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Originally posted by sasguru View PostWrong - they've done it successfully for many years now.
Good luck to them they're giving it a bloody good go.
Meanwhile we decline into a nation of indebted bull-tulipters.
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Originally posted by zeitghostQuite.
It does raise the question of aid to India though.
Plus we did change the region from one of the richest in the world to one of the poorest when we left
"An estimate by Angus Maddison, formerly of Groningen University, reveals that India's share of the world income went from 24.4% in 1700, comparable to Europe's share of 23.3%, to a low of 3.8% in 1952"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_India
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Originally posted by Moscow Mule View PostSince Bob has had a hand in this, I expect some major element to have been overlooked. Therefore:
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Wrong - they've done it successfully for many years now.
Good luck to them they're giving it a bloody good go.
Meanwhile we decline into a nation of indebted bull-tulipters.
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Originally posted by zeitghostYes.
That is really rather telling, isn't it?
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Atleast Bobs trying it. We've outsouced to americans in 70's for cost reasons. If you aint doing it, you aint good in it.
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Originally posted by zeitghostNonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
Cancelled by Grocer Heath in his heyday, brief though it might have been.
Prospero is still up there.Prior to the cancellation of Black Arrow, NASA had offered to launch British payloads for free; however this offer was withdrawn following the decision to cancel Black Arrow.
As of 2009, the United Kingdom is the only country to have successfully developed and then abandoned a satellite launch capability.
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Originally posted by zeitghost View Post
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7198546.stm
Only fair.
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Originally posted by zeitghostCheapest satellite launch of all time, apparently.
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Originally posted by zeitghostNonsense.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Arrow
Cancelled by Grocer Heath in his heyday, brief though it might have been.
Prospero is still up there.
But they painted it white and red - FAIL
Anyway. That was when we were a proper World Power.
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"...help forecast the weather and identify potential fishing zones. "
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