I'm sure he was going to use a broomstick, witchcraft is a real thing here. Just yesterday some guy killed a hyena that attacked him in his but wait for the twist, the hyena turned into his uncle 😅 so yeah, I'm sure witchcraft was going to fill his rocket ship😅😂😝
To be fair... Zambia probably wants people to forget this man as he's probably more of an embarrassment than hero folklore... then again he was buried with Honors from the Zambia leader. So I have no clue.
@@robertw1800 I think he may represent something real in the near future maybe perhaps we may turn his ignorance yet curious approach into something meaningful and beautiful someday
No, he wasnt White. White Men do actually spend their time inventing almost everything good and useful. Cating for and saving all of the other Races. You all are welcome. 😎
Zambian here and huge fan of your channel. When I saw the title I cringed first and THEN clicked. Nkoloso is always a cringey topic here. You handled it very well! Never heard the alternative theory about it being a covert freedom fighting operation. That actually makes sense. Absolutely loved this, warm greetings from Lusaka.
This reminds me of when I was like 7 years old and planned to launch myself as high as possible in a refrigerator box using Estes rockets and a parachute (whose origin had yet to be determined…bed sheets, perhaps?)
I was in Zambia five years ago, and I have to say I had a great time, the people are lovely, I don’t know if they can make it out to the moon, but I had a good time anyway
I also find it sad. He was so inspired and enthusiastic about space travel, that he thought he could accomplish what the super powers and War funding hadn't after 25 years and tens of billions of dollars. The whole time not even knowing just how much he didn't know.
@Steiner Facts. There’s not a single good competent African country. If Africa somehow broke off and floated into space it would be a net positive and the world’s collective IQ would increase.
I can only imagine how hard it was for Nkoloso to see his ideas stolen by the Soviets and Americans. I'm glad he's finally getting some well deserved recognition.
In "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", the Luna resistance threw huge metal-capped rocks at Earth using an electromagnetic catapult, so the idea is not dumb at all.
I almost just choked because I laughed so hard when I heard GWAR mentioned in a TH-cam video by an Irish Dude telling me about the Zambian space program and their prep for a moon shot. I live in Richmond, Virginia, USA and GWAR are some of my hometown heros! Keep up the good work buddy. Your videos and storytelling never fail to put a crooked grin on my face, thanks tons!
The idea that this was all just his 4D chess play to teach young people how to make bombs in plain sight is one of the coolest things I've heard in a while. Why haven't I heard anyone propose this before?
It happens more often around the world than you think, but in a different form. Underground political movements in particular set up schools in the countryside for kids to learn but also to be indoctrinated into their ideology (most often communism).
I was a schoolboy in Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia, from 1967 to the end of 1969. We watched the moon landing on TV at school. I remember this "Space Program" being reported in the Times of Zambia newspaper and a lot of people having a good laugh about it.
Back in 1984, I was working a Trade Fair in northern Zambia's copper belt region. I was employed by the United States Information Agency and we were to demo farm management software. Quite a few of the people who visited our booth, honestly thought the computer was magical. Of course, most folks knew better but I can see some folks falling for this sort of thing. They were not stupid by any means just had not been exposed to much of the information we now take for granted. Before we laugh too hard at them, the US government was paying me and several others to demo computer software to people who lived on tiny family farms without electricity.
I had to go back, pause and stare at Zambias advanced military division and the more you look the more hilarious it becomes. I think the metal parts are just layers of aluminium foil stuck in layers onto cardboard. I am crying. Painted motor cycle helmet!
You should google it. They have a walking “tank” that looks like a child’s toy AT-ST from Star Wars only did leg day for 400 years straight… that they then dipped in more plastic and used cardboard for armor
He's just like Black Wolf Dragon Master or Moondog before him, they all lived in a dream world and they even were called crazy but were suprisinlgy sane and left a legacy.
When they showed him being interviewed wearing a cape, i realized that my cartoon imagining of the entire situation was closer to reality than i ever deemed realistic. We needed this story.
@@GeraltofRivia22 Sometimes insanity is preferable to being sane🤷🏻♂️ given the things he went through, it’s no surprise he went for a coping mechanism.
@@Cybermat47 Sadly no african nation has anywhere near the intellectual capacity to reach for the stars. The level of complexity required is just beyond them.
@@Blake4014 No nation on earth has intellectual capactity to reach stars. It's far too complex. We humans assume that science can achieve everything, given enough time. I don't think that's necessarily true. There may well be things that are impossible to achieve. Interstellar travel in a reasonable timeframe (few weeks to months) may be one of those things.
I’ve read about this before. The guy, they say, had also been planning to send some of his trainee astronauts on a round space-trip to the sun as well. Getting burned to hell wasn’t a worry at all because brilliantly enough, his plan was to go there during the night. He even had ready the plans of this fantastic space trip, but there was one hurdle in his path, or rather as he himself put it, just a minor technical problem and which, he added, was trying to figure out how to locate the sun in the darkness of the night.
As a French man I laughed all along the video, thinking this guy had an absolute top notch provocative humor, and was a world class practical joker. I wish there were more like this, the world would be a funnier place.
