Jodrell Bank

[capella (Steve)]

As Britain accelerates towards third world status...... Jodrell Bank to close?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3492504.ece

Steve.

[skwinty (Steve)]

Hi Steve
My sister in law age 56 left South Africa for the UK six years ago.
She constantly complains that the UK is more third world than South Africa.
Go figure
Regards
Steve

[Dennis]

That is really sad news. I re-ignited my schoolboy interest in astronomy after a visit to Jodrell Bank in 1993, just before we migrated to Australia.

Cheers

Dennis

[Darryl]

Let's hope that sanity prevails - 2.5 million sounds like a very reasonable amount for a major scientific facility. BTW, back in 1966 Jodrell Bank intercepted and released the first lunar surface images from the Soviet Luna 9 probe. They used a newspaper facsimile machine supplied by one of the newspapers and got the first images out before the official Soviet version.

Regards,

Darryl M.

[Ric]

Typical bean counters at it again.

They could always make the cabinet ministers pay for their own expenses like they rest of us and keep it open.

Cheers

[iceman (Mike)]

I like the Jodrell Bank podcast! I hope they don't close.

[fringe_dweller]

hard to believe the land of shakespeare, beatles, monty python ect. ect. ect. ect. will ever be truly third world? altho it seemed that way if you are poor there i guess

their tourist industry dollars alone are still the stuff to be envious of? and dont companies there still own half of australia, ie mining companies? or has china taken over that position?

anyway go jodrell!