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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."
They failed to launch a monkey?
Does that mean Ahmadinejad is still on Earth?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
I hope it wasn't Michael Nesmith. He was my favorite.
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Where'd the monkey take his vaction? All over Tehran!
What color were the monkey's eyes? Blue. One blew north, the other blew south....
Iranian NASA. Needs Another Simian Astronaut
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Austrailia, if there is one location that if an Old/Elder God were to actually exist it is that god forsaken continent. The continent where even rabbits can turn into an ecosystem destroying menace, dogs become child eating beasts and spawned creatures so outlandish that professionals refused to believe were real till a specimen was captured alive (platypus).
Mark my words, that military spending is well deserved. Australia will laugh when the giant stone cover (Ayers' Rock) lifts up off of the casket of Vampire Cthulhu.
by Anonymous Coward: I, for one, welcome the shift from car analogies to pizza analogies. um.. overlords?
Places with a "state religion" (which particular religion doesn't matter) are, by definition, shit holes.
All that have no ballistic nuclear missile cravings.
Orbital rockets can easily be repurposed to ICBMs
Home brewed nuclear reactors are a good step on the way to manufacturing nukes.
Having a dictatorship ruled by religious fundamentalists of the worst kind is, when combined with the above, a good starting condition for world war 3 or at the very least an actual nuclear war.
Not to be paranoid or anything, but it's pretty damn obvious that they want some serious military tools as a byproduct of their Glorious National Proudness Programs.
OK, I hold an Iranian passport and have been in and out of Iran many times.
People in Iran do not like Ahmadinejad. One of the many insults is to call him a monkey because he is a half-wit. Same as how George Bush got the monkey insults.
Nothing to do with race. Just that he's a simple fool in charge of an entire country.
How many countries just rely on someone else to do the space thing for them?
Well, they certainly have some catching up to do. The first 5 US missions of this type didn't exactly end well for the passengers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_in_space#United_States
and the first 'successful' Soviet dog in orbit trip didn't even include 'bring it back alive' as a mission objective:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laika#Controversy
Places with a "state religion" (which particular religion doesn't matter) are, by definition, shit holes.
Most places actually have a state religion, including some that I'd question if you actually intended to call them shit holes. I'll leave the naming of them to the other replies in this thread. Some even have several state religions going at once. American-style separation of Church and State is, relatively speaking, actually quite an unusual state of affairs.
That said, many of these places have both a state religion and religious freedom. These are not incompatible.
Canada has a state religion?
Yes. The main sacramental objects are beer, sticks, a hard rubber disc, and beer.
Some mornings it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints to get out of bed.