EU tells UK: Cut the BS, sign here, and you can have access to Galileo sat's secure service Hidden away in the document laying out the starting position for EU and UK negotiations lies an interesting nugget for those following the tortured tales of the European satellite navigation system, Galileo. With Brexit "done" (we have a tea towel on order saying it so it must be true), the starting position for the future …
Not mentioned in the article, but it is my clear recollection that it was the UK representatives to the GNSS Steering Committee who insisted that the clause disbarring countries from outside the EU from using Galileo was included in the Treaty, and would be stringently enforced.
Now that the UK has actually left, all the UK gov. & EU political minds are now turning to trade negotiations where both sides can easily spin any deal as a win.
Allowing the UK to stay in the Galileo project (& continuing to pay a big wedge) is but a small change to an existing set of rules that will be called a pragmatic move by all concerned when it eventually happens.
PROJECT FEAR!!
The unelected GNSS/EU was a dictatorship that forced us to do everything its evil socialist fascist globalist nationalist leaders wanted. At no point did we have any say, which is why we've taken our sovereignty back!
What do you mean we are less sovereign under Boris's plans than we were when we were in the EU?
PROJECT FEAR!!
Besides, you can't change my mind. I don't even know what soverignty means. But we got it back, so that's good. It's the will of the people after all. We got brexit done.
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The Eu should keep its satellites but thy wont be allowed to orbit over British waters, they will be forced to stop and turn back at the 200mi limit.
British satellites, equipped with the new Armstrong-Whitworth 6lb canon will be free to orbit the high spaces where they please.
There only remains the task for proper British boffins to solve the problem of making the Union Jack flutter properly in space
Imperial and Metric
I use both
Miles for distance, HP for car power, but NM for torque, fuel in litres but quick conv to gallons for consumption.
DIY all mm and m, none of this cm or inch nonsense.
Use kg most for weight except people weight when stones, converting stones to pounds is easy
10 stone x 6.35 = 63.5kg, 63.5 x 2.2 = 140 pound, I do not know how many pounds in a stone, some even teen number I think.
Yet Another Anonymous coward> There only remains the task for proper British boffins to solve the problem of making the Union Jack flutter properly in space
I would suggest the more pressing task fir proper British boffins would be for them to come up with a way to stop people flying the Union Flag upside down. This has reached epidemic proportions these last few years.
I am more of a fan of the Postoffice Imperial Satellite System.
It would have one furlong two dimensional accuracy and three rod elevation accuracy. Eat that with your fancy centimetres! Two dimensional location would be shown on the front, elevation on the back, because that doesn't make sense.
It would be exclusively produced by Dyson (but manufactured in Asia) in a joint venture with Jeremy Hunt's cousin (completely coincidental) but he will ask a decent price, honest. Oh, and the noise of the receiver would make any conversation impossible but at least it would look really good, like a Star Wars prop.
Don't forget to stock up on the proprietary batteries, available exclusively from your local Post Office upon showing your birth certificate.
"For lucky enough to have missed all the twists and turns in the previous season of Blighty's attempts to depart the European Union ..."
That would be a dude who is living in a cave in the middle of the Amazon forest, then ... Not a paper in France without an article on it since 2016 !
"ESA began shunting Brits from Galileo last year. A worker within the agency told The Register that pretty much all UK citizens were being shifted from EU-funded programmes such as Galileo and EGNOS (rather than just those working on classified elements) and another confirmed that Brits were indeed on the move."
I'm sure those Brits won't vote Cameron any time soon. Fortunately, he did well to exit politics ...
"Its clocks will send out time data set in the XIX century..."
Did you really intend XIX or were you trying for XXI? [ XIX is 19 in real, true, S.I. numbers and XXI is 21 in that very sensible system.] [As, of course, everyone knows ;) ] (Parenthetically, I would suggest that for most politicians anything after XIVth Century is probably far too modern for them to cope with.)
Either way, displaying the time in Roman Numerals would become strangely complex as one approaches the point of midnight.
Or, actually, the first second of any minute and first minute of any hour. As a standard, Roman Numbers are slightly lacking.
While the article seems to be the usual waaaa against the UK it would seem the reality still isnt bad.
https://www.finhaven.club/article/brexit-negotiating-fta
It would seem the UK has been working on the trade deal with the US ready to finalise before we leave in Dec and the EU may find London more interested in the US market.
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