Minister, what doesnt make sense to us is this:
Why are we paying N400,000 for a round trip from Lagos to Abuja, while Europeans are spending N200,000 for a round trip from London to Paris which is even farther in distance?
You aren’t ashamed that, in big 2026, a federal highway in Benin was blocked for more than a week due to spoilage,
You aren’t ashamed that, in 2026, more than 65% of Nigerians live on less than a dollar/day,
You aren’t ashamed that, in 2026, Nigeria doesn’t have a stable electricity,
You aren’t ashamed that, in 2026, youths climb cars in Lagos & Ibadan to beg,
You aren’t ashamed that, for more than 100 days now, children are still being held captive in Borno,
You aren’t ashamed that your president doesn’t have pri & sec school certificates but miraculously has a degree certificate,
But all of a sudden, you are now “ashamed” that a person seeking to be president of Nigeria is mingling with common Nigerians?
“Speak about animals for long & you start behaving like one.” — Neo, 2026.
A 4,000 square mile patch of Bolivia is so flat that NASA and ESA use it to calibrate their satellites. Across the entire Salar de Uyuni, the ground rises and falls less than one meter. That number is also why it turns into a mirror.
Every summer a few centimeters of rain land on the salt and have nowhere to go. On normal terrain water finds a slope and runs off. Here there is no slope, so it spreads into a sheet 80 miles across and a few centimeters deep, sitting dead calm in the thin air at 12,000 feet. You get the sky twice.
The mirror then maintains the flatness. The water dissolves the top of the salt crust, spreads it around, and evaporates, leaving a fresh surface leveled to the waterline. Repeat every year for roughly 10,000 years since the prehistoric lake dried up. The salar is a floor that resurfaces itself.
When geophysicist Adrian Borsa's team drove GPS receivers across it in 2002, the surface tracked the shape of Earth's gravity field rather than any terrain. Water only knows gravity, so the crust ended up shaped like the geoid. ICESat used it as a reference and got elevation readings accurate to under 2 centimeters, about five times better than calibrating against the ocean, because the ocean has waves.
Proportionally, your kitchen floor is about 100 times less flat than the ground in that video.
Under the crust sits 23 million tonnes of lithium, the largest single-basin deposit on Earth per USGS. Bolivia produces around 2,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate a year, under 0.1% of world supply. The brine carries far more magnesium per unit of lithium than Chile's Atacama, and magnesium wrecks the standard evaporation process. FMC had a signed contract on the salar in 1992, watched Congress rewrite the tax terms, and drove to Argentina, which has been producing ever since.
The mirror is the famous part. The thing under it has been worth a fortune for 30 years and still hasn't been touched.