From Somewhere North of Scotland
This tickled my funny bone...
The US want the UK and Australia to host large radar installations so they can keep an eye on nefarious doings amongst the thousands of satellites that now circle the planet. So far, so geo-politically unfunny.
However, the BBC quote Lt Col Jack Walker of the US Space Force as saying the US is "in discussion" with the UK about putting the radars "possibly in Scotland or further south."
Those of you with even a passing acquaintanceship with the geography of the UK may be wondering how the discussion about potentially installing the facility further north of Scotland went....
Gurgle...gurgle...
(And if you're wondering why the Shetland Islands are in a box, it's because they don't fit on the page if the distance is done to scale - and yes, they do complain about it, quite a bit...)
The US want the UK and Australia to host large radar installations so they can keep an eye on nefarious doings amongst the thousands of satellites that now circle the planet. So far, so geo-politically unfunny.
However, the BBC quote Lt Col Jack Walker of the US Space Force as saying the US is "in discussion" with the UK about putting the radars "possibly in Scotland or further south."
Those of you with even a passing acquaintanceship with the geography of the UK may be wondering how the discussion about potentially installing the facility further north of Scotland went....
Gurgle...gurgle...
(And if you're wondering why the Shetland Islands are in a box, it's because they don't fit on the page if the distance is done to scale - and yes, they do complain about it, quite a bit...)