Largest windows in space!
Largest windows in space!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57829261
This is a bit Cold War.
The cyber threats from Russia and China are very war and we've gone well past the point of it being cold.
South Africa looks pretty grim at the moment even for them.
"South Africa Zuma riots: Looting and unrest leaves 72 dead - BBC News" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-57818215.amp
It's like a pre-season race war. The Indians have declared for the whites, and the Muslims are feeling their way into the side.
Are we looking at a potential failed state scenario?
The whole world is going to kick off once Covid fucks off. Can't wait to beat Waff to death with one of Boydy's kneecaps.
If we lose the Bledisloe again I'd be up for adding New Zealand to our list of prison Islands.
Hilarious.
GBNEWS GIVING IN TO THE WOKE MOB ON SOCIAL MEDIA TRYING TO DO CANCEL CULTURE
Party's over Zulus.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-57855650
Forget Mert. What the fuck are these 'scheduling conflicts' that are better than space?
Having sex with children on an Island?
I thought it might be him. Or they're taking that lad to link up with him.
Or, they realized the anonymous bidder was Branson trying to troll them.
We are such a charming country at the moment.
https://www.sbs.com.au/news/australi...uation-flightsSource: ADF
Australia won’t be part of a US evacuation plan for Afghan staff in fear of persecution from the resurgent Taliban, despite calls from former senior diplomats and military figures.
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One of them will crash eventually and it will be brilliant.
Hopefully it's Elon Musks, with him onboard.
The thing about Elon Musk is his company actually builds space shit. He could go to space tomorrow and probably come back. Actual space. Not high earth orbit.
The thing about Elon Musk is that he's such a virgin that it doesn't matter that he's (allegedly) had sex. He's a perma-virgin.
Doesn't his company's space shit blow up fairly often?
Is it just me or is this 'space race' the most boring, yet eccentric thing our richest billionaires could have chosen to do?
If it's a gateway to landing on Mars then fine, but if it isn't I don't care that any of them get to see space.
What happens if you break the law in space?
These floods in Germany sound mental. Over a thousand missing.
No wonder we were trying to bomb the dams there in the 40s, sounds like a total death zone.
The newer ones have some failures but the more established rockets are going up and down very frequently (and are reusable). They've been doing ISS missions for a while now.
I think it's a great cause - the point is currently humans are a single-planet species. If we can start colonising other parts of the solar system then it de-risks our existence somewhat, plus there would be opportunities for mining etc. They're targeting an unplanned mission in a couple of years time: https://www.spacex.com/human-spaceflight/mars/
The distances involved in space make any practical use of it (beyond just knowing things) a non-starter.
Quite, if we hadn't done this (and more) 60 years ago I'd be getting the bunting out big time, but we have, so what's the point? The idea that it may lead to other things is great, but if it was any more than a vanity project they'd be starting with the other things.
Plagues, flooding and pestilence (there are rats in my garden). The end does appear to be nigh.
Get a cat, Yev.
And not just for the rats; it’ll do you good.
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I did toy with the idea, but went for a pest man instead. I'm putting this down as another victory for COVID, nature has been allowed to flourish unchecked (or my neighbour's landlord has left too much crap in their garden, which has created a perfect environment for them to flourish, one of the two).
I'm all for space stuff liable to have engineering applications here (the Space Race largely being a ballistic missile developnent cover story), but stuff like mining planets and that... What could be valuable enough on these planets to make that economically viable? Similarly, colonisation. The distances involved would put time lags of centuries on the expeditions. They could all fail and nobody would ever know.
As big a wanker/fraud as Musk is, Space X is at least doing vaguely interesting things, they're closer to making re-useable spacecraft than anyone before. These other twats are just pushing themselves into a low orbit with little rockets which we've been able to do for half a century at this point.
From reading the link above it seems like the aim is to live on Mars. Quite why I'm not sure - it's shit.
It ain't the kind of place to raise your kids - in fact, it's cold as hell, and there's no one there to raise them if you did.
Might be some crude oil though so let's go for it.
Zero viewers
Catastrophic climate change is something to look forward to once we clear covid.
I'm constantly amazed that Andrew Neill left the BBC for that shitshow. I assume he must be being paid an absolute fortune.
It's not about the money mate, it's about FIGHTING FOR FREE SPEECH as long as you only have the opinions they approve of, of course.
It's all very bizarre and seemingly driven by the misguided belief among parts of the British right that because they and their largely quite stupid and overpaid friends think a certain way, there is a GREAT BRITISH PUBLIC waiting to lap up the same. Actually the public just wants to hang the blacks and kick out the paedos, or maybe the other way round, I forget, which is a very different brand of shite from the GB News mind-twisting 'anti-woke' wank, a world in which everyone has more hair gel than soap.
The same bullshit tunnel vision has crept into the Spectator's pages in the last few years, which is a shame as it used to be a decent read.
There is a market for it because people really like Piers Morgan and that is basically his entire gimmick. The problem the channel has is that it's something like channel who knows, and nobody actually watches news channels. They have them on, but if you're just having them on as background activity you might as well just put the BBC one on because at least its colour scheme is easy on the eye.
Yes. I think another version of what I'm trying to say is most people have no interest in 'news' in itself, in terms of wanting to seek it out, whereas for Andrew Neil et al there is nothing in their life but news and its propagation. They must have done market research and enough people said 'Yeah the BBC has a liberal bias' for them to kid themselves into thinking this was a good idea.
It's a bit like when George Osborne took over the Standard and starting putting Westminster stories on every front page, when in fact people want to read about basically anything but that.
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If there were a news channel that was just BBC News, with a Goggle Box style audience shaking their heads at everything, it would get top ratings.
There does seem to be a lot of mong money on the right (or at least desperate money that finds its way into any old shit like Lawrence Fox or that aborted Turning Point franchise). They would be better off boosting think tanks to help them astroturf things as effectively as Big Quaker does.
My main problem with news channels is they have the same 30 minute segment effectively on cycle. Unless actual NEWS happens. Very little original programming that really, really needs to fill the majority of the day.
Does the BBC even have a liberal bias? Aren't all the execs ex Tory donors which is why Farage was on plugging Leave every week for half a decade before it happened?
Yeah but sometimes they've allowed comedians to call the government corrupt bigots which is treaaonously accurate so the BBC are clearly part of the wokerati.
A great example of why the BBC has a liberal bias is that they spent all those years having Farage (notably not a Tory) on as a lone comedy token voice for what was (as it turned out) in fact a majority view, while the rest of the participants on said programmes spent the time circle-jerking for the north London view of life.
He's also great TV, something often overlooked.
Remember when that joinery programme got scrapped after one episode aired cos they’d inadvertently cast a massive racist as a contestant? He was identified as such by his white supremacist tattoos.
Well Love Island seem to have done the same. He was originally criticised for dropping the N word on Instagram but bow it’s been spotted that he has 13 and 28 tattooed on his hands. He claims they’re his and his mums lucky numbers, but they’ve also been adopted by neo nazi skinheads so, yeah, boot him off.
From Leigh as well. Dirty cunt.
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