Cyprus-Forum.com

[Cap]

I'm literally stunned..

'Entebbe, Uganda - Africans must travel to the
moon to investigate what developed nations have been doing in outer space, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said on Saturday.

"The Americans have gone to the moon. And the Russians. The Chinese and Indians will go there soon. Africans are the only ones who are stuck here," Museveni said, addressing a meeting of the Uganda Law Society in Entebbe.

"We must also go there and say: 'What are you people doing up here?'."

Museveni urged the assembly of Uganda's top lawyers to support East African integration, arguing that one of the region's goals should be to develop a space programme.

"Uganda alone cannot go to the moon. We are too small. But East Africa united can. That is what East African integration is all about," he said. "Then we can say to the Americans: 'What are you doing here all alone?'."

Museveni has vocally campaigned for a common East African economic and political zone.

Negotiations to establish a tariff free trade zone including Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and Rwanda have been ongoing for months.

Museveni on Saturday also called for enhanced political integration among the East African nations, suggesting the region would be strengthened by becoming one country.'

http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Afri ... n-20090502

- AFP

[CrookedRiverGuy]

Well, this guy is asking for a one-way ticket

[Cap]

Well, this guy is asking for a one-way ticket

lol, what shocks me is the ignorant boldness of the whole thing. Does he even realize what a massive, costly undertaking a space program is?
NASA's space budget is $8.17 billion per year.

[wyoming cowboy]

Politicians usually speak down to the intelligence of their subjects.....Imagine if Christofias went on Tv and said the same thing, how long would it take the Cypriots to send an ambulance to the presidential palace.....with a one way ticket to the insane asylum...

[Oracle]

Reach for the stars Africa!

[Cap]

Politicians usually speak down to the intelligence of their subjects.....Imagine if Christofias went on Tv and said the same thing, how long would it take the Cypriots to send an ambulance to the presidential palace.....with a one way ticket to the insane asylum...

lol Very true.

[IMPOSTALIEDUS]

and i thought only pigs flew

[wyoming cowboy]

What Christofias does do that should insult the Gc's intelligence is advocating that a true BBF solution is what he was working on with Talat....

[Gasman]

Imagine if Christofias went on Tv and said the same thing, how long would it take the Cypriots to send an ambulance to the presidential palace.....with a one way ticket to the insane asylum...

Not Christofias, but ...

Space! ... The Final Cypriot Frontier!

http://www.cyprus-forum.com/viewtopic.php?t=29500

*Wasn't long before the predictable anti TC comment was added to it.

[vaughanwilliams]

I have worked with East Africans and I can tell you they have no more chance of going into space than I do. However, they might die trying.