I have no dog in this fight, but it’s not the straightforward picture you paint here.
Building a food delivery app, the 10 millionth fintech app etc is very different from building a “defense company for the global south”, or building the “LLM for the global south” etc.
There are certain businesses that play directly into geopolitics; defense is one, information, semiconductors, energy are another.
It’s sad a company as distinguished as Terra has to seek outside capital to build, more particularly seek it from the devil (you know who).
But it’s stupid to blame them, they already mentioned they tried raising from local funds to no avail.
That’s why I find it funny when people assume Africa could somewhat work or be built from a capitalistic angle. There’s never going to be proper industrialization (which we badly need), without government intervention.
Even the very capitalistic America, works because of the government. If you’re doubting it go do a bit of reading on the lengths the government go to for the big dogs.
Companies like Terra are meant to be mostly government backed. Do you even know how critical defense is? Imagine building a system which when critically needed could be rendered useless with a single call from Washington.
We speak big about sovereignty but Nigeria and most of Africa are still very much as colonized as they once were just rather unofficially. Dependency on foreign capital, foreign infrastructure, with no will to break out of the mess we are.
China already did the homework, we really just have to copy. Until then, let’s keep salivating at the idea of “sovereignty”
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I don’t really understand the maths it takes to send humans behind the Moon and bring them back safely. And the more I sit with that, the more it genuinely messes with my head even tho my love for physics and my knowledge of physics is astounding to a point
Somebody had to work out a path where the Moon’s gravity is pulling you in, the Earth is pulling you back, and you’re moving just fast enough and not slow enough not to get trapped by either. They had to figure out the exact angle to come back into Earth’s atmosphere too. Too steep, you burn up. Too shallow, you bounce off and drift into space. And they had to get all of that right at the same time, for real people sitting in a small metal capsule about 400k kilometres away from home.
Nothing in that system is standing still.
The Moon is moving.
The Earth is moving.
Even the Sun is pulling on everything. And still, some people looked at all of that motion, all of that chaos, and turned it into numbers you can follow. Go here.
Adjust here.
Come back here.
And unlike nepa light, it infact works.
There’s also that moment in the journey where the crew passes behind the Moon. No contact with Earth. No signal. Just silence, with a massive rock blocking everything they’ve ever known. The only reason they can stay calm in that moment is because someone, somewhere, did the maths and proved they’ll come out the other side.
I don’t know what it feels like to trust something that much. To put your life in an equation when you’re that far away from everything.
But I do know this for sure, whatever that level of thinking is, whatever it takes to reach it, it might be one of the most extraordinary things human beings have ever done...
Someone could go to school for 4 years and study aerospace engineering, then get a PhD with a dissertation related to orbital mechanics, and some instagram influencer who watched a youtube video will be like "actually that guy is wrong" on a topic related to space travel and people will believe them.
I'm not sure how we got here, but I hope we go back to a society where credibility is earned with rigorous training in the associated field, not by a popularity contest.
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Jos attack is another evidence of failed leadership..
Leadership that prioritizes politics over protection of lives..
Choosing rather to waste our collective patrimony in pre-election jamboree and pre-coronation plans..
Posterity will judge a leadership that now emboldens,enables and replicates what it once vehemently condemned..
I believe in the power of prayers but prayers won’t replace responsibility..
We need humane leaders..
These current folks have zero affiliation with empathy…
We are tired..it’s depressingly exhausting.
We stand with the families who lost loved ones and pray for fortitude to bear the irreparable loss..
And for those who will engage this tweet to support failed leadership for the crumbs they offer you,pls show your irritation via good grammar..
So even if I am irritated by your intentional delusion,I would be encouraged by your mastery of words..
AJS.
This is the sickest shit I ever seen. What kind of disgusting tradition is this? Even animals don’t be doing this shit.
Shame to all the men in this video.
The government of Delta state needs to intervene and shut down whatever culture or tradition this is. @DSGovernment
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