2-5 years might be less than you'd get for disclosing the data.

"The real shame is the government has spent billions of our tax dollars without acknowledging this fact. Is it even a British company thats producing the cards? Or are these tax dollars going to another economy?"

What a great comment from the daily mail article.
Tax dollars in the UK. Amazing.

Guide your retard around the maps making sure he doesn't kill anything, but watch out for curly!
Collect the mice to win the game!

I love how the Icelandics had the audacity to blame the British for the collapse of their banks..

What's to say it isn't a last ditch effort?
The race is dying and this is our last ditch effort. We've realized if we don't do something the human race will become extinct.
Our last, somewhat selfless chance, is to send out the mother ships with our building blocks on board.
It's the only way to keep our legacy alive.

Although if I was us (Wait what..), I'd also send all the information we have gathered. Maybe in the form of a mind image that could be deployed to the new inhabitants.
Giving them all the knowledge of our species.

Wouldn't it be funny if Pandas were the probe.
They've been trying to let themselves become extinct as not to expose that they're seemingly useless but we keep trying to save them.

It might actually happen since Interplay came back from the ashes.
Their 10p stock price isn't promising though.

Anyone remember that game? It was awesome.

Step roit up, aye.

Erm, when it comes to something as global as computing systems, segregation will never work.
You need compatibility, ease of use, and cost effectiveness.
This basically means one OS was always going to come out dominant.
What about if it was Apple's OS? Would we be decades behind when it comes to hardware design?

There's a lot of what ifs and maybes in what you say, no, spew.