• @fidodo
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      211 months ago

      Same reason the shuttles existed in the first place. To look cool /s

  • @sramder
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    1111 months ago

    “Guardians” I don’t know how to feel about that.

      • @sramder
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        211 months ago

        It’s more that it evokes two completely conflicting ideas. The optimistic idealism of my youth or the bitter cynicism of Verhovens Starship Troopers.

        Pretty sure Trump just gave himself credit for it.

    • @LesserAbe
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      111 months ago

      Yeah we would scoff at someone calling a soldier “guardian” even if they’re fighting for us, so let’s scoff at calling space soldiers “guardian” too.

      • @sramder
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        111 months ago

        Yeah, the attempts to distance themselves from the military aspect of it is not really engendering a lot of trust… “He’s going up to do *s c i e n c e,*low gravity research or something, various experiments, don’t worry about it.“