Re: Space Brexit?
Yep - let's chuck it out of an airlock...
Posts by MAF
89 posts • joined 28 May 2015
How big is the UK space industry? It hauled in £14.8bn for 2016/2017 – report
A Delta IV Heavy heads for space at last while New Horizons' fumes OK for 'future missions'
Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers, judge rules in Traffic-Light-Math-Gate
American bloke hauls US govt into court after border cops 'cuffed him, demanded he unlock his phone at airport'
Here's 2018 in a nutshell for you... Russian super robot turns out to be man in robot suit
Dine crime: Chippy sells deep fried Xmas dinner
China on its way to becoming the first nation to land on the far side of the Moon
Waiter, what's this? SpaceX delivery delayed for a day by moldy food
Alexa, cough up those always-on Echo audio recordings, says double-murder trial judge
Third Soyuz does not explode while auditors resume poking around NASA's big rocket SLS
Which scientist should be on the new £50 note? El Reg weighs in – and you should vote, too
Now Europe wants a four-million-quid AI-powered lie detector at border checkpoints
SpaceX dodges lightning while storms keep Japan earthbound
2TB or not 2TB: Microsoft fiddles with OneDrive as competition offers twice the storage
NASA eggheads draw up blueprints for spotting, surviving asteroid hits
No fandango for you: EU boots UK off Galileo satellite project
British egg producers saddened by Google salad emoji update
UK's first transatlantic F-35 delivery flight delayed by weather
MPs accuse Amazon and eBay of profiteering from VAT fraudsters
Detox from your weekend kebabs with a healthy storage golubtsy
'Driverless' lorry platoons will soon be on a motorway near you
Friday 25th August 2017 11:48 GMT 
A potential problem with this trial...
The lorries will be driven by human drivers. Said drivers are at risk of reduced livelihood/jobs if it proves to be a success (and let's face it any sign of success and the bright spark who came up with it will push for use off major roads too).
Why ever would they not do their very darnedest to banjax the trial?
Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs
Last FalconStor CEO survived just six weeks before being replaced
She's arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base
If Anonymous 'pwnd' the Daily Stormer, they did a spectacularly awful job
GoDaddy gives white supremacist site its marching orders after Charlottesville slur
Confessions of an ebook eater
Can you make a warzone delivery drone? UK.gov wants to give you cash
LAKE OF frozen WATER THE SIZE OF NEW MEXICO FOUND ON MARS – NASA
Going shopping for a BSOD? We've found 'em in store at M&S
NASA trying to rein in next-generation super-heavy lifter costs
Monday 21st November 2016 12:01 GMT 
Haven't we been here before?
The budget for the Space Shuttle was cut by Congress forcing them to use the SRBs for the launch vehicle and we know how that ended (two Shuttles lost, two crews lost, fleet grounded leaving Russia the only way that astronauts could get to the ISS).
Here's an idea: Make a Congressman a member of the first crewed launch and let's see how they deal with a controlled explosion (hopefully) that has gone to the lowest bidder....
UK minister promises science budget won't be messed with after Brexit
Thursday 27th October 2016 13:49 GMT
Why UK science is heavily dependent upon EU funding
This is the question that no one has asked. The reason being that over the decades UK governments have pared back funding (e.g. MAFF & DEFRA funded research). To keep going, organisations went out for EU grants (and in many cases were extremely successful) and a high % of their funding came from this source. This is why removal could be so damaging.
It will still be possible to get funding from EU still but we have to be partnered by an EU state i.e. passive rather than active applicants....
Meet the slimeballs who are openly sabotaging Virgin Media
Just what Europe needs – another bungled exit: Mars lander goes AWOL
NHS patients must be taught to share their data, says EU lobby group
Chinese 'nauts blast off for month-long space station scouting mission
Tuesday 18th October 2016 10:11 GMT
Re: It's a significant achievement
I have to agree that the OSS operation Paperclip that nabbed 1500 scientists & engineers was better than Operation Osoaviakhim which took >2000 at gunpoint to the Soviet Union.
Some didn't like the Nazis but some were members of the Nazi Party and the SS like von Braun.
Pretty much Hobsons choice for them all - pick a side or pick your firing squad. :-(
Fireball icon for outcome of early launches.
Pound falling, Marmite off the shelves – what the UK needs right now is ... an AI ethics board
Astronauts on long-haul space flights risk getting 'space brains'
Monday 10th October 2016 14:34 GMT
Model organisms
Mice & rats are not men (or women). They are a useful biological model organism but they differ in oh so many ways.
This is why we have long-term human habitation on the ISS with a battery of tests and it will take time to build a body of data that is statistically reliable.
Space will NEVER be totally safe (It's not that safe on Earth for that matter) but it will be as safe
as we can make it.
