does Ghana support weaponization of space?
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No they were involved in the outer space treaty which forbids military use of space. Ghana is also an exelent equatorial launching site. So they may well be involved in space in the future. They signed the treaty in Moscow -  01/16/1989
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Once launched, missles cannot be stopped.  That is why we have spent so many billions of dollars trying to come up with a system of  defense for intercontinental missles.  This is sometimes made fun of with the name "star wars" defense, but the issue is a serious one: under today's technology, long-range missles cannot be stopped.\n\nThat does not mean that the North Koreans are going to aim their missle (if it works) at the US West Coast.  They aren't that stupid.  The American reaction to such an attack (and that's what it would be, regardless of the armament) would be swift and terrible.  The North Koreans know that.  Their missle, again assuming it works, will be aimed into an empty part of the Pacific.\n\nWhat is actually going on here, I think, is that the North Koreans are doing all this crap in an effort to be considered an important country.  For the last 50 years, their economy has been in the tank, they have had leaders who the rest of the world consider to be a bunch of bad jokes, and they cannot even feed their own people.  They are a basket-case country, on a part with Lesotho or Paraguay--an after thought.  But they think that they can be taken seriously and play on the world's stage, if they have nuclear weapons and long-range missles.  They might be right about that.  They have also calculated that the US is too focused on the Middle East to do much about their arms race.  They are probably wrong on that point.
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Diamonds are not high-tech, they were dug by hand and dynamite during the Sierra Leonian civil war and transported by foot to neighbouring Ghana or Burkina-Faso, and then smuggled out of the country as 'blood diamonds' or 'conflict diamonds'.  They are a major cause for conflict, just like minerals still are in Congo/Zaire/DRC whatever you want to call that territory.  So think about that before you buy your wife a diamond ring!!\n\nHigh tech, I studied high-tech in Ghana for a while.  There is an incubator of ICT (information and communication technology) based technologies in Accra, called Busy Incubator, funded by World Bank Infodev programme.  It's located upstairs of the largest privately owned high-tech company in Sub-Saharan Africa, called Busy Internet.  It's an internet cafe of 100 pcs, has conference facilities, wireless internet, soon will have WiMax pilots, restaurant, copyshop, cinema.  \n\nIn Accra, there is a major software company called Soft Tribe, they produce software for cash machines and computers to do the local cedi accounting, they now also localise Microsoft Windows for the regional market, though they don't translate it into Twi yet (most spoken language in Ghana besides English).  There are plans for a Hausa (the most spoken native/non-colonial language in West Africa) version of Vista, the next Microsoft Windows distribution, so expect Soft Tribe to get the contract.  \n\nI'd like to mention also the Kofi Annan Centre for Excellence in ICT, a training school for ICT industry in Ghana.  They also have meetings of the Linux Accra User Group every Saturday at 2pm, to develop open source software.  Expect more investment in OSS in Ghana, as it's cheap and usable for old hardware like pentium 2 PCs.  \n\nI can go on, and this is just ONE country in Africa, not even the richest one.  Every African country has a national telephone company, in Ghana it's Ghana Telecom, who provide broadband access (to a limited number of land lines though), but other ISPs also flourish, many of them satellite or wireless ISPs.  \n\nIn Accra, there are some call centres, one doing medical records processing I think, so they are stealing some business away from India already in that respect.  Ghana Telecom is planning similar moves in the long term in terms of outsourcing some business processes.  \n\nThere is a growing multimedia and film industry, if you want to count in the creative industries.  Look for Childnet and Runway 14, great examples.  Runway 14 will make a CD-ROM of Ghanaian 50th national independence day next year, along with 3D visions of the main tourist attractions of the country.  Childnet produces children's learning software with West African themes, dialect of english, and characters who children can assocaite with (no more playing with white barbies and feeling racial inferiority in the information age!!).\n\nThere isn't any high tech manufacturing in Ghana, unless you include cocoa processing and car workshops as high-tech.  The skills and the capital isn't there, a small number of tractors are locally assembled, but most busses come assembled from Brazil or China directly.  \n\nHigh-tech will take time to develop, but not necessarily more than 20 years, since Ghana has a high number of qualified engineers, who mostly work abroad in High-Tech companies like Nokia, Intel, Microsoft etc, locally there just isn't enough venture capital, skilled workers and facilities to start up high-tech manufacturing.  Should I mention political will has a role to play too.  Ghana is rich in Gold, but it allows foreign mining companies to carry it away for a minimal fee, that's not an industrial policy...
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Diplomacy doesn't sell weapons.\n\nHis sponsors see no profit in it
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Do not count on the repuglican party or their illustrious dictator to change anything as they are invested in oil and are profiting by it every day. In answer to your question, yes we do need a super human effort like the space program. We also need to use what we know to minimize the use of fossil fuels, nuclear, renewable, wind, solar, there are many ways to generate energy that we do not use.
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Yes, we have nukes.  Yes, we have chemical weapons.  We also have landmines.\n\nWe call them "special weapons" or "multipliers."
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Which launch centers?  For their nuclear weapons?  Because the country they would have been most likey to attack in that way isn't near the equator, and the shortest route is over the arctic.  For their space program?  Because it doesn't really matter where you launch from since the atmosphere is basically isometric from the surface of the Earth to the start of outer space.  If the vacuum of space were a hundred miles closer at the equator then you would benefit from launching there, but otherwise there is no substantial difference between launching from one place or another.
