Japan

“Good enough” is, well…Good enough. If its good enough for Japan its good enough, or better for Europe & Eurofighter GmbH. They won’t mind them saying that when they check their bank balance the morning after (if) they buy 40+ Typhoons.

The thing(s) Japan have to realise is, is if they ever were allowed to buy the F-22 their lives would be a nightmare with sanctions & goodness knows what, & what F-35 systems thats shared with the F-22’s(?), you can expect similar ‘going ons’ with the F-35 as one would with the F-22. Would it be worth it, in a word, No. And thats before we mention when it’ll enter service (of which Japan, amonst others, is obviously concerned about) & then theres the price etc…

The F/A-18, well…Look at India, need I say more?…

Then you have the Typhoon & what it has to offer…No brainer, ain’t it?

I wonder if the Japanes guys that I picked from Warton in my taxi last week had something to do with them buying Typhoon?, yes I did ask, they just smiled

time

I remember a TV programme which featured scientists argueing about time travel, and the consensus was that it would be perfectly possible to travel forward in time by moving very quickly in relation to time passing on Earth,

It’s already been done, all the Apollo astronauts body clocks were found to be
billionths of a second out of sync compared to clocks on earth due to time dilation.

Moon

When Eugene cernan stepped off the Moon in 1972 I never in a million years
thought that would be the last time man would venture to another planetary
body, so long ago, so much lost time. I’m not going to see man land on Mars and that makes me sad.

No doubt…and probably some talented UK engineers worked on it.
All of which were paid for.
I was speaking of the financial end of it.

(Probably) silly question…did the UK provide any funds or give free equipment for it?

I was thinking more of hardware that “flew” on Apollo:D,
anyway I still think it was Americas finest hour, always have, always will.
Phil.

stars

There are one and a half billion stars in our own galaxy, let alone the millions more.
Jim.

Lincoln .7

I think your a bit out with that figure Jim, it’s well over a 100 billion stars and roughly the same amount of galaxies:D:D

We

What do you mean “We“….
I think you mean the U.S.. 🙂 🙂

Oh I don’t know, if you dug deep enough I think you would find a little bit of
British equipment somewere on the Apollo Project:D:D

Spits

That Spit formation shot is a cracker.