Guys iam from India and .... I dont support mocking any nation for their ambitions and dreams They were sure very ignorent idiotic and it seems like madness but they were optinistic we should sypathise with them we do started our space program from a rented church with people living in extreme poverty in surrounding villages but we succeeded with almost no budget ....the parts of the satellite and rockets were carried and transported on faulty bicycles on muddy roads our scientist sacrificed everything their salary their comfort ...denied America's high standard life when nasa gave then offers and worked 24/7 for India I support and encourage Zambia in their quest for science and knowledge despite adversity
I'm shocked you mentioned GWAR, I've been to two of their shows this year, mostly because they were touring with my favorite band Nekrogoblikon, but yeah their shows are absolutely insane, back in June when I first saw them I got pushed out of the mosh pit right to the front of the stage, I cannot tell you the reaction at the bar later when I walked in drenched in blue and red and exhausted out of my fucking mind
This man is a genius. Who in the world would have even dreamed of Zambia having a space program. This reminded me of when Fred & Barney joined the army and volunteered to be shot into space to get out of it. I loved the weightless training.
I definitely think the third theory is the most plausible, as it would also explain why Nkoloso continually set up the Zambian Space Agency near whatever day job he'd acquired. Continually moving around would make a freedom fighter training camp harder to locate. Probably some fun going on there too, what with how two of em just went on a drinking binge and never returned.
@@GodOfFuck AGREED, being an American from Hawaii, I get alot of attention from everyone especially the women, I'm cool with it but my wife absolutely hates it haha
@@superstar5123 you be VERY surprised there buddy, especially if you see what I look like, but I doubt you would know anything about that now would you
I think he absolutely was either just making one big joke or was covertly training freedom fighters. He was extremely well educated, even more so than most college graduates today. I doubt he genuinely thought he could get to space with an empty oil drum and nothing else.
Yes , "Afronauts" ! They travelled through space in a giant pick comb , to boldly go where no bro has gone before ! 🇿🇲🚀🌛 🎶Waaah-waaaah , wah-wah-wah-waaaah🎶. 👾🛰👽 🖖
I love seeing this in my updates! Woohoo!!! Let's go Qxir! Can't wait to watch, you never disappoint brother! Update: did not disappoint this guy's a very interesting person, I'm thinking when people said they didn't know if he was crazy or eccentric I was reminded of a quote " the only difference between insane and eccentric is what the person has in there bank account"
I think it’s a mixture of being a freedom fighting front and being a satire. There’s no way he actually thought he could get them to space, not unless he had severe mania. On an unrelated note, I’m going to start my own space program.
@@MistaTofMaine He was too educated to think he could walk on clouds. He was trolling when he said that. The fact that people believed him proves his point that Europeans and Americans underestimate Africans
@@Methus3lah the European underestimate Africans becuase most foreign aid and support comes from them. Africans rely I foreign aid to stay afloat. And now China has entered the foreign aid game.
Being part of that space program would probably feel like a weird fever dream. Like you know something feels off but you just dont know what and you roll with it
I can't help but to admire their moxie. To be as industrially far behind as they were and yet still endeavor to take on such an ambitious goal.. just astounding
I remember Spike Milligan doing a TV sketch on the Irish space program, where the plan was to blow up a shed (full of Irish astronauts) up to the Moon. It's on U-Tube, somewhere. The real life Irish space program was scuppered when they couldn't find a large enough bottle to launch their space rocket from. The plan had been to land an Irishman on the Sun (at night).
Similarly I remember Benny Hill doing a sketch about the British space program. I think the ship was supposed to be made of wood and cardboard (if I remember correctly).
The idea of this being purposeful satire is actually pretty genius now that I think about it. Converting “primitive martians” and “walking on clouds” seems a bit too specific to be complete deranged madness. And understanding the history of what the guys been through is pretty substantial evidence. Or he could’ve had his mind broken by torture, and the beauty is that we’ll never know.
I'd like to think it was clandestine gruella fighting school. All the fertilizer and tnt? Rocket fuel of course. All the young men running around doing exercise, just getting in shape for the mars mission. Well, yes of course they have rifles on their runs, what if the martians are armed? All those maps with government offices marked - that's just so we know where to point antennas for emergency communication...
Qxir is very quickly becoming my favorite informational TH-cam channel! Qxir covers the kinds of topics I love to read about, and the way he talks about things is so fun to watch!!
Thank you funny Irish man, I legitimately had like a self reflective insight when you brought up the GWAR point and realized that the program might not just be a weird African cult.
2:01 Off to a good start. Just duct tape a trashcan lid to the top, move the rocket onto 50 kg of dynamite and look at that brave afronaut go to heaven 👍
As a child instead of getting inside an oil drum and rolling down a hill we used a tractor tire, the fact that this was made to roll had its own "problems" it went too fast quite quickly and didn't want to stop until it hit the house at the bottom of the road, also it rolled so well it did have a "technical" side effect (actually several) but chiefly it made you extremely dizzy and you really didn't want to have eaten before trying to "fly" as you often lost your dinner, we never thought of calling it a rocket :/
i found myself inside a tractor tire going downhill once , for fun purposes , the tire had a pool of water that we just ignored ,the tire started rotating and the water inside the tire started to slosh around , lets just say i got spanked hard on the head and the ass, i toughened it out and played it like nothing happed didnt mention the water spanking me just so that the next kid gets the same spanking ,and oh boy did he get spanked !!!
ow... now I'm sad, he looked like a cool guy that wanted to have fun and had dreams, not many people are like him, I myself always tried to be more or less like him actually, at least he was honored when he passed away, but I think he actually deserves more, what a cool guy, hope you were able to reach the stars wherever you are now ⭐
@Ava Jayna "Feilda Borshon" With the increasing prevalence of smallsats and rideshares, the barrier for entry to access to space is getting smaller and smaller. I imagine we'll see more minor space programs with satellites in the future. There's also the approach taken by countries like Canada; they lack the resources to launch their own rockets, but specialize and join in international efforts. They lead the world in robot arms for space. Every space shuttle flew with a Canadarm in its payload bay, and most incoming craft berth with the ISS via Canadarm 2. And as a participant in these programs, they've had their astronauts fly in over a dozen missions.
