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05/05/2009: "Ugandan president plans African moon mission"

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?'."

"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?'."

[ They have so much spare money that they could just do that couldn't they? The whole way this crazy idea is presented shows the Ugandan president must have the mental age of a 3 year old. ]

http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2510263,00.html

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on Tuesday, May 5th, Ninety Nine said

The moon ain't made of cheese, and even if it were, most sub-Saharan Africans are lactose-intolerant! Name one thing invented in East Africa during recorded history. Egypt is North Africa, so it doesn't count! Do these people realize how much engineering, science, money, work, all the effort that went into the Apollo program, not to mention the preliminary Gemini, Freedom, Explorer, Vanguard, and all those space programs? Some astronauts even died in the process, such in as the Apollo 1 fire. I think the closest that East Africans will get to the moon (without do-gooder others doing it for them) is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyGB6ZW5YJE and go to position 9:16.