The great 2020 election thread....

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

I'm kind of indifferent between the candidates. Particularly at the point where people start to get visceral when comparing Sanders to Warren for instance I am a loss as far as not regarding these respective candidates as on the same side.

[MerelyAFan]

Huh, guess Trump's courting a certain fandom's vote for this November:



Note: Yes, that is the real, just revealed logo for the Space Force on the left.

[Al-1701]

That got a laugh out of me. Trump better hope CBS doesn't sue for copyright infringement.

[Admiral X]

Is this another example of TDS?

This particular logo is just a modification of an existing one that the USAF used for its Space Command. I can't help but notice that the USSF's new seal identifies it as still belonging to the Department of the Air Force. In any case, this logo has been around since 1982.

The delta symbol is based off of even older badges that have been around since the Air Force started getting interested in missiles, which is to say not terribly long after it became an separate branch itself. This example is from circa 1964. So who ripped who off?

[Darth Wedgius]

It's probably an amusing coincidence, but... Starfleet will be founded in 2161, so who really had it first?

[J!!]

Its basically a mashup of copypasted elements from the AFSC & NASA logos. Though I would totally not be surprised to learn that whoever designed it was a trekkie.

Its a fine logo, though i still think "Space Force" is kinda a dorky name for a military branch.

[TGLS]

I'd probably would have called it "Space Attack Squad", with ships it commands "Space Attack Squad Ship", with the first ship christened "SASS Yorktown".

[Darth Wedgius]

I'd call it Space Tactics And Reconnaissance so any ship is automatically a S.T.A.R. ship. But that's only because I couldn't come up with a nice enough backronym for K.E.R.B.A.L.

[McAvoy]

Still wondering what the hell they would do. It's not like we got bases on the Moon or Mars.

[Darth Wedgius]

GPS, communication satellites, reconnaissance satellites, meteorological satellites, stuff like that. It's more a reorganization of stuff the U.S. military was already doing than something new.