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Satellite Magnate Argues Post-Brexit Britain Will Be 'Lost In Space' (bbc.com)
PolygamousRanchKid quotes the BBC: Will Marshall's "Planet" company operates the world's largest satellite imaging network, with 150 spacecraft able to fully picture Earth on a daily basis. He warns EU withdrawal will do immense harm to Britain's space industry. The UK will be "lost in space", he says.
The UK Space Agency responded by saying home businesses had a positive outlook. The most recent survey of confidence across the sector found that three-quarters of organisations expected growth over the next three years, it added.
Dr Marshall holds particular scorn for the UK government's actions on Galileo, the EU version of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Ministers have decided to walk away from the project because Brussels says a future Britain, as a "third country" outside the EU, cannot be involved in the system's most secure elements — this despite the UK having already invested £1.5bn in Galileo. London says it will build its own sat-nav system instead, but Dr Marshall calls this a "pie in the sky" plan that has significant economic and security implications.
The UK Space Agency responded by saying home businesses had a positive outlook. The most recent survey of confidence across the sector found that three-quarters of organisations expected growth over the next three years, it added.
Dr Marshall holds particular scorn for the UK government's actions on Galileo, the EU version of the Global Positioning System (GPS). Ministers have decided to walk away from the project because Brussels says a future Britain, as a "third country" outside the EU, cannot be involved in the system's most secure elements — this despite the UK having already invested £1.5bn in Galileo. London says it will build its own sat-nav system instead, but Dr Marshall calls this a "pie in the sky" plan that has significant economic and security implications.
Considering that GPS is a global service, accessible to all nations, isn't this just the sort of thing the United Nations should own and operate?
That's kind of what conservative movements are.
If the nation is a body, conservative movements like this are like sleep - closing off from the outside world, consuming internal resources, remembering the past, and quite often living virtual nightmares.
Only in this case, every time the nation as went to sleep for extended periods like this, it lost enormous portions of its body against its will.
That makes nations like this closer to bacteria in dynamic intelligence than people.
Ryan Fenton
I'm okay with it.
They are trying to keep their people from being wiped out by the evil sick fucks currently running the planet.
Sticking a stupid comm satellite in the air isn't even worthy of consideration against the ongoing concerted effort to erase the English.
Let's see what they can do.
I see the old guard is getting increasingly nervous that the WILL OF THE PEOPLE will indeed be done. Time for them to trot out all of their scare stories. The people have voted and we want NOTHING to do with the EU. Democracy wins.
They're REALLY ramping up on the fear-mongering propaganda today.
Again, you would think Britain hadn't existed just fine on its own for hundreds of years before 1973.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I guess he doesn't want yet another competitor in the market... Bad enough there are US and EU companies looking at positioning and space-based photography, having yet another competitor would hamper his chances to keep rolling his own venture!
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
Galileo Figaro. Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality. Let me go, no we will not let you go. Just got to get out. Half of Ook including PM at the time thought the EU relationship was somewhat fixed.
magnate is another word for liberal globalist who wants british people to be literal slaves to their global conspiracy. britan will be AMAZING without the rest of the world. it will be an island of beauty and prosperity forever. GUARANTEED.
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Satellite Magnate Argues
I heard the same thing from the head of GE about Britain's production of appliances.
He is, of course, a Refrigerator Magnate.
For this reason, God sends them a powerful delusion(operation of wandering)(planet) so that they will believe the lie.
Mystery Red of the Great American Eclipse
It has blood on it!
ABCNews: Eclipse makes pendulum wander
Losing my religion
Sun researchers find strange eclipse reading
FUD FUD and more FUD.
If we leave the EU! Everyone is gonna die!
If we leave the EU! It'll be like Venezuela! Overnight! Plus cannibals! Do you want cannibals?
If we leave the EU! The terrorists win!
If we leave the EU! It'll be like the rape scene from Pulp Fiction! FOR EVERYONE!
If we leave the EU! Your momma won't love you no more!
Ain't NOBODY ever got fired for staying in the EU!
And on, and on, and on...
It's a bunch of stupid, petty excuses from people who just want their way.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
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Putting up barriers hardly helps, it is in fact going to be quite damaging, but to claim that companies just wouldn't do business in UK anymore is nonsense. If you have engineering intensive work to do you go where ever you can find competent engineers to do the job. Limitations of a location can be worked around, at a cost. Lack of engineers in your preferred location is not so easily solved.
Back in the day it was the UK who insisted that no third country would have access to the internal. What goes around, comes around, I guess.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
EU membership has only cost the UK gigantic swathes of industry since joining the Common Market.
Project Fear gunna project...
We've all seen Trump's gigantic ass and tiny hands. Tell us about your African-levels of economic disparity and lack of universal healthcare. C'mon.. impress us with your freedumbs!
Even when you vote to leave EU, a Slashdot editor still has the idea to stick the EU flags on a story about your country.
