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

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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The upside of launching from a plane is you can fly to any position you want.

And that makes this protest make even less sense.

This isn’t an Ariane or Falcon Rocket but something that’s launched from an Airplane far away from the place where it took off.

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

They do indeed. Need dealt with.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

It is those people who are the most ignorant of them all.

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

I don't particularly care if they glue themselves to it.

Of course that will throw off the aerodynamics. For a few minutes.

It's a testament to the fitness of the human design that these folks haven't made themselves extinct.

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.

Million, billion, zillion, whatever.

Ariane 5 launch halted indefinitely as Kourou unrest continues -- 2017

Love the insults! Do you find them effective when you're trying to change people's minds?

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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Really sorry about Rupert Murdoch. Love Australia.

The fact the didn’t have the self-awareness to critique their own post says everything.

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