Am I the only one old enough to remember the Space 1999 plot?
Awesome news. The UK needs some industry other than finance and collaborative high technology projects like this are something we excel at.
Just a quick reminder: money invested in projects like this doesn’t get sent to the moon, it goes into the pockets of UK scientists and engineers who then spend it on stuff in the UK. It is estimated that every $1 invested in the Apollo program returned $8 to the US economy. This is exactly the kind of project that we should be investing in.
Rolls Royce is such a good asset that I’m surprised the government haven’t tried to flog it off to a Chinese firm for 50p yet
£2.9m Moon base Nuclear power deal. I mean, that sounds like fuck all. Not saying it is not a good idea but just doesn’t say aspirational. Same as the UK space port plan. I think they allotted £250m which seemed fuck all at the time. I mean it seems to be a basically an aircraft hanger.
You know, if you are going to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.
Ah yes the.. “Moon Base”.. Uh huh. Guess we need to get really creative with our corruption for the newer generation with all the “humanity amongst the stars” fiction we consume. £2.9 million pounds must go a looooooong way in both Space Exploration, Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Engineering research… Sounds like the baseline fee for just consulting if we can erect a a few walls of plywood up there.
£2.9 million is really not that many Rolls-Royce salaries for a long time at all. That can’t be more than a small research team and associated resources for a year or so, maybe less?
Although I know nothing of the space industry – is it normally cheap?
£3m? The price of a large London house?
I’m sure China is quaking in its boots.
I’m no lunar nuclear baseologist but isn’t £2.9 less than a drop in the ocean of a realistic cost for a project like this?
Call me daft but why can’t they just use solar power on the moon?
Where did Rolls Royce come from?
*The dark side of the moon!!!*
RR can make a nuclear power plant for the moon for £2.9m? Whoever costed that job wants firing.
I’m all for funding research like this, but how about also funding more nuclear power in the UK to help with rising energy costs and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and weather dependant production like wind?
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Am I the only one old enough to remember the Space 1999 plot?
Awesome news. The UK needs some industry other than finance and collaborative high technology projects like this are something we excel at.
Just a quick reminder: money invested in projects like this doesn’t get sent to the moon, it goes into the pockets of UK scientists and engineers who then spend it on stuff in the UK. It is estimated that every $1 invested in the Apollo program returned $8 to the US economy. This is exactly the kind of project that we should be investing in.
Rolls Royce is such a good asset that I’m surprised the government haven’t tried to flog it off to a Chinese firm for 50p yet
£2.9m Moon base Nuclear power deal. I mean, that sounds like fuck all. Not saying it is not a good idea but just doesn’t say aspirational. Same as the UK space port plan. I think they allotted £250m which seemed fuck all at the time. I mean it seems to be a basically an aircraft hanger.
You know, if you are going to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.
Ah yes the.. “Moon Base”.. Uh huh. Guess we need to get really creative with our corruption for the newer generation with all the “humanity amongst the stars” fiction we consume. £2.9 million pounds must go a looooooong way in both Space Exploration, Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Engineering research… Sounds like the baseline fee for just consulting if we can erect a a few walls of plywood up there.
£2.9 million is really not that many Rolls-Royce salaries for a long time at all. That can’t be more than a small research team and associated resources for a year or so, maybe less?
Although I know nothing of the space industry – is it normally cheap?
£3m? The price of a large London house?
I’m sure China is quaking in its boots.
I’m no lunar nuclear baseologist but isn’t £2.9 less than a drop in the ocean of a realistic cost for a project like this?
Call me daft but why can’t they just use solar power on the moon?
Where did Rolls Royce come from?
*The dark side of the moon!!!*
RR can make a nuclear power plant for the moon for £2.9m? Whoever costed that job wants firing.
I’m all for funding research like this, but how about also funding more nuclear power in the UK to help with rising energy costs and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and weather dependant production like wind?
[The Conservative front bench are planning on escaping to the one place that hasn’t been corrupted by wokeism. **SPACE!!**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM)
Hopefully an indication they will actually go with RR for the mini nuclear reactor tender
UK can’t even get a satellite into LE orbit. How they going to get a nuclear reactor to the Moon?