I'm pretty sure it was the 2nd theory there at the end of your, yet another fantastic video! I must say I was overcome with joy hearing he recieved "presidential honors" at his funeral so much so without a single thought I found myself verbally acknowledging his recognition "Good on ya!" and I'm not typically know for copying our Austraillian cousins terms but there it was. Thanks for all your great content, I feel like I know you in some tiny way. At least apreciating your humor from across the pond like a cousin, and Hell the Brittish did colonize all of us gifting only really a mostly common language. I love those videos on here about all the history and nuance between each former and current Vassal state's version of the english language, linguistics is damned interesting and the sketch out the videos like you do for Tales From the Bottle...
The only time he doesn't do animations is in the Last Moments series as those are all about deadly tragedies. He's just had a recent run of multiple videos for that series and a couple un-categorized vids about his adventures using AI art generators.
he sounded like a good leader despite his flaws. I cant say this man is laughable in any sense. many would have turned into a tyrant being through that and then given power. sounded like despite what they chipped away from the man still left a honorable good natured individual who sought to give those around them a sense of purpose and self worth. this man was a hero.
It's amazing to see what went on behind the scenes. Who would have guessed while we all thought Zambia was really in the world's first to space race this is what they were doing behind the curtain.
@@debasishgoswami9896 100%! Guaranteed these guys have more mechanical skills than most Americans who half don't know how to change a tire or change their own oil. That's who I laugh at 😂
The fact he was a science teacher reminds me a lot of my teachers in high school and college after I learned everything as a nerd adult...some times speaking well and obedience to the checklist is the only requirement to teach
Edward is well equipped, he has his anti-mind control hat and a superhero cape. His dedication to sending a female afronaut, a missionary and two specially trained cats. Awesome, may this legend live forever. Apparently, the afronauts spent too much time having sex and not studying.
That would actually make a great movie. Especially if you stayed true to the real story up until close to the end and use Nkoloso as an unreliable narrator. Has he finally cracked and started hallucinating? Is he telling tall tales for fun or satire? Did it actually happen?
I’m sure this guy was no fool. The line about getting out of the plane seems like peak African comedy but also there are so many factors that make it seem like a moving training centre for resistance fighters. What a fascinating figure
My friends and I had a space program a few years ago. It involves using recycled, cardboard, refrigerated boxes. It may or may not have been four years old.
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Is there any way I can give more than one like to this video (like...1000 likes)?
@@cmznuke you could by making multiple accounts
Currently India has a large space sector
"He wanted the plane to stop so he could walk on the clouds."
The reality this guy lived in sounds trippy.
No way he was serious about that....i refuse to believe that...
Mushrooms, ???
I mean this was 1960s Africa, so
Yea man, he's trippin on the good shit, home grown in Zambia
Most endearing shit i heard all day
Their space program makes me think of kids playing with boxes in their backyard imagining that they're traveling through space.
Have you seen African aviation?
That's a fun one. Qxir should do a video on it.
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That's all the space programs actually . Billion dollar lies
it makes me think of elon musk and his imagination of being successful and intelligent
@Blox117 who?
@@Blox117 Sounds like someone's worried about getting their feefees hurt on Twitter. Silly goose.
Nkoloso’s belief in Martians and walking on clouds was stated as if I was supposed to accept that without question.
He did!
Bro, are you really trying to him the benefit of the doubt? Why?
I'm sure he was going to use a broomstick, witchcraft is a real thing here. Just yesterday some guy killed a hyena that attacked him in his but wait for the twist, the hyena turned into his uncle 😅 so yeah, I'm sure witchcraft was going to fill his rocket ship😅😂😝
I believe it
@@ochat2010 cause hes black
"Afronaut" sounds like one hell of a Funk album
This album should have been the soundtrack for "Space Jams."
The only reason why George Clinton never used the term is because this guy got to it first
sounds like an earth wind and fire production
usually the prefix indicates the medium in which the person ("*naut") is going to travel.
so in fact, they couldn't be more precise with that name.
I feel like a racist saying it 😂
It was never about going to space, it was about the friends they made along the way.
That's what a mom with a non-athletic son will say to him you didn't make the team son but at least you made friends 🤣😂😂😂😭😭😭😭
And the baby that was also conceived along the way lol
Bruh 💀
Greatest comment here. I laughed my nuts off at this!!
Is this that one piece meme
Zambia is literally the last nation I imagined with a space program.
Have you tried their cannabis? That’ll send you in a cerebral trip into another dimension, allegedly
🚀 🐒
uh oh the "progressive" crowd are coming for this video and your comment
cant say anything bad about the chosen ⬛ people
I imagine things in alphabetical order too, it's okay.
I'm curious about how the US/SR would react if Zambia successfully landed on the moon before either of them
Incredulous amazement , no doubt .
Shock, followed immediately by an invasion.
Operation paperclip but just for one guy
We would’ve shot it down.
*frantically begins scribbling the intro to an alternate history novel*
I had to pause and give myself a laughing break when I heard the term afronaut.
Sounds like a 70s funk porn skit
You were laughing? I wasn't 😆
That point, i was sure he wasnt nuts😂😂😂😂
Afronaut could be the name that they would use in Wokanda
As a Zambian I have to say the fact I found out about this on TH-cam and not in school speaks volume💀
Yep. Be very wary of what they DO teach you. Histories being rewritten globally!
cos its embarrasing and stupid.
