One of the interesting things to do about our spaceship is that it is a mechanical vehicle, just as is an automobile if you own a car, you realize that as you must put water in the radiator and take care of the car as a whole. You begin to develop quite a little thermodynamics sense. You know that you are either going to have to keep the machine in a good order or it is going to be in trouble and fail to function. We have not been seeing our spaceship earth as an integrally designed machine which to be persistently successful must be comprehended and serviced totalNow there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth and that is that no instruction book came with it. I think it is very significant that there is no instruction book for successfully operating our ships in view of the infinite attention to all other details displayed by our ship it must be taken as a deliberate and purposeful that an instruction book was omitted, lack of instructions has forced us to find out that there are two kinds of mangoes, unriped mangoes that will kill us and ripen mangoes which will nourish us. And we had to find out ways of telling which was which mangoes before we ate it or otherwise we would die, so we were forced because of this devise scientific experimental procedures and to interpret effectively the significance of the experimental findings thus because the instruction manual was missing we are learning how we can safely survive on the planet. Quite clearly, all living beings are utterly helpless at the moment of birth, the human child stays helplessly longer than the young of any species, apparently it is part of the invention that man is meant to be utterly helpless through certain anthropological phases when he begins to be able to get on a little better he is meant to discover some of the physical principle inherent to in the universe as well as the many resources around him which will further multiply his knowledge designed into this spaceship. Earths total wealth was a big safety factor. This allowed man to be very ignorant for a long time until he had amassed enough experiences from the instruction book forced man to discover retrospectively just what his most important capabilities are he learned to generalize fundamental principles of universe. Adapted from olulkpe B,O et el (2005) intensive English for secondary school 2 Onitsha AFP
