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Bill Anders, who was on the crew of Apollo 8 in 1968, was one of the scientist pilots involved in the project. One day cold fusion will be used on smaller, lighter engines, but probably not until the end of the century. Then again, the Wright brothers were 1903 - 75 years later, and humans were sending crafts to the outer limits of the solar system, so who knows?
Bill Anders, who was on the crew of Apollo 8 in 1968, was one of the scientist pilots involved in the project. One day cold fusion will be used on smaller, lighter engines, but probably not until the end of the century. Then again, the Wright brothers were 1903 - 75 years later, and humans were sending crafts to the outer limits of the solar system, so who knows?
Mental to see those engines up close !
And yeah cold fusion has to come soon. It would revolutionise the whole power industry….which might be why some people would never want to see it
He's the Emperor's New Clothes of refereeing. All the pundits seem obliged to say he's our best ref, but he's been involved in several unmitigated ****-ups over the years and he was piss-poor in the WC 2 years ago.
In pretty difficult circumstances he didn’t seem to get a lot wrong. No VAR kerfuffle, tried to get on with it as Arsenal players went down with cramp (no player has had cramp while losing), let it flow early when he could have clamped down with early yellows. Probably one of the better performances on the pitch.
Players need to get their own house in order - some of the shenanigans are pretty pathetic - if you go down with cramp - should be made to leave the pitch for treatment off the pitch ...
Robbed, lol. Have to ask how ****ing stupid you must be to do what Trossard did after your team mate got sent off for exactly the same thing a few weeks previously. Maybe your manager should stop coaching his players to cheat.
There’s a bit of a victim mentality Arsenal are building which will go one of two ways but normally ends badly. Felt Arteta dealt with it quite well post-match and social media hysteria can be ignored but the referees obviously aren’t bent even if they are inconsistent sometimes. They’ve got a good side though the squad will be stretched with the 76 Champions League games this season. If they just get on with it they’ll have a better chance as this is a better Arsenal team and arguably not as strong a City team as last year.
Out of interest, has the Goodison site been sold yet? Assumed it’ll be housing because everything is housing. These blokes aren’t mugs so they must think they can make a success of it but I don’t get why you’d be arsed when you can invest in anything.
you know where the land is situated right? You wouldn’t be buying the club for a patch of land that you could drop 50 houses onto, no real demand for luxury apartments in the style of Highbury.
it’s obvious it’s for the new stadium, and he is buying a club on its arse, with what he must see as loads of growth opportunities.
Don't make no sense to me, I always thought even if I was a millionaire why the hell would I want to invest in a football club, not even my own. They just seem to be spending money on players transfer fees and ridiculous wages, with a client base that is often very fickle. In fact I'd probably cause a players strike if I owned the club they played for, fooking prima donna's. I get why the arabs do it, just a toy to them, where a few million is mere pocket money but anyone else, nah.
The Mike Ashley buyout of us made sense at the time. Guy had a big sports company which he was still growing and got a hell of a lot of publicity, free sponsorship and merchandising. It's kind of a shame it fell apart so early on as he had the fans onside until the Keegan fallout and then things turned sour but I can totally understand why it seemed a good idea. I think it worked out well for SD overall and he got his money back. I can say bad things about him as a fan of a club he owned - and I wouldn't wish him on others - but as a businessman he did "ok" and is almost certainly financially better off for it all.
Our owners have made a fortune in asset value bought for 200m club now valued in the billions and they have pumped in zero extra money to get that return
I think the Yanks like the Glazers and John Henry do it for the brand (United, Liverpool, and Arsenal are huge international brands that are even off the scale in the US now). They can borrow money to pay their own wages and fund their lifestyles and homes, etc, at very low interest rates with assets like these in place. I don't think FSG, for instance, has ever shown the same ambition to win things that Arab owners (and Abramovich) have, but they need the club to be successful enough to maintain the brand. A bit like a Mike Ashleigh strategy with go-faster stripes.
Tbf to the Glazers, United have never lacked funds for transfers, But tbf to John Henry he's never leeched billions out of the club like the Glazers have done at United over the decades.