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More pictures of the Shuttle.

More Pictures.

Exhaust. No human can stand within a mile of that exhaust. Its instant frying.

The Cockpit

thorpido:
The thought of drinking recycled waste water is somehow.

Nice trip Op.

No be me o . I be Lagos boy. We are featuring stories of Nigerian's trips overseas.

Cant remember if this was inside the Shuttle or a replica of the International Space Station.

It was getting dark and ready to rain when I was leaving. It rains a lot in Florida. the weather is just like Southern Nigeria.

Toilet of the International Space Station which is still in space. The urine and waste water is recycled and drunk as water by the astronauts who live there.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis served the United States for 26 years from 1985 and was retired in 2011. Its now exhibit at the Center and people can vist and see how it worked.

I have taken quite a few trips around the USA whenever I can. Here are pictures and experiences from my trip to the Kennedy Space Center. I was moved by the accomplishments of America in Space. Maybe Nigeria will get there to.

The Center is the headquarters of America's launch to space-where most of the rockets launched into space from the 1960s including the mission to the Moon. It has a massive museum and educational center where people can go and learn.

Fascinating trip by a Nigerian working in the USA with Delta that allowed him free travel around the world: Breakfast in Paris, dinner in Lagos, Back to work in Los Angeles! All in 24 hours Business class!.

Follow his page: https://v7place.com/index.php?topic=1259.0

Training is on!

Submissions being accepted.

Robot? Lol
Definitely self check in Kiosk.

Another session is on! Logon now. Its free!

Jashub:
It is still rubbish no matter how hard you try

Alright sir!

Jashub:
[s][/s] More rubbish to discredit the authenticity of the bible and its narratives.

How and in what way is the Bible being discredited? This affirms the Bible in my opinion.

MannyEl:
I know longer use the email again.
You can send me Hi on WhatsApp https:///2347080126206

Ok! Will do!

2020: The Year of Great Things, Strange Things & Great Surprises

Approximately 2025 years ago in the year 5BC, a large bright star appeared in the sky. To the people on Earth in those days this was a star; In ancient times, everything in the sky not the Sun or moon was a star. It This large bright star was the same one that the 3 wise men recorded in the Bible followed all the way from their home in present day Iraq to the town of Bethlehem in Israel.

Research by astronomers over the years has pinpointed this "star" to likely be a comet or a confluence of planets; since we now know that stars don't suddenly go bright or move.
Somehow in someway this "star" led these men.
Now in just 4 days from now we may see that star again. The planets Saturn and Jupiter will be so close together, they will appear to be one large bright star.
While, this event occurs regularly; infact about every 20 years; the closeness and brightness this year has not been seen in 397 years since the year 1623.
All the planets except Mercury ,Neptune and Pluto ( don't listen to Neil Tyson, Pluto is a planet!!!) can be seen almost every night in the sky; their brightness depends on time of the year and time of the night.


Source: https://v7place.com/index.php?topic=1196.0

MannyEl:
No vex. I have modified it. Kindly save my number and modify the post you quoted

Messaging you now. I mistakenly deleted your number.

Thanks.

obiekunie2:
is that pic real?

is there really a Bitcoin ATM in Nigeria??

Yes, somewhere in Lagos. Article says picture was taken in September in Lagos.

Help us vote to decide amongst the next submissions to start a business with N50,000 @ this page:
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Original Post on Nairaland in September:

https://www.nairaland.com/6149728/start-business-n50000-prove-it

During the police brutality protests in Nigeria in October, bitcoin saved the day when the government shut out protesters from using local payment platforms for collecting donations to support it.

The young, tech-savvy protesters quickly switched to using bitcoin, and in about a week bitcoin accounted for around 40% of the nearly $400,000 raised. It was just one high-profile example of how young Nigerians increasingly use bitcoin to navigate a complicated and restrictive banking and monetary system.

In the last five years, Nigeria has traded 60,215 bitcoins, valued at more than $566 million which, apart from the US, is the largest volume worldwide on Paxful, a leading peer-to-peer bitcoin marketplace. The data scraped from Coin Dance shows from the beginning of May 2015 to the middle of November this year, bitcoin trade in Nigeria have increased yearly at least 19% in volume since 2017, and the highest volume (20,504.50) was traded in 2020.

Bitcoin trade had its highest spike of 30% this year during the national lockdown in the country and the highest volume traded during the peak of the pandemic. between January and September, Paxful was reported to record a 137% increase in new registrations in Nigeria.”

The company says Nigerians make up around a quarter of its customer base with 1.3 million registered accounts. “They mostly use the platform for peer-to-peer and arbitrage trading,” says Nena Nwachukwu, Paxful Nigeria regional manager. “Remittances is also a popular use case.” Nwachukwu says bitcoin transfers are “much cheaper and faster than using traditional money transfer operators.”

The growing uncertainty and instability around the Nigerian naira, which has had increasingly divergent official and parallel exchange rates with the US dollar, has created an opportunity and practical use case for bitcoin trade in Nigeria. The divergent rates have long been a striking feature of Nigeria’s economy but more so in the last half decade as the country’s financial authorities have attempted to micro-manage the supply of foreign exchange and “defend” the naira.

In the last couple of years, other African countries, most prominently Zimbabwe, have seen a spike in cryptocurrency trade led by bitcoin, due to currency fluctuations and uncertain monetary policy. In some cases limits to the trade has been prompted by a lack of reliable local platforms.

