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Kerrriiist!!! That’s 9 satellites trashed, probably at a cost of about £10’s mill each. Few will trust Branson again. It’s back to the French launching Ariane rockets out of French Guiana.
 
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Archibald Knox said:
Kerrriiist!!! That’s 9 satellites trashed, probably at a cost of about £10’s mill each. Few will trust Branson again. It’s back to the French launching Ariane rockets out of French Guiana.
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I think that's probably right. He's not got the best space record.

Let's hope the Scottish Space Port has more success.
 
Archibald Knox said:
Kerrriiist!!! That’s 9 satellites trashed, probably at a cost of about £10’s mill each. Few will trust Branson again. It’s back to the French launching Ariane rockets out of French Guiana.
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His launches have worked in the past. This is the first time it's been attempted in Britain. That said, the launch from the 747 went as planned. The fault was in the rocket itself.
 
It’s an astronomical amount of money gone in to the Atlantic Ocean heard it could be up to £100m.
Who’s paid for this? And who’s going to pay for it again?
When you look at what’s going on in the world today more importantly this country with thousands of people living in poverty thousands on the streets, food banks, thousands on strike for better pay, businesses closing daily, millions not having the heating on when they want, a lot of people are going to be pissed off big style at £100m of satellites simply gone to the bottom of the ocean and especially when they hear the comments “we’ll go again” 🫣
 
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Jaffa_The_Hut said:
It’s an astronomical amount of money gone in to the Atlantic Ocean heard it could be up to £100m.
Who’s paid for this? And who’s going to pay for it again?
When you look at what’s going on in the world today more importantly this country with thousands of people living in poverty thousands on the streets, food banks, thousands on strike for better pay, businesses closing daily, millions not having the heating on when they want, a lot of people are going to be pissed off big style at £100m of satellites simply gone to the bottom of the ocean.
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I don't think they deliberately failed.

You can't stop developing stuff we need because there's people in poverty.

And I guess they will be well insured.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
It’s an astronomical amount of money gone in to the Atlantic Ocean heard it could be up to £100m.
Who’s paid for this? And who’s going to pay for it again?
When you look at what’s going on in the world today more importantly this country with thousands of people living in poverty thousands on the streets, food banks, thousands on strike for better pay, businesses closing daily, millions not having the heating on when they want, a lot of people are going to be pissed off big style at £100m of satellites simply gone to the bottom of the ocean and especially when they hear the comments “we’ll go again” 🫣
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With an attitude like that we would still be living in caves!
 
TSSeasider said:
I don't think they deliberately failed.

You can't stop developing stuff we need because there's people in poverty.

And I guess they will be well insured.
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I’am not suggesting it deliberately failed am I?
I’am just trying to justify £100m being written off and no doubt another £100m to come.
And I can’t.
 
Shandypants said:
A fair few folk will see that as luxury at the minute.
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Why?

It's mostly private sector investment, R&D etc etc.

I think most people will be able to rationally think that a technological industry continuing to develop is uncoupled from waiting lists for a hip operation.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
I’am not suggesting it deliberately failed am I?
I’am just trying to justify £100m being written off and no doubt another £100m to come.
And I can’t.
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You know a lot of that £100m will have been wages for some clever folk; sadly not clever enough to stop the thing malfunctioning; but still it's not £100m of palladium at the bottom of the Irish Sea (or wherever it came down).
 
Shandypants said:
A fair few folk will see that as luxury at the minute.
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I am sure they would - but then again I can’t think of a point in history when some people wouldn’t think like that.

Space travel has caused the wonderful invention of many things and many life saving things at that.

Ask anyone who has had a CAT scan or anyone who needs to filter water on a daily basis.

Progress doesn’t stop and we need to continue to push the boundaries to solve todays problems as well as tomorrows.

@Jaffa_The_Hut
 
seasideone said:
I am sure they would - but then again I can’t think of a point in history when some people wouldn’t think like that.

Space travel has caused the wonderful invention of many things and many life saving things at that.

Ask anyone who has had a CAT scan or anyone who needs to filter water on a daily basis.

Progress doesn’t stop and we need to continue to push the boundaries to solve todays problems as well as tomorrows.

@Jaffa_The_Hut
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I wasn't referring to space travel. My reference was to the luxury of living in a cave
 
seasideone said:
I am sure they would - but then again I can’t think of a point in history when some people wouldn’t think like that.

Space travel has caused the wonderful invention of many things and many life saving things at that.

Ask anyone who has had a CAT scan or anyone who needs to filter water on a daily basis.

Progress doesn’t stop and we need to continue to push the boundaries to solve todays problems as well as tomorrows.

@Jaffa_The_Hut
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Spot on.
 
JJpool said:
Like about 150 other unique modes of transport filled with paying pool fans.
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Wife's been looking at houses there, then I can just walk round the corner, can't see any potential drawbacks yet. I'll give it some thought first.
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
It’s an astronomical amount of money gone in to the Atlantic Ocean heard it could be up to £100m.
Who’s paid for this? And who’s going to pay for it again?
When you look at what’s going on in the world today more importantly this country with thousands of people living in poverty thousands on the streets, food banks, thousands on strike for better pay, businesses closing daily, millions not having the heating on when they want, a lot of people are going to be pissed off big style at £100m of satellites simply gone to the bottom of the ocean and especially when they hear the comments “we’ll go again” 🫣
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Each satellite was separately insured by its owner.
 
I wonder if there were any Chinese components in the rocket, or even any European components, I have a picture in my mind of either a chinese official or someone like Macron sitting in their office laughing like hell whilst preventing the launch. Prenez que vous les imbéciles anglais, plus dans l'Agence spatiale européenne. haw he haw he haw. 🤪
 
Jaffa_The_Hut said:
Yes I understand that but it’s the £100m cost of failure in trying times just how it viewed.
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It's a spit in the ocean amount on the grand scale of economics at the moment compared to other issues, and as others have pointed out, it's for a better cause.
Unlike the recent ex-PM costing the economy 30 billion due to incompetency. or 4 billion spunked on PPE equipment that wasn't fit for purpose. Now that is perhaps a better place to look for where the money has disappeared in trying times. Oh, or even a Tory Peer securing 200 million of public money for PPE. Much much bigger fish to fry.
 
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