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@ femi4

ur nut serios, wat do yu mean yu need ppl to improve
de old wan una get, wetin una use am do
haw hav yu guys improved the lives of nigeria??

@mod

Fabulous E:

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!! i smell danger.from the Hands of The North ( BOKO Haram) using some evil hands to revage Harvoc in Nigeria. Though, its an Improved individual Invention in Naija. E try!

Fabulous E:

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!! i smell danger.from the Hands of The North ( BOKO Haram) using some evil hands to revage Harvoc in Nigeria. Though, its an Improved individual Invention in Naija. E try!

He needs to work on it or get support from Iraq who will retrain him,

Hope you all know that the fireworks we shoot up during festive periods is a solid propellant rocket, it even more complex than what the mallam has done as it also contains an explosive payload at the end of the solid propellant.


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The date reporting the first use of true rockets was in 1232. At this time, the Chinese and the Mongols were at war with each other. During the battle of Kai-Keng, the Chinese repelled the Mongol invaders by a barrage of "arrows of flying fire." These fire-arrows were a simple form of a solid-propellant rocket. A tube, capped at one end, contained gunpowder. The other end was left open and the tube was attached to a long stick. When the powder was ignited, the rapid burning of the powder produced fire, smoke, and gas that escaped out the open end and produced a thrust. The stick acted as a simple guidance system that kept the rocket headed in one general direction as it flew through the air. It is not clear how effective these arrows of flying fire were as weapons of destruction, but their psychological effects on the Mongols must have been formidable.

guy take a chill pill,
i tink am spot on actually. nd plus we dont work in de same place stop deceivin ppl
i tink ppl ( de Nigerian tax payers) need to know wat yu guys are doin with our HARD earned cash
i tink dis guy cud really help yu guys out

25omega:

What you fail to understand is that yes he didn't invent the rocket tech but it's not like he has had all the oppurtunity to learn what the rest of the world knows. Even the person who so called invented the wheel probably saw a natural stone which was cut round and it looked like that would roll better. When are nigerians going to start being proud of accomplishments even if it not up to the standards of the western world.

Good job to this guy i pray he continues to work hard and improve his trade.

i wish we know what development in science and technology really means!!!! kudos to the dude for wat hamas fighters and unschooled talibans know the right mixture of chemicals that will produce a rocket with a known range, and a university graduate did that in nigeria, and it made it into the newpapers. The school that came 3rd in 1996 JETS competition came with a rocket. To develop technologically doesn't mean starting from the scratch, it will always be a wasted effort. It is not the "inventor" 's fault, but the fault of his lecturers who have not idea on how to properly direct/harness the effort of their students (BTW, I finished from Minna too in 2004) .

we will never grow if we celebrate "copy and paste" of a  >100-yr-old  tech

modash:

guy take a chill pill,
i tink am spot on actually. nd plus we dont work in de same place stop deceivin ppl
i tink ppl ( de Nigerian tax payers) need to know wat yu guys are doin with our HARD earned cash
i tink dis guy cud really help yu guys out

how come we share the same ip address if we are not working in the same organisation?
The Nigerian tax payers money is meant for invention of new technologies and not duplication of old ones.

Nigerians, clamoring over the wrong things. Its not bad that he's developing rockets but of what use is it when we can buy better ones from the market besides the nigeria we live in, he'll soon be fund starved and as it came, it'll go.

There're more pressing needs that northerners need especially in agriculture not warfare we dont need it. Water is a humongous problem in the north, let him invent a creative way of harvesting water and see his fortune swell

Ivention or innovation. That ias not the issue. This guy is building something great from scraps. wHAT WILL HAPPEN IF IT ENDS UP IN THE WRONG HANDS?

blink182:

Nigerians, clamoring over the wrong things. Its not bad that he's developing rockets but of what use is it when we can buy better ones from the market besides the nigeria we live in, he'll soon be fund starved and as it came, it'll go.

