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Spain leads quest to the sun

Spain doesn??t even have money nor resources to save their own country, now they plan to save the planet and spend on a solar trip when their own citizens don??t even have money to buy food??!!! No wonder they are in crisis, they should learn to prioritize!! They are putting the whole world in jeopardy by their economy and they still don??t learn!!

Spain is an economic train wreck. In large part because of jobs lost to the carbon crack down and the lack of the promised green job creation.

They are wasting money on this while begging Germany for a bailout.

My thoughts exactly. If Spain goes ahead with this, the Euro Bank, the IMF, the World Bank and anyone else contemplating bailing out that bunch should themselves bail. What a crock. Sorry, all techies who think this is a great thing, but Spain ain't the country who should be doin' it.

I believe this is a very interesting project to watch. In fact, such projects of global importance should be generously funded, even through some sort of 'crowd-funding' or public-private partnership, if required.

A blueprint showing the various direct (power plant safety, better global warming and climate change understanding) and collateral benefits (retail technology patents) that can accrue would also serve to allay the doubts of naysayers.

Space offers mankind the Resources and Energy for our Future...

Dwindling Earth based resources and Energy are leading US to Wars...


The Nuclear Industry has seized upon the Climate Change and Green House Gas issues in a desperate attempt to save THEIR market share of the Energy business.

Left unsaid is Nuclear's Global Radioactive Pollution from Fukushima's TRIPLE MELTDOWN which continues to encircle the Planet!

First, they said that it would never happen, now they say it will never happen again...

Wake up and see the nuclear Industry for what it is: Global Nuclear Fascism* which if they have their way, will promote for ever more new nuclear that will only increase the cost of Energy and the RISK of yet another Trillion Dollar Eco-Disaster happening somewhere on the Planet... While the cost of Solar (of all flavors) is dropping monthly the cost of Nuclear and it's decommissioning costs are going ever upward!

Until we start getting our energy from Solar (of all flavors) and especially from Space we will continue to have Energy Wars and civil strife on Earth. Here are several books that describe how to "safe" the Earth from it's nuclear folly:

The High Frontier by Gerard K. O'Neill,
Colonies In Space by A. Heppenheim??er.
The Third Industrial Revolution by G. Harry Stine
The Space Enterprise by Philip Robert Harris
Mining the Sky by John S. Lewis

*Nuclear Fascism
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nuclear+fascism

How can so many dumb people respond to an interesting Smart Planet story? I know, they must be from the Dumb Planet. I bet they all work for the greedy investment bankers and real estate speculators who destroyed the financial system while ripping us all off. Now they're busy obfuscating the issue by pretending that minuscule investments addressing serious issues are the problem. Which planet do you live on?

...watching dishonest ones spend their future away.

Well put

I would like to thank to ALCALA HENARES University for this mission to solar orbiter. This will really be a good quest to the sun for the benefit of the world's climate and ecology. Sun is the source of illumination of electromagnetic radiation in this Universe and still have to quest Sun's pattern of radiation with respect to atmospheric attenuation and its windows that transmitting radiation at a constant rate. World's biodiversity and its ecology is dependent on solar radiation and if the amount of radiation varies then world's climate may not be suitable for bio tic community . This mission will definitely going to be successful to explore the solar energy and its pattern of orbit respective to the planets . In this expedition , United Nations Organisation may come forward to support it by financial aid.

Spain's going bankrupt, and using Other People's Money to do so, but at least they're saving the planet.

Whew...