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[Oracle]

Has the govt got money to spend on space?

Yes!

"Cyprus has already issued licences to three satellite operators, one of whom is “very active” in the global market. “Until recently space was just used for research purposes. In the last few years this has changed dramatically,”

This is on top of the investment they made to the Large Hadron Collider (Neutrinos for Cyprus, yeeeaaa!) which finally produced some results

Cyprus has the tenth largest telecommunications network in the world and the 3rd largest shipping industry in Europe.

Really Milo, you are sounding more and more vacant and out of touch with reality...

... and since Britain has zero budget for space research this may be your only chance to be launched into space. So don't hold back old girl - go and volunteer for Cyprus

Who cares what the UK is upto, I live in Cyprus 'yeehaa' well maybe not everyday.

Seen as I am the younger and more wordly having many more open views on life in other countries as well as Cyprus. I think 'out of touch with reality' my little godzilla is firmly knocking at you door

Having to 'up' ones country so desperately as you do smacks of an island mentality that makes you the vacant one.

Other nationalities who travel more are well capable of finding faults with their own birth countries which in turn makes them well rounded and interesting individuals, ones that you can actually talk or argue with.

You my dear O are living on your own little planet on your 'jack jones' How is it there today hun?

Btw you know reading thru my numerous informative posts that I too have a love for Cyprus and a little of it belongs to me now Including Deeds, yeehaa. My place is like golddust, I have been offered a small fortune for it last week yeehaa, but I,d miss your exciting musings, so I,ll stay a while longer.

That of course will not stop me from nitpicking as its in my future interest to get Cyprus perfect!!!The investment you see.

Thankyou for listening, now go off to your weekly hand clapping sessions. Read a few more dictionaries while your at it your vocabulary is getting repetitive. Really enjoy our bouts. Speak soon....

Anything to add to the topic? You know, space flights? Or are you mentally locked in your own self-important, money-making small world?

Errr .....No nothing to add (yawn), I do live in reality dear O, and can,t help but notice that if anyone else posts different subjects you always highjack it back to your silly, old fashioned, constantly repeated, musings(yawn) so get used to it my dear O. Some of us have had enough of your jabberings

Its an Open Forum darling. I will post when I wish, as long as Lana allows. You have no money then O? If you do, maybe you could help with the space programme Or I could lend you a few euro,s

I see, still having nothing to add to the subject matter is not a deterrent.

Oh, and you'd better hang on to your euros since you have nothing else going for you

(Besides, I'm maxed out! )

[Oracle]

India has a space programme....

A country with intense poverty which sucks aid out of taxpayers around Europe...

It makes as much sense as Cyprus having one...

It makes sense, CG, to these countries (Cyprus, India) with thousands upon thousands of years of civilisation that they still retain the pioneering spirit which enabled them to survive through the eons.

Man cannot live by bread alone ...

Let them starve then... so long as India can have a Moon probe...?

Frankly I'd prefer Cyprus to concentrate on the basics first - like having enough water to drink and irrigate crops...

I'd guess if I was a starving Indian of a lower caste, living in filth without any source of clean drinking water I might be inclined to think the same...

There are two main ways man makes progress. To have very few children, one to three per couple, and then invest heavily in their upbringing. Thus ensuring some degree of comfort in food and water supplies. Then there is the other way, which is to have as many offspring as possible in the hope that they will survive by natural selection.

Of course, our ultimate aim is to have replenishable resources for all. Space is therefore a new resource which has the potential to solve many of today's world problems. I don't need to remind you that a lot of water-saving/recycling techniques were generated because of Space research.

[cyprusgrump]

India has a space programme....

A country with intense poverty which sucks aid out of taxpayers around Europe...

It makes as much sense as Cyprus having one...

It makes sense, CG, to these countries (Cyprus, India) with thousands upon thousands of years of civilisation that they still retain the pioneering spirit which enabled them to survive through the eons.

Man cannot live by bread alone ...

Let them starve then... so long as India can have a Moon probe...?

Frankly I'd prefer Cyprus to concentrate on the basics first - like having enough water to drink and irrigate crops...

I'd guess if I was a starving Indian of a lower caste, living in filth without any source of clean drinking water I might be inclined to think the same...

There are two main ways man makes progress. To have very few children, one to three per couple, and then invest heavily in their upbringing. Thus ensuring some degree of comfort in food and water supplies. Then there is the other way, which is to have as many offspring as possible in the hope that they will survive by natural selection.

Of course, our ultimate aim is to have replenishable resources for all. Space is therefore a new resource which has the potential to solve many of today's world problems. I don't need to remind you that a lot of water-saving/recycling techniques were generated because of Space research.

How many billions have we spent on space research...?

You don't think we could have worked out how to save water or recycle it without spending all those billions...?

And you don't think it a little unrealistic for India to be sending a probe to the Moon (where man landed in 1969) while their children - however many they have live in filth and squalor...?

[Gasman]

Oh well, if the Cyprus water shortage problems are going to be solved via space exploration - that's alright then.

Otherwise I'd think it a bit odd to spend so much on it when until recently and for a very long time until recently, the water supply was only switched on three times a week on account of the drought.

Perhaps the bog roll down the bog problem will also be solved via the money spent on space exploration?

I know what would impress the Tourists they depend on the most and it ain't space exploration.

Imagine if they built one of those whizzy Space Exploration Visitor Centres and the visitors had to chuck shitty bog roll into a bucket in there because they hadn't mastered that problem yet lol!

[cyprusgrump]

Oh well, if the Cyprus water shortage problems are going to be solved via space exploration - that's alright then.

Otherwise I'd think it a bit odd to spend so much on it when until recently and for a very long time until recently, the water supply was only switched on three times a week on account of the drought.

Perhaps the bog roll down the bog problem will also be solved via the money spent on space exploration?

I know what would impress the Tourists they depend on the most and it ain't space exploration.

Imagine if they built one of those whizzy Space Exploration Visitor Centres and the visitors had to chuck shitty bog roll into a bucket in there because they hadn't mastered that problem yet lol!

I agree... sort out the water supply... then sort out the problem of sewage disposal... then sort out public transportation... that would allow the island to flourish...

Then buy a big telescope.

[Gasman]

Smarten up a lot of the hotels and aparthotels too.