Posted on Sep 7, 2018
‘Accessory to War’ probes the uneasy alliance between space science and the military
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Late-night comedians skewered Vice President Mike Pence in August when he announced preliminary plans for a new branch of the U.S. military dubbed the “Space Force.” Jimmy Kimmel likened the idea to a Michael Bay action movie, while Jimmy Fallon quipped that the Space Force’s chain of command would go “E.T., Yoda, then Groot.”
‘Accessory to War’ probes the uneasy alliance between space science and the military
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"Over the hill" only applies where there's gravity! Forty years after their original space mission was scrapped, a retired Air Force "space cowboy" leads a g...
Anybody seen Space Cowboys? In the movie, The Russians have stolen our design from the space shuttle or earlier Apollo Technologies and put a few icbm's in space as space junk that wasn't decaying orbit. In the movie, Tommy Lee Jones, James Garner and Clint Eastwood are former astronauts sent on a mission 2 investigate this Russian satellite not knowing it was part of the Russian High Frontier of Star Wars.
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1stSgt Nelson Kerr
The science and engineering in that mo vie is quite on the par with 2012, the Core or perhaps Godzilla butt a l tiny bit better than "Gravity"
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Don't care much what Kimmel says. I do want to keep US in the forefront of space technology. Who knows what China and Russia are already doing.
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