There're more pressing needs that northerners need especially in agriculture not warfare we dont need it. Water is a humongous problem in the north, let him invent a creative way of harvesting water and see his fortune swell

You crawl, then you walk. No country has done it any other way. The fact that the technology is centuries old is not the issue. The issue is that it took us this long to have technical citizenry tinkering with such old technology.

birdman:

You crawl, then you walk. No country has done it any other way. The fact that the technology is centuries old is not the issue. The issue is that it took us this long to have technical citizenry tinkering with such old technology.

We are saying the same thing presented differently. This is something that if nigeria is serious, she can sponsor her bright engineering citizens to learn this stuff and we can jump start. See what japan and china especially the asian tigers have done with their economies. Thailand earns its revenue from exporting oil to europe, palm oil and even to nigeria from seeds they took away from nigeria years back. Everyday I see these things it annoys me. I would have left but if we all leave who will make the country great

The Chinese or Indians did not grow technologically by someone re-inventing western technology in their backyards. They did it by getting their best brains to copy what the west had and providing them with resources and facilities to achieve this. We have to realize that celebrating individuals that re-invent a cruder form of already existing western technology is going to get us no where, the government, big businesses, multi-millionaires and billionaires have to take interest and invest in a technology by getting smart people to work on specific projects.

If the government or some rich individuals sponsor 20 first class graduates in engineering or physics for example to china or the U.S to understudy and learn how to make rockets, sets up a facility in Nigeria and arrange for all materials needed to be supplied, we will be manufacturing rockets left, right and center. The problem is not that we cannot make the rockets if we want to, the problem is we do not want to.

500 years ago if you could divide 25/6 by long division, you must be a great scholar or mathematician, but now most people with basic education can do that, same analogy is applicable to rockets today, 30 years ago it was a big deal, but now almost every country that wants to can make rockets from Pakistan to Iran. A well educated Nigerian can easily go to any country that makes rocket and learn it and produce the latest rockets not someone making ancient forms of rockets and we are celebrating like we are lesser forms of humans.

oncolor:

The Chinese or Indians did not grow technologically by someone re-inventing western technology in their backyards. They did it by getting their best brains to copy what the west had and providing them with resources and facilities to achieve this. We have to realize that celebrating individuals that re-invent a cruder form of already existing western technology is going to get us no where, the government, big businesses, multi-millionaires and billionaires have to take interest and invest in a technology by getting smart people to work on specific projects.

If the government or some rich individuals sponsor 20 first class graduates in engineering or physics for example to china or the U.S to understudy and learn how to make rockets, sets up a facility in Nigeria and arrange for all materials needed to be supplied, we will be manufacturing rockets left, right and center. The problem is not that we cannot make the rockets if we want to, the problem is we do not want to.

500 years ago if you could divide 25/6 by long division, you must be a great scholar or mathematician, but now most people with basic education can do that, same analogy is applicable to rockets today, 30 years ago it was a big deal, but now almost every country that wants to can make rockets from Pakistan to Iran. A well educated Nigerian can easily go to any country that makes rocket and learn it and produce the latest rockets not someone making ancient forms of rockets and we are celebrating like we are lesser forms of humans.

You are seriously seeing things from my point of view

Please please please remove this from the front page and stop disgracing us jeeez

Adrenaline:

Please please please remove this from the front page and stop disgracing us jeeez

You are so right, its so embarrassing

Some peeps here think that Naija is at the same level with India Pakistan, not to talk of a whole China.

Arosa:

Some peeps here think that Naija is at the same level with India Pakistan, not to talk of a whole China.

Come to think of it nigeria has the potential to be as rich as USA, JFk said it independence and that we had the resources to achieve it in 4yrs but yet we are among the poorest nations in the world. Where do we stand? With Sudan, please help me

blink182:

Come to think of it nigeria has the potential to be as rich as USA, JFk said it independence and that we had the resources to achieve it in 4yrs but yet we are among the poorest nations in the world. Where do we stand? With Sudan, please help me

At best, yes. Remember some of our very best brains studied in Sudan. and many more hope to go there.

blink182:

Come to think of it nigeria has the potential to be as rich as USA, JFk said it independence and that we had the resources to achieve it in 4yrs but yet we are among the poorest nations in the world. Where do we stand? With Sudan, please help me

Can Nigeria be as great as the USA? yes! are we making any major moves in that respect? No!

