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The radomes (actually covers over satelite receiver dishes) are held up by air pressure. This avoids any metal framework that would interfere with the signal

>Why should anyone have to die for electricity Depends - if it's our citizens following an accident obviously never. If it's some civilians in the middle east that happen to be liv…

The problem is who 'they' are The CIA/NSA etc spying on the US and UK's enemies? Or US companies spying on UK companies to gain a competitive advantage? If you were a BP boss would…

Not allowed to fly cryogens on the shuttle as a safety feature. You also aren't allowed to carry propellant or use propellant on serviceable satellites, that was one of the design …

Yes there is weapons grade screw up - but closing unrelated reactors on the other side of the world just because they are 'nuclear' is as silly as stopping trains until the tracks …

No, but all the sheep do face north

Two trains carrying 1800 people were lost because the trains weren't Tsunami proof. I assume Germany is also shutting down the ICE as a precaution?

I think you have BWR/PWR he wrong way round in the first point

Herschel is cryogenic so can't last anyway. Hubble was in a particularly bad orbit specifically because of the shuttle but any manned servicing would still require it to be in LEO,…

OTOH Hubble cost 3x as much to build because it had to be serviceable by the Shuttle and it's scientific use was greatly compromised by the orbit it had to be in. Each service miss…

Apparently they have a special exemption. It's illegal for dell to let somebody in Russia download a driver but it's OK for the US government to pay for Russian rocket launches.

The problem is that Nasa don't seem to have a reason for having astronauts there - other than without the astronauts there would be no interest and no Nasa. You could make it safer…

There are a few countries where those who are connected with the current government are doing rather well - certainly well enough to have $100K. Some of those governments might soo…

It was proposed in Northern Ireland during a power workers strike. Although considering the limited electrical power you can pull from even a nuclear sub and the 'security implicat…

That's the risk - you make an unnecessary manned vehicle to launch satellites because you can get funding for it being 'our brave heroic astronauts' then when it goes wrong the sam…

I thought that they weren't allowed to because Russia is an axis of evil / evil empire / not in the coalition of the willing/ eats peas with their knife - or whatever the term of t…