uniform
U.S. Space Force is Official
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @08:00AM (5 children)
Day 0: "Omg space is awesome. One day we're going to be on Mars and I can be part of the team making that dream happen!"
Day 1000: *standing around guarding an oil well in the middle of nowhere, Mideastland.* "F M L"
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @08:38AM
Someone once said: "Don't died for your country, make the other bastard die for his". That's your cue Space Heros. Trump is re-opening the economy to where it belongs under the Trump banner. All stops out! Don't expect a pay rise, or a tax cut, or an interest rate reduction - there's nothing left in that bucket ha! - just roll up your sleeves and wrap them around your faces - and think about the poor Americans who'll do it if you won't. Bless them! Onward, upward, backward.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Thursday May 07 2020, @09:23AM (2 children)
This will be for the forseeable future just a bunch of fucking POG nancies wearing blues as their daily uniform staring at screens. I want my asteroid deflection or destruction goddammit!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @01:03PM
If you want something done, you gotta DIY.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @04:26PM
Asteroid deflection is not part of the Mission. The prime directive is to put a little yellow patch of name-branding on something other people pay for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @05:26PM
I have to admit, if I were around high school age now, I'd be very interested in joining the Space Force. It's the fucking Space Force!
And I would be just as cruelly disillusioned by the reality, too, if I'd joined. I worked as a civilian for the Air Force for a couple of years. Mundane and boring sum it up. I met an NCO who told me he's job for the last 20 years was filling out the same form. They print the year the form was last updated at the bottom of the form; it was literally unchanged for over 20 years. Since the Space Force is going to be "under" the Air Force (as the Marines are "under" the Navy), I'm sure the tedium and maddening boredom will be all too similar.
Sometimes I'm glad I'm too odd for this shit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @09:23AM
Warmongering mercenary private enterology bastards.
(Score: 2) by corey on Thursday May 07 2020, @10:38AM (4 children)
It appears really briefly but yeah looks like it, a windowless Shuttle.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @10:41AM (3 children)
At least it's better than a shuttle running Windows.
(Score: 4, Funny) by FatPhil on Thursday May 07 2020, @11:26AM (1 child)
What's so bad with that?
Sometimes they gnaw through the wires!
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday May 07 2020, @01:11PM
They'll need serious physical training, I hear those trim jackscrews are pretty hard to operate manually.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Thursday May 07 2020, @03:54PM
It could be worse than that: What if it's running Systemd?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Phoenix666 on Thursday May 07 2020, @12:18PM (1 child)
"Service guarantees citizenship."
What, you wanna live forever?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday May 07 2020, @03:41PM
I wanna be a R̶e̶c̶o̶n̶ Space Ranger,
I like all that sex and danger
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 07 2020, @01:36PM
I had a heck of a time finding the link in all those Independent links in the story, but for those who don't want to pull up TFA, I'm providing the link to the ad here [youtube.com].
(Score: 2) by turgid on Friday May 08 2020, @11:26AM
Does anyone remember the X-20 Dynasoar?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].