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2008-11-16 Africa Subsaharan

Chinese built Nigerian satellite fails in space

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Posted by john frum 2008-11-16 08:19|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 Not just children toys.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-11-16 08:55|| 2008-11-16 08:55|| Front Page Top

#2 white elephant in space...
"type" of frequency...
operated on frequencies already allocated...
"no technology can be a waste of money"...

These people are blithering idiots all. Then we have noted technologist Alhassan Zaku:

"parked, like you would park a car"...
"it would be like a loose cannon and would keep rolling about and hit other satellites in the orbit"...

How about using your vaunted technology to get your economy moving? Your citizens are dying while you screw around.

Posted by KBK 2008-11-16 09:36|| 2008-11-16 09:36|| Front Page Top

#3 I find the satellite name offensive. Ima gonna sue

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2008-11-16 11:31|| 2008-11-16 11:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Dear Friend;

Blessings. I am Minister of State for Science and Technology Alhassan Zaku...

Posted by Milton Fandango 2008-11-16 11:51|| 2008-11-16 11:51|| Front Page Top

#5 NigComSat-1

You're joking, Right?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-11-16 12:21|| 2008-11-16 12:21|| Front Page Top

#6 How about using your vaunted technology to get your economy moving? Your citizens are dying while you screw around.

It's not their technology. They sent the three hundred million dollars to China for this thing. And apparently got yentzed.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2008-11-16 13:01|| 2008-11-16 13:01|| Front Page Top

#7 Will this decrease the amount of spam I get from Nigeria? If not, why not?

Posted by Old Patriot">Old Patriot 2008-11-16 14:18|| http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/]">[http://oldpatriot.blogspot.com/] 2008-11-16 14:18|| Front Page Top

#8 "No technology can be a waste of money,"

Wow, I better get on the horn to them and fill them in on my automatic electroflangular gonkulation apparatus. It could change the world!

Posted by crosspatch 2008-11-16 14:50|| 2008-11-16 14:50|| Front Page Top

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Posted by Besoeker 2008-11-16 15:00|| 2008-11-16 15:00|| Front Page Top

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