Comments on: And Yet It Moves http://www.chrispalmer.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chrispalmer.org%2F2007%2F11%2F30%2Fand-yet-it-moves%2F%23comment-&seed_title=And+Yet+It+Moves A Strong Conservative Voice Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:13:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Florian Bay http://www.chrispalmer.org/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.chrispalmer.org%2F2007%2F11%2F30%2Fand-yet-it-moves%2F%23comment-36&seed_title=And+Yet+It+Moves/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Florian Bay Thu, 13 Dec 2007 13:19:16 +0000 http://www.chrispalmer.org/2007/11/30/and-yet-it-moves/#comment-36 The EU Space Program summarize the uselessness of EU bureaucrats all by itself. Indeed a field were Europe had a reasonnable chance of scoring world premieres, we instead have am ambitionless space program controlled by bureaucrats. Yet they will all claim that ESA is 'the future' when at the same time, China, India and even Japan are spending more money on space and are able to send a man in space by themselves. Galileo could have been achieved years ago with a Franco-British cooperation akin to the one made for Concorde or the Jaguar planes, but instead we decided to give it some European coating and we are now paying the price of this mistake. The EU Space Program summarize the uselessness of EU bureaucrats all by itself. Indeed a field were Europe had a reasonnable chance of scoring world premieres, we instead have am ambitionless space program controlled by bureaucrats. Yet they will all claim that ESA is ‘the future’ when at the same time, China, India and even Japan are spending more money on space and are able to send a man in space by themselves.

Galileo could have been achieved years ago with a Franco-British cooperation akin to the one made for Concorde or the Jaguar planes, but instead we decided to give it some European coating and we are now paying the price of this mistake.

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