Interesting when domestic finances are in such shyte that suddenly everyone wants to go to Mars!
Exclusive: Britain could finance manned Mars mission
Link to the BNSC :BNSC Home Page
Of course our Trade and Enterprise hasn't even absorbed the Importance of CERN to Ireland, so Ireland's
Interest will prob play out via the ESA:http://www.esa.int/esaCP/index.html
CERN:- CERN - European Organization for Nuclear Research
Related Linkie:http://www.politics.ie/chat/28167-membership-cern.html
Last edited by Christine Murray; 23rd July 2009 at 04:02 PM.
Pie in the sky as they can't finance a few Helis to Afghanistan.
*cynic much*Originally Posted by odie1kanobe
But it is interesting how money and political will can be found, I s'pos its all the trimming that goes on re
laws and accepted rights= more moolah for vanity projects.
;-)
i saw recently saw a nasa presentation which impressed on me the usefulness of comparative 'planetology' for help in studying climate change here
Last edited by lostexpectation; 23rd July 2009 at 05:13 PM.
What does the Irish President spend their time doing. Work in progress
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Herself the Maj has always steered clear of this kind of thing, so this is (in Nerdland) big huge news.
Wasn't the Beagle british? named after the ship that took darwin to the galapagos?
One who condones evils is just as guilty as the one who perpetrates it. -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., civil-rights leader (1929-1968)
Ah but apparently they do have a long-standing veto on manned space flight..,
The article just says that the funding they give to the ESA can now be used for manned mission. Previously, it had to be for unmanned.
In fact, it probably doesn't really matter as the money from the UK was presumably just treated as part of the pool of funds for ESA and thus they could just pick a few unmanned projects and say that those were the ones funded with the money from the UK.
It ties in with the 40th anniversary celebrations and the new Nasa Chief:
New Nasa chief wants men on Mars in his lifetime - Telegraph
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What does the Irish President spend their time doing. Work in progress
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