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Iranian Space Official: Photo Shows Wrong Monkey
littlesparkvt writes "One of two official packages of photos of Iran's famed simian space traveler depicted the wrong monkey, but a primate really did fly into space and return safely to Earth, a senior Iranian space official confirmed Saturday. The two different monkeys shown in the photos released by Iran’s state media caused some international observers to wonder whether the monkey had died in space or that the launch didn’t go well."
Its a 'scratch monkey'
Soon every country will have a monkey in space.
http://memegenerator.net/instance/34269748
Sure. Whether or not it went flawlessly is what they're questioning ....
Just more lies from the decadent western press. Iran's space program is so far advanced that we had a super-secret dermatoligist waiting for this monkey in orbit, where his mole was removed. To believe otherwise goes against our religion, and dis-believers shall be beheaded! - Signed, The current Ayatollah of Iran
At least...
Preferably one from a regime that doesn't have a history of embarrassingly faked propaganda shots.
But I have this bridge for sale if they are interested.
So, Iran's got a bit of history with PhotoShop.:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/10/in-an-iranian-image-a-missile-too-many/
It seems quite reasonable for folks to question ANY photographic evidence / propaganda / news releases from Iranian sources.
The Digital Sorceress
And will hold it until all our demands are met....or supply of bananas runs out....
Yeah wrong monkey. This is the one that flies their new "stealth" fighter.
First comment from the monkey:
"Get your stinking paws off me you damn dirty human!"
... was the first monkey's stunt double.
Says's the Iranian Space Minister, "Get this monkey off my back!"
if their nuclear scientists are of the same caliber as their graphic artists then we have nothing to fear.
Nations bickering over possibly fraudulent monkey photos put a smile on my face. Many a poo was flung that day that homo sapiens distinguished themselves with productive use of their time.
I thought it was Ahmadinejad. Wait, the monkey's better groomed, my mistake.
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is usually crucified.
The right monkey, named "Ahmadinijad" (Persian for "very ugly ape, even by ape standards"), was too busy hanging innocent apes of homo muslimus genus, and had to stay on earth.
i.e. this guy: http://www.woot.com/blog/post/screaming-woot-monkey-4
I mean, please, just try to tell me this is real.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljmEkWkT5Qc
It's the only way!
Here's the explanation given, and apparently some Harvard professor finds it credible:
This sounds plausible to me. My experience of working with news agencies in the west is that they're extremely flaky and news stories are always published in a rush with absolutely minimal fact checking. I'd be surprised if things were much better in Iran. This is hardly
In an ironic meta-fail the article also says, Iran has never confirmed that a monkey died in 2011, or that there was a failed mission that year but that does not appear to be correct.
In short, this entire article can be summed up as, "news organization publishes story with some details incorrect, follows up with corrections" - is it really newsworthy?
A revolution will ensue and the wrong monkey will soon be replaced with the right one.
Have gnu, will travel.
re the smiling simian
Mahmoud looks very handsome in that pic. (n/t)
even if it didn't travel in space.
In a country with thousands of nut jobs willing to blow themselves up for Allah, why a monkey. Just use a would be suicide bomber and launch him. They could have him scream Allah ho Akbar as he's launched.
about iranian space ones??
Go ahead, folks! :))
how far can a monkey throw poo in space?
I cannot remember the name , one was felix the other I can't recall, a female. They were two cats with implanted electrode in the brain to be sent in space. Felix escaped, the female was taken instead. Funnily on the commemorative stamps, they got the picture of the female, and put the male cat name (felix).
;).
Even when a female get an achievement there is a male to steal it
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
http://www.purr-n-fur.org.uk/famous/felix.html
"France planned to launch Felix the astronaut cat into space on October 18, 1963, but Felix escaped so they chose another cat, Félicette. The cat had electrodes implanted into her head to measure neural impulses. Félicette was recovered alive, but, due to an accident, the next cat in space was not. The final French animal launches were of two monkeys in March 1967."
felix is above a trigred cat, the female felicette black and white. Although I admit it could simply have been ignorance and taking a cat photo at random rather than archive photo.
C. Sagan : A demon haunted world:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345409469/
visit randi.org
I doubt they even sent a monkey up at all. If he knew what was good for him, he'd have scrammed.
I knew it!
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
A simple misunderstanding. Corrected photo to monkey in question.
Something tells me that monkey was murdered!!!
And badly done at that. I wonder whether they even had a space launch, or whether that was faked too. It is also important to remember that Iran is faking being a high-tech nation mostly for their own population. I highly doubt any competent intelligence agency in the rest of the world is fooled even for a minute. On a closer look, Iran is still a backwards theocracy that does not respect individuals or knowledge. It has a big thirst for power though.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
I'd be very surprised if there wasn't some system of ranking or seniority, so one of them must be the Ayaayatollah.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Somebody's been monkeying around with monkey photos.
Table-ized A.I.
The monkey made it back ok, but the bananas were all gone except for a small piece on a copy of the koran. The monkey started nibbling on the pages, and zealots cried out at the blasphemer! The monkey was beheaded for his insolence, and a replacement monkey was brought up, complete with a miniature copy of the koran tatooed on his back. The new monkey was also trained to point toward Mecca 5 times per day, and looked like he might be a good candidiate for suicide bomb suit.
here is footage of landing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8gnoJN7XU8
Can't find the best link, but Iran was caught with a Photoshop enhanced picture of a multiple rocket launch where they dubbed in a fourth rocket.
The wags had a field day with that, with one pranked photo with Jar Jar Binks added making it back on to an Iranian news site.
Didn't the Onion do one where the rockets were criss-crossing the sky in all directions?
No, it was the head guy in Egypt.
It's newsworthy because it fits the Western (US mostly) view of Iran as a country to be mocked - all part of the ongoing propaganda campaign that's leading up to Israeli strikes on Iran, backed by the US's big stick, and wholeheartedly supported by an American public that can't see past Fox News.
Fuck you, you rascist wanker.
In real life, when a monkey respawns, it looks a little different.
Anything from muslims to non-muslims simply can't be trusted (nicluding sending up monkeys into "space")
http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Lying
Muslims are *obliged* to lie if of advantage to muslims.
Uh, huh, yeah, sure, you betcha. And I'll be a monkey's uncle....
What will the onion do next?
Ahmedinejad wants to be their next monkey. He qualifies.
Fresh from purchasing a Klappar Cirkus
My grandad knew Haile Selassie when he was only slightly Selassie.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."