Ye
To be fair... Zambia probably wants people to forget this man as he's probably more of an embarrassment than hero folklore... then again he was buried with Honors from the Zambia leader. So I have no clue.
@@robertw1800 I think he may represent something real in the near future maybe perhaps we may turn his ignorance yet curious approach into something meaningful and beautiful someday
This man was a genius, he tricked the world into thinking he was stupid so he could play space cadet all day and get paid for it
Was he white
That's a cope. lol
No, he wasnt White.
White Men do actually spend their time inventing almost everything good and useful. Cating for and saving all of the other Races.
You all are welcome. 😎
@@Cinerarythere smart on there way as they still stay to there traditions due being silence by colonial powers
Nah that’s a cope argument. If it was a ploy, dude was in it for years.
Zambian here and huge fan of your channel. When I saw the title I cringed first and THEN clicked. Nkoloso is always a cringey topic here. You handled it very well! Never heard the alternative theory about it being a covert freedom fighting operation. That actually makes sense. Absolutely loved this, warm greetings from Lusaka.
Do you think it's likely it was satire, or do people there think he was in earnest?
Hey, I'm looking for a penpal from Zambia. If you are interested, let me know and I will send my email address. Thank you, sir!
I'm going with covert freedom fighters with a bit of a middle finger to the world. This is based on my experience as an American soldier.
Zambian here, I will redeem us from this soon
@@African_experience Like, creating a new space program?
This reminds me of when I was like 7 years old and planned to launch myself as high as possible in a refrigerator box using Estes rockets and a parachute (whose origin had yet to be determined…bed sheets, perhaps?)
Thank god I am not the only one *I did it to my friends *I was the flight controller I remember doing that when I was six
i kept trying to fly by flapping my arms lol
Imagine if they actually succeeded and the first footage from the moon was just a dude crawling out of an oil drum
With no space suit!🍺
@@rangerjones5531 Advanced breathing techniques
😂✌🏼
@@orangequill1645 and heavy cosmic radiation protection
@@childreninmybasement1 Made up by NASA to sell more EVA Suits
I was in Zambia five years ago, and I have to say I had a great time, the people are lovely, I don’t know if they can make it out to the moon, but I had a good time anyway
Mexico sent an orca to the moon so anything is possible.
they have some good emeralds
@@KP-ty9yl It is a gorgeous country with lovely people!
Smh if only their space program got that 2 billion dollars. Zambia would be ruling the moon
@@KP-ty9yl yup, That's where Elon's wealth started
As a Zambian 🇿🇲 I find this funny, admirable and inspiring all at the same time
@Ava Jayna "Feilda Borshon" it sure does lol
I also find it sad. He was so inspired and enthusiastic about space travel, that he thought he could accomplish what the super powers and War funding hadn't after 25 years and tens of billions of dollars. The whole time not even knowing just how much he didn't know.
@Steiner Facts. There’s not a single good competent African country. If Africa somehow broke off and floated into space it would be a net positive and the world’s collective IQ would increase.
@@___DRIP___ you sus
@@___DRIP___ your @ is indicative of white supremacist ideology
I can only imagine how hard it was for Nkoloso to see his ideas stolen by the Soviets and Americans. I'm glad he's finally getting some well deserved recognition.
Nothing can within Afronauts
This is a joke, right? Neither the Americans or the Soviets stole anything from Nkoloso.
@@zoltancsikos5604 They stole his triumph.
@@zoltancsikos5604bruh, im all for denying sub saharans glory that they most certainly can not achieve, but its obviously a joke…
@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895you're not the sharpest tool in the box, are you?
Reporter: "So how do you intend to launch into space?"
Nkoloso: "Behold our creation!"
Reporter: "Is that a catapult?"
It’s about to get real
Lol it’s flat earther level but let’s be fair no formal education sooo yup about right
The fool, ignoring the superior technology that is the giant slingshot.
@@nicholasfarrell5981
Nkoloso: "Slingshot? How do you know about our super secretive Space-Y program?!"
I mean, catapult-esque mechanisms have been seriously explored with the capacity to yeet things into space, so it's not that crazy of an idea.
In "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress", the Luna resistance threw huge metal-capped rocks at Earth using an electromagnetic catapult, so the idea is not dumb at all.
I almost just choked because I laughed so hard when I heard GWAR mentioned in a TH-cam video by an Irish Dude telling me about the Zambian space program and their prep for a moon shot. I live in Richmond, Virginia, USA and GWAR are some of my hometown heros! Keep up the good work buddy. Your videos and storytelling never fail to put a crooked grin on my face, thanks tons!
Im from Hampton Roads, I had no idea they were local to Richmond.
Hello fellow locals from the tricities area
Hello from Virginia!!!
It's spelled "GWAR" but pronounced "SPLOOGE!"
@Rich, are you sure it's a grin they put on your face and not something stickier? 😜
The idea that this was all just his 4D chess play to teach young people how to make bombs in plain sight is one of the coolest things I've heard in a while. Why haven't I heard anyone propose this before?
I mean to be fair if presented such facts, what conclusion can you draw from it?
It happens more often around the world than you think, but in a different form. Underground political movements in particular set up schools in the countryside for kids to learn but also to be indoctrinated into their ideology (most often communism).
How is that Cool.
@@GODCONVOYPRIME you can make thinks go Kaboom in a decentrilazed way.
@@derederekat9051 eheheheh I considered it ORKY
This is as inspirational as the Zimbabwe man who manufactured his own Helicopter…it never got of the ground, of course.
I was a schoolboy in Kabwe (Broken Hill), Zambia, from 1967 to the end of 1969. We watched the moon landing on TV at school. I remember this "Space Program" being reported in the Times of Zambia newspaper and a lot of people having a good laugh about it.