Imagine if we'd had bureaucratic nonsense like that in 1940 when we were building Spitfires out of old saucepans & school railings and you couldn't get oranges. The beastly Germans would have ended up running the whole bloody continent!
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
GPS was developed and paid for by the American taxpayer in the form of the Pentagon.
It was made available to the people of the world by the supposedly evil president Reagan after the actually evil Soviet Union shot down a civilian airliner (KAL007) which strayed off course on an Alaska-to-Korea flight using the civilian navigation equipment of that era.
The fact that the USAF deployed the GPS system, and the fact that the American people via one of their presidents made it available to the world, does not suddenly mean that the people of the rest of the world are ENTITLED to it or that the damned UN should have ANY control over it or any other thing. In fact, the UN should not get any authority over anything until they can get their own "blue helmets" to not be the larges force of rapists on the African continent, or perhaps start with something simple, like getting all their diplomats to pay their parking tickets.
While I'm on the subject, I've never even heard anybody from most of the world thank the American people even ONCE for giving them access to the system. As an American taxpayer, I'm mighty tired of people from other countries always complaining about my country generally and me and those like me who pay the bills, while they live off of many of the things we provide.
Like your computers, tablets and cell phones? The American taxpayers funded most of that - the miniaturization of electronics was driven by the US Navy and the US Air Force who needed small, light-weight, reliable electronics for the guidance and control systems of their ICBMs and by NASA's need for these systems to be further refined and made more flexible for the Apollo moon missions - nobody forced this stuff to be made available to the world, it could have all been permanently highly classified as it would have been had the Soviets done it. It was the combination of America's market-based economics united by the nation's very open political system that made it so NASA published everything it was doing and the military allowed the civilian sector to go wild monetizing all the stuff.
Love your socialized medicine? Thank the American people, who are paying for all the R&D because YOUR socialized medical systems don't pay for any of that - most of your government-run systems blackmail the American drug companies by demanding they sell their meds at just above costs or else your governments will steal the IP and have your companies make the stuff - so all the overhead gets shifted to the American patients. You'd better hope the US never falls for "Medicare for all", because then NOBODY will be paying for all the R&D for new drugs.
Like not speaking German and living under the thumb of goosesteppers in black uniforms? When's the last time you looked in on an American cemetary in Europe and saw to it that the graves are being properly tended - the many thousands of young Americans buried there thought YOU were worth dying for.... try making their sacrifice worth it.
Amazingly, the Brits once ran much of the world and there wasn't an EU flag in sight. The sun, as they used to say, never set on the British Empire (there were Brits running things all around the globe).
Also amazingly, the Brits once stood alone against the might of NAZI Germany - and that was back in the day when German men had testicles.
but now, ooooooh, aaaaahhh, the UK cannot POSSIBLY exist without some unelected fascists in Brussles managing their every action. Apparently, Britain will sink beneath the waves if some pencil-pusher in Brussels does not tell them the maximum number of Watts their vacuum cleaners can draw, or exactly how curved a bannana must be to be legally sold.
For CENTURIES the only connection between the UK and maniland Europe was by boat, but now if somebody might need to go through a customs check before riding a fast train through the chunnel, THE WORLD MIGHT END!
It used to be a classic definition of "treason" to favor a foreign government over your own, and doubly so to take such a position while having a financial interest to do so, but over the past several decades this has become the accepted norm for the Elites of the UK and Europe. The British House of Lords is stuffed full of people who desperately want to be ruled by Brussels and who have financial interests on the continent. Even the Queen, who in a saner world would have ordered a few beheadings has caved-in and accepted an EU passport - the most-shameful thing I can imagine any Monarch doing.
Somebody should be investigating the personal finances of all the UK politicians who either openly opposed Brexit or who are trying to sabotage it, and of all the high-profile rich elites of the UK working against the independence that the UK fought for centuries to attain and preserve.
Oh, and while we're on the subject of the EU....
This faux-government fancies itself "The United States of Europe" but apparently does not want to play by the same rules. I eagerly await the following announcement from the EU member nations:
"We the formerly-independent nations of the EU do hereby surrender all of our UN seats and foreign embassies. From this date forward, we will have one seat in the UN for the entire EU and it will not be on the Security Council, since most of our member states were not on the winning side in WWII. We will also all be represented in any non-EU countries by EU embassies" - France, Germany, Italy, Spain, etc
I'm not holding my breath.
The USA is composed of 50 states. The USA has only one seat in the UN, not 50 - if the EU member states each retain UN seats then the US should have 50 seats - and they should ALL be on the Security Council since they were ALL on the winning side in WWII.
These predictions remind me of when U.S. states started implementing conceal carry gun laws. All the nay sayers were claiming that it was going to be Dodge City all over again. It wasn't.
"Brussels says a future Britain, as a "third world country" outside the EU, " ...