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China’s achievement in landing a spacecraft on the far side of the moon, announced by Beijing’s state media this morning, has ramifications that go far beyond the simple statement of this being a “first” for mankind. It puts China on the map of international space exploration on a par with the existing space powers of the United States and Russia – the European Union to a lesser extent – but also adds a new dimension. It is the first time a landing has been attempted on the far side of the moon, with the particular communications challenges this entails, and it has been a success.

The first response from the US space agency, Nasa, was generous, as scientists to scientists: what China had managed was a “first for humanity and an impressive accomplishment”. The response in political and military quarters in Washington, as in Moscow, however, is likely to reflect trepidation. There is now a serious newcomer to be considered.


China was late into space, sending its first astronaut into orbit in 2003 – 40 years after the Soviet Union and the US were embarking on their space race.

Now Beijing has done something neither of the other two space powers has done – that may well be because they had other priorities for their space programmes, such as manned flight, human survival in space and the fascination with distant planets, first of all Mars. After Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon – a US triumph that provided some consolation for the shock that a Russian, Yuri Gagarin, became the first man to go into space – there was a sense that the moon had been “done”. Greater challenges awaited. Will that change now, and could the moon become a potentially contested territory?

At a popular level, space has not lost its power to fascinate. The proximity of the moon and the mystery of its far side guarantee that China’s latest mission will command global attention beyond the scientific space fraternity. It will enhance China’s international standing, and could well inspire an interest in China and space among young people, as the US-Russia space race once did.

Today the challenge, the excitement, and to some the perceived threat comes from a rising China – and now not just on planet Earth.

Happy new year Reid....

More awesomeness, this year

Boko haram will never stop....buhari gives them tacit support

Joromi12:
He could not cater for his family . The nigerian parents and society go force pple to marry even even when they cant feed themselves. Nonsense

Thats why i say marriage for me would be when i have six figures

KingKingKing:
. LMAO,FELA BIG PASS EVERY OF YOUR KINS MEN! USELESS PSQUARE WEY NO FIT UNITE! NONE OF YOUR PPL REACH WIZKID OR DAVIDO!FOR NOLLYWOOD NONE OF YOUR PPL REACH FUNKE AKINDELE AND REAL OMOSEXY!

We have Genevieve.... Dont ever forget that!

Oyindidi:
Speak up if you're depressed

People, Nigerian people will consider you Weak, Impotent, if you speak up

pythonkid:
I'm just very depressed here but everyone around me seems to b happy, they don't really care bout me, God pls see me tru this hard times!! Need some balls 2 end this once and for all. The pain is just too much to bear.

Throughout last year, i was almost always at the edge of taking rxtra doses of sleeping pills, deliberately crossing slowly atimes on the highway, mixing up bleaching agents and then never having the courage to drink them.

Depression occasioned by hard luck, a sense of hopeless ness is serious man. Serious. I hope will you will survive your predicament

Buhari is Death

13k...

Hopeless lagos

They say new comers have a certain smell....

All my friend's are heathens, take it slow.

Lucem, i like the protagonist, hope he did not die. You are good.

mak81:
Dear SHEHU SHAGARI,

As you officially join the league of ancestors, Please if you see Tafawa Balewa, tell him that his sons are carrying guns 'against Nigerian state.

Tell Yar'Adua that the amnesty he granted is now business oriented for the privileged few; causing wahala.

Please if u see Ojukwu, tell him that his brothers and sisters are expecting another war.

Tell Awolowo that Nigeria is now more divided and preparing for another war.

Tell Nnamdi Azikiwe that those things that made him cross the ocean 100 times seeking for peace are coming again.

Obviously you will not see Abacha, but if u see anyone that see's
him, pls tell him that Almustapha his main man is out of kirikiri prison; tell him that even Obasanjo came out of prison and became President.

Tell MKO Abiola that another June
12 is looming and his kinsmen no longer speak with one voice.

Tell Gani Fawehinmi Senior Advocate of the Masses, that corruption is now official; tell him that even prosecution and conviction of Politicians who are looting the country dry is selective.

Please don't fail to tell CHINUA ACHEBE not to be disappointed in Nigeria, it's just that since he left to join the league of ancestors, THINGS FALL APART, Nigeria is NO LONGER AT EASE and the ARROW OF GOD is now pointing seriously at Nigeria because of THE TROUBLE IN NIGERIA, even though we've had MAN OF THE PEOPLE like you, but when we cast our minds back to the good old days, indeed we remember THERE WAS A COUNTRY...
As you join the league of ancestors, SHAGARI rest in peace...

I don't know if i should start crying for my country or just appreciate this piece

ImperialYoruba, ha haha. You deliberately poured pigs manure on your head.

You have put your tribe in the line of fire.....kapur kaput.

Anambraistson, daalu rin nne

I will give a kidney to leave this Country....

Op dont ever come back.

Nigeria is not worth it esp in this regime.

Troublemaker , dont ever come back to this country. God has paved a way for you. Dont come back....ever

KingOfAllIgbos:
Mental illness....most likely diagnosis

Paranoid schizophrenic

We all hear voices

Telling us to kill...

OneCorner:
E pain am

Still an overworked dull i.mbe

FalklandOIO:
Lol, but lemme shock you fa? According to 'him' , what made him more furious was the fact that the first child when she was conceived. The first feeling they both had was that she was prolly down with malaria or typhoid and several drugs were administered to treat a variety of illness that could come to mind not knowing she was a week plus pregnant and the child came out healthy and chubby, fine as hell and her IQ no be here. So it begs the question you be God? Why play god over what you can't determine? Awamaridi nise Olorun. If you like expose ur foetus to the harshest of infrared or x-rays if God dey ur side and the child get PURPOSE he/she will come out unscathed.

