Deep Thought

 International Space Station: Beehive of Human’s Activities in Space II By Prof. MK Othman The establishment of International Space Station (ISS) took 12 years with major support from the five nations in addition eleven other nations who made different level of contributions. US President Reagan was the brain behind ISS who then conceived the idea of a relatively permanent space station in 1984 and directed NASA to build it. At that time, many thought of the idea as braggadocio of American leadership after its outstanding success of sending people to moon under the Apollo 11 project fifteen years earlier.  The International Space Station became a reality and from November 2000 to date, the station has been continuously populated with scientists of different nationalities experimenting different theories and hypothesis.   The station is serviced by a variety of visiting spacecraft: the Russian Soyuz and Progress, the US Dragon and Cygnus, the Japanese H-II Transfer Vehicle...

 International Space Station: Beehive of Human’s Activities in Space At the risk of boring my readers, I am today writing on space technology, one of the most amazing wonders of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Satellite, a man-made structure hanging in space between 150 and 35,000 kilometers above the earth surface rotating around the earth while receiving and sending signals with astonishing outcomes. These outcomes are so impactful to humanity positively thereby making lives comfortable and enjoyable. Imagine life today without GSM and Internet services. The space technology is attempting to unravel the wonders of nature, the omnipotent perfect creation of the universe and the mysteries surrounding the space and its contents. International Space Station (ISS) is the busiest and long-lasting, man-made satellite hanging in space. It is the largest man-made structure ever put into space since 1998. ISS was so large that it could not be launched in its entirety a...

 Re: Nigeria’s Perennial Flood: Happening of Preventable Disaster II By Prof MK Othman I am still on the burning issue of the flood, a seemingly preventable disaster but the lackadaisical attitude of our leaders makes it happen with calamitous consequences. This is happening because the nation hardly demands accountability and transparency of the leaders’ affairs. Certainly, the day of reckoning will come here or in the hereafter, and we shall all be made to account for our deeds.  As promised last week, some additional reactions on the topic from the esteemed readers of this column would be published. Today, some of the reactions are presented to give other perspectives on the issue.   In addition to the reactions, a Lagos-based satellite television station, KAFTAN TV requested an interview on the flooding issue. One of the questions was how to prevent floods from happening here in Nigeria. The highlights of my answer on flood prevention are done using the following...