What Is Happening To Our Country?

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2 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

They have revolutionised parts of it - NASA's own words.

Anyway, General Election potentially incoming if the news is to be believed

If you're talking revolutionary tech, that's different to revolutionising space for travel, which they haven't revolutionised. 

Edited Sunday at 12:26 by egg

[tdmickey3]

6 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

You clearly have no idea what you’re talking about

 

The punishment for failure in most public organisations is promotion 

Thick as mince and morals that make hitler seem like mother teresa.

A absolute waste of air

[tdmickey3]

6 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

Youre a cretin and you should ask for a refund on your degree

Irony at its best

[whelk]

8 hours ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Anyway, General Election potentially incoming if the news is to be believed

Don’t listen to MSM bollocks, I’d rely on someone on X has the inside track

[Sir Ralph]

18 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Irony at its best

You must have noticed other people using the word 'irony' and looked it up in the big book called the 'Dictionary' and now you are using it in real messages to people. Go Mickey! 🤣

Edited yesterday at 08:29 by Sir Ralph

[tdmickey3]

Just now, Sir Ralph said:

Very good Mickey. You must have noticed other people using the word 'irony' and looked it up in the big book called the 'Dictionary' and now you are using it in real messages to people. Someone might be moving out of the 'Could be doing better' category at school, if you keep this up. Go Mickey!

Top humour well done 🙄

Now just try to post less garbage and people wont ridicule you so much

[Sir Ralph]

On 19/09/2026 at 14:28, Sir Ralph said:

Answers please or are you stuck?

You say I’m lying shall I pull out the unanswered questions so we can see who is lying?

Two more questions - these should be easy. Cmon you can do it

@JohnnyShearer2.0 (aka 'the Flake') - have you managed to come up with the responses to the at least 5 questions you havent been able to answer? As you will see I answered all of yours on the basis you would respond but its feeling very much like you are unable to. I appreciate that your in a sticky situation on some of the responses but sometimes you can just agree you might not be absolutely correct. In life generally, you will gain more credibility that way rather than ignoring questions.

Edited yesterday at 08:36 by Sir Ralph

[Osvaldorama]

On 20/09/2026 at 11:19, egg said:

He said they had "revolutionised space travel". They've done no such thing. When spave travel becomes safe and a regular thing beyond a select few, I'd agree it's been revolutionised, but until then, let's keep some perspective. 

This is what makes me laugh. You guys throw insults at me and call me thick etc when you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about 😂

SpaceX has fundamentally altered the paradigm of the space industry.

Before their arrival, launching payloads into orbit was characterised by expendable, multi-billion-dollar government contractors and stagnant innovation.
Today, space flight has been revolutionised by rapid reusability, high launch cadence, and commercial scale.

They’ve reduced the cost of delivering mass to orbit by 80-90%. 
 

But you guys have such high time preference that you struggle to grasp how important their work has been. 
 

[Sir Ralph]

4 hours ago, tdmickey3 said:

Top humour well done 🙄

Now just try to post less garbage and people wont ridicule you so much

A few lefties attempting to 'ridicule' me is fine. You will see from my posts over the weekend, some of them can engage properly, others struggle to justify their positions. 'Ridicule' is more evidence of your increasingly expansive vocabulary. The teachers will be moving you up to the 'green' books soon.🤣

Edited 21 hours ago by Sir Ralph

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30 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

This is what makes me laugh. You guys throw insults at me and call me thick etc when you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about 😂

SpaceX has fundamentally altered the paradigm of the space industry.

Before their arrival, launching payloads into orbit was characterised by expendable, multi-billion-dollar government contractors and stagnant innovation.
Today, space flight has been revolutionised by rapid reusability, high launch cadence, and commercial scale.

They’ve reduced the cost of delivering mass to orbit by 80-90%. 
 

But you guys have such high time preference that you struggle to grasp how important their work has been. 
 

All very lovely, but show me where space travel, as an industry, has been "revolutionised". I've been clear that technical advances are a different thing, and sure there's been achievements in that respect, but space travel has not been opened up, let alone "revolutionised", to suggest it has been is hyperbole. 