You are old.
@@chikapunk4340and? Even if they are, what's it matter?
@@commandercody2980 he’s about 70 years old right now
@@chikapunk4340 so? Does this matter? Does this mean that, for some reason, he can't be on youtube?
@@commandercody2980 he was alive during the first moon landing lol
Back in 1984, I was working a Trade Fair in northern Zambia's copper belt region. I was employed by the United States Information Agency and we were to demo farm management software. Quite a few of the people who visited our booth, honestly thought the computer was magical. Of course, most folks knew better but I can see some folks falling for this sort of thing. They were not stupid by any means just had not been exposed to much of the information we now take for granted. Before we laugh too hard at them, the US government was paying me and several others to demo computer software to people who lived on tiny family farms without electricity.
Bullshit, I’m sorry but your story is weak lol it’s ok though
Technology missionary
@@cadennorris960 Tech-Priest?
@@americangamer1632dear god
literarily 1984
I had to go back, pause and stare at Zambias advanced military division and the more you look the more hilarious it becomes. I think the metal parts are just layers of aluminium foil stuck in layers onto cardboard. I am crying. Painted motor cycle helmet!
That was Ghana's
You should google it.
They have a walking “tank” that looks like a child’s toy AT-ST from Star Wars only did leg day for 400 years straight… that they then dipped in more plastic and used cardboard for armor
That was GHANAS
At some point you gotta feel bad for zambia, like a thousand or so U.S. marines could perform a successful invasion
@@sonariantutorials2438
Well, and yet it managed to break free from the most powerful empire of its time.
dude is wearing a cape, totally legit 💯, no questions from me. Zambia 🇿🇲 to Mars 2024
He's just like Black Wolf Dragon Master or Moondog before him, they all lived in a dream world and they even were called crazy but were suprisinlgy sane and left a legacy.
@@henrikmonkee No.
When they showed him being interviewed wearing a cape, i realized that my cartoon imagining of the entire situation was closer to reality than i ever deemed realistic. We needed this story.
How else would he be aerodynamic in air-less space?!
"Space Cape"
NO CAPE!
This story is surprisingly wholesome
If you count torture and a man having his mind broken wholesome.
@@GeraltofRivia22 with everything he lied about, why think this is gospel?
@@rangerjones5531 because we know the British did torture anti colonialist fighters.
@@GeraltofRivia22 Sometimes insanity is preferable to being sane🤷🏻♂️ given the things he went through, it’s no surprise he went for a coping mechanism.
@@GeraltofRivia22 well he deserved it.
There is no way this wasn't an elaborate joke. This man was a world-class troll, he knew exactly what he was doing.
If he was sad that they wouldn't stop a plane so that he could walk on the clouds, then this guy was atleast 80% serious about this.
@@pipopoikapelaa5468what makes you think he was being serious when he said that?
@@Cybermat47 The average IQ of the nation.
@@Cybermat47 Sadly no african nation has anywhere near the intellectual capacity to reach for the stars. The level of complexity required is just beyond them.
@@Blake4014 No nation on earth has intellectual capactity to reach stars. It's far too complex. We humans assume that science can achieve everything, given enough time. I don't think that's necessarily true. There may well be things that are impossible to achieve. Interstellar travel in a reasonable timeframe (few weeks to months) may be one of those things.
I’ve read about this before. The guy, they say, had also been planning to send some of his trainee astronauts on a round space-trip to the sun as well. Getting burned to hell wasn’t a worry at all because brilliantly enough, his plan was to go there during the night. He even had ready the plans of this fantastic space trip, but there was one hurdle in his path, or rather as he himself put it, just a minor technical problem and which, he added, was trying to figure out how to locate the sun in the darkness of the night.
This is an old polish joke
@@steamedyam
Now, it's a Zambian joke.
As Bob Dylan once said, The times they are A-Changin
He must have watched those old French films where the man in the moon got his eye put out by the rocket.
He should consult with AOC.
As a Zambian, I can assure you this space program was comedy
African comedy is world class. Now if the world can only learn it and appreciate it more.
@@thomasjay4498 nah he was serious 💀
Yes, it was comedy and deadly serious at the same time.
As a French man I laughed all along the video, thinking this guy had an absolute top notch provocative humor, and was a world class practical joker. I wish there were more like this, the world would be a funnier place.
shut up african
Sad that a war veteran like Nkoloso was treated so horribly by the empire he defended. Thanks for a humorous, yet thought-provoking video!
That's the great British empire for you.
@ azamtheawesome look how well everybody is doing now that they are gone.
@@sabrinatscha2554 I assume you mean not very well right?
@@sabrinatscha2554
Canada is doing well, better than the UK right now. The Brits left some 155 years ago.
@@JB-yb4wn I can tell you right now we are not doing well at all
This is the history africans need to embrace, no stealing Egypt, no claiming native status of other people's.
Exactly. No Wewuuzzery once and for all
Another thing that would help us not bringing up stuff like that when it isn’t relevant. Obsessed.
Egypt is in Africa. DEAL WITH IT!
😂😂😂😂
@@lukewright9031Mexico is in North America, does that mean USA and Canada get to claim the Aztec heritage as their own? 🤣 🤣 🤣🤣🤣
they should do a movie about this guy. what a legend
I'm in!
That's what I was thinking. Eddie Murphy would've been classic in this.
Oh this definitely deserves 2 thumbs up!
yeah, aim for the moon land among the stars!
Someone did accidentally made a game about this guy, Kerbal Space Program, the instructor looks like a kerbal version of him too.
