I have always been under the impression you build these big things and have these big mouths to compensate for your minuscule penises.

I wonder how this will hold up in a small earthquake. Can't think that it will last.

Racism. As a South African with many friends travelling abroad I need to point out that we are at least less racist than America (incarceration inequality in America) and Australia (when did Abo-hunting end again). We are working very hard to rid the whole country totally of racism. The only difference is that in Africa, the whites never attempted to exterminate the blacks and therefore the blacks are in majority.

In terms of radio silence, the sites need to be radio silent and remote, but not so radio silent and remote that you need to build a new road to access it. I really hope we pull this through. I submitted a slashdot article a while back about the cooperation of many african countries and the fact that we were the pioneers to use composite materials for the dish reflectors, but it never hit the front page.

I wonder what the water temperature at this planet's poles are

Bill Gates is working hard to create a very efficient school system where the good teachers are rewarded. As seen in a recent TED talk, head masters require an appointment to visit a teacher's class and may not demand to sit in more than one day a year. Without transparency there is no incentive for a teacher to become better at teaching. They are busy changing this.

I do not click on any "purchase" button in google to see how much an item costs, as I'm sure they have all my banking and address details stored and might just reply "this item will be shipped to this address at this price"

Somewhere the manager/funder needs to make a weighed decision on which risks to take and which to spend time and money on investigating. Unfortunately, on the Challenger, he made the wrong call. Fortunately, on the millions of other projects that do succeed, the right calls are made.

I reckon in every launch there will be some crack head who says this is too dangerous or has fundamental flaws. Excluding the mother and/or wife of the explorer. Afterwards these crack heads only get attention if they are right.

If I predict disaster on every launch for this or that reason and post it on youtube (and delete the video it if there is no disaster), I might become famous on the one time that disaster strikes.

I'm sure Americans will be searching for another planet since they are not willing to put in the slightest effort to save the environment or help reduce climate change. They did not ratifying the Kyoto Protocoll and now they start the COP17 meeting in South Africa with "we're not doing anything unless China and other countries does something as well".

China has around 4 times the population of America. How can America say anything before China exceeds their emissions by 4 times. I was hoping America would pitch up and bring some leadership with them, for instance "we understand the problem and we will start by bringing down our emissions by 10% in the next five years, no matter what the rest of the world does", but instead all we get is selfishness. I am tired of America and glad that their relative wealth to the rest of the world is falling as this is getting old.

If I was a spy, I would set the spying device on the router I've created to activate after a number of hours has passed. Say after it has been switched on for at least 2 months and continuously for a week. Catch me if you can!

I am more concerned about the information they have about me that I did not give me. A friend of mine recently registered a new user and the first thing Facebook asks is if she knew these people. A list of friends and family of her. How did Facebook get this information?

Technology in South Africa is being developed at a rapid pace as their bid for SKA is gaining ground. With the completion of the first 7 antennas on the KAT-7 project, the first use of composite materials for dish reflectors. With Namibia, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Mauritius, Madagascar, Kenya and Ghana partnering with South Africa in the bid, Africa seems to have overcome all the major obstacles associated with the project. Nokia is willing to supply the 15 petabyte per second infrastructure and EMSS Antennas have already built the first seven cryogenic low noise amplifiers. 64 dishes for the MeerKAT project has just been approved and after completion it will be one of the largest, most sensitive radio telescopes in the world."
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