Permanently Bewildered16 Aug 2008 10:45 am
By Nelson
“What impact could an EU recession have?”
Wait for the pound to be 1:1 with the euro switch to the euro.
also governments remember you cant keep going up the ladder eventually you have to come down the slide and if your too high then your going to come down fast and hurt yourself.
I still cant see why we are still on earth the EU has a viable space economy why arnt we among the stars mining the asteroid fields, strip mining mars.
move to space its the only way.
andrew giggal, chesterfield
Excellent ideas Andrew.
Here, I drew you a picture of some miners going into space to do some spacemining.
44 Responses to “Among The Stars”
This has got to be a piss take. No two ways about it.
The complete lack of understanding of the global economy or currency exchange… I mean following his plan we should move to the Yen, ’cause, you know, you’d get 206 JPY to the pound, and that’s a bigger number so *has* to be worth more! Right?
Space mining? What? How is that viable. I mean how many billion Yen does it cost to get into space? I can’t remember the figures but something like 100 kilos more rocket fuel for every extra kilo you want to take up, and mining gear ain’t light.
He’s even called Giggal, I mean come on!
On a side note, does no one but Nelson and me get up on a Saturday morning? Or are you all out doing interesting things with your friends…
Nelson! Quick! There’s some imposter by the name of Matt Southall pretending to be you in the Guardian today! You couldn’t make it up!
He is correct. Badly expressed, but ultimately correct. Obviously not going to happen in the next couple of years, but it is where we have to aim. I am pretty sure that we will send machines. But the picture is very pretty.
I am still at fucking work on a saturday looking at teh internetz instead of doing any work not that there is out to do if I even felt like it
Lol - it is ‘owt to do. Saturday pedantry, makes a change from Saturday pederasty.
I stand corrected
I love the way he learnt everything he knows about economics from playing Snakes ‘n’ Ladders with his mum.
Glad I’m not the only liberal lefty envirofacist Guardian reader, Umlaut Ampersand. Don’t know who this Matt Southall is, though.
Is it me or does the crew look a bit like they were en route to a gay costume party (all dressed as the same member of the Village People, natch) and ended up being shot into space during a wildly improbable series of escalating dares?
What kind of job does a person who can’t spell “aren’t” do? Organ donor is the only option that springs to my mind.
His organs are probably rotted from Aldi cider and Gold Leaf. Much like my own.
For some reason I’m willing to give this ignoramus the benefit of the doubt and presume his ‘ ” key has been removed…
Arggh…it had to happen, didn’t it. Chesterfield. The curse has spread to my town…
Some terrible cunt I expect.
LIKE IN THE PICTURE.
no doubt nuliarbore will put a tax on dilithium crystals before the space miners have even finished space mining them
Space mining has already bin dun, just not on any great scale (the moon, Mars etc.). If you accept that solar energy is from space then we are already mining the photons from the Sun.
And any fool know that we need abundant helium3 to have a good chance of nuclear fusion energy.
I was hoping that middle paragraph was going to turn into Helter Skelter, only be sadly denied. By an outbreak of bollocks
I guess we’re going to get all those Guardian reading cunts here now using the word ‘cunt’ gratuitously like the cunts they are.
Right, am packed. How do I get to space? Will they have estate agents? I don’t actually have any mining experience - but I have a GCSE in Geology. Oh, and what currency shall I take? TELL ME!
Relax - I’m under section.
Apparently there’s a pretty favourable Martian Xyqrt/Pound exchange rate right now.
Bloody peado Earth creatures coming here taking all our minerals. Theyve messed up there own planet and now their doing the same to ours while our so-called government does nothing.
You couldnt make it up!!1!
Helter Skelter? Tell me! Tell me! Tell me the answer!
His “‘” key might have been removes, but what’s happened to his “e”?
Oh, right, he gobbled it all right before he posted this comment.
Why is the ship ‘HMSS’ instead of ‘HMS’? Are you trying to allude to the SS Nelson, trying to be subversive again?
Given that those blokes look like gay miners on a fantasy weekend, I don’t think fascism is a feasible system of governance for them.
Oh, and I forgot: up the miners!
By 2010 the only countries that will be able to put human beings (people) into space will be Russia and China. So it will be all Russian and Chinese space miners shipping our space-minerals to Moscow and Beijing then using them to build up their militaries and invade Poland. And what will Gordon Clown be doing about it? Handing out six-figure monthly dole cheques to millionaire illegal Chinese and Russian immigrantscum.
Only the BNP can realistically produce an independent English space-mining technology - and will carefully ensure that no immigrants can get their hands on our spacemines. Then the pound will be worth 500 Euro each and we’ll be able to buy bigger bombs.
i imagine the ss means ’space ship’…
SS = SQUIRREL SNATCH
i prefer charlie brooker
Considering how intellectual our Andrew is, he probably thinks we should go into space and mine for coal or some such.
Mind you, I think the “Giggal” does make it a likely wind-up.
we could have ladders going up to the asteroid fields from earth and slides coming back down. quick ones for coal and slow ones for commuting miners (because you don’t want to come down to fast and hurt yourself).
Relax, I’m an earthling.
if you like mars so much why dont you go live there
That is a new and brilliant form of insanity. I, for one, welcome this new form of insanity and wish to devote large sums of taxpayer money to teaching these skills of the insane to our children so they too can imagine what it would be like to be insane enough to think that space mining exists.
Go go space miner rocket! To the stars and further beyond!
Neko, not all of us work in jobs where being a pedantic prick is part of the job spec, and can get away with a little sloppy spelling on a blog comments section.
Spelling is important hear.
“not all of us work in jobs where being a pedantic prick is part of the job”
But, thanfully, some of us do.
Obviously that should have been “thankfully”.
Andrew is right though. We’ve fucked up this planet. Now it’s time to go and fuck up the rest of the universe. There are no limits to the damage we can cause if we set our minds to it.
Well, it seems that on the subject of space exploration and the possibilites of actually gaining materials for use by humanity from our solar system, then the SYB’ers give HYS’ers a run for their money on ignorance and ill-formed opinion. I will get my coat. You lot can continue to view space as the place where “little green men” live.
That wasn’t a twat-o-tron special was it?
“Not all of us work in jobs where having a reading age of more than seven is part of the job…”
the SYB’ers give HYS’ers a run for their money on ignorance and ill-formed opinion
You heard it here first, folks: Every comment on this blog is entirely genuine and without guile, sarcasm or irony. On which grounds I can honestly say that “Space Mining” is really really really not a humourless finch’s funfunnel.
No!
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Well where do the little green men live then? TELL ME!!!!!