Australia’s space agency gets the ARSE
Dr Mumbo has always admired the tech industry’s concept of vapourware, when a brand announces a product that doesn’t actually exist.
Australian politicians have also become very good at this special breed of magic trick in recent years, and this week’s announcement of a national space agency is a sterling example.
Unfortunately the Australian space agency announcement ignored a key tenet of vapourware – always give your non-existent product a snappy name and a website, even if it consists of nothing else but a vague idea.
Thankfully for the Australian government, the internet has come to the rescue. The good web folk not only found a name but even went to the trouble of registering a domain, setting up a website and establishing a Facebook page.
Welcome to the Australian Research and Space Exploration organisation. ARSE, if you prefer.
Dr Mumbo for one welcomes Australia getting the ARSE.
It is good sign for space research.
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ARSE have just passed a motion to create the Council for Research into Astronomy & Physics.
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