UK to finally setup a UK Space Agency

duc999 said:
Mark my words the UK Space Program will all be run from the mission control shed in Wakefield and consist purely of men with beards ;)
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The rocket fuel will be produced in large copper stills with the potential for selling off to the native population of under 25s in times of financial constraint..
 
Skyfall said:
Can anyone tell me what we might gain from such endeavours? We're not Americans we don't need to say "*** yea we've been to the moon".
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My dear fellow. We, the last bastion of the empire, still need to keep up appearances.. which is really what the technology race is driven by!

Space is the new frontier. Also the UK are required, by due diligence, to keep an eye on progress by other country's advancement on space and weaponry. It also creates an official interface for partnering with other countries outside the EU space agency.
 
naffa said:
What a ridiculous idea.... I think that maybe we should wait until our economy is booming again, before we invest in such things. :o
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To steal a phrase I heard recently:

"A society grows great when men plant trees who's shade they know they shall never sit in."

But I think this quote is probably more relevant:

"Get your ass to Mars!"
 
Better the treasury's money is spent on this than more bus lanes, more pen-pushers, and more moats for duck-houses. At least this is actually helping to move humanity forward to the future, and I can think of no more worthy thing to spend money on.
 
Makunouchi said:
To steal a phrase I heard recently:

"A society grows great when men plant trees who's shade they know they shall never sit in."

But I think this quote is probably more relevant:

"Get your ass to Mars!"
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Great film. :D

Sorry, I shouldn't have worded my post like that, I meant that I thought it was ridiculous to do so now as we're going to through a mega recession and have a debt bigger than my... Well, it's big.

I got a quote in there as well (slightly altered). ;)
 
naffa said:
Great film. :D

Sorry, I shouldn't have worded my post like that, I meant that I thought it was ridiculous to do so now as we're going to through a mega recession and have a debt bigger than my... Well, it's big.

I got a quote in there as well (slightly altered). ;)
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But if you keep waiting until conditions are ideal, it will never get done.
 
IMAO, were will the money come from? let me think, its a hard one, brain hurts. I've got it why do you think they brought the £6 landline tax for, what a cunning Goverment we have! Thinking we believe its for improving broadband, but really its so we can join the space race.

But hey think about it, since the greedy **** bag MP's come from a different planet, we can ship them all back home!!! Any suggestions who will be first?
 
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platypus said:
Well thats great. We can pay for it out of that huge surplus of cash we have. Oh, wait..

Whilst I realise this brings in money, this isn't really the time. It can carry on contributing it's £6bn to the economy for a few years whilst we sort out the hole we're in.
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We already pay 270million. It sounds like it's basically going to combine all the projects into one company. So when dealing with the Europe space program it is easy.

"Having a central agency allows us to much more effectively develop the policy that will build on this fantastic asset.
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Seems to be it's main aim rather than looking like NASA

Great news
 
Some people on here, honestly, you complain when tax is spent wastefully and I can understand that but projects such as this are the human races proudest achievements and considering our place in the world the UK should play a larger part.

It makes sense to invest when the economy is poor.

I would much rather my tax money be spent on fibre opric broadband, space agencies, scientific research to indirectly improve the economy than most of the other stuff it goes on such as benefits.

In a way the more cool stuff we get the less bad the overall tax burden is. :rolleyes:
 
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If i was a large organisation i would be aiming to tap some of the resources in the solar system right about now, once a moon base is established and production is set up there the solar system is ours and we may finally move up a notch as a civilisation, there's little choice of where we go from here, its either up or down, humanity needs to hurry up though and make that choice as time is ticking and it will be decided for us in the coming years!
 
Trust OcUK to pick one tiny part of a large equation, the UK has a very active part in the design and production of technologies involved in the overall space program, "just firing a rocket into space" is not what this would involve.

It'll allow all the separate UK space programs and contractors to exist under one umbrella.
 
mattheman said:
its what we need, the planet cant cope and we need to start search for a new home.
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True but given the current technology and political will that's highly unlikely.

The only time we advance is due to it being a side-effect of developing new ways to kill an ever increasing number of human beings.
 
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