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Are there going to be light sabers?

Let's start the arguments: Which is better Star Trek or Star Wars?

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Hard to say. We build weapons we don't need for wars we shouldn't be fighting to kill people for reasons we aren't sure of.

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Proxima Centauri

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Is Mexico paying for this too?

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But what if the Spaceballs come to steal our air?

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Signed by Richard fucking Nixon, ffs!! Even Nixon was not as stupid as Trump..at least he had the sense to resign! Sorry I feel a rant coming on.

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More like Space Farce.

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He'll never get the troops trained; R. Lee Ermy is dead.

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So when does the Pentagon actually step up and do it? Or are they jizzing their uniform pants at the thought of an even BIGGER budget?

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Yup. But that doesn't stop it from being real.

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Y'know, I am fairly sure that the US was one of the signers of a treaty NOT to militarise space. Is Twitler ignoring that the same way he's ignored every other treaty the US has ever signed?

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But, tiki torches don't burn in space...

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Exactly. I don't believe that a meaningful victory can be achieved any more. Not sure why you'd want one.

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This logo looks like a little probe going in to explore uranus (or someone's). https://uploads.disquscdn.c...

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Bands used to do the same thing on the landing in St. Louis. Back when the landing was important.

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If you sent a dozen rockets up there and all they did was dump a tonne of steel ball-bearings into orbit you would stop anything from getting up there for a century. The impact of one on anything travelling at velocity would be like firing a .50 cal round point blank. Actually, make them ceramic or glass and impossible to detect. And some cretin will do just that one day.

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