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geoffacakes t1_iu9d0c0 wrote

Fucking hell, the fruit loops get worse by the day..

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Zhukov-74 OP t1_iu9dktp wrote

The upside France and Germany have by launching Rockets from French Guiana is that they don’t have to worry about people like this getting in the way of launching things into space.

And ofcourse how French Guiana is close to the equator.

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BluBoy27 t1_iu9gc2h wrote

Jeez I hope they don’t throw a can of soup at the shuttle and super glue themselves to it

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SpaceInMyBrain t1_iu9l6uy wrote

Sigh. There's nothing that some group won't find a way to protest against. There's a certain percentage of the population that gets off on thinking they're more aware, in a superior way, than ignorant common folk. They tend to think very highly of themselves for taking up a crusade for this or that.

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Adeldor t1_iu9pf5v wrote

With such ignorant, opportunistic fringe groups, indifferent-to-hostile public policy, and general under-appreciation for engineering and manufacturing in modern day Britain, it's a testament to the tenacity of those trying to develop launch capability in the country.

If the environment becomes too hostile, there are demonstrably friendlier countries in the Anglosphere to where they can relocate, such as the US and NZ, not to mention other, non-English-speaking lands.

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Inevitablesincerity t1_iu9tqk6 wrote

If they somehow get close to the plane, turn on the engines, that might make them buzz off

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complex_variables t1_iua1cn2 wrote

Grey-haired CND long-timers claim launch of environmental / earth resources satellites is militarization of space.

Are they still being paid by Moscow? Russian launch facilities don't want more competition?

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boundegar t1_iua4awt wrote

Why is that logic so appealing? "You can spend zillions on xxx, when you could spend it on the poor."

Why not do both? The answer, of course, is rocket or no rocket, the poor get nothing.

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Mntfrd_Graverobber t1_iuaewus wrote

I bet there were people protesting the demonic invention of the pulley as well.

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LaunchTransient t1_iubfq69 wrote

A large part of the time is that people don't realise that the money spent on civil aerospace R&D is comparitively tiny to what most developed countries spend on welfare.
They hear "-illion" and think that it is being printed from an ATM, shoved under a fairing and fired into space.

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quantivity t1_iubq0g4 wrote

Agreed.

One of the biggest issues that I see in the UK, after having lived there for a while, is the culture of invented outrage by the press. The Daily Mail, Express, Sun (all rags owned by Rupert Murdoch) essentially winge constantly and there is little to no good news to be found. The UK in general is a miserable place, but this doesn't help either. You can find an article where a vaccine was invented, or how the cure of cancer is found, but there will be outrage over the slow rollout, or how this wasn't done sooner, or how foreigners will get it first, etc.

Cornwall is a generally poor region of the UK and you have mostly farmers or pensioners living there. Very little industry, working professionals, etc. Also, pensioners are more likely to read the rags than younger people as well.

Another vote here for the US, Canada, Australia or New Zealand.

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