So it's not China about to take over the space race.. It's the UK...

[Neil]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13506289 :)

[Danny]

Cool. red dwarf that much closer to reality :lol:

[acealive1]

i swear, whenever someone decides they need to beat us into space, bad things happen.

[blind2d]

This isn't 'beating us'... We won, a long time ago. This is just the next step, that our administration has no interest in at the time being, unfortunately. Cool news, thanks for it.

[Rancid Carcass]

i swear, whenever someone decides they need to beat us into space, bad things happen.

Surely Sputnik wasn't that bad... lol

[AcesandEights]

I gotta take a look at your fiscal position, how're you guys going to pay for all this?

[MoonSylver]

I gotta take a look at your fiscal position, how're you guys going to pay for all this?

They're gonna throw a royal wedding for Prince Harry to marry Pippa Middleton on the Moon. The tourist dollars alone will pay for a manned mission to Mars. :sneaky: :lol:

[Publius]

By Jove, it's brilliant! But there scarcely seems room for the Babbage-engines and their operators and banks of punch-card cabinets -- much less the massive steam-boilers -- that would be necessary to operate such a contraption.

[Neil]

By Jove, it's brilliant! But there scarcely seems room for the Babbage-engines and their operators and banks of punch-card cabinets -- much less the massive steam-boilers -- that would be necessary to operate such a contraption.

And the tea and scones will cause a frightful mess in zero G!

[Rancid Carcass]

I gotta take a look at your fiscal position, how're you guys going to pay for all this?

We're not - that's something for future generations to worry about! :elol:

[AcesandEights]

We're not - that's something for future generations to worry about! :elol:

Oh, that's how we're paying for our wars, nowadays! I'm sure it will work out quite well then. :)

[bassman]

The moon is made of cheese, Gromit.

http://mail.colonial.net/~hkaiter/Aaa_web_images2012/wallace-and-gromit-on-moon.jpg

[MoonSylver]

They're gonna throw a royal wedding for Prince Harry to marry Pippa Middleton on the Moon. The tourist dollars alone will pay for a manned mission to Mars. :sneaky: :lol:


By Jove, it's brilliant! But there scarcely seems room for the Babbage-engines and their operators and banks of punch-card cabinets -- much less the massive steam-boilers -- that would be necessary to operate such a contraption.

There are TOP MEN working on the very latest technology old bean. It's all terribly complicated.

http://goremasterfx.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/melies_trip-to-the-moon_1902.jpg?w=520&h=402

;) :lol:

[AcesandEights]

There are TOP MEN working on the very latest technology old bean. It's all terribly complicated.

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[MoonSylver]

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See, SOMEONE gets me...;)http://www.runemasterstudios.com/graemlins/images/blowkiss.gif :lol:

[acealive1]

Surely Sputnik wasn't that bad... lol


sputnik could orbit and beep LOL