Lackluster Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Look we're paying for someone to fly it as well.. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2487444/Taxpayers-10-000-teach-failed-asylum-seeker-fly.html Taxpayers face a bill of tens of thousands of pounds so a failed asylum seeker can train to be a pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 To put things in perspective, 45 million is about one and a half times as much as the Don Valley Stadium cost to build ... just to enable a few students to run/jump around in circles and chuck things as far as possible. A stadium which has now been scrapped due to local cutbacks by our lovely Council. Just think where Sheffield would stand in the 'cool points' scale if we'd sent a rocket to Mars instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vague_Boy Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Coming to an end: UK to end financial aid to India by 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20265583 Problem solved I'd say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeX Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 To put things in perspective, 45 million is about one and a half times as much as the Don Valley Stadium cost to build ... just to enable a few students to run/jump around in circles and chuck things as far as possible. A stadium which has now been scrapped due to local cutbacks by our lovely Council. Just think where Sheffield would stand in the 'cool points' scale if we'd sent a rocket to Mars instead. Why compare something built in the UK with India? Average salaries in India are 25 times less than that in the UK, so you cannot accurately make such a comparison. The (real) poverty line in India is 60 rupees a day. That works out as approx 0.62p per day in British money. £161 per year would mean these people are no longer on the poverty line and that equates to 277,777 people taken out of poverty for 1 year. I'm sure to these people no longer living hand to mouth, this would be much more than a drop in the ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyclone Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 One Indian Mars rocket £45m. Two UK Aircraft Carriers (Aircraft included ?) £6b. Big ocean,small drop. Aircraft not included, and two might actually mean one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lackluster Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 To put things in perspective, 45 million is about one and a half times as much as the Don Valley Stadium cost to build ... just to enable a few students to run/jump around in circles and chuck things as far as possible. A stadium which has now been scrapped due to local cutbacks by our lovely Council. Just think where Sheffield would stand in the 'cool points' scale if we'd sent a rocket to Mars instead. What absolute nonsense. So would you rather the tax payer spend money on a space ship for India or a school? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Just think where Sheffield would stand in the 'cool points' scale if we'd sent a rocket to Mars instead. Hey, we've even got a bird from Sheff who can fly it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alchresearch Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Helen Sharman? Ironically the same person who set fire to the carpet in said stadium! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyfriday Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 Helen Sharman? Ironically the same person who set fire to the carpet in said stadium! I'd forgotten about that...maybe it was a deliberate act of spite because her Mars mission was refused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alcoblog Posted November 5, 2013 Share Posted November 5, 2013 What absolute nonsense. So would you rather the tax payer spend money on a space ship for India or a school? Spaceship option for me if you mean 'a school' in Britain. I'd prefer my money being spent to help a nation emerge from poverty rather than just to send the next generation of Chantelles, Dwights, Tiffneys and Waynes to a holding pen for their formative years, until they're old enough to go to prison. I'm pretty certain one more school won't help. If you mean building 'a school' in India, I'm fairly sure that as an emerging nation in space technology, India will be able to afford to build their own schools if their Mars mission is successful. Space technology is big business ... the world will be in a much better place. ---------- Post added 05-11-2013 at 11:51 ---------- Helen Sharman? Ironically the same person who set fire to the carpet in said stadium! There must be some kind of hidden message here ... perhaps God does exist!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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