Space mission

[Charlieboy]

Erdogan has announced that Turkey will put an unmanned spaceship on the moon by the year 2023...... didn't realise that Turkey were so flushed with money that they could afford to do that.

[Brinsley]

Erdogan will soon announce that he'll un-man it and take himself to the moon becoming the first Country leader to rule the world from a celestial body beating Trump by a million mile!

[EnjoyingTheSun]

I would imagine that to start a space program from a standing start would cost a nice few billion dollars and I believe nearly 1000 pounds of lunar rocks, pebbles, and soil have already been bought back to earth. There’s nothing else up there.

So why doesn’t Erdogan ask to buy 50 pounds of rocks from America and save himself a fair chunk of change in these difficult times?

[kibsolar1999]

I would imagine that to start a space program from a standing start would cost a nice few billion dollars and I believe nearly 1000 pounds of lunar rocks, pebbles, and soil have already been bought back to earth. There’s nothing else up there.

So why doesn’t Erdogan ask to buy 50 pounds of rocks from America and save himself a fair chunk of change in these difficult times?

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[EnjoyingTheSun]

Give me a C
Give me an O
Give me a V
Give me an I
Give me a D

So covid is the reason that Erdogan is going to waste an inordinate amount of money on something that was discovered to be fairly pointless over 40 years ago?

Little tip it always works best if you use the right punchline for the right joke.

[waddo]

Give him a chance, it's a cunning plan! Greece will now expend all of their energy and finance (well the money borrowed from the EU) in an effort to get there first and name it Constantinople!

[Brinsley]

So Erdogan and Sakellaropoulou will be contesting for the first Country leader to be........................

https://youtu.be/zPwMdZOlPo8

[Reyntj]

Well they going to miss all the economic goals they set 10 years ago in 2023 by a country Mile and it's also election year so erdogan needs a big distraction . Forget that your on the same wages and the gdp is the same as 2010 look we have achieved we sent a man to the moon!

[EnjoyingTheSun]

Well they going to miss all the economic goals they set 10 years ago in 2023 by a country Mile

Maybe they just need to amend the time frame until after people are dead when they miss a target or prediction. I can think of one 'industry' it works well for

[jofra]

From a news item re. a mysterious metal monolith in the D.R. Congo (and mentioning others around the world) -
"One that turned up earlier this month near Turkey's Gobekli Tepe, an ancient temple and World Heritage Site, transpired to be a stunt by the government to promote its new space programme.".....

[MVP]

It's amazing how man is trying to land on the moon again (?)
Pity the money spent hasn't been spent on healthcare, education or even filling the bl*****y potholes in the roads