Really?

[pimplyteen]

20 billion for a rocket to another planet. We've destroyed this one, so lets send a load of junk to another.

[pimplyteen]

Our planet is facing destruction on a grand scale, pollution on land and sea, ice caps melting at an alarming rate. There's a massive energy and food crisis leaving millions cold and hungry, but its makes good sense to keep investing into a far away nowhere.

[Paigntonian]

Pimple: We haven't destroyed this planet or you wouldn't be alive. Lots of problems but let's skip the hyperbole.

[ToraToraTora]

FGS pimply take a step back love you'll have a coronary!

[davebro]

//FGS pimply take a step back love you'll have a coronary!//

Don't worry - the space program will have come up with a life-saving treatment!

[pimplyteen]

We've not destroyed this planet?? Not yet in our own back yard. Take a look at Pakistan this morning.

[ToraToraTora]

That was rain love, lots of it, it does rain in that area it's known as the monsoon season and it's been happening for billions of years. Did you do any actual learning at school?

[davebro]

again with the insults & dismissing any possibility of climate change affecting maybe billions of people (or indeed all of us).

[webbo3]

Is pimplyteen Gullivers love child?
Anyway, here's a link to the launch.
https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

[pimplyteen]

Out of sight, out of mind is a great option for most. Its not affecting me at the moment so I will just ....

Kids of all ages standing on what patch of dry land they can get to only to find the water level increasing there also. (Waiting to die.) But lets all cheer the great puff of smoke to the land of nowhere.

[ToraToraTora]

Dave: "again with the insults" - what insults?
" & dismissing any possibility of climate change affecting maybe billions of people (or indeed all of us)." -
Where have I done that? I simply explained what any 11 year old knows about the Monsoon season etc.

[ToraToraTora]

Webbo: "Is pimplyteen Gullivers love child? " - I think "she" may actually be gulliver.

[ToraToraTora]

Pakistan has been there since we created it in 1947. Plenty of time to create defences against flooding. India has.

[davebro]

maybe you've got chest pains now TTT? lol

[ToraToraTora]

12:51, ???

[webbo3]

Filing the rocket up at the moment.
196,000 capacity, up to 55,000 gallons at the moment and -294f

[davebro]

//Filing the rocket up at the moment.
196,000 capacity, up to 55,000 gallons at the moment and -294f//

How many UK homes would that KWH equivalent heat this winter?

[webbo3]

None, its not in the uk its in america and the wrong type of fuel.

[ToraToraTora]

Steady webbo, you don't want to frighten them with knowledge.

[davebro]

//the wrong type of fuel.//

Did they just dig it up or did they use some other form of energy to make it?

[pimplyteen]

Its about the money that's being wasted not all to do with what country, general waste of billions. There are people struggling in American in there millions