₦airaland Forum

philip0906:
~Dream Land~

Hush.

Fynist:
Hey fella i bliv in your dreams.But dnt u think in this country all of diz drims might b a nightmare.Unless u r dreaming wif your eyez Open.@poster the researchers ain't Nigerians.

What do you mean?

Few people will buy this. This is just a working, mini-airplane with car attributes/elements. Different groups of people have already made designs similar to this since the late 80s/early nineties and tried to pass them off as "flying cars", but for obvious reasons the idea didn't stick.

Not to sound like a hater, but this definitely is not what flying cars were imagined to be. That is, this doesn't square up with popular culture ideas from the Jetsons, science fiction movies, and video games of what the real flying car will be like when it comes.

The basic problem here is that this isn't some sort of levitating car or hovercraft (there are actually hovercraft already, but they aren't feasible for long distance travel or for real transport) and the aerodynamically necessary wings and general airplane design immediately tip off the prospective customer that in fact THEY (the makers) haven't actually made that big leap forward in levitation technology (using some kind of magnetic levitation, possibly the Casimir effect, or maybe even acoustic levitation) but instead are trying to pawn off a microplane with regular car attributes added in to any rich chumps that think they'll actually be able to brag that they own a flying car.

A moderator should correct the title of this thread, and spare Nigerians the illusion of success (might make us even more complacent with our low level of present achievement) and bare to them the face of the reality. We aren't going after scientific achievement with the same level of funding and societal support as Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and almost all Europeans . In a country where we would prefer that our youth, whether they stay here or go abroad, become rich bankers rather than mathematicians, rich nurses or dentists rather than biochemists, and study anything but "useless" subjects like physics, astronomy, etc. that are the foundations of knowledge, progress, and the technological (and therefore economic) power that industrialized nations have over us, how can we be surprised that we won't even cure a disease affecting a non-essential food, despite making a small (not greatly funded, or sufficiently publicized, or supported in any other way) but legitimate attempt, not to talk of the greater things which I know deep down that we are really capable of.

There is nothing wrong with being a banker, nurse, dentist, or any other practical occupation, and given that we have not yet developed the infrastructure, power supply, or manufacturing capability to develop a healthy business environment for the improvement of our employment, economy, etc it is actually very respectable to provide for one's dependents instead of chasing "dreams" of technological achievement. We cannot support financially costly research on any significant level because we don't even have extra money.

But sometimes it seems clear that we blindly worship money, the same way some of our ancestors obsessed over the useless trinkets, clothes, drinks, that European traders brought instead of the mechanisms of the ships, guns, compasses, that they first brought.

To get this infrastructure we can at least ATTEMPT to use civil engineering, mechanical engineering, and find SMART solutions to the cost and time of building the necessary infrastructure. Or we can focus our technical competence on oil exploration only (not even refining!), thus limiting our total technological expertise, and then sell ourselves out to oil companies to use the scraps they give us as payment to pay slow contractors.

To get this power supply we can at least ATTEMPT to apply physics and mechanical engineering to nuclear engineering, apply mechanical, electrical, and chemical engineering to solar energy(don't we have huge desert areas?) , apply physics and mechanical engineering to wind energy, or at least build loads of coal plants like the Americans and Chinese using the coal which we do have. Even if its not yet clean technologically, how much dirtier can Nigeria really get, considering how much damage we've already done for something (oil) that doesn't allow us to sustain ourselves. Or we can just cling to our costly generators.

To get this manufacturing capacity we have to delve deep enough into applied physics, chemistry, and engineering, to allow us to compete with or possibly take one or two leads in producing extremely affordable and useful products, that others cannot make as well or sell to as large an emerging market as well/easily (the African market) and to allow us to use this expertise for the benefit of Nigeria and all of Africa later on (i.e. encourage indigenous scientists and technological entrepreneurs first, then attempt to involve government directly). Or we can just buy Chinese made and retard our own potential and achievement.

But I'm a dreamer. *Sigh*

lol@quoting wikipedia. This same wikipedia that says that Oduduwa might be from heaven, but also admits that he might have come from the "East" (which could easily be Benin, east of Yorubaland). Anyway, I'm Edo (Bini) and have no desire to claim Lagos. At least other places in Nigeria, whether Benin, Igbo-Ukwu, Ife, Ijebu-Ode, or Oyo, despite not having the same degree of wealth or development as Lagos, are more culturally rich.

And "Lagoon" state? What a ridiculous choice. That awful choice of name alone should prevent this idea from coming to fruition. What will the inhabitants be known as? Lagoonians? Lagoon people? Lagoon-staters? Surely they could do better.

Anyhow, I don't think more states should be created. It will just provide an opportunity for more looting of government funds, the creation of useless political oligarchs and godfathers, and the promotion of sectionalism.

There really do need to be only about 5-6 regions/states of Nigeria at most, with the exception of maybe Lagos and Abuja as special territories for commerce and government. We all know the reason Nigeria is so heavily divided is to make every governor too weak to be a ruler, overlord, or PREMIER of a large enough and/or heavily populated enough area to be independent of oil handouts and thus secede (and thus balkanize Nigeria) when political disagreements arise, NOT merely to assure that each group gets its own little territory to call its own in which it doesn't have to agree with the outlook of other areas of Nigeria.

No Nigerians are involved. Lena, biotechnologist and Ranajit, pathologist, are both indians. Core banana research is now done in Uganda where the reported cure for Xanthomonas was found. The last tangible research on banana in ITTA Nigeria was done at Onne, Rivers State before the lab was closed down. Banana biology research at IITA Ibadan is almost dead as of today, just skeletal field work.

Tragic.