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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."
with a budget of $50 and use a hedgehog as a proof of concept to secure further funding.
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"After Iran's first attempt to launch a satellite on Sunday fell noticeably short of the Earth's atmosphere"
And we all know how hard it is to reach the Earth's atmosphere!
is just for a peaceful (and extremely expensive) nuclear power program. Not that I blame them.
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Will there be a Iranian Space Information Minister to tell us about all the wonderful things happening in the space program?
"Our cosmonauts have reported to have seen from space that Italy looks like the boot of Allah striking the Zionist regime. Soon we will harvest the moon for cheese and will no longer rely on the vile cartoon-drawing Danish."
Now mods... before you mod me flamebait, first consider this: could I possibly be trolling, instead?
sure they can put a man into space, the problem has always been to get them back down safely once up there.
No, see, you're assuming Iran wants them back. And that they were given oxygen.
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."
It could also be used to deliver a payload of the following things to the earth from orbit
- Ice Cream
- Ninja Stars
- Signed copies of Limbo of the Lost or Daikatana
You think that we could leave the nefarious plans, no matter how obvious, up to the readers? Sheesh!
There will be no homosexuals in Iran because the government will send them all into orbit without means to get back down alive.
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A small child can be trained on video games and then sealed into the warhead's reentry vehicle to steer it down to its target. Won't add too much weight, and it's probably cheaper to develop than an equivalent electronic guidance package, given the flexibility and intelligence of the control module. A culture of martyrdom gives Iran some interesting design options.
They're going to send a man into space so that he can make a satellite map of the world...and then wipe Israel off of it :)
Get out the sandpaper and white glue space cadets, it's
The Gee-Hod!.
And maybe the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny are real too....
Or, you could just say "Bring it on!" That worked wonders for us in Iraq.
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I was with you for the first couple paragraphs, but that post took a nose-dive into conspiracyland after that. When I got to the 9-11 bit I would have laughed if it all weren't so sad.
1. Drill a lot of oil.
2. Send iranians into space.
3. ???????
4 Prophet!!!
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Replying to my own post, I wanted to make it clear that I am calling the OP a ridiculous liar trying to act like he has access to "special information" that he has decided to leak to Slashdot.
That, or I'm one of the guys who pilots the black helicopters. But nobody would believe that, even if I said it.
You do realise this will result in it raining men.?
Then they'll be able stone women to death with moon rocks.