27th August, 2018.
Arrgh!
I hate that!
Sorry about inflicting my singing on you.
But that blood … soddi …
Dratted …
Dratted Baby Shark meme has been banging around my head for a week!
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Politics …
Politics, politics, politics …
I really do try to not get involved with politics.
But … ?
I voted Remain in the Brexit referendum, back in the day.
I believe staying in the EU is a good thing for the UK: and that leaving, as we will in March, next year, to be the stupidest thing the UK has done.
There’s others.
I don’t know if you knew about the Black Arrow project: but it was a British designed satellite carrier.
That got cancelled.
On budget grounds.
After four launches.
We’re the only country to have abandoned a satellite launch capacity.
AND to have abandoned a potential spaceport.
With most British rocketry experiments being done by commercial companies: the only ones willing to put up the money.
As a result of Brexit, though?
We’ll be pulling out of the Galileo satellite navigation project.
And — so the government tells us — will be investing in our own satellite navigation project.
Personally?
Given our government’s history, I believe it will put out of that project by 2022.
The only way to have any kind of involvement in large scale space project?
Is to stay in the EU.
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