£5m? That should be enough to pay for the meetings, lunches and paperworks. To have something useful produced, not that sure.
Since the EU won't share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration
The UK Space Agency has opened a new lunch fund designed to foster "international space collaborations." Some £5m of taxpayers' cash is available for the project, which the agency hopes will support UK outfits seeking to buddy up with some of the world's major space players, such as the US, Japan, and France. The agency …
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Thursday 1st October 2020 16:12 GMT Flocke Kroes
Re: £5M
Enough to send a politician to New Zealand, put him in a space suit and launch him into sun synchronous orbit. The return journey would take a few hundred years but there would be a free cremation bundled with the service.
I used to think voting on a politician to send into orbit would motivate them all to act in the country's best interests. Now I think it would result all of them blaming each other for their own mistakes.
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Friday 2nd October 2020 06:32 GMT Potemkine!
Re: £5M
I would tend to agree with your remarks, but because we are the ones who elect them and put them in place, we collectively deserve the politicians we get.
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Friday 2nd October 2020 07:59 GMT Fruit and Nutcase
Re: £5 million?
All the Space and Science sector have to do is to come up with proposals with a tenuous link to tacking Covid-19, and for good measure add in some AI/ML into the mix, then finally bring in a Tory MP or a mate/relative of you know who in as an advisor. Then sit back and see the contracts of the "free money" type come rolling in without any scrutiny under Covid-19 emergency regulators.
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Thursday 1st October 2020 17:00 GMT amanfromMars 1
An Application for Smashing Applications
The UK Space Agency is awash in a highly competitive and fabulously aggressive field that generates funding.
Outed there, in the following enthusiastic text, be an early bird pioneer .... and virtual sputnik in the works of autocratic western technocracies ..... utilising chronically poor performing satellites of universal administration for Global Operating Devices.
If you're dealing in Spaces, first come first, servered and serviced by Immaculately Resourced Assets of a Universal Vital Force for an Almighty Overwhelming Lead Delivered Practically Immediately and Virtually Instantly. And as such does it constitutes a Double Whammy of Incredibly Outrageous Great Fortune, which is most definitely something to be celebrated and invested in. :-) I Kid U Not.
Dr Maj, meanwhile, reminded entrants to brush up on their presentation skills. “Visualise what you want to present, especially if it’s complex,” he said. “[You must have] data. I’m waiting for a concept, and I want to be able to see it.” ...... https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/huawei_appsup/
What cost for all here reported online, already done and up and running free to air and prepared for sharing/trafficking? ..... and succinctly summed up in the quite short sentence displayed with the following few words released with ideas to engage with and present ....
A Novel See in/for a Vast Expanding Picture Program Engaging Live Operational Virtual Environments Presenting a New System of Universal Command and Control, aided and abetted by simple direct messages like these .... which are certainly surely addressed to Dr Maj, with it being clearly enough posted now from here?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