We had a similar space training program at my cousin's house one summer. We even had a space walk simulator, aka, a trampoline. 😂
😮😮😠😁😆👍👍
That would have been a revolutionary technology in the Zambian Space Training Center.
@@nikita4734we can bounce off to moon!!!!! Lets goo
Well? Don't keep us in suspense. How did your program go?
All joking aside, trampoline practice would probably do more to prepare you for space travel than this stupid "space program".
All fun and games until you send a first colony ship to Mars and it gets taken down in orbit by a landside Zambian base with heavy AA fire.
This is exactly what happens if you try to research space program without school, combustion, rocketry, and flight first
Guys iam from India and ....
I dont support mocking any nation for their ambitions and dreams
They were sure very ignorent idiotic and it seems like madness but they were optinistic we should sypathise with them
we do started our space program from a rented church with people living in extreme poverty in surrounding villages but we succeeded with almost no budget ....the parts of the satellite and rockets were carried and transported on faulty bicycles on muddy roads our scientist sacrificed everything their salary their comfort ...denied America's high standard life when nasa gave then offers and worked 24/7 for India
I support and encourage Zambia in their quest for science and knowledge despite adversity
yeah they dropped their plans a while ago. You are preaching to the clouds
@@YoY664
how does 1,3 billion nation not get enough money together to fund space program
I'm shocked you mentioned GWAR, I've been to two of their shows this year, mostly because they were touring with my favorite band Nekrogoblikon, but yeah their shows are absolutely insane, back in June when I first saw them I got pushed out of the mosh pit right to the front of the stage, I cannot tell you the reaction at the bar later when I walked in drenched in blue and red and exhausted out of my fucking mind
"Hey! Hey Mark! You love Gwar! Why don't you _join_ the band? Woah Mark man you play a mean guitar man! "
Should've seen them before Oderus died, was such a unique experience
Ive never seen another human being mention Nekrogoblikon let alone claim them as their fav band 😂
@@igitha..._ is that a quote from Empire Records (1995)
At my first Gwar concert the guy standing next to me was hit by meat they fired from a catapult into the audience
This man is a genius. Who in the world would have even dreamed of Zambia having a space program. This reminded me of when Fred & Barney joined the army and volunteered to be shot into space to get out of it. I loved the weightless training.
lol he had a sub-80 iq. He wasn't a genius. You're just coping.
You're my favorite channel. Each of your videos are creative and engaging. The topics are always fun and interesting. Thanks!
@LeoS is your dad back with the milk yet?
@@funguseaterAI what do you mean?
This has come as a surprise,they were obviously far more advanced than I thought they were.
I definitely think the third theory is the most plausible, as it would also explain why Nkoloso continually set up the Zambian Space Agency near whatever day job he'd acquired. Continually moving around would make a freedom fighter training camp harder to locate. Probably some fun going on there too, what with how two of em just went on a drinking binge and never returned.
Oh no, they were sober.
We're going to Mars!
With a spacegirl, two cats in a missionary position.
spacegirl got pregnant and the program was scrapped, remember these people built the pyramids
🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂🤣
Pretty sure that's a different "mission"
😂😂😂😂😂
Still way better than my Kerbal Space Program missions
100% fewer deaths.
@@pseudotasuki Well, that's no fun.
Very very.
@@pseudotasuki 100% more pregnancies though!
Still haven't successfully left the hangar.
8:22 Four nations* You forgot Zambia.
Lmao my wife is zambian, she's laughing hysterical at this
Zambian girls r smoking hot . Ive dated a few .
@@GodOfFuck AGREED, being an American from Hawaii, I get alot of attention from everyone especially the women, I'm cool with it but my wife absolutely hates it haha
@@brythehawaiiguy2356 Doubt women or anyone actually care about you being from hawaii
@@superstar5123 you be VERY surprised there buddy, especially if you see what I look like, but I doubt you would know anything about that now would you
@@superstar5123 You must be fun at parties.
I think he absolutely was either just making one big joke or was covertly training freedom fighters. He was extremely well educated, even more so than most college graduates today. I doubt he genuinely thought he could get to space with an empty oil drum and nothing else.
So educated he wanted to walk on clouds.He wasnt allowed to open his own school because the authorities realised hes a idiot
I can't help it, I laughed a little harder with each iteration of the word "afronaut"
Yes , "Afronauts" ! They travelled through space in a giant pick comb , to boldly go where no bro has gone before ! 🇿🇲🚀🌛
🎶Waaah-waaaah , wah-wah-wah-waaaah🎶. 👾🛰👽
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I kinda like that the phrase..
Racist!!!
I praise their keeping on dreaming and not let reality kill their spirit
The fact that he had a dream and he tried and tried to work with the resources he had is inspirational enough
You can say whatever you want about him, but you have to respect your tenacity.
The man wore a cape during training like a true spaceman. Godspeed, legend.
I love seeing this in my updates! Woohoo!!! Let's go Qxir! Can't wait to watch, you never disappoint brother!
Update: did not disappoint this guy's a very interesting person, I'm thinking when people said they didn't know if he was crazy or eccentric I was reminded of a quote " the only difference between insane and eccentric is what the person has in there bank account"
The quality of this video and stick figure graphics might even rival that of Zambia's space program 😂😂😂
As a non Zambian I’m really proud of the spirit of my people
I can respect the tenacity.
All hail Afronauts
@@coffeelink943 o7
Higher quality of life than someone living in India, you should be proud.
@pulakification who scammed you
The space race has given us a lot of corresponding technology. Tang, ICBMs, and from Zambia that guy that speed reads books in two seconds.
