Comment on Pence: “America Will Return to the Moon–and Go Beyond”parentComments−NegativeLatency8yIt could just be from all the sci-fi I've consumed in my life, but I always thought the Navy would be a more natural fit to be the space corps.(I'm imagining a Battlestar Galactica / space marine future I suppose.)−dragonwriter8yIt could just be from all the sci-fi I've consumed in my life, but I always thought the Navy would be a more natural fit to be the space corps.It's very common for sci-fi space forces to be modelled on terrestrial navies (frequently very heavily on Age of Sail / colonial era European navies.)But especially in the near future, there's not really likely to be a whole lot of functional similarity justifying that.
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It could just be from all the sci-fi I've consumed in my life, but I always thought the Navy would be a more natural fit to be the space corps.
(I'm imagining a Battlestar Galactica / space marine future I suppose.)
It's very common for sci-fi space forces to be modelled on terrestrial navies (frequently very heavily on Age of Sail / colonial era European navies.)
But especially in the near future, there's not really likely to be a whole lot of functional similarity justifying that.