Prosperous Project Management: Growing food for Mars?

Prosperous Project Management

Tips, techniques and pragmatic strategies for excellent Project Managers, Toastmasters and high personal achievers. Wayne Botha is a rare Project Manager, with passion for achieving results through Project Management, while improving inter-personal relationships, and developing Project Managers in the process. Wayne is a faculty member at Toastmsters Leadership Institute and Axia college of University of Phoenix.

Friday, September 14, 2007

Growing food for Mars?

I saw a video today of an experiment taking place on the International Space Station. Scientists are researching ways to grow plants that will thrive on Mars. These plants will supply food that will support humans when we occupy Mars, allowing people to grow their own food supplies.

I wonder how many US Tax Dollars go into this experiment. We are paying mega-bucks for trips to the space station, shuttling astronauts and supplies through the atmosphere to conduct nonsensical experiments like this? Hello? Planet earth calling! Hungry people on earth, dying of cancer and aids, and we are investing millions of US Tax Dollars to grow plants on Mars?

Don't want to sound materialistic here, but where are our priorities?

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Name: Wayne Botha

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Wayne Botha is one of those rare people who can say he is a project manager, author and speaker and mean it. He is a past Area Governor for Toastmasters International and an enthusiastic Toastmaster. Wayne is a faculty member of Toastmasters Leadership Institute and has trained audiences in South Africa, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia and the USA. With an MBA in eCommerce, and a PMP certification, Wayne is sought out to speak at Toastmasters and Project Management conferences. Wayne's colleagues and friends often tease him about his South African accent.