I think it’s a mixture of being a freedom fighting front and being a satire. There’s no way he actually thought he could get them to space, not unless he had severe mania.
On an unrelated note, I’m going to start my own space program.
Who knows if this guy was bummed an airline pilot didn't stop a plane mid air so he could dance on a cloud than nothing surprises me about this guy.
@@MistaTofMaine He was too educated to think he could walk on clouds. He was trolling when he said that. The fact that people believed him proves his point that Europeans and Americans underestimate Africans
I think that man has a serious trauma
@@Methus3lah the European underestimate Africans becuase most foreign aid and support comes from them. Africans rely I foreign aid to stay afloat.
And now China has entered the foreign aid game.
@@Methus3lah man got a motherfucking law degree. No matter how dumb he was, he wasnt that dumb also this whole thing seems like an elaborate shitpost
It's sad , but funny as hell at the same time.
I aspire to have this level of belief in my own abilities as Nkoloso had in his space program. If I achieve this, I might actually publish my book.
What’s your book about?
@@justkittensbeingkittens5892 its about relationships, and how we can be better people so that we can be better lovers ❤️❤️❤️ thanks for asking!
@@MrGrace try to go for it man. The best things often come when you take that leap. Hope everything works well 👍
@@krys9455 thank you Krys! I sure will ❤️
Did you publish your book?
Being part of that space program would probably feel like a weird fever dream. Like you know something feels off but you just dont know what and you roll with it
It's like being high on industrial glue and having to pretend it's mushrooms just to ride it out
Go Nkoloso!!! Not the hero we want, but the one we deserve!
I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one invented the famous phrase " THE MOON LANDING WAS STAGED"
I can't help but to admire their moxie. To be as industrially far behind as they were and yet still endeavor to take on such an ambitious goal.. just astounding
@contrapasso1539 yes, kinda like the thin veil of sarcasm on my post.. but I do agree
You missed the point entirely
@MultiSciGeek so.. you can't read sarcasm either? Talk about missing the point.. you ever heard of a joke, Mr know-it-all?
What a treat to see the most advanced African natuon on Earth! You guys really have it together.
I remember Spike Milligan doing a TV sketch on the Irish space program, where the plan was to blow up a shed (full of Irish astronauts) up to the Moon. It's on U-Tube, somewhere.
The real life Irish space program was scuppered when they couldn't find a large enough bottle to launch their space rocket from. The plan had been to land an Irishman on the Sun (at night).
Similarly I remember Benny Hill doing a sketch about the British space program. I think the ship was supposed to be made of wood and cardboard (if I remember correctly).
This is 1 of the 3 best comments here. Jolly good indeed.
One thing we could've learned from Zambia's space program was their fashion. I'd love it if our astronauts wore stylish capes.
Capes in 0 G are just blankets you get tangled up in. They should definitely walk around on earth with them, though!
Edna Mode from the Incredibles Franchise said it best: NO CAPES!
The idea of this being purposeful satire is actually pretty genius now that I think about it.
Converting “primitive martians” and “walking on clouds” seems a bit too specific to be complete deranged madness. And understanding the history of what the guys been through is pretty substantial evidence.
Or he could’ve had his mind broken by torture, and the beauty is that we’ll never know.
When you know its NOT satire you understand why people thought what they did about them in the past?
If you're from Africa, you will know it's not satire.
I'd like to think it was clandestine gruella fighting school.
All the fertilizer and tnt? Rocket fuel of course. All the young men running around doing exercise, just getting in shape for the mars mission. Well, yes of course they have rifles on their runs, what if the martians are armed? All those maps with government offices marked - that's just so we know where to point antennas for emergency communication...
Being African seems like it would be fun. All the civil wars aside it seems like they have fun out there
@@Dan-yk6sy darn, you beat me to it, and yea i agree
I love how he treats this like a massive high tech space program but it’s pretty much a bunch of teenagers playing astronaut
Giving the Brits a run for their money when it comes to being eccentric. I like him :D
Qxir is very quickly becoming my favorite informational TH-cam channel! Qxir covers the kinds of topics I love to read about, and the way he talks about things is so fun to watch!!
Thank you funny Irish man, I legitimately had like a self reflective insight when you brought up the GWAR point and realized that the program might not just be a weird African cult.
2:01 Off to a good start. Just duct tape a trashcan lid to the top, move the rocket onto 50 kg of dynamite and look at that brave afronaut go to heaven 👍
Really wasn't expecting to hear Gwar mentioned here, love em saw em live about 2 years ago even weirder in person
As a child instead of getting inside an oil drum and rolling down a hill we used a tractor tire, the fact that this was made to roll had its own "problems" it went too fast quite quickly and didn't want to stop until it hit the house at the bottom of the road, also it rolled so well it did have a "technical" side effect (actually several) but chiefly it made you extremely dizzy and you really didn't want to have eaten before trying to "fly" as you often lost your dinner, we never thought of calling it a rocket :/
I too was a downhill tractor tyre 'test pilot' 🤣
@@rodfransham2907 😂🤣👍
Beavis and Butthead Style! Did you land on someone's car with them underneath it? 😂😂🤣🤣
It was more of a rollet
i found myself inside a tractor tire going downhill once , for fun purposes , the tire had a pool of water that we just ignored ,the tire started rotating and the water inside the tire started to slosh around , lets just say i got spanked hard on the head and the ass, i toughened it out and played it like nothing happed didnt mention the water spanking me just so that the next kid gets the same spanking ,and oh boy did he get spanked !!!
