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Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit

Posted by timothy on from the up-in-the-air-junior-birdman dept.

Dekortage writes "'Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit,' announced Iran's President Ahmadinejad yesterday. The satellite, named Omid ('hope'), was launched to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Video shown on Iranian television shows a Safir-2 rocket rising into the sky, as a follow-up to a test firing last August."

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  1. Re:Dear Iranian nation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    FYI: Canada has nuclear power stations AND has launched satellites. Are you scared now? We have just demonstrated that we can drop nuclear beer and back-bacon on any city worldwide.

  2. Re:pretty impressive by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

    What do you mean? This satellite is a shoe... and it's expected to de-orbit over Texas in the near future.

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  3. Re:Dear Iranian nation by Dahamma · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't a message to the world screaming, "Fear Us!". This is a message to the world asking, "Respect Us."

    Yeah, right. Just like China's message to the world after shooting down one of their old satellites wasn't "look, we have the technology to shoot down satellites", it was "everyone rejoice, we now have the means to help defend our great united human race when Mars Attacks!!"