Jodrell Bank May Close Down

Anonymous Astronomer writes "MERLIN, the UK's only radio astronomy facility, is facing closure following the results of a Programmatic Review carried out by the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the results of which were announced on Monday. The review placed MERLIN and the upgraded telescope e-MERLIN, due to go online later this year following an investment of £8M, in the low-priority category under serious threat of funding cuts. The upgraded array of telescopes, situated across the UK, will be 30 times more sensitive than the current array and will be a unique facility for observing distant objects and helping us understand the universe. If these cuts go ahead however, not only MERLIN but the entire Observatory including the iconic Lovell telescope, based at Jodrell Bank in Cheshire, will be under threat of closure."

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Wow...

[InfinityWpi]

Looks like the housing crisis in the US is even causing problems for UK banks... sorry about that, mates...

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[arivanov]

Not entirely unexpected from a stingy religious fanatic in charge. The secrets of Universe are in the Bible after all and no need to look for them elsewhere.

The previous taleban elder wriggled answering the question on Creationism in commons even more than questions on WMD and provided his best friend Mr Vardy with the unfettered ability to bastardise the curriculum and put Creation into it. This scoto-taleban is actually even worse. Not surprising considering his family background.

This all is besides us having to pay for the Northern Rock debacle where all the profitable mortgages got moved to a tax heaven in advance and the taxpayer will effectively be paying for mortgages that were given to people who cannot really afford them. So the next step will be the government as the mortgage owner repossessing houses. Actually this is quite a neat way to reverse Thatcher's nationalisation of council housing. Applause. I would not have thought of it and it definitely takes some cajoles to carry that out. Cajoles and the ability to lie constantly without even blinking.

Anyway, now it has been done the money has to be found somewhere and a blasphemous project is quite clearly an obvious choice.