Meanwhile on Planet Johnson.....

I don't get annoyed about the PM being slagged off, it's no more than he deserves. But I do get annoyed with the attitude that we need to spend money "fixing our problems before we start messing around in space".

This is about investment in industry. We've cut off our connections to Europe when it comes to science and technology, and the space strategy, which is an entirely acceptable economic and scientific program, might help us get back where we should be. Probably not, but at least it's something.

Anybody complaining about how we should be spending money on what you deem to be morally superior, where do you think the money comes from? Answer: a working economy. If you think we're going to get that without investment, you're very wrong.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

btw I did manage to speak to him yesterday, eventually....he said the photographs were of that Elon Musk thing taken on some beach and they looked like bubbles because of atmospheric changes/speed/light etc. He explained it in great detail but I just heard Elon Musk - beach- blah blah blah. I imagine I am a dreadful disappointment

Grannynannywanny

Could we crowd fund to pay for Boris to be strapped to the outside of it when it takes off?

I'd help with the cost if that happened!

Johnson is only happy when he has a slogan. I expect he'd be even happier if it included a superlative.

JaneJudge

I think I can top trump you all.... my husband worked for Nasa

Oh nice one JaneJudge !!

NotSpaghetti

Johnson is only happy when he has a slogan. I expect he'd be even happier if it included a superlative.

Per ardua ad astra?

Johnson wants to be like Churchill, a hero to the nation but what he should remember is that his hero lost the first election after the war because his total disregard for the people. Let’s hope history repeats itself.

Ha ha Luca.
Johnson of course doesn't want adversity for himself, obviously!

JaneJudge

I think I can top trump you all.... my husband worked for Nasa

At JPL? Does he know my DH? ?

I know someone who has a ridge on Mars named after them.

Alegrias1

JaneJudge

I think I can top trump you all.... my husband worked for Nasa

At JPL? Does he know my DH? ?

I know someone who has a ridge on Mars named after them.

There's a Mars Bar with my name on it.

I'll get my coat.

So let's get this straight Janejudge, you have pet circus mice and an astronaut in your house.

That's rich from someone called Galaxy

Galaxy

So let's get this straight Janejudge, you have pet circus mice and an astronaut in your house.

Note poster’s username…….

Great minds Alegrias

Alegrias1

I don't get annoyed about the PM being slagged off, it's no more than he deserves. But I do get annoyed with the attitude that we need to spend money "fixing our problems before we start messing around in space".

This is about investment in industry. We've cut off our connections to Europe when it comes to science and technology, and the space strategy, which is an entirely acceptable economic and scientific program, might help us get back where we should be. Probably not, but at least it's something.

Anybody complaining about how we should be spending money on what you deem to be morally superior, where do you think the money comes from? Answer: a working economy. If you think we're going to get that without investment, you're very wrong.

I’m all for investing in our economy but we also need to invest in people such as nurses, teachers, plumbers, electricians, lorry drivers.

Let’s invest in sustainable energy technology such as wave power and hydrogen fuels and even produce the goods at home for export. Let’s invest in removing all the rubbish that we have floating round in space or in the oceans or landfill.
I’m all for investment in science and technology but space is not at the top.

Investment in sustainability is where our resources need to be now, IMHO

Grannynannywanny. Hilarious and yes please.

Let’s invest in removing all the rubbish that we have floating round in space.

How do you do that without going into space?

I'll wait.

Sorry, but you don't know a thing about it and what you're saying doesn't make sense. This is not a fancy space rocket to Mars. Its using near earth orbits to improve things like earth remote sensing. (Which is what it said in Johnson's spiel, if anyone had bothered to read it properly)

My criticisms of the strategy is that it is too little too late and that Brexit has made proper international collaboration impossible. But at least its something.

Point taken you bunch of gits

Galaxy

So let's get this straight Janejudge, you have pet circus mice and an astronaut in your house.

and a feminist dog
I asked for my post to be removed but you've all quoted it now! so I have buggered that up

Grannynannywanny

Could we crowd fund to pay for Boris to be strapped to the outside of it when it takes off?

I want to donate NOW.

I thought we'd launched rockets well before now?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_space_programme

Galaxy

Point taken you bunch of gits

??

JaneJudge

Galaxy

So let's get this straight Janejudge, you have pet circus mice and an astronaut in your house.

and a feminist dog
I asked for my post to be removed but you've all quoted it now! so I have buggered that up

Why withdrawn ?? Official secrets ?

He might have to kill me but I'm sure it is fine really