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[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 63 points 2 days ago (6 children)

I have an ongoing bet with a buddy. I win when the Space Force establishes a base off-planet. He wins if the US forms a Time Force branch. Neither of us expect to win in our lifetime.

[–] friendlymessage@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My money is on your buddy. The most likely scenario there is, is that Trump around New Year's Eve forgets how time zones work and thinks that China is in the future which leads to him founding the Time Force. And all they can do is travel to the future, at a speed of 60 minutes per hour.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Or more likely, they build a base directly on a time zone line so they can jump between the zones going "4 o'clock, 5 o'clock, 4 o'clock, 5 o'clock..."

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I think your buddy is most likely to get the money at least. You'll be dead before yours is true, but if we need a Time Force, your buddy may still get his money. It might be created in 1000 years, but someone may let him know he won and get it to him.

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

WHEN we need a Time Force they'll probably have travel locked down so it's unlikely someone would make it back to deliver the news. Might have to add a rule about not disrupting the time continuum and just let descendents claim the reward.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, would you consider a LEO space station to be off-planet or not?

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I want to say we agreed that the base had to be out of Earth's orbit. I'd have to go over the details again as we made the wager a long time ago and after several drinks.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Does a moon base count? Technically the moon would have orbital priority but it itself or its the Earth. Does an aldrin cycler count as a base? Does something in an unstable orbit that happens to largely coincide with earths orbit count?

[–] Nasan@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago

No on the moon base as the Nazis already did it. The base needs to be installed on a terrestrial body other than Earth and its moon. Just to keep things fair since we're unsure how long it might be before the fabric of time is discovered to require military intervention.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

What if time force service members are discovered, before the branch is created?

[–] MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Space force is Elons personal army.