Jewish space lasers

 Marjorie Taylor Greene once said that the wildfires in California were caused by Jewish space lasers. Like many of the things that she says, this is utter nonsense, but there IS a tiny bit of wisdom in what she says.

In 1967, 114 countries in the world (including Russia and the United States) signed the Outer Space Treaty. The link below provides more detail, but these are the key points:

• the exploration and use of outer space shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries and shall be the province of all mankind;
• outer space shall be free for exploration and use by all States;
• outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means;
• States shall not place nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction in orbit or on celestial bodies or station them in outer space in any other manner;
• the Moon and other celestial bodies shall be used exclusively for peaceful purposes; prohibits their use for testing weapons of any kind, conducting military maneuvers, or establishing military bases, installations, and fortifications
• astronauts shall be regarded as the envoys of mankind;
• States shall be responsible for national space activities whether carried out by governmental or non-governmental entities;
• States shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects; and
• States shall avoid harmful contamination of space and celestial bodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty

The United States Space Force was established in 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Space_Force

The United States Space Force (USSF) is the space service branch of the U.S. Armed Forces and the world's only dedicated independent space force. Along with the U.S. Air Force, the Space Force is part of the Department of the Air Force, led by the secretary of the Air Force. The military heads of the Space Force are the chief of space operations, who is one of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and vice chief of space operations.

The Space Force is the smallest U.S. armed service, consisting of 8,600 military personnel. The Space Force operates 77 spacecraft in total across various programs such as GPS, Space Fence, military satellite communications constellations, X-37B spaceplanes, U.S. missile warning system, U.S. space surveillance network, and the Satellite Control Network. Under the Goldwater–Nichols Act, the Space Force is responsible for organizing, training, and equipping space forces, which are then presented to the unified combatant commands, predominantly to United States Space Command, for operational employment.

The U.S. Space Force traces its roots to the beginning of the Cold War, with the first military space programs starting in 1945. In 1954, the Air Force established the Western Development Division, the world's first dedicated space organization, under General Bernard Schriever and unified its space forces under Air Force Space Command in 1982. U.S. space forces have participated in every U.S. conflict since the Vietnam War, most notably in the Persian Gulf War, often referred to as the first "space war".

The first discussion of a U.S. Space Force occurred under President Dwight Eisenhower's administration in 1958 and it was nearly established in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan as part of the Strategic Defense Initiative. The 2001 Space Commission argued for the creation of a Space Corps around 2007–2011, but due to the September 11 attacks and war on terror any plans were put on hold. In 2017, Representatives Jim Cooper and Mike Rogers' proposal for a Space Corps passed the House but failed in the Senate. In 2019, the House and Senate resolved their differences to pass the United States Space Force Act, and this was signed into law by President Donald Trump, establishing the U.S. Space Force as the first new independent military service since the Army Air Forces were reorganized as the U.S. Air Force in 1947.

The patch for the Space Force (see below) looks suspiciously like the patch for the starship Enterprise.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/1550777422/star-fleet-space-trek-sci-fi-cosplay?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=star+trek+patch&ref=sr_gallery-1-1&frs=1&organic_search_click=1

Although the United States is the only country that has a Space Force, it is not the first country to do so, since Russia established one in 1992.

A space force is a military branch of a nation's armed forces that conducts military operations in outer space and space warfare. The world's first space force was the Russian Space Forces, established in 1992 as an independent military service. However, it lost its independence twice, first being absorbed into the Strategic Rocket Forces from 1997–2001 and 2001–2011, then it merged with the Russian Air Force to form the Russian Aerospace Forces in 2015, where it now exists as a sub-branch. As of 2023 the world's only independent space force is the United States Space Force.

The reason that a Space Force is needed can be found in Dale Brown's "Eagle Station", which was published in 2020. Although I am still reading the book (which is 584 pages) the basic story line is that China and Russia establish a base on the moon in order to achieve military superiority in the skies.

The story may never turn out to be true, but consider this :

At precisely 7:25:58 a.m. EST/12:25:58 Universal Time today a rocket part launched by China eight years ago should have struck the Moon while traveling at a speed of around 5,700 mph.

The debris is the third stage booster from the launch of a Long March 3C rocket that launched China’s Chang’e 5-T1 spacecraft from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center on October 23, 2014. It has been orbiting in the Earth-Moon system ever since, though rather erratically.

A new physics-based animation generated using AGI, an Ansys company, shows exactly what happened when it crashed into the lunar surface close to Hertzsprung, an enormous lunar impact crater on the far side of the Moon.

The event happened away from the view of any telescopes or orbiting spacecraft, so there was no “live” coverage. However, it’s possible that NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) or India’s Chandrayaan-2, both of which are in orbit around the Moon, will be able to photograph the new crater in the aftermath to confirm the impact.

(This story was published by Forbes on March 4, 2022)

Pink Floyd can tell us a little bit about the dark side of the moon, but attacks from outer space (even though illegal) are still possible, but at least we don't have to worry about Jewish space lasers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9ynZnEBtvw