When the Severe Alert system was established in 2024 it was made clear that:
“There will be a very high threshold for its use based on strict criteria centred on an immediate risk to life.”
Tonight’s use at a national level clearly doesn’t hit that threshold and opens the door to future misuse of the system.
Labour needs to publish who signed off the decision to use the alert and the criteria that they were using.
The SpaceX Recovery team is still working to recover Flight 13’s Starship from the Indian Ocean. They’ve been overcoming challenging conditions and increasingly rough seas as they attempt to guide the 52m long spacecraft to port
After today's retirement of the C-2 Greyhound, all Grumman-built aircraft are believed to now be retired from United States military service, with the oldest E-2C's left being the Northrop Grumman-built Hawkeye 2000's.
This is the result of many bad legacy decisions taken by UKRI hastily and without proper consultation, overseen by a government department that no longer exists. Surely the new @andyburnham government will want to take time to review this.
It's so scary to think we have to find somewhere to store the dangerous waste like a desert or underground or something, which is a major problem unlike with fossil fuels where we safely store the waste in the atmosphere and our lungs
Social media stopped being a net good when your feed stopped appearing in chronological order. That's when it stopped being a tool to keep in contact with others, and became a slot machine.
I keep hearing people tell me how expensive space is. How its such a frivolous waste. Its utter nonsense.
SLS/Orion is basically the most expensive rocket currently flying, and even using that as a yardstick, the UK government throws money away at a far larger scale.
Just look