Talking about a’ Nasa-style’ nerve centre is not a good thought when your mistakes can be seen from space
Another universe-beating week for the authorities concerned, as Matt Hancock launches Operation Moon Shot, and Dominic Cummings trims the ribbon on a brand-new “Nasa-style mission control”. I adoration how hard these chaps are for galactic talk, which entails so much more coming from a government whose cock-ups can now be seen even from opening. Could Cummings returning a damaged lunar journey plane back down to Earth in 45 hours without loss of astronaut life? Babe, he can’t even bring your sister back from the Algarve without three days of confused hokey cokey.
Still, we defended on. Summer has ended and Boris Johnson’s Downing Street gang has got back to doing what it does best: centralising dominance in an ever-decreasing number of people’s sides , no matter how many times those people prove they can’t wield the capability they already have without diurnal U-turns and/ or smashed predicts. Is it too much to expect a government of superforecasters to draw predictions even Mystic Meg could organize? “Luck wears off-color stripes while Pluto challenges business, but constituting Tony Abbott is going to be an unmitigated shitshow.”
Read more: theguardian.com
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