This has got to be one of the best episodes you’ve ever done! Keep up the hard work, and I always look forward to the new videos you put out!!!👍👍👍👍
ow... now I'm sad, he looked like a cool guy that wanted to have fun and had dreams, not many people are like him, I myself always tried to be more or less like him actually, at least he was honored when he passed away, but I think he actually deserves more, what a cool guy, hope you were able to reach the stars wherever you are now ⭐
@Ava Jayna "Feilda Borshon" With the increasing prevalence of smallsats and rideshares, the barrier for entry to access to space is getting smaller and smaller. I imagine we'll see more minor space programs with satellites in the future.
There's also the approach taken by countries like Canada; they lack the resources to launch their own rockets, but specialize and join in international efforts. They lead the world in robot arms for space. Every space shuttle flew with a Canadarm in its payload bay, and most incoming craft berth with the ISS via Canadarm 2. And as a participant in these programs, they've had their astronauts fly in over a dozen missions.
@Ava Jayna "Feilda Borshon" and put tribes up there that can walk on clouds.
@Ava Jayna "Feilda Borshon" naaa.. what he did was dupe his own gullible black people out of money...you know..like the blm did..
I'm pretty sure it was the 2nd theory there at the end of your, yet another fantastic video! I must say I was overcome with joy hearing he recieved "presidential honors" at his funeral so much so without a single thought I found myself verbally acknowledging his recognition "Good on ya!" and I'm not typically know for copying our Austraillian cousins terms but there it was. Thanks for all your great content, I feel like I know you in some tiny way. At least apreciating your humor from across the pond like a cousin, and Hell the Brittish did colonize all of us gifting only really a mostly common language. I love those videos on here about all the history and nuance between each former and current Vassal state's version of the english language, linguistics is damned interesting and the sketch out the videos like you do for Tales From the Bottle...
AFRONAUT is the best word I've learned in a while.
Great to see the cartoons back which makes this channel unique and awesome.
One of those that has still not sorted out which videos gets the drawings and which doesn't...
Enlighten me?
@@trj1442 I think it's the tales from the bottle ones, but I feel like I've seen them in other vids 🤔
The only time he doesn't do animations is in the Last Moments series as those are all about deadly tragedies.
He's just had a recent run of multiple videos for that series and a couple un-categorized vids about his adventures using AI art generators.
@@trj1442 My time is more valuable than yours.
he sounded like a good leader despite his flaws.
I cant say this man is laughable in any sense.
many would have turned into a tyrant being through that and then given power.
sounded like despite what they chipped away from the man still left a honorable good natured individual who sought to give those around them a sense of purpose and self worth.
this man was a hero.
I think you're confusing him with his revolutionary president friend, main guy stayed a teacher.
The guy was following his dream and we let him down :(
Gotta say...guy had ambition
And by the way, Gwar is badass...poor old Tom.
It's amazing to see what went on behind the scenes. Who would have guessed while we all thought Zambia was really in the world's first to space race this is what they were doing behind the curtain.
The Zambian Space Program’s a pretty killer band name
Respect!!! Laugh all you want but to have a dream makes life worth living.
I agree, at least he tried
@@debasishgoswami9896 100%! Guaranteed these guys have more mechanical skills than most Americans who half don't know how to change a tire or change their own oil. That's who I laugh at 😂
The fact he was a science teacher reminds me a lot of my teachers in high school and college after I learned everything as a nerd adult...some times speaking well and obedience to the checklist is the only requirement to teach
As a Zambian, I'm always at a loss for words when I hear this story.
😂 I can't hate him for dreaming. He did more than most people.
The man had goals, that much is certain
@@mpazinambao2938 tru
getting closer to the million subs mate,very well done,thanks for the uploads.
4:10 "the afronauts" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 this is comedic genius
Edward is well equipped, he has his anti-mind control hat and a superhero cape. His dedication to sending a female afronaut, a missionary and two specially trained cats. Awesome, may this legend live forever. Apparently, the afronauts spent too much time having sex and not studying.
Most African thing here was hte fact that 2 started a bender, 1 joined tribal music group and others bang as much as they could :D
Seems like a free-spirited individual who only intended the best for his people and country. The world should be more like him.
I agree.
People are mocking him , but that's how a great story begins...
He's program was a joke and should be treated as such
No. He’s a moron. People that stupid should he barred from office.
No the world really shouldn’t or we are doomed
I wish we lived in a world where Zambia beat the US and the USSR to space. The underdog story of the century.
So you wish we were literally hundreds of years behind where we are now? Uh...okay.
@@macethorns1168 ???
You're joking
That would actually make a great movie. Especially if you stayed true to the real story up until close to the end and use Nkoloso as an unreliable narrator. Has he finally cracked and started hallucinating? Is he telling tall tales for fun or satire? Did it actually happen?
@@macethorns1168what ?? Man you guys in the west
What do they teach you in those schools
Like speak logic bro
I like how you were able to tie GWAR and the Zambian Space Program together.
The cape.
It's the cape that makes it convincing.
I’m sure this guy was no fool. The line about getting out of the plane seems like peak African comedy but also there are so many factors that make it seem like a moving training centre for resistance fighters. What a fascinating figure
Brilliant as always! One of my favourite channels on TH-cam, well put together and interesting
The word Afronaut is by far the best thing to come of all this
Rest In Peace to a king, fought in ww2, helped free his country, and overall sounded like a cool dude.
My friends and I had a space program a few years ago. It involves using recycled, cardboard, refrigerated boxes. It may or may not have been four years old.
I never laughed so hard in my life at this, Fair play to lads. Trolling his imagination with a dream.
Didn't expect to see Gwar by clicking on this vid 😂❤
Must take a lotta work to make these videos as often and unique as you do