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If the Sun implodes (in approx. 5 billion years) we'll need to find a new solar system let alone new planet! We'd need to head to the nearest star, the cluster of 3 stars of Alpha Centuri, just 4.37 light years from our Sun. Voyager 1 is currently travelling at 35,000 mph. Since 1972 it has...

Beautifully put.

It would probably look like Terry Gilliam's Brazil!

So you two would be happy with the world without satellites then? Best not watch any telly, answer the phone, use gps or anything like that if that's the position you're taking for starters!!

I think you're great great great great.......great grandad said the same thing to Christopher Columbus. "Saluti Chris, si benne...you'll sail right over the edge you know!...".

According the the New Scientist, methane in our atmosphere only exists as a product of life. Previous martian probes picked up traces of methane, but it's not been properly assessed. I think the scientific community is very interested in this mission, as it has instruments to measure the...

Time for a bit of Top Gear...

You said "I suspect that politicians just keep spunking our money to India because ...... ermmm that's what we have always done." You've implied all we've done is give. You've actually given your point the historical context, all I've done is question it. Where have I invalidated the debate?

I didn't say it worked, or that I agreed with it, or that it's right or wrong!

Depends on how far you want to go back. There is little debate we pretty much bled India dry through our colonisation and funding of our own industrial revolution and world wars for that matter. What we've given back is probably insignificant to what we actually took out.

point 2).....really!? When you say 'huge', do you mean in relation to the £800bn and interest thereafter?

I said a similar thing above. A bit of 'goodwill' grease on the cogs for our former colony.

They did fund our Industrial Revolution for nearly a hundred years....

This isn't £200m our government commits out of the pure goodness of their hearts, this is part of ensuring an involvement in an emerging economy, and opening of doors and strategic invitations. Call me a cynic, but it's all a bit Smashie and Nicie; 'hey want to do some business mate, we do a lot...

:lolol: nice.