[tdmickey3]

46 minutes ago, Sir Ralph said:

A few lefties attempting to 'ridicule' me is fine. You will see from my posts over the weekend, some of them can engage properly, others struggle to justify their positions. 'Ridicule' is more evidence of your increasingly expansive vocabulary. The teachers will be moving you up to the 'green' books soon.🤣

Its a futile exercise trying to engage with you hence I rarely bother and but others do and put you in your place over and over, despite the hilarious responses to them.... no one needs to justify themselves to the likes of you.

Do you still hold your despicable view about child welfare?

[Sir Ralph]

9 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Its a futile exercise trying to engage with you hence I rarely bother and but others do and put you in your place over and over, despite the hilarious responses to them.... no one needs to justify themselves to the likes of you.

Do you still hold your despicable view about child welfare?

“Futile” and “despicable”, I’ll have to nickname you “The Thesaurus” or  “Susie Dent” instead!

I still hold my views on the two child welfare cap, yes. 

Edited 20 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[tdmickey3]

14 minutes ago, Sir Ralph said:

“Futile” and “despicable”, I’ll have to nickname you “The Thesaurus”!

I still hold my views on the two child welfare cap, yes.

Still vile as suspected

Its just the humour that is poor, very similar to your understanding of the things you try to discuss on here... and your nickname is "vile"

Edited 20 hours ago by tdmickey3

[iansums]

13 minutes ago, tdmickey3 said:

Still vile as suspected

Its just the humour that is poor, very similar to your understanding of the things you try to discuss on here... and your nickname is "vile"

Don't worry Ralph, I'm vile too............and so is my wife.

[Sir Ralph]

21 minutes ago, iansums said:

Don't worry Ralph, I'm vile too............and so is my wife.

For people whom I truly respect, like Susie D, to say these things about me really cuts deep. Tell your wife to stay strong. I just hope Susie doesn’t unleash more of his new found vocabulary on us all. Terrifying.
 

He has come a long way from the days when he posted pictures of poos and bums when referring to other posters. I would like to think you and I were, and are, part of his ongoing journey towards intellectual mediocrity 🤣

Edited 20 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[Weston Super Saint]

3 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

This is what makes me laugh. You guys throw insults at me and call me thick etc
 

And yet, you are one of the very few people on the planet who has reached their 'full' potential  

[badgerx16]

29 minutes ago, Weston Super Saint said:

And yet, you are one of the very few people on the planet who has reached their 'full' potential  

Low voltage, probably cracked cell.

[Gloucester Saint]

Talking of voltage, I’m not usually pro-death penalty nor do I think like this often but I would pull the switch on this cunt and think nothing of it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6d79pzny7gjo

I don’t know if he’s the most evil bloke in the prison/loony bin system today but he’d have to be in the top dozen at least. Waste of oxygen.

[Gloucester Saint]

A few seats empty at the Riverside https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckjrxpz03w8no

[iansums]

22 minutes ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Talking of voltage, I’m not usually pro-death penalty nor do I think like this often but I would pull the switch on this cunt and think nothing of it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6d79pzny7gjo

I don’t know if he’s the most evil bloke in the prison/loony bin system today but he’d have to be in the top dozen at least. Waste of oxygen.

Absolutely. How much will it cost the taxpayer to keep him in prison for the rest of his life?

[bpsaint]

38 minutes ago, iansums said:

Absolutely. How much will it cost the taxpayer to keep him in prison for the rest of his life?

£270,000k a year to keep someone in Broadmoor apparently. So at least £6.7 mill based on a life sentence of 25 years, although he’ll never be released and at only 20 years old could be inside for another 50 +.

Just hang him and throw him out with the rubbish, not a single fuck will be given by anyone.

Edited 13 hours ago by bpsaint

[badgerx16]

1 hour ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Talking of voltage, I’m not usually pro-death penalty nor do I think like this often but I would pull the switch on this cunt and think nothing of it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6d79pzny7gjo

I don’t know if he’s the most evil bloke in the prison/loony bin system today but he’d have to be in the top dozen at least. Waste of oxygen.

 

47 minutes ago, iansums said:

Absolutely. How much will it cost the taxpayer to keep him in prison for the rest of his life?

 

16 minutes ago, bpsaint said:

£270,000k a year to keep someone in Broadmoor apparently. So at least £6.7 mill based on a life sentence of 25 years, although he’ll never be released and at only 20 years old could be inside for another 50 +.

Just hang him and throw him out with the rubbish, not a single fuck will be given by anyone.

Revive the oubliette ?

[Farmer Saint]

He won't last long enough to rack up much of a bill...

