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"nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by goggs(m): 9:24pm On Aug 28, 2011 |
Nigeria Sat X is picture perfect, already sending pictures from other parts of the world as part the world disaster constellation. This is good news. As an environmental scientist, I am very excited about what we can learn from this information we are going to be getting especially in the area of urban planning (Lagos will be the first to benefit), agriculture and disaster monitoring. It will save lives and improve living. I am already thinking of areas for research I will pursue. This is one of Obasanjo's good legacies and I hope history has some kind words for him on this one. If some others were this good! Nigeria's latest Earth observation satellites have returned their first pictures. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14679166 |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by Beaf: 9:54pm On Aug 28, 2011 |
Its such a beautiful thing that Nigerian made technology is floating out there in space and functioning perfectly. We are getting somewhere, pop sontin! |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by goggs(m): 10:29pm On Aug 28, 2011 |
yep. Just praying the good news will soon outnumber the bad. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by koruji(m): 10:32pm On Aug 28, 2011 |
No doubt we should celebrate. However, you kid only yourself when you call this "Nigerian made technology". Beaf: |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by Nobody: 5:44am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Beaf: So you can say Jonathan is doing something, you called a bought technology Nigerian made? |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 6:03am On Aug 29, 2011 |
God bless Russia God Bless Russian Engineers God Bless White people for helping us! Guys we've got to celebrate. We are helping to keep unemployment in Russia and China low, very low. We tha best. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 6:16am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Err. Pessimism is fine, I'm a pessimist too. But did you guys miss this?
I don't think it is fair to say they just bought the technology. Of course, who knows how much "help" the Nigerian engineers received. But in order to walk, first you gotta crawl. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 6:25am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Thank God I am an illiterate! [size=18pt]Nigeria: Sat X and Sat 2 - We Have Been Fooled Again![/size] |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 6:34am On Aug 29, 2011 |
NL intellectuals a la baby katzs. Dont you just love 'em. You 'gats' to love their audacity to make bold proclamations on everything Nigeria. Always wrong but never humble.
No wonder some our N/L intellectuals do better on reading and comprehension exams than the rest of us. Thank God I failed WAEC. Effrontery and chutzpah perhaps, real intellect maybe not so much. Long live our intellectuals. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 6:40am On Aug 29, 2011 |
It says in the BBC article that Nigerian engineers were on site in this facility in the UK to build the satellite. In other words, Nigeria didn't just buy the tech alone, but sent its engineers to help build it. Do you dispute this claim made by the BBC article? So you are claiming that contrary to what it says and contrary to what that picture implies, there was in fact no Nigerian labor used in building the satellites? Let me see what exactly you disagree with, lest you backtrack or hide after I begin. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by hercules07: 6:45am On Aug 29, 2011 |
ekt_bear We all know that Nigerian Engineers did not do anything on that satellite, probably they watched sha, I have been to that space agency in Abuja and the only thing those guys do is to wait for their DG to vamoose before they all leave their offices, this is naija abeg. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 6:50am On Aug 29, 2011 |
So they were all flown to UK, but did absolutely nothing is your claim? This picture is a fraud, just a photo op, no doubt? Like I said, pessimism is fine (I'm pessimistic myself), but personally I think it unlikely that they flew engineers to the UK just to watch and do nothing. Then again, none of us were physically there on site. So we don't know who did exactly what. Maybe you are right, that they did nothing. This is not Fstranger's claim though. He seems to m0ronically think that "build under contract" == no Nigerian labor. I wonder how he thinks Singapore, China and other Eastern Asian countries got their start manufacturing. Hehe. Even Samsung today, the reason they are able to build a reasonable challenger to the iPhone is because they've done some understudying themselves. . . |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 6:51am On Aug 29, 2011 |
ekt_bear: In academic institutions, one or two medical students are present for every surgery case. Does that mean that the surgery was done with the help of those medical students? Hells No, of course. Are you saying that paralegals are to be given credit for every case won in courts by REAL LAWYERS? Hellz No what part of "British satellite specialists, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), signed a contract with NARSDA in 2006 for the supply of the NigeriaSat-2 Earth observation satellite, related ground infrastructure and [size=18pt]a training programme[/size] to further develop an indigenous space capability in the Federal Republic of Nigeria" do you not understand? http://sturvs.com/300538/ We don't even have a space program in any of our universities and the Nigerians sent there all schooled in Nigeria. The truth is no Nigerian brain/intellect was involved. This is solely foreign designed and foreign operated. The Nigerians were sent to Surrey to JUST observe and run errands. Misplaced priority in my opinion. But hey, i know you disagree with my point, and I accept you are way smarter and more knowledgeable than me. You just somehow know it all. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 6:55am On Aug 29, 2011 |
I've never worked at a satellite company before. But I have friends who have. Even at the undergraduate level. There is work even for college sophomores and juniors at such companies. Not to talk of college graduate engineers. So your belief is that even the smallest tasks there, the Nigerians did not do? This same program that has the Turks now launching their own indigenous satellite, when the Nigerians went through the same they were just twiddling their thumbs? |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:02am On Aug 29, 2011 |
premechaz: Lmao. So when someone graduates from college and goes to work for Boeing, Lockheed, Viasat, etc, they studied. . . "space program" in college? I guess you mean just aerospace engineering. No, you can study other things (mechanical, electrical, computer) and still get work. Why don't you even just go to a jobs website and see what type of academic backgrounds they look for before pulling sh1t out of your @ss, man? |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:15am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Let us even examine their own motherfucking job site: http://www.sstl.co.uk/careers/current-vacancies Let's look at job 352. What background required? Mechanical or Aerospace. Let's look at job 386. What background required? Mechanical. job 392. Electrical. job 392. Electrical. Now, I am supposed to believe you, that no Nigerian labor went into it? And your m0ronic argument is that Nigeria doesn't have a space program? This is why you are annoying as hell, man. Always sniping or talking dumb@ss sh1t, then when people call you out on it you run away. Do you see why I don't regard the opinion of people like you who say, "Oh, you don't understand Nigeria?" Because in some ways, your own biases about Nigeria make you less equipped to perceive things than me. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:18am On Aug 29, 2011 |
