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The lure of commercial riches in space is spurring a variety of plans to help launch all the components necessary for a fully functioning orbital economy.
The latest to enter this private-sector race is the U.K., which announced Monday that it plans to construct the nation's first commercial vertical launch spaceport in northern Scotland. Lockheed Martin Corp. was awarded $31 million for two U.K. projects: Establishing vertical launch operations in Sutherland and a development program slated for Reading to deploy a new "delivery vehicle" to deploy as many as six small satellites.
Is it the second coming of the Space Race?
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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(Score: 4, Informative) by turgid on Wednesday July 18 2018, @06:58AM (2 children)
Another piece in the whole alt-wrong/far-wrong puzzle [theguardian.com] is revealed. Brexit must be cancelled now, surely?
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 18 2018, @07:15PM (1 child)
I think Brexit is a huge mistake, too... but let's be fair here. It appears they are saying that two groups which were openly campaigning to leave the EU were working together, and that one of the campaign exceeded spending limits by about 7% (spending about £7,500,000, rather than the £7,000,000 limit).
Both of these are bad, and should be punished, but I personally think they are relatively modest infractions. Admittedly that is a personal judgement call, but I view this as being substantially less worrisome than a foreign government or criminal organization laundering money or hacking infrastructure to affect the vote.
Irrespective of everything else, though... (I am not a lawyer, but my interpretation is that) technically the vote was non-binding and thus not directly related to act of the UK invoking Article 50. Therefore, the invocation was constitutional, even if it had been done under misinformation and even if the referendum had been unconstitutional. Therefore, this is not a loophole to un-invoke Brexit through legalistic machinations.
(Score: 2) by turgid on Wednesday July 18 2018, @09:08PM
Correct. But you must surely appreciate that it is running out of legs upon which to stand.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].