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Iran Announces Manned Space Mission Plans
Lucas123 writes "After Iran's first attempt to launch a satellite on Sunday fell noticeably short of the Earth's atmosphere (though Iran claimed it made it into orbit), government officials stated they intend to put a man into space within 10 years. The long-range ballistic technology used to put satellites into space can also be used for launching weapons. Iran says it has no intention to use the technology for launching nuclear warheads."
they intended to bring him back? I mean, its a fair question considering how much value Iran puts on a human life after all,
I hope people don't forget, (I'm talking to YOU Slashdot), how everybody bought into the whole propaganda push to invade Iraq. "Cakewalk" "War over in Ten Weeks" "WMD's"
People around here were salivating with images of Command & Conquer tanks dancing in their heads and I got slammed for saying, "Uh, this is going to be a quagmire, it's going to be incredibly expensive and the justification for this war is thin to the point of not even being there." --And that was before all the lies and manipulations became public.
The Bush gang are sick war-hawks eager to create conditions for a world-wide police state where massive amounts of the world population can be culled, oil profits can be had by a very small few, war profits can be had by a very small few, and opium profits can by maintained. These wars are about greed and control, and they have nothing to do with the stated rationalizations and these stupid stories about, "Oooh, Iran is Sooo ScArY". Don't get fooled again!
But most of you will, and the economy will tank even worse than it already has, and many of you will be starving in concentration camps before the next five years are out. I hope I'm wrong, but I'm usually not. Sorry. Bush blew up frogs with firecrackers before going on to become a coke-head. He's a psychopath, and he'll smile and be all cuddly as he continues to set the world on fire.
You think you've seen the story and know the details, but the investigations continue with new data rising to the top. Here's one of the latest on 9-11.
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It's not "fortunate" that the US's military approach to the fallout from years of working both for and against Iran's theocrats is one that would throw the whole world into havoc. Making the havoc that reciprocal interaction with Iraq has caused look "quaint".
If your day is made by bombings closing the Persian Gulf, and the retaliatory strikes Iran can make in its own region and probably abroad, then the Iranians aren't the only punks around here.
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make install -not war
To get a turban inside of a space helmet.
To do your Salat (traditional Muslim prayers) in zero gravity.
In space no one can hear you explode.
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
Muslim separatists seem to be fucking everywhere these days. You'd think they would all bugger off somewhere to the Middle-East, where there are plenty of different Islamic countries to choose from. But I guess they just can't rest knowing that there are still infidels out there. They must be conquered.
It would make my day if the American population could rise up against the
Republicrats and live in freedom and peace. Too bad the secret police and "terrorists" menace the populace. America, like Britain, has been and could again be a place of great culture, learning, and commerce. Britain is on its way with Blair out of the way.
However, a bellicose America, run by "the Rich" and "the God".
Face facts, it can't all be the fault of Osama bin Laden or the Taliban!
"Kill 'em all and let Root sort 'em out"