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Former investment banker and businessman. Really says it all about the structure of the current government. Why would you put someone who can’t even grasp the very basics of our solar system in charge of this?
I love how he says he’s learning on the job and isn’t an encyclopedia because it obviously requires a phd level education to know the difference between a planet and a fucking star.
Worse still:
Andrew Griffith, who has been in charge of the space sector since November, also mistook Jupiter for Saturn.
You know, Saturn, famous for its massive rings.
To be fair that’s an easier mistake to make than confusing Mars and the frickin Sun
The Sun doesn’t have rings!
Sheesh.
Haha ok touche
I’m guessing education is important to him and he always votes to fund it extensively.
For those that want to see… https://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/25927/andrew_griffith/arundel_and_south_downs/divisions?policy=1074
He doesn’t seem to have voted on enough items for they work for you to form an opinion.
It’s not clear whether he just hasn’t voted or there haven’t been any votes and I haven’t done enough research to say anything on that topic myself
average conservative. spouting about stuff they are clueless about
One’s a chocolate bar, the other’s a newspaper?? What a moron!
What a small, inactive, rocky body orbiting the sun, this man is.
Well they’re both roughly the same colour. I can see his confusion.
One is big, and red, and hot.
The other is small, and red, and coldDidn’t realize we had a space minister
Easy mistake to make 😂
This is the best summary I could come up with:
On a walk around the Science Museum in London, Mr Griffith pointed to an exhibit showing the surfaces of different planets, the House magazine reported.
A year on from the failure of Britain’s first rocket launch, Mr Griffith insisted that the UK “is a great spacefaring nation”.
The former investment banker and businessman said that in order for humans to colonise Mars, “you’re going to need a lot of the British research and innovation that we’re funding right now”.
Peregrine Mission One, which was the first American attempt to land on the Moon in 50 years, was carrying an instrument built by UK scientists before its journey was brought to an end by a run of technical problems.
The device was supposed to analyse the thin lunar atmosphere as well as find out more about how water might be moving around the moon.
“I think having things like a space strategy, which the UK didn’t have until recently, gives people a long-term roadmap so they understand what we’re doing as a government.”
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