APOD: Comet Lovejoy over a Windmill (2013 Dec 09)

[neufer]

[b][color=#0000FF][size=175]Map of world poverty by country,[/size] showing percentage of population living on less than $2 per day.[/color][/b]

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The UK is the 3rd biggest contributor to CERN
The UK is the 4th biggest contributor to ESA
(The UK is also a member of ESO.)

Yep, quite so, now how about persuading the Indians to join in, to mutual benifit ?

<<The Indian economy is the world's third-largest by purchasing power parity. However, it continues to face the challenges of poverty, corruption, malnutrition, inadequate public healthcare, and terrorism. A nuclear weapons state, it has the third-largest standing army in the world and ranks eighth in military expenditure among nations.>>

[Prospero]

I dont understand your point, would you like to de-clutter your post ?
are you addressing me ?
Are you commenting upon national elites and their macho economies wrt their poor
or wrt inter-regional posturing ?
or my simple principle that if we (the UK) considered it beyond our economic means to fund an independent space prog. then why should we fund that of others ?
We could of course do so if we did not parade military pretentions in the world in political support of other supposed 'powers',
but I fear I may be straying too far , , ,

I thort it was a good pic of Lovejoy, , , i'm outa here , , ,

[neufer]

I dont understand your point, would you like to de-clutter your post ?

Not particularly.

[Boomer12k]

Lovely Picture!

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[fausto.lubatti]

Wonderful subject and picture!

[Prospero]

I dont understand your point, would you like to de-clutter your post ?

Not particularly.

Oh that is a shame.

There are so many mechanisims with which to make "the west" feel guilty about the poverty of the "developing nations"
yet any dissenting view neigh, any adverse question of aid
(which I do not reject, but I do require a reasoned justification in the face of profligate expenditure in machismo projects)
results in a post/link to other sites (of which we are of course familiar) and opinions not expressivly of _your_ own.

[geckzilla]

If you stick around long enough, you'll learn that is neufer's way. Personally, I stopped thinking about his posts just to be contrary.

[Prospero]

Thanks , *

If you stick around long enough,

I'll try :-!)

just to be contrary.

yer me too

I do like conversations, I dont like pages quoted 'in lieu' !

elsewhere you commented on your view of the Geminids :
(I'll post there when I find it again!)
so, just to take relief from this controversy, I followed you outside - - two spectacular Geminids in 5 mins!
Thanks for the alert 1

Although my local lighting authority has switched street lights off after midnight the winter humidity in SW England still means a visual limiting mag of only 4.5 but it looks good so far ,,

fell over a gardenplanter of herbs it was so dark (mint but that's anothr tale )