The President creates a "Ministery of Extraterrestrial Affairs"

[dothebeats]

NASA's been real quiet ever since this dropped

But seriously, creating such an organization and allotting resources to it during the time of pandemic when the government cannot provide for its own people is simply pathetic. It's as if this government department would help solve pressing matters at hand that its urgent establishment is of utmost importance to the president. Well, if they would be able to communicate with extraterrestrials and help with terrestrial affairs then great. Even if that miraculously work, the president of Nicaragua certainly has a few screws loose on the head, and samw goes to his advisers.

[CarnagexD]

Weirdest thing I have ever seen. I thought the diversionary tactic of the Philippine Government can't be topped off, when they decided to build an artificial beach in one of their biggest and most beautiful bays using dolomite sand to "cure the people's depression" instead of imposing flight barring and lockdown because "our chinese friends will get hurt".

[Lorence.xD]

Weirdest thing I have ever seen. I thought the diversionary tactic of the Philippine Government can't be topped off, when they decided to build an artificial beach in one of their biggest and most beautiful bays using dolomite sand to "cure the people's depression" instead of imposing flight barring and lockdown because "our chinese friends will get hurt".

Not really weird for me because United Nations has this kind of agency in case there really is alien lifeform out there. The problem with the Philippine government right now is that we want to please the people that watches us and they let the people that do not have the backing and power in their domain suffer, only way to solve is when everyone agrees that their incompetence and corrupt ways is enough and people choose the right people to be serving them.

[(o)(o)ilikeboobs(o)(o)]

I don't think they have the economic and technological potential to handle these kinds of problems. Currently, countries such as Russia, the US, China, and India are making every effort to explore space and deal with earth-related issues such as meteorites. The appointment of a minister for extraterrestrial affairs is questionable and a waste of manpower when it comes to solving problems within the country rather than from outside the earth.

[coin-investor]

Whatever the motive it's a stupid idea all the nations' focus now is getting a vaccine and fighting COVID, they may have a good motive for that idea but the timing to create and make it materialize is not right, they should first get the vaccines first and vanish COVID in their country before thinking of creating this idea, which to most of us is just a stupid idea.

[just_Alice]

That looks like a stupid move on their side. Besides, I don't think that Nicaragua even has the facilities to go on with this mission. It looks more like a deception maneuver, to draw peoples' attention off the real problems, like the pandemic, which they are handling very poorly.

[verita1]

It is an attempt at demagogy on the part of the President of Nicaragua.
It is what I think, the country has economic and social problems. Creating a Ministry implies granting economic resources to operate in some way. I found a clear statement from a qualified person in that country in the following article.

Geologist Jaime Incer Barquero, president of Nicaragua’s Academy of Geography and History, told CNN: “Nicaragua does not have a scientific capacity or tradition, does not have a serious (space) observatory. We are not scientifically able as a country to undertake this type of research. "

https://apnews.com/article/nicaragua-extraterrestrial-space-affairs-4dd5c84b9fc4b766c6390e88b22f3a12

[LUCKMCFLY]

Well Nicaragua is a somewhat opportunistic country in a certain sense in its politicians, now if they create a ministry of this type it is because they want to attract attention, what is strange to me is for what? what is the purpose of this? draw the attention of whom? From an economic point of view, I think it wants to attract countries with some curiosity about this topic, although we do not know if lately due to the multiple UFO sightings, any alarm has been raised and they want to know what it is? being a bit optimistic, this may be happening.

I find it somewhat intriguing that there are so many trips to Mars, so many explorations, what are they looking for? Is there some kind of insider information that we don't know yet? these things are to think ...

[iamsheikhadil]

Very interesting  A ministry of extraterrestrial people is a nice idea, but the question is, would the aliens accept such ministry's proposals? Or would they just laser and vaporize such ministers along with the species those ministers are from? I think if we ever make contact with aliens which are as intelligent as human or even more, these ministry and their cheap politicians will be the first to go underground in fear of death

[tygeade]

Politics is a weird thing. The insides of it is so filthy that no regular decent human ever becomes a "good" politician, or at least not someone who would get votes, normally "good" people can't even sustain in the political environment, and that is why they end up not having long careers there. There are of course few, but I do not care who you are, where you are from and who you like, the most probable outcome is the fact that if you voted for someone, there was a better person than your candidate that wasn't an option.