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Ghana is a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. Its head of state is an elected president (currently John Kufuor) with executive powers. The Parliament of Ghana is unicameral and dominated by two main parties, the New Patriotic Party and National Democratic Congress. Kofi Annan, the current Secretary-General of the United Nations, is from Ghana.\n\nTogo\nTogo's transition to democracy is stalled. Its democratic institutions remain nascent and fragile. President Eyadéma, who ruled Togo under a one-party system for nearly 25 of his 37 years in power, died February 5, 2005. Under the constitution, the speaker of parliament, Fambaré Ouattara Natchaba, should have become president, pending a new election. Natchaba was indeed out of the country, returning on an Air France plane from Paris. The Togolese army closed the nation's borders, forcing the plan to land in nearby Benin. With an engineered power vacuum, the army announced that Eyadéma's son Faure Gnassingbé, also known as Faure Eyadéma, who had been the communications minister, would succeed him. The stated justification was that Natchaba was out of the country. The government also moved to remove Natchaba as speaker and replace him with Faure Gnassingbé, who was sworn in on February 7, 2005, despite the international criticism of the succession.
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Your question is to confusing. Are you talking about how the the military helps in globalization?\n\n2 points for me
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It is  a catch 22 situation. If you don't sell arms to others, where does your arms industry go? And if you do, there is a real danger of them ending up being used against you. For example, Pakistan has provided nuclear techonology to North Korea. Now, that it is available, it can easily fall in the hands of terrorists who can use it to make dirty bombs that will make 9/11 look like a school picnic.
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Fortunately .....yes if a country has researched extensively in the field of LASERS and has a SAM missile battery installed in one of the cities that city can be protected from a ballistic missile.\nthis is called anti ballistic missile technology. but the devastation to the environment can not be checked i mean to the atmosphere . the technology involves a LASER guided missile which is instantaneously launched if the in coming missile is identified as a ballistic missile.Identifying is done by low frequency ultrasonic signals , which identify whether the head as hyper sonic or super sonic usually ballistic missiles have hypersonic heads. if the atom bomb is launched in a cruise missile the only one who can save the city and that is ...............................................GOD. in near future there are going to be anti cruise missiles too.that is why the cruise missiles are so dangerous there are only four nations possessing the capability of a nuclear cruise missile the nations are U.S.A.,Russia,France,India. because these countries have the fastest cruise missiles in the world ... the patriot of the Americans, the Marcelo of the french ,and the BrahMos of the combined Indian-Russian.
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Something like forty-one countries around the world have agencies concerned with space (outside of the US), counting both countries with native launch capacity and those without. \n\nCheck out Wikipedia below for thirty-nine of them... it doesn't include Mexico and South Africa, both of whom recently announced the formation of space agencies.\n\nJust for the record, it is not true that "only Russia" has the ability to launch people into space besides the US (I assume that was the point being stated, anyway)...\n\n China has demonstrated their human spaceflight capability twice recently, and is continuing to develop their manned space program.
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First, this is not necessarily misguided, just not really feasible. Just as we were all up in arms on 9/12 because we were unprepared for such a disaster as planes flying into the Twin Towers, when an ICBM detonates over Sioux City we are going to be very angry again.\n\nWhile I do not disagree that we need missile defense as part of a comprehensive defense of the USA, until the technology is actually ready the idea of forcing money into it will not work. Because of the immense consequences and the relatively short time periods, this system cannot rely on human control as our current technology would require; this is not Atari's Asteroids game. We must have a system that can be able to monitor and control itself, and since we cannot master that sort of technology even for the telephone system yet, how are we supposed to trust a system with ion beams and nuclear weapons to not suddenly decide to 'kill all humans!' because it sees a flock of geese?\n\nIt is not a bad idea, just an idea that we cannot effectively put into place yet. If we were to put the technology into action that we posess now (as the President has suggested), it would not effectively protect the USA but will instead convince our leaders that we are indeed protected and that we can begin to threaten potential enemies with nuclear brinksmanship without any adverse consequences. If you think we are hated now, just wait!
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Just a couple of ideas off the top of my head:\n\nGhana Public Relations, representative of the Department of Foriegn Relations (Government of Ghana)\n\nUnited Nations, Department for the Development of the Third World (I know that's not their real name, but its close)\n\nHope it helps.
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They do not have the weapons.\nThey can if they want to....many options available to them.\nThey want to prove to the world that the UNO is manipulated by the USA and western powers and this nonsense has to stop someday.
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Although there is debate about what constitutes neo-colonialism, the Belgian Congo (now the Democratic Republic of Congo) and Ghana are cited as examples of continued victimization.\n\nSome also argue that debt repayment from African countries to the International Monetary Fund also constitute a form of neo-colonialism.\n\nKwame Nkrumah, erstwhile President of Ghana and one of the chief proponents of pan-African unity, long insisted that Ghana was another victim of neo-colonialism.\n\nMore details at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neocolonialism.
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Using a space gun for  manned space flights would not be.at all, practical.  While a space gun could launch items into orbit, the acceleration would be far more than any human could survive.  A gun could, theoretically, be constructed that would accelerate it's payload slow enough that a human could ride it but that gun would have to be far too long to be practical.\n\nThe earth is a rotating sphere.  It's surface velocity is greatest at the equator.  Since the Earth is about 24,000 miles in circumference and that 24,000 miles is traveled every 24 hours the actual speed at the equator is about 1,000 miles per hour.  The Earth also rotates toward the east.  That means that the location of the gun and the direction it is firing gives the projectile a 1,000 mph head start.  That is, the projectile is already traveling at 1,000 mph before the gun is fired.\n\nPlease note where the USA chose to launch all of it's manned missions from.  Cape Canaveral is well south in the United States.  The eastern coast of Texas, near Brownsville might have been even better but something (perhaps political) prevented it.