The experiment failed 1) seawater ruins everything. 2) seawater vapour really ruins everything 3) maratime operations are expensive 4) sticking something in a can and putting it in the water isn’t ef… (View Post)

A billion a year is a rounding error in our economy. For that investment we could have had a U.K. LEO data constellation, *making a profit* Taiwan is hardly the largest economy on the planet - yet ch… (View Post)

Or we could do what the Chinese *do* Take the investment. Build the infrastructure with joy. Take on the supply & technology chain, piece by piece. End up with parallel data centres, running U.K.… (View Post)

Your regular reminder that we don’t do taking things to production. Instead we sweat the assets to death - see Amstrad. See also the anger among “experts” at Arm “wasting” money on R&D. For £1 bi… (View Post)

a People should also look at the process by which Communism was imposed in Eastern Europe post Second World War. Nearly everywhere, it wasn’t overnight. Taxation, government contracts, nationalisatio… (View Post)