I even see why Nigeria doesn't progress as a country. Bad belle folk like you who seem to simultaneously hate the Western world, but also hate Nigeria. In all of these things, I think what you really hate is yourself. Deep personal insecurity and loathing. Get a shrink if you need to, they'll sort out your mental problems. Or better yet, go get some fvcking pvssy (rather than following my balls around everywhere on NL.) |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by hercules07: 7:20am On Aug 29, 2011 |
ekt If those Nigerians were trained in Nigerian universities, there is no way in hell they participated, have you gone through the curriculum of our schools? The space guys in Nigeria are poiticians, they do not take the job seriously jare. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:24am On Aug 29, 2011 |
^-- None of the above was directed at you, BTW. But instead to this c0cksucking fagg0t Fstranger. Even look at the jobs posted on their site: http://www.sstl.co.uk/careers/current-vacancies Does a single one of them require your nation to have an aerospace program to do? I've clicked a few of them, but not all of them. Anyway you may be right, maybe really the Nigerians did absolutely nothing. But given the data we have available to us at this point, there is really no evidence for it. hercules07:My brother, I have met some students trained directly from Nigerian universities in engineering. I met a middle belter two weeks ago who went to ABU for undergraduate, and is doing his MS not too far from where I live. If I remember correctly, he did his internship this past summer at an excellent, fairly famous tech company. If you are claiming that none of them are qualified for any of those positions posted on that site, I will simply say that you are mistaken. You are flat out wrong, or interacting with the wrong Nigerian graduates. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 7:32am On Aug 29, 2011 |
lala land! |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 7:36am On Aug 29, 2011 |
uncalled for! |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:38am On Aug 29, 2011 |
premechaz:Bolded is false. Regarding the former. . . should I really dig up posts even just from this weekend? Anyone who doubts me can check Fstranger's posting history. You aren't worth it. Honestly, you really aren't. Which is why I don't pay you any attention, unless you decide to draw my attention to yourself. Anyway, wonderful how you quoted this rather than responding to your stvpid and moronic points about an aerospace program being a necessary ingredient for contributing to that particular project. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:41am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Hehe. Look how this f00l brings up anything but the points being made. Shout out to KoboJunkie. Shout out to "Mr Yoruba." No commentary on his stupid notion that a space program is required to contribute to launching a satellite, though? Go fvck yourself, seriously. It isn't by force you interact with me on this site. Go play with someone else, heh. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 7:42am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Awwwwwwww. Fstranger CRYING. [size=18pt]ROFLMAO![/size] |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by Onlytruth(m): 7:45am On Aug 29, 2011 |
My questions are simple. What are the names of the NASDRA boss and those of the top leadership of NASDRA, and what are their qualifications or accomplishments before being appointed to NASDRA positions? What are the names of the Nigerian scientists who designed the Nigeria Sat X, and what are their qualifications and backgrounds? Once you answer these questions, you will come face to face with the truth. Don't be surprised to see a "Alhaji" this or "Mallam" that as the so called scientists. Only in Nigeria would you find a mallam scientist. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:46am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Selective quoting again. Do you come up with anything original? Can you come up with anything original? Even rather than arguing your points, you quote and highlight articles to argue on your behalf. Notice how even the articles you linked to don't contradict the main point. You stupidly thought that contracting out the satellite job implies that no Nigerian labor was used. You for some insane reason thought a space program is required to contribute anything to the satellite. Hehe. Seriously, time for me to keep it moving. At least @hercules07 offers up something interesting. I'd rather limit my interactions on this thread to him. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 7:53am On Aug 29, 2011 |
not worth it |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 7:55am On Aug 29, 2011 |
not worth it. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:56am On Aug 29, 2011 |
Let me just emphasize again that this is why I don't rate what most Nigerians say about Nigeria very much. Most of them, despite having lived in the country for all their lives barely know anything more about it than I do. It would be listening to some random American redneck to gain deep understanding of American society. @hercules07, at the very least is legitimately an engineer, works in his industry, and has visited this head office in Abuja. So his contribution at least has some value. Fstranger on the other hand. . . just another blustering idi0t. No engineering background, has never worked in the industry before, didn't even realize that there is more to building a satellite than aerospace engineers. Posts some irrelevant nonsense as evidence of his point. I can dig up engineering undergrads from the Mech and EE department from University of frikking Maryland and have them fill some critical positions at this company. Yet according to Fstranger, in all of Nigeria, we cannot find anyone. Because of the lack of a space program! Jesu Kristi. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 7:57am On Aug 29, 2011 |
premechaz: Hehe. Sarcasm to cover up errors and mistakes in reasoning? Will you kindly explain to us how those open positions at the company require a space program before they can be filled? Or will you dance past this indefinitely? |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by ektbear: 8:03am On Aug 29, 2011 |
premechaz: LMAO So is this the heart of the matter? You think for me NL is something to show off? An ego massage? Rather than just entertainment for me? Something I do in between other stuff? That isn't the case, whether you believe it or not. And if so, easy way to fix it is just to ignore me. If you don't like my style of posting or anything about what I do here. . . just ignore. Simple as that. |
Re: "nigeria Sat X Performing Very Well" by premechaz: 8:04am On Aug 29, 2011 |
not worth it! |
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