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The Space Force in Von Bran's Science Fiction Novel
In von bran's 19 forty eight novel, which i think we should say, just for listeners who aren't so clear, is the name of what donald trump, you know, made the fifth or sixth branch of the us. Military in two thousand 19 yet, the space force existed in science fiction for probably a hundred years before it was hard written into the united states military. The wise old martian leader that his protagonists meet on mars is literally called the elon, which is a biblical term. It's like a judge on. Von bran converted to evangelical christianity when he came to the united states. So this idea that apocalypse is bound up with the expansion of
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