Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
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Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#2Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.
Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#3Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.
Are you trying to say that this is some kind of waste of money? This is literally a weather satellite to help them plan for future events, which should have a direct impact on agriculture. In my mind, a country that can go from famine ravaged to space faring within a single generation should be tremendously lauded. And the fact that it's trying to do something to help prevent another famine is commendable too.
(I realize that it's not black & white and there's likely a lot of corruption and other not-nice-things happening along the way.)
Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#4> The Chinese satellite was designed and built at a cost of $8 million, with China paying around $6 million of the capsule’s price
It is odd that the article mentions these details about the satellite cost, but then completely ignores the much larger cost of the launch itself, which should be on the order of $50M.
edit: apparantly it was a rideshare with 9 satellites total. https://www.space.com/china-long-march-4b-rocket-launches-9-...
Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#5Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.
Are you trying to say that this is some kind of waste of money? This is literally a weather satellite to help them plan for future events, which should have a direct impact on agriculture. In my mind, a country that can go from famine ravaged to space faring within a single generation should be tremendously lauded. And the fact that it's trying to do something to help prevent another famine is commendable too. (I rea…
Don't feed the troll
Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#6Ethiopia's GDP growth has been on a tear since 2000. [1]
If you visit the capital, you can't miss the Chinese influence. Last time I was there, a huge Chinese bank building was going up kiddy corner to the Airport in Addis.
BTW, if you haven't visited Ethiopia, put it on your list. It's an amazingly beautiful country.
[1] https://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&...
Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#7Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.
Food aid dumps from the US to Africa are correlated to liquidation of crop surpluses and our government price supports.
Evidence has built up that food dumps destabilize areas, undermine local food costs, drive local farmers out of business, and exacerbate suffering.
https://abcnews.go.com/WN/Health/us-food-aid-contributing-af...
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-idead-aidi-is-dead-wr_b_1...
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/world/americas/14iht-food...
As is pointed out in another comment, this weather satellite on the otherhand is going to tremendously help local farmers.
Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#8Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.
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Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#9Reading this headline I remember my grandmother, who donated 10 bucks every month for years to this famine ravaged country via some church charity. She died poor living on minimum pension. Nobody from Ethiopia ever thanked her.
Sadly, I came to the comments expecting some kind of othering and here it is right off the bat
Re: Ethiopia has launched its first satellite into space
#10> The Chinese satellite was designed and built at a cost of $8 million, with China paying around $6 million of the capsule’s price It is odd that the article mentions these details about the satellite cost, but then completely ignores the much larger cost of the launch itself, which should be on the order of $50M. edit : apparantly it was a rideshare with 9 satellites total. https://www.space.com/china-long-march-4b-…
It's a 70kg satellite. Would have to be a rideshare, not a primary payload.