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2021-06-25 Africa Horn

Turkey seeks to develop Space port in Somalia

A space port in Somalia? That kind of thing could only happen if God willed it.

[Garowe] The Republic of ~~The Sick Man of Europe~~ Turkey
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire...
is in talks with three countries in a bid to develop a Spaceport in Somalia and a rocket to carry out lunar landings,

Lunacy!

the head of space agency said, as Ankara continues to explore opportunities in the Horn of Africa nation.
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File under: Sublime Porte

1 Turks in Space?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-06-25 02:24|| 2021-06-25 02:24|| Front Page Top

2 Caliphates, Ertugrul,
Hamid Karzai's own LAX,
and hunting Gulens, inter alia.

We're, busy, busy Ottomans.
And shall now be bringing
outer space to Allah's own Somalia.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-25 02:49|| 2021-06-25 02:49|| Front Page Top

3 Supplying rocket tech to the Abnaa ul-Calipha in Puntland or the Wilaya al somali, while roping in other islamic or mentally retarded nations in what anyone with sense would call a fool enterprise.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-06-25 03:01|| 2021-06-25 03:01|| Front Page Top

4 Unless they can fuel a rocket with qat, this is just another channel for Erdogan to pocket some more Turkish cash.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-06-25 08:21|| 2021-06-25 08:21|| Front Page Top

5 What is this article; an application for The Bee?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-06-25 11:21|| 2021-06-25 11:21|| Front Page Top

6 I'm looking down the list of What Somalia Needs and a space port actually shows up at #119, just ahead of the Large Hadron Collider.

Snark O'The Day

Posted by SteveS 2021-06-25 13:22|| 2021-06-25 13:22|| Front Page Top

7 #6 - Snark O' The Day. Can I add "A Glacier" to the list?. Oh wait, that could actually help....

Posted by Frank G 2021-06-25 14:50|| 2021-06-25 14:50|| Front Page Top

8 122. New weed with an edible burr,
123. More rodents with poisonous fur,
124. Some names for our Prophet
that Zainab can't scoff at,
125. ~~Fine frankincense, coffee, and myrrh~~
Qat, qat, qat, qat, qat, qat, qat... qat!

Posted by Shusort Flereng7678 2021-06-25 19:13|| 2021-06-25 19:13|| Front Page Top

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