The result is people who are willing to do filthy stuff and get dirty end up at the top and those people are idiots, they became politicians because they were idiots who wanted a lot of money and power without actually working for it, just having that position would help them have both of it so they went with that. And that causes us to have these kinds of funny headlines.

[AndySt]

It all depends on what financial and human resources will be allocated by the government to implement this idea and how far into the future the plans go beyond the hypothetical creation of a spacecraft. Therefore, such a loud name as "ministry" should show the seriousness of intentions, especially since the example of the United Arab Emirates shows that with proper funding and cooperation with the state that already owns the necessary technologies, it is even possible to launch a spacecraft into the orbit of Mars.

[ene1980]

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This is no joke, Ortega, president of Nicaragua is the political leader of a country that is struggling with economic and social issues. Currently, they are having difficulties to even get enough COVID vaccines - perhaps no the only ones.


What seems to be an stupid idea is actually an attempt from the president to sell the idea of Nicaragua building a satellite for  a Chinesse company. This seems to be as realistic as the last promise about building a second "Panama Channel".

I am a bit confused, what are they planning to do with it. Is Nicaragua building a satellite for a Chinese company and do they have the resources to make them cheaper as they are known to make things cheaper. Coming to the terms you said, ultraterrestrial is related to paranormal activities if i am not wrong and it has nothing to do with outer space and satellite  .

My guess is that the relatives of the president will be appointed in this strange ministry, just wasting tax payers money .

[perfect999]

Ortega, president of Nicaragua is the political leader of a country that is struggling with economic and social issues. Currently, they are having difficulties to even get enough COVID vaccines - perhaps no the only ones.

However, the president has seen fit to create a "Ministery of Ultraterrestrial Affairs and Celestial Bodies". I only have the link in Spanish. Would it be better to create a Ministery of Extraterrestrial Affair, bitcoin and cryptoassets?

What seems to be an stupid idea is actually an attempt from the president to sell the idea of Nicaragua building a satellite for  a Chinesse company. This seems to be as realistic as the last promise about building a second "Panama Channel".

Creating all those things are unnecessary, what exactly does he plan to achieve with that? And also the one you mentioned about creating a ministry for cryptocurrency, what’s the need for it? There are already bodies in the government where such things can fit, there is no need to be creating a separate body for it.


Anyway, I think your president should be more focused on other things that are going to help his country during these difficult times and not spending time and money on things that are leading them to nowhere. The problem with these politicians is that as long as they are okay and don’t feel what the citizens are feeling, they wouldn’t care, they mostly care about things that affects them.

[Rruchi man]

This is no joke, Ortega, president of Nicaragua is the political leader of a country that is struggling with economic and social issues. Currently, they are having difficulties to even get enough COVID vaccines - perhaps no the only ones.

However, the president has seen fit to create a "Ministery of Ultraterrestrial Affairs and Celestial Bodies".

Perhaps if we look at the brighter side of things, from another angle, we can say that the president is looking to create an opening for more individuals to be employed. Usually when new ministries are formed in a government, human labour is required, both the skilled and unskilled will gain from this. What i just hope for is that nepotism is not involved in the employment or recruitment  process.

[GeorgeJohn]

This is no joke, Ortega, president of Nicaragua is the political leader of a country that is struggling with economic and social issues. Currently, they are having difficulties to even get enough COVID vaccines - perhaps no the only ones.

Is not that they are having difficulties to get the vaccines, the problems of current politician's now is corruption, many of them are inquisitive to obtain all the finance that will be of benefit to less privileges, tell me what it will takes government to endorse signature for release of money to obtain vaccine for adequate treatment of people,  observe very well it's difficult before we find a credible and a transparent leader that have the interest of masses at heart, so majority of leaders are there because of their personal interest.