What kind of rocket?  LOL.
Let me give him a hint on what to invent.  A "RocKCar" or Trucket or OKADET ( a propulsion jet made from Okada).
Now, that is invention.
Maybe he needs to start thinking of a beaming machine.  That way I can beam myself from my room in US to my Nigerian home bedroom in a matter of seconds.  What about a flying train?  Nigeria can use that, now that she is rejuvenating her train service.  
No reinvention.  Be original.

Very soon, He'll be in demand

creating Nigerian made Katyusha rockets for Boko haram

Yes! Why just some cannot fathom a Nigerian designing a rocket irrespective of his tribe. You aggots should just get ur ass up and get doing something. What doing is ought doing well.

We have the talent, the system we operates cant let us forge ahead. bad rulership.

Wetin dey do some NLanders sef?
If he had designed & built a UMV such as a drone, would u guys say 'cos other countries build their own, d chap should mess off.
True, this is not an invention, we must give him kudos, support &financing.
D military shld pick interest in him, 'cos of d pro-defence capability.
Who knows, 1 day Nigeria will b making Stinger SAM's.

Not really an invention; rocket science has been invented decades ago but it's good start. It's good to know the basic of everything before criticizing the latest.

Wetin dey do some NLanders sef?
If he had designed & built a UMV such as a drone, would u guys say 'cos other countries build their own, d chap should mess off.
True, this is not an invention, we must give him support &financing.
D military shld pick interest in him, 'cos of d pro-defence capability.
Who knows, 1 day Nigeria will b making Stinger SAM's.

Why do we have people who do nothing but specialise in making negative comments on nairaland? The boy may not have invented it, but it is not the product we should be looking at, instead we should be looking at the spirit behind his work. Practice, they say, makes perfect. As an engineer myself, I know what it takes to get a project to work in the first place. With his knowledge, he can delve into other things more complex and gradually start doing great things.

Remember that Nigerians have been importing matches, toothpick and all what not. If your junior brother comes up to start producing safety matches will you say he is reinventing the wheel? Of course he is not, but at least he will save us importation costs and the embarrassment that at our age as a country and with all our wealth we are still a consumer nation.

A good military rocket costs about $20,000 for each one, if the boy can produce something similar and equally effective for a fraction of that cost, won't it be a job well done?

Some years ago, another guy in Kano built an helicopter and tested it publicly in a field. The helicopter hopped up to 5 metres height and came back down several times while covering a distance of about 120m in the process. A sensible country would take this boy and his likes into a lab where they will try so many models to get it right. And get good pay for it too. But in the case of the Kano boy, police soon came to arrest him that he was building it for armed robbers! He was detained and tortured for almost a week.

A 21 year old indian designed a prototype of a low-cost effective car model and presented it publicly. The Indian government quickly grabbed the boy and bought the copyright from him for millions. That same year, India rolled out these new cars which only cost about N300,000 for a new one ($2000).

All over the world young guys are making waves turning old ideas to new products and re-inventing ageing concepts, finding new ways to get things working better and they all started like this. Owners of microsoft, facebook, skype and even our own nairaland are examples.

Na wah for all these negative minded people o!

allanohize:

Why do we have people who do nothing but specialise in making negative comments on nairaland?
, instead we should be looking at the spirit behind his work.
, but at least he will save us importation costs and the embarrassment that at our age as a country and with all our wealth we are still a consumer nation. Na wah for all these negative minded people o!

U spoke my mind.
I prefer 2 c a cup wt water half way, as half-full to half-empty.

allanohize:

Why do we have people who do nothing but specialise in making negative comments on nairaland?
, instead we should be looking at the spirit behind his work.
, but at least he will save us importation costs and the embarrassment that at our age as a country and with all our wealth we are still a consumer nation. Na wah for all these negative minded people o!

U spoke my mind.
I prefer 2 c a cup wt water half way, as half-full to half-empty.

Dude, if rocketry was what Nigeria needs right now I'll be jumping up and down.