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Rescue Mission For European Space Industry
metz2000 writes "The New Scientist reports that the European Space Agency (ESA) has pledged hundreds of millions of Euros to guarantee its independent access to space. Europe also looks set to co-operate with the Russian Space Agency. Looks like the space industry is hotting up again. How will NASA react to this news after being the dominant space agency over the past three decades? A lot of money is going into rocket technology also; with this and the 'European version' of GPS are we heading towards a future conflict across the Atlantic?"
Get over yourself, troll. And grow up as well. Europe has left that sort of thing behind -- no matter how much you would like this not to be so. Keep Germans out of France? The whole point of the very modern Europe is that the Germans can be in France as much as they want and vice versa (let Rummy stick that one where the sun don't shine).
You owe us Europe.. you owe us big.Europe doesn't owe you a single goddamned thing. We appreciate the role America played in WWII, but that doesn't make us your serfs for the rest of eternity. Not to mention that we spent the first four-and-a-half decades after WWII doing every damned thing you wanted; I'd say that if we ever owed you anything, you've been payed in full since then -- and then some.