My recent visit to Zimbabwe

 The journey was well planned and it took us less than 10 hours to reach our destination from Pretoria South Africa to Mvuma central Zimbabwe.  A lot of construction is happening on the roads. Harare to Masvingo Highway is complete and the remaining part which was left between Beitbridge and Masvingo is being completed.  Surely by December it should be done. Though there is a lot of money being miss used, there are elements of success. Harare to Beitbridge road was a death trap, the road had so many potholes, had no shoulder no fencing to protect  animals from entering the road and some parts even worn out that left it narrow in a way that two trucks cannot pass without one having to go out of the road.  Those improvements form part of the new Government's transformation policy. There is job creation and slowly improving the standards which has been declining for more that 20 to 30 years. Surely Rome was not built over night. At the border you can see significan...

Trip to Mars? You’ll die on the way, says Elon Musk

 

Trip to Mars? You’ll die on the way, says Elon Musk

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched more than 100 rockets in the past decade and plans to establish a human society on Mars
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has launched more than 100 rockets in the past decade and plans to establish a human society on Mars
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Elon Musk has predicted that “a bunch of people will probably die” going to Mars during attempts to populate the red planet.

The billionaire chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX, who has predicted a manned Mars landing by 2026, warned that the voyage to the planet would be an “arduous and dangerous journey where you may not come back alive”.

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“You might die, it’s going to be uncomfortable and probably won’t have good food,” he said during an interview with Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation, which rewards scientific innovation.

Musk is the world’s second-richest man, with a fortune of $151 billion
Musk is the world’s second-richest man, with a fortune of $151 billion
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Musk plans to establish a human society on Mars and set up SpaceX in 2002 specifically to build rockets to carry thousands of human settlers to the planet.

“Going to Mars reads like

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