• President Trump is directing the Pentagon to create a "space force" as the sixth military branch.
• The president first floated the idea in March as a part of his national security strategy.
• The White House, the Air Force and Secretary of Defense James Mattis disapproved of creating a sixth branch of the military last year

President Donald Trump declared Monday he will move to make a new branch of the military focused solely on space.

"I am hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces," Trump said during a meeting of the National Space Council.

"Our destiny beyond the Earth is not only a matter of national identity but a matter of national security," Trump said.

He floated the idea for the force as a part of his national security strategy on March 13, saying "space is a war-fighting domain, just like the land, air, and sea." The president described then how he had originally coined the term as a joke, while discussing U.S. government spending and private investment in space.

"We have the Air Force, we'll have the space force," Trump said in March.

As it turns out, the space force sounds a lot like the space corps legislation the Trump administration opposed last year.

In the National Defense Authorization Act, the House Armed Services Committee proposed last June the establishment of a space corps, a new branch of the military that would fall under the command of the Air Force. This branch's relationship to the Air Force would be similar to the Marine Corps' ties to the Navy. The space corps would have an area of responsibility that encompasses the vast expanse outside of the Earth's atmosphere.
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At the time, the White House, the Air Force as well as Secretary of Defense James Mattis disapproved of creating a sixth branch of the military.

"I oppose the creation of a new military service and additional organizational layers at a time when we are focused on reducing overhead and integrating joint warfighting efforts," Mattis wrote in a letter to the House and Senate armed services committees.

While the legislation passed the House, the space corps bid did not make it into the final defense authorization bill in November.
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The addition of a service branch would be the first in 71 years. The Air Force is the nation's youngest branch and was added shortly after World War II.

Hearing of this recent announcement, former Supreme Commander of the Galactic Empire, Darth Vader, immediately volunteered for the position.

On the Big Island of Hawaii, where the Kilauea volcano has explosively erupted, there is a geothermal energy plant. It is the Puna Geothermal Venture (PGV) Plant, in Puna.
 
There is a long-running debate about whether PGV is fracking. The debate may be a matter of terminology, because in the geothermal process, as hawaiifracking.com reports, "...the drilling and the injection of cold water into hot rocks used in geothermal energy plants does fracture the rocks, which can induce earthquakes and through contamination of the atmosphere and water tables can affect our health and safety."

​Whether deep injection of fluid aims to capture oil, gas, or heat (geothermal), the beginning stage of the process is the same.
 
Earthquakes induced by this water-injection could obviously trigger a volcano.
 
For example, here is an alarming article about a geothermal project in Switzerland. Swissinfo.ch, December 10, 2009: "The authorities in canton Basel City say they will cancel a geothermal energy project, which three years ago caused minor tremors that damaged many buildings."
 
"A risk analysis study published on Thursday found that the danger of setting off more earthquakes was too great if drilling at the site resumed."
 
"The project was put on hold three years ago after thousands of claims for damage were filed with insurers. Total costs for the damage were around SFr9 million ($8.78 million)."
 
"The study, commissioned by the canton, concluded that Basel was 'unfavourable' for geothermal power generation."
 
"It said the resumption of Deep Heat Mining project and its operation over a 30-year period could set off around 200 tremors with a strength of up to 4.5 on the Richter Scale - in 2006, the quakes were about 3.4."

"This would result in damages up to SFr40 million."
 
"The Basel facility drilled five kilometres into the earth. The borehole was designed to be injected with water to capture the extreme heat. Back at the surface, the hot water - at a temperature of around 160° Celsius - would run a steam turbine coupled with a generator."

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Hot Headlines from around the Web for January 15th, 2017

• As Technology Races Toward Giving Life To The Image Of The Beast, Theologians Want To Know If An A.I. ENTITY CAN COMMIT SIN 
• DAILY MAIL--Catholic priest who inspired The Exorcist died from a fall after a ‘possessed’ child spoke to him and he was ‘pushed over by an invisible force’, CIA agent claims 
• 'It's Easy To Imagine How This Week Could Spiral Wildly Out Of Control' - Law Enforcement Sources Warn Of Potential 'Simultaneous Attacks Surrounding Period Of Presidential Inauguration' But DHS Says 'No Credible Threats' 
• HOT TOPIC-Hacker Breaks Into Clinton Foundation Server, Finds Millions in Fraud 
• 'They Are The Opposition Party' - Trump May Evict Press From The White House 
• Is America a Defeated Nation? Are There Enough Americans Left with the Capacity to Fight? 
• Very bright mysterious object discovered in the active galaxy Cygnus A----Astronomers are baffled by this newly discovered mysterious object twice as bright as the brightest known supernova at these frequencies! 
• More Will Die In The Aftermath Of A Catastrophic Event From Being Unprepared Than From The Disaster Itse 
• Chinese Media Has Told Rex Tillerson to ‘Prepare for a Military Clash’ 
• Mystery blasts in Damascus: Syria accuses Israel 
• Mad As Hell Why the public is so pissed off and once you understand the degree to which the average US family and the entire Gen-X and Millennial generations are being completely hosed economically, everything starts to take shape. 
• Hubble captures ‘shadow play’ caused by possible planet 
• Severe winter storm hits Japan, intense sea-effect snow 
• Artist Creates Fabric That Can Fool Facial Recognition Tech 
• Remaking the Mausoleum: One of the Seven Wonders of The Ancient World to be Revived:SQ ALONG WITH THE GIANT STAUE OF THE 'COLOSSUS OF RHODES' WHO WAS A LITERAL 100 FOOT GIANT IN ANTIQUITY- 
• The Occult Universe of David Bowie and the Meaning of 'Blackstar' 
• Heads Are Finally Beginning To Roll At The Clinton Foundation: It’s unclear how many of the once 200 strong staff might remain at the Clinton Foundation in some other capacity.WATCH HOW MANY BEGIN TO 'TALK' UPON BEING FIRED 
• What drought? Before and after photos show how California has dramatically recovered from record dry spell in just ONE MONTH of rainstorms 
• ARGUMENTS FROM AUTHORITY AND INTIMIDATION SUPPORT VACCINE PROPAGANDA 
• Mahmoud Abbas: Vatican embassy a 'place of pride' Palestinian leader meets Pope Francis for the opening of Vatican-based embassy, a day before Paris peace conference. 
• Charles Nenner-2017 Prediction-Global War Cycle Coming into Danger Zone: I still see a big problem with China and Japan. We also have problems with Chinese islands (in the South China Sea). If this continues, it’s going to come from there. 
• Central-Bank Bashing Has Gold Only Asset Safe From Meddling 
• EPA says it can’t pay economic damages from massive mine spill that sent tainted water into Utah 
• ‘PAYBACK’S A BITCH’: FOX NEWS’ NEIL CAVUTO SKEWERS CNN IN EPIC TIRADE 'Ouch! How’s all that going down, CNN?' 
• NATO releases guide of how to stop a TANK as US military gears up for war against Putin 

Via Space Watch

CHANCE OF STORMS: NOAA forecasters estimate a 40% chance of geomagnetic storms on Dec. 9th, increasing to 55% on Dec. 10th in response to an incoming solar wind stream. High-latitude sky watchers should remain alert for colorful auroras after nightfall.

THE GEMINID METEOR SHOWER IS UNDERWAY: Canada's Meteor Orbit Radar (CMOR) is picking up echoes from the constellation Gemini. It's a sign that the annual Geminid meteor shower is underway. The bright pink "hot spot" in this CMOR sky map shows where Geminid meteoroids are hitting the atmosphere: