Uganda's Space Shuttle

I honestly don't know what to say about this.

I have concerns about it standing up to reentry heat.

Fuck, I have concerns about it folding in half on takeoff!

Well, good for them.

Obviously, it will be a complete failure.

But it is an inspiring project and I'm sure they will learn a lot about design and engineering from their attempts.

Plus, maybe it will keep some kids off the streets who'd be otherwise engaged in criminal activity.

It sounds fun, and it might help some kids develop team work and organizational skills.

Famous quote when they are taking off:

"The jig is up!"

Anyway, if the Jamaican Bobsled Team can have a dream, why not this guy?

OMG......I just thought about it....do they have conveyor belt technology?
They might want to walk before they run with this.

Words fail me.

And when that happens to me, you know it was dumb...

I admire his chutzpah, but that's an awfully straight looking wing to stand up to a hypersonic orbital injection.

^ I think the pictures are of the plane. The title is, apparently, misleading, in that the shuttle is not being built yet, in a garden or anywhere else. They're still working on the plane.

The US could take some lessons from them.

Why yes, yes it is.

What is really sad is that they're likely to build another one before the United States does.

Hey, if they can get a Cadillac coupe Deville on the moon....

Is he Muslim?

It's important!

I would imagine not. Uganda is one of the most Fundy Christian countries in the world (homosexuality is a capital crime there). And the Ugandan mercenaries I lived with HATED Muslims*. Like they got in trouble for having a very low threshold for when they felt in danger (think 'It's coming right for us' from South Park) when they were on guard.

*and porn. Some dude left a wank mag in the shitters and we almost got kicked out. When I say these people are fucking fundy, I mean it. Had a damn Bible study/church service EVERY NIGHT. Crazy.

Then NASA has more work to do.

WTF? Didn't you read that they hate homosexuals?

Sad though that a GI can't leave a porn mag where his buds can benefit without someone having a thrombo. The terrorists have won!

They probably have a better chance of putting a man on the moon in the next 20 years than America.

Yeah Tex, that's how you tell Moslems and Christians apart. By what they believe about homosexuality.

Corrected. Uganda is not "fundy" but there is a strong Christian community. That does not automatically mean it is "fundy".

Having nightly/daily Bible studies should be normal Christianity anyway.

You and your kind don't own the word fundamentalist.

": a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles"

I consider the kind of Christianity practiced in Uganda to fall under that definition.

I don't see what's so Christian about executing people because they are gay.