Africans must go to the moon

[Mie1]

Entebbe, Uganda - Africans must travel to the moon to investigate what developed nations have been doing in outer space, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday.

Africans must go to the moon: Sci-Tech: News: News24


Yes, I totally agree!!! It will be so much easier to see Africa's starving and underdeveloped millions from space!

[Omer]

what a terrible waste of money that could be used more wisely.

the cost of going to the moon could buy
-108 presidential Jets
-297 retired presidential offices
-21 failed government owned companies

[pangkas]

when ... huh ... we need more jets ... quickly ...

[Mie1]

Pangkas,

Pity there are FOUR people in your avatar.... Had there been three, it would have been absolutely perfect for you!

[der-die-das-namibia]

If it wasn't for the colonial oppression of the African people by the imperialists, we would have inhabitated the moon long before the Americans.

Museveni is right, we have to get to the moon. It would be tremendously unfair if the inequality of the world would be perpuated by exporting it to in outer space, too.

Perhaps we should consider asking the EU for financial aid, as it is their obligation to redress the exploitation and the imbalances of the past.

[Mie1]

That is a late April Fool's joke....right???????

[Comrade007]

Who cares about the moon? Why such modest, attainable goals? Mars, now that IS where we should be heading, since it's the one place where many of the biggest, grandest ideas of our dear leaders come from, well, outer space. Or at least they go on some trip to outer space. Did I read right the other day? Did Musoveni also say we should tunnel over to Brazil to get some of their fresh water?

For those of us who are link-shy, here's the story:

Africans must go to the moon
02/05/2009 22:34 - (SA)

# Detailed map shows dry moon

Entebbe, Uganda - Africans must travel to the moon to investigate what developed nations have been doing in outer space, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday.

"The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here," Museveni said, addressing a meeting of the Uganda Law Society in Entebbe.

"We must also go there and say: 'What are you people doing up here?'."

Museveni urged the assembly of Uganda's top lawyers to support East African integration, arguing that one of the region's goals should be to develop a space programme.

"Uganda alone cannot go to the moon. We are too small. But East Africa united can. That is what East African integration is all about," he said. "Then we can say to the Americans: 'What are you doing here all alone?'."

Museveni has vocally campaigned for a common East African economic and political zone.

Negotiations to establish a tariff free trade zone including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda have been ongoing for months.

Museveni on Saturday also called for enhanced political integration among the East African nations, suggesting the region would be strengthened by becoming one country.

- AFP

[der-die-das-namibia]

Museveni on his way to the moon and beyond , asking the Americans: What are you doing here all alone?

[theman]

OK OK OK - my eerste gedagte was: Donder... how the *&*&* sal hierdie storie werk? En dan begin ek dink, wat altyd 'n goeie ding is. 'n mens moet dink. Of hoe? Anyhow, heres just one story that made me think about this one. En hoekom mag ons nie droom nie? Inconceivalbe maar nie impossible,

[quoyte]SA technology to fly NASA to the moon

Monday, 29 September 2008 Technology developed by researchers at South Africa's Council for Geosciences (CGS) in Pretoria will be used to assist US space agency NASA to put people on the moon.



The collaboration between South Africa and the United States forms part of a project to explore Mars.

According to the CGS, the United States, China, Russia and other countries are engaged in "a new race for the moon," that will form the basis for future exploration of the planet Mars.

The overall programme of NASA is known as the Constellation Programme. Initially it will include the positioning of satellites on the moon as well as the development and testing of new launch rockets, lunar rovers and human landers. By 2020, NASA hopes to have a human presence on the moon through the establishment of a permanent moon base from where exploration projects will be launched from the moon to Mars.

In assisting NASA to accurately map the moon, South African geoscientists have developed a geotechnical geographic information system (GIS) that will allow NASA to measure exact distances between the earth's surface and the moon. The GIS device will be used to refurbish a seven-ton laser "gun" that recently arrived in South Africa from France.

Speaking to The Times, the CGS's Leon Croukamp said, "The refurbishment we're doing is making the laser pulse quicker, which means it will give much more accurate measurements of the distance between the Earth and the moon."

The laser is situated in Matjiesfontein near the Sutherland Observatory in the Northern Cape.

The SA technology will allow the laser to retrieve reams of information essential to NASA's Constellation Programme such as which areas of the moon should be explored first and where is the most suitable site for the establishment of a permanent moon base.

According to The Times, next month NASA will launch a satellite to the moon to send back detailed readings of the moon's surface, with the help of SA technology. This will make South African scientists the first in the world to accurately map the moon's surface.

"I get shivers just thinking about it," Croukamp said to The Times.
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[theman]

Talk of a turboaangedrewe ossewa ......