[Sir Ralph]

1 hour ago, bpsaint said:

£270,000k a year to keep someone in Broadmoor apparently. So at least £6.7 mill based on a life sentence of 25 years, although he’ll never be released and at only 20 years old could be inside for another 50 +.

Just hang him and throw him out with the rubbish, not a single fuck will be given by anyone.

That could annually employ 5 teachers instead and educate 150 kids per year

Edited 12 hours ago by Sir Ralph

[rallyboy]

My plan would be the first time you do anything like that you're restricted to cold food and drinks, no cutlery.

Every time you use something as a weapon it's withdrawn, pretty soon you're eating dry bread off a table bolted to the floor, drinking water out of a paper cup - and it's your choice.

Then again I am a woke lefty.

[Osvaldorama]

17 hours ago, egg said:

All very lovely, but show me where space travel, as an industry, has been "revolutionised". I've been clear that technical advances are a different thing, and sure there's been achievements in that respect, but space travel has not been opened up, let alone "revolutionised", to suggest it has been is hyperbole. 

If you understood what exponential growth looked like, then you’d understand why an 80-90% drop in mass capacity is absolutely revolutionary. (Especially after decades of stagnation in the field). 
 

Do you think that designing new rocket engines & space craft is simple?

 

[egg]

40 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

If you understood what exponential growth looked like, then you’d understand why an 80-90% drop in mass capacity is absolutely revolutionary. (Especially after decades of stagnation in the field). 
 

Do you think that designing new rocket engines & space craft is simple?

 

We'll agree to differ...your question confirms that you're focusing on the tech developments (which I've acknowledged) not the "revolutionised space travel" point.

When space travel becomes widely available, it's been revolutionised. Until then, tech is progressing, and a future revolution becomes a possibility. 

Concorde revolutionised transatlantic travel, and transported thousands of punters. Taking a select few into low orbit space, is a million miles from a revolution. 

I'll leave it here as this nothing to do with the thread, ie this country. 

[egg]

Back to earth... borrowing up a fifth year on year. Coupled with higher borrowing costs, it's not ideal. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c68049m18435o

 

[Gloucester Saint]

11 minutes ago, egg said:

Back to earth... borrowing up a fifth year on year. Coupled with higher borrowing costs, it's not ideal. 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c68049m18435o

 

Only way it’ll improve is the American electorate pulling their finger out in November and the GOP losing one or both Houses. That’ll curtail Kushner and the Mad Bens because Trump will be too busy fighting impeachment/asset stripping domestically. 

[Holmes_and_Watson]

1 hour ago, Osvaldorama said:

If you understood what exponential growth looked like, then you’d understand why an 80-90% drop in mass capacity is absolutely revolutionary. (Especially after decades of stagnation in the field). 
 

Do you think that designing new rocket engines & space craft is simple?

 

It's not rocket science.

Oh. wait...

[Osvaldorama]

1 hour ago, egg said:

We'll agree to differ...your question confirms that you're focusing on the tech developments (which I've acknowledged) not the "revolutionised space travel" point.

When space travel becomes widely available, it's been revolutionised. Until then, tech is progressing, and a future revolution becomes a possibility. 

Concorde revolutionised transatlantic travel, and transported thousands of punters. Taking a select few into low orbit space, is a million miles from a revolution. 

I'll leave it here as this nothing to do with the thread, ie this country. 

So you’ll only accept revolutionary improvements in technology if they fall into a particular observational window of your choosing and ignore any you don’t deem as important? 
 

 Makes sense 😂 This explains quite a lot actually 

Edited 1 hour ago by Osvaldorama

[egg]

4 minutes ago, Osvaldorama said:

So you’ll only accept revolutionary improvements in technology if they fall into a particular observational window of your choosing and ignore any you don’t deem as important? 
 

 Makes sense 😂 This explains quite a lot actually 

Sigh.

You're hard of reading 

I have acknowledged the tech advances. What I have disputed is the suggestion that they've revolutionised space travel, and that's because they haven't. Yet.

Edited 1 hour ago by egg

[AlexLaw76]

Concorde didn't revolutionise anything, Just got people from A to B a bit quicker...

[egg]

8 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Concorde didn't revolutionise anything, Just got people from A to B a bit quicker...

I bet to differ...but feel free to begin a science/engineering/tech thread if a debate about it excites you.