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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Wolfy on March 23, 2010, 07:24:19 pm

Title: UK Space Agency = USA?!?!
Post by: Wolfy on March 23, 2010, 07:24:19 pm
I know you should never make an Acronym of an Acronym (And maybe THIS is why?),  the new Uk Space Agency, the acronym for it would be USA. Which is just terrible :P. Admittedly, if we use grammer properly, it is UKSA. On a side note, the U(K)SA goes into operation on April 1st, isn't that the WORST date for somthing? :P

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8579270.stm

I should also point out, on that exact same day, April Fools day, the Queen is (supposedly) coming to my local City  :D Is she just playing one big april fools joke...?
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Post by: redsniper on March 23, 2010, 07:50:23 pm
But we already have a USA (http://www.unitedspacealliance.com) in our USA.
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Post by: Blue Lion on March 23, 2010, 08:05:30 pm
Boy let's not tell them about the University of Kentucky then
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Post by: Mongoose on March 23, 2010, 08:54:25 pm
I like how the picture they chose for that article is of Great Britain as a giant ice cube. :p
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Post by: General Battuta on March 23, 2010, 10:22:03 pm
They were going to call it Her Majesty's Space Agency and they passed that up for this?
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Post by: Nuclear1 on March 23, 2010, 10:26:19 pm
USA! USA! USA! :p
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Post by: iamzack on March 23, 2010, 10:28:53 pm
lol what will the uk do with a space agency
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Post by: SpardaSon21 on March 23, 2010, 10:29:40 pm
They were going to call it Her Majesty's Space Agency and they passed that up for this?
What's up with that?  I mean the Brits used to slap "His/Her Majesty's" on everything.  What happened to their traditional monarchial pride?
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Post by: redsniper on March 23, 2010, 10:29:58 pm
They were going to call it Her Majesty's Space Agency and they passed that up for this?
On Her Majesty's Space Service??
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Post by: Nuclear1 on March 23, 2010, 10:36:04 pm
lol what will the uk do with a space agency

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Grand_Day_Out

:p
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Post by: StarSlayer on March 23, 2010, 11:16:22 pm
They were going to call it Her Majesty's Space Agency and they passed that up for this?
On Her Majesty's Space Service??

Least they can hold onto that one for the military branch
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Post by: Colonol Dekker on March 24, 2010, 03:00:31 am
Did we ever use space monkies?
 
 
Giving them guns would cover our military arm ;)
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Post by: Dilmah G on March 24, 2010, 03:52:06 am
Or so Labour would say.  :D
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Post by: Wolfy on March 24, 2010, 08:07:48 am
ah, HMS Rocket-1?

hm, Labour, sending our trops everywhere with the worst equipment available. Not sure i'd trust any other party not to do that either, it's in out nature to try and do things cheaply. For example: I acturally prefer the really cheap Sainsburrys Orange Juice over more expensive orange juice.

I hope the UKSA doesn't acturally start trying to do manned missions on its own without the ESA, I can't even begin to imagine the cost cutting measures it would take...
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Post by: headdie on March 24, 2010, 08:12:43 am
from what i have read its covering stiff like coms satalites and other 'little' bits like that
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Post by: Herra Tohtori on March 24, 2010, 08:49:59 am
Recursive acronyms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_acronym) ftw \o/
Title: Re: UK Space Agency = USA?!?!
Post by: Kosh on March 24, 2010, 07:08:09 pm
I know you should never make an Acronym of an Acronym (And maybe THIS is why?),  the new Uk Space Agency, the acronym for it would be USA. Which is just terrible :P. Admittedly, if we use grammer properly, it is UKSA. On a side note, the U(K)SA goes into operation on April 1st, isn't that the WORST date for somthing? :P

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8579270.stm

I should also point out, on that exact same day, April Fools day, the Queen is (supposedly) coming to my local City  :D Is she just playing one big april fools joke...?

The UK having a real space agency? Nah, you guys dont have any captured nazi scientists or crashed alien spaceships to play with to make it happen. :P  :D
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Post by: BloodEagle on March 24, 2010, 07:11:01 pm
The UK having a real space agency? Nah, you guys dont have any captured nazi scientists or crashed alien spaceships to play with to make it happen. :P  :D

They have a time-traveling police box, though.  :P
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Post by: headdie on March 25, 2010, 03:51:45 am
The UK having a real space agency? Nah, you guys dont have any captured nazi scientists or crashed alien spaceships to play with to make it happen. :P  :D

They have a time-traveling police box, though.  :P

dont forget the spinnoffs including a guy who cant stay dead
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Post by: Wolfy on March 27, 2010, 12:30:41 pm
The UK having a real space agency? Nah, you guys dont have any captured nazi scientists or crashed alien spaceships to play with to make it happen. :P  :D

They have a time-traveling police box, though.  :P

dont forget the spinnoffs including a guy who cant stay dead

and the one with the robot dog (which suspiscously looks like a Cylon dog)
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Post by: Snail on March 27, 2010, 12:40:09 pm
SPACE WAR WITH ARGENTINA **** YEAH

ZAP ZAP ZAP PEW PEW PEW
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Post by: NGTM-1R on March 27, 2010, 03:06:17 pm
and the one with the robot dog (which suspiscously looks like a Cylon dog)

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