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Is it me, or is the UK government launching an unusually large number of boondoggles lately? Nuclear reactors on the moon. Attempts to become a major player in
by kjellsbells 4y ago
Is it me, or is the UK government launching an unusually large number of boondoggles lately? Nuclear reactors on the moon. Attempts to become a major player in battery technology. It feels to my jaundiced eye like the UK is trying just a little too hard to remind the world that they still matter.
Some Brexit insecurity might explain this, perhaps, but that was over five years ago.
- switch007 4y agoLocal elections in May and general election (likely) next year. And we’ve just had the Budget I think there’s plenty of Brexit insecurity still lol The Tory party has a trashed reputation currently so they’re trying to reclaim some ground
- rozal 4y agoUSA has secretly gotten ahead of the quantum race. Part of their disclosure plan is it work with allies on multiple needs. With fusion on the horizon, we will need batteries. With electromagnetic craft, moon trips will be easy.
- whatshisface 4y agoSecretly? QC companies have been shouting every tiny bit of progress from the rooftops, usually before it gets made.
- rozal 4y agoThat’s because the military already had it. They are just now getting bits and pieces.
- panick21_ 4y agoFusion isn't on the horizon. And batteries are needed for EVs and Solar/Wind. And electromagnetic craft are a terrible way to get to the moon.
- rozal 4y agoWhy is it terrible? Using microwave emitters in a superconductive hull, and with enough energy, can engineer the pulling mechanics of the superforce. This is all stuff the military has explored
- AYBABTME 4y agoTheir economy is in decline, they need to do something to change the trajectory.
- whatshisface 4y ago"Something must be done. This is something. Therefore, it must be done." - Yes, Minister.
- deepsun 4y agoUSSR economy was in decline. So they built Buran (copycat of Space Shuttle), and Tu-144 (copycat of Concorde). Both are extremely costly, and that helped USSR to fall sooner.
- Prbeek 4y agoThey tried launching satellites two months ago in their first ever rocket mission and it failed. Something pretty routine for Russia, US and China and even heavily sanctioned Iran.
- panick21_ 4y agoNo they didn't. It simply a US company that flew a plane out of the US. The failure had nothing to do with the UK.
- kaanski 4y agoAs we all know doing something new requires immediate success or it isn’t worth pursuing.
- cwsx 4y agoWhen you fall off a horse, do you get back on? Personally I head straight home and refuse to even look at a horse ever again.
- blitzar 4y agoThis is the usual amount - they just dont normally force the journalists to write about every grant that gets handed out.