Just when we were gearing
up to eventually shout “hurray” when millions of Nigerians and other Africans would
have access to free internet courtesy of the very humble and young 6th
world’s billionaire, Mark Zuckerberg some ’Space X’s’ launch failure” is
reported to have destroyed the satellite that would have brought this much
anticipated ‘hurray’ sooner to our lips.
Trust a real ‘big boy’
Mark as all that was reported about his reaction according to sciencealert, was
that he was "deeply
disappointed" by the SpaceX
prelaunch test explosion that destroyed his first satellite for Facebook.
Wow! *My eyes rolling*.
A project worth as much as $195 million, convert that to naira and tell me if
you don’t get a headache, especially at this era of how much to a dollar. Even some
calculators would go “out of rage” given
that amount. All that money, just gone down the drain. Just like that! Was this
some form of sabotage or what? Imagine the number of communities that amount
would feed for the next couple of years.
Nevertheless, we
are consoled in the fact that our “hurray” may still be heard as Zuckerberg has
assured us that they would still remain committed to their mission of
connecting everyone and would keep working until everyone has the opportunities
the destroyed satellite would have provided and this according to him will be
made possible by other technologies which they have developed such as Aquila,
the company’s drone project that will still connect people as well, having been
designed to provide high speed internet.
Hmmm! Talking about always having a ‘Plan B’ in all projects we embark upon. Thank you Mark!
And so while we
wait, let us keep managing our data, pending when this ‘miracle’ from
Zuckerberg manifests or materialises.
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