“The lack of bitcoin liquidity was the first obstacle to solve to introduce bitcoin to Africa,” says Ray Youssef, co-founder of Paxful.

Nigerians are often restricted on international platforms such as PayPal, which does not allow payment to Nigeria, and local banks place a cap on international transactions and charge high fees for transactions due to dollar deficiency.

“People want to be able to buy and sell, transact internationally and the more the traditional channels are being restricted the more people trade crypto and mainly bitcoin,” explains Eleanya Eke, co-founder of Buycoins Africa. “And the best thing about it is that it’s almost impossible to stop. If you block the exchange it moves to Peer-to-peer platforms that are non-custodial.”

The increased awareness and availability of easy-to-use bitcoin platforms to Nigerians have largely increased bitcoin liquidity in the country, therefore solving the first problem hindering adoption. Nigerians now have several formal and semiformal bitcoin platforms to use, ranging from international platforms including Paxful, Binance, and Luno, and local ones such as Quidax, Busha, and BuyCoins. However, long-term watchers say most trading in the country is done on informal channels such as Telegram, WhatsApp bad WeChat.

Globally, there was a shift to online transactions from the physical,” says Osaretin Victor Asemota, a Nigerian tech investor. “In Nigeria, as banks were closed, the agency outlets recorded much higher transaction volumes. I think this shift was inevitable, and it is not a temporary pandemic boost.”

Bitcoin traded as low as $3,600 in March due to a massive sell-off on global financial markets has this month surged past $20,000 for the first time. While in the past, the value has increased like this only to later dropped drastically in a few weeks, some analysts say this increase may continue into 2021 as it appears it is due to the growing interest of institutional investors in the cryptocurrency.

Institutional investors such as MassMutual and MicroStrategy were reportedly planning to purchase hundreds of million-dollar worth of bitcoin, while PayPal, a top global online payment company recently added cryptocurrency to its functionality, letting people use bitcoin to pay for things online.

Source: https://qz.com/africa/1947769/nigeria-is-the-second-largest-bitcoin-market-after-the-us/amp/

Original Post on Nairaland in September:

https://www.nairaland.com/6149728/start-business-n50000-prove-it

Congratulations to @ChimPretty first winner of our N50,000 Business Grant. If you think you can start a business with 50k; make your submission now, Entries for this second batch ends on January 31st 2021.

Her Submission on September 30th 2020:
a. fashion business
b.use 30k to buy goods, use the remaining money to get a space in vesepr
c. sell on monday, Wednesday and fridays, by the 3rd week not matter as market bad reach, I must have sold all.

Real name Chinenye and a member of Nairaland, she is a graduate of Pure and Industrial Chemistry and mother of 3.



Hear her: "I sell bags(female, male,schoolboys, and travelling) both new ones and used ones at vesper market ijanikin, lagos state. The business is a very lucrative one if you have cash to invest in it. Our main market days are Monday, Wednesday and fridays. We use other days to either source for goods. With the 50k grant i will be able to increase my stock and be able to pay for a space in the market as i used to stand infront of a friends shop to sell.

A sum of N50,000 will be paid into her account in January and we will expect her to give us progress report after a month to prove to us that 50k can actually start a business.

Help us vote to decide amongst the next submissions to start a business with N50,000 @ this page:
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Designsking:
And what if Trump win?

Its not impossible, but very unlikely. Different States have different laws. Some states invalidate the vote of a faithless elector, some jail them, some fine them.

FarahAideed:
They will follow projected winnings so Biden wins

"Faithless Electors" are constitutionally allowed to change their votes. Several of them switched votes last time in 2016; just not enough to affect anything.

In the United States Electoral College, a faithless elector is an elector who does not vote for the candidates for U.S. President and U.S. Vice President for whom the elector had pledged to vote and instead votes for another person for one or both offices or abstains from voting

Israeli authorities will open King Herod’s palace-fortress in Herodium this Sunday, affording tourists the opportunity to peer back some 2,000 years and discover the lavish lifestyle of the tyrannical Roman-era leader.

The already-popular tourist destination near Bethlehem has been undergoing excavation for the past 13 years, following the discovery of Herod’s grave.
Archaeologists believe Herod decided to bury his palace near the end of his life, and this decision has paid huge dividends for the archaeological community, helping to almost perfectly preserve
much of the site for the past 2,000 years.

The king is perhaps best known for ordering the Massacre of the Innocents at the time of the birth of Jesus, according to the Gospel of Matthew in the Christian bible.

Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority will reopen the site on Sunday and it will be the first time tourists will be able to view Herodium’s arched
stairway, foyer and private, 300-seat theater.

Herod was the Roman-appointed king who ruled Judea from 37 to 4 BC. He initially stuck with Jewish traditions but gradually adopted more Roman tastes over time, as visible in the plush paintings and decorations which adorned his palace-cum-mausoleum.

This is an unparalleled archaeological laboratory,” Roi Porat, the Hebrew University archaeologist in charge of the excavations, who compared it to Pompeii’s preservation under the lava that covered it.

Features such as the palace’s broad staircase, its main foyer replete with striped frescoes with their original colors, three tiers of arches, as well as the site’s private theater booth and royal visiting room will all be open to the public.

Source: https://v7place.com/index.php?topic=1140