Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space

Medevilae writes with a recent report from PopSci's dedicated 'space monkey' news feed that "When Iran indefinitely suspended its plans to launch a monkey into space earlier this month, it was actually because they had already tried and failed. Iranian Deputy Science Minister Mohammad Mehdinejad-Nouri told state media that the Kavoshgar-5 rocket carrying a capsule with a live monkey launched during Shahrivar, which is the Iranian month spanning August 23 to September 22, but the launch was not publicized because it did not accomplish all of its mission objectives. Assuming one of the objectives was to safely carry the monkey to space and back, things don't sound good for the monkey."

Comments

Re:the monkey was quoted as saying

[Dishevel]

Don't you start in with all your facts and shit.
Remember.
No one is allowed to judge anyone else.
You shall from this moment on assume all people / countries / religions / companies are equal.
They are not "Created" equal. They ARE equal.
Judgement based on facts is unfair.

Re:Congratulations for trying!

[wisnoskij]

I would not call another country getting nukes a precursor to WW3 if anything it is a preventative measure.

Sure one country having nukes could start WW3, since it now holds all the cards and can do whatever it wants to other countries without fear of losing but in a very real way multiple countries having nukes prevents WW3 because either everyone is afraid of using them and there is no war or everyone/some of them use them and there is no war just mass genocide.

"Having a dictatorship ruled by religious fundamentalists of the worst kind"
Yes I also worry about the USA, a very frightening country.