See, you shouldn't have that angle of God decides. You decide. The foetus will posses a combination of the couples gene and the environment. In this case, xray exposure is involved. This is xray ooo, not typhoid drug. My hand no dey

Morbeta11:
11,100 Bottomless pits from Edo..

U are an im.becile. A very dull im.becile.

We are facing a very serious issue of Nigerian women sold as sex slaves and this x all u can say.

A very dull imb.ecile you are.

Bipolar talking

When u have a Split personality, you wont know when the other 'unwanted' one enters the conversation.

victorian:
Me too


A friend gave birth to a child with defects they are going through hell as we speak. And the child is really an imbecileee.. I pity them. I told them, why didn't they abort? Why keep such child. They said its a sin to abort.
I say na WA o

Nothing wrong in aborting an slowpoke. They are better off ,not existing sef.

Hmm but op, your friend marriage na wa.


Am short of advice about it.
Cause people like your friend will still reconcile with his wife. And accept her back.. So I have no advice jare.

Thats just the best advice....

Infact, i have sworn to subject my wife to every ante natal test for foetal deformity. Especially, for down syndrome. I can never, would never indulge in having a child with defects. The trauma is just too much

SOFTDRINK:
You didn't answer my question.



I ask again, why didn't she tell the husband about the defects?

She could have been scared by the xray reports and made the decision impromptu.

The husband might be a staunch Catholic whom he knew will oppose abortion no matter the consequences... In this case, xray deformity. So she went straight ahead. Afterall, she would be the one to bear most (yes, people will definitely heap the most blame on her) of the psychological trauma of giving birth to a seriously deformed child

Ebirra:
It seems like u've neva bn cheated on

Well, technically... Yes

SOFTDRINK:
What stops her from reporting the defects to the husband?

That they are quarreling is not an excuse.

See, having a baby with defects x a real pain in the ass...its even better to remain childless than havr an xray deformed baby

Timil:
So she aborted a pregnancy because of birth defects when some people who have been without child for years are even praying to God that even if its an imbécile they should just give birth to one.

Her second reason is a flimsy excuse to abort a pregnancy it doesn't sound reasonable at all, why would any woman abort a pregnancy because she and her husband aren't on good terms.

No matter the kind of quarrel between them being pregnant alone is enough to end it we are talking of a child here.

From my own view the only reason why a woman would get pregnant and still go ahead to the abort it without informing her hubby, who she already has the vow of "Always and Forever" with is due to the fact that she was having an extra marital affair during the time she and her hubby were feuding and in the process she got the pregnant for another man.

So to save her marriage from crashing as well as save herself from disgrace the best option for her was to abort it, I may be wrong I may be right but there's a a greater possibility that your cousin doesn't own the aborted pregnancy.

Your cousin should let sleeping dogs lie if love still exist between them because as it stands now the level of trust between them is either broken or reduced but if love no longer exist then that marriage may be heading for the rocks but either ways your cousin needs God's guidance to see this through.

Would u rather have a child with birth defects....talk is cheao

Secondly, i think as the host of the organism ( still a foetus, not yet full fledged human,) she reserves the right to remove something growing within her that she does not have loving emotions for.

ImperialYoruba:
Yoruba has never accused Ibo of bias for your constant attack and disparage against Ibadan....or Asiwaju.

Why are you so sensitive and self-centered. What have i said thats an attack?

Tell me who i attack.

Biased Mongrel

duduade:
Continue with your gayness

Only God knows what happened between you and Alex Ekubo

Get a life. You are seriously maladjusted

ImperialYoruba:
God created pairs of everything to act as counter to each other and result in a balance. When one of the pairs changes in its counter-act, the other follows the change as well and bring about a new balance of a reduced or incresed total measure. This relationship between pairs is what produces Cause & Effect.

The Earth pairs with the Sky. The sun and the moon and their stars in the sky all have corresponding counter-acting pressure from bodies on the earth.

When the sun, for instance, is increased in intensity, that increase is its response to a corresponding increase in pressure or demand from its paired body/bodies on earth. Some have suggested thistopposite body to be the magnetic pull of the earth. We will assume it to be correct.

Humans live on earth. We take from earth, we put into earth. Our activities thus disturb the earth to great extent. Particularly our industrial waste in liquid, solid and gaseous forms into water, into soil and into the air. How much of impact are we, per metric tonne or in equivalent cubic volume of waste material, to the shift, up or down of the earth's magnetic energy?

This study and its discoveries might be a more practical approach, taken with changes in behavior, that would bring about a scientific breakthrough to better manage waste and earth ecological disturbance and thus a reduced magnetic energy, and in response to which the sun will naturally dim its own energy to maintain an equilibrium.


We might not go to Harvard or Yale, or even be able to spin out head-wobbling terms and vocabularies...but in the comfort of our native knowledge and sense we are familiar with the principle of cause & effect, taught to us through the ancient Ifa manuscripts on the essence of paired opposites and the divinities of Orunmila (sky) and Irunmole (earth).



Yoruba, the most Superior race on earth!

Mtcheeew

I wish Naija can just divide into autonomous nations like wakanda. I know Biafra will be very competitive. Iys in their blood. Singing it is my Blooooood

Fvck. He should go and tone his physique. Min of sports for all that. Yuck yuck yuck...

Well, if only one can refocus attention to minor details....but too many distractions here and there.

This hand is just nice

MorningStar233:
Sorry for u...keep talking till u enter tight corner

Spare me that