The head of the design team himself said they have only performed test flight with two smaller models (one with a propeller, the other with a micro jet). These are from the slides he presented.
But the reference that Iran did not confirm failure of the launch is obviously incorrect. The minister of communications of Iran confirmed the failure and mentioned that the mission did not achieve any of it's targets.
Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity, also said this week's monkey space flight was real, but he had a slightly different explanation for the photo mix-up. He claimed the light gray monkey with the mole died during a failed space mission in 2011.
"The monkey with the mole was the one launched in 2011 that died. The rocket failed. It did not get into space," McDowell said. "They just mixed that footage with the footage of the 2013 successful launch."
Iran has never confirmed that a monkey died in 2011, or that there was a failed mission that year.
Also quoting from foxnews: onathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity, also said this week's monkey space flight was real, but he had a slightly different explanation for the photo mix-up. He claimed the light gray monkey with the mole died during a failed space mission in 2011.
You may install a free software from that market and still get infected.
Android market is not available in every country. Two months ago I traveled to a specific country and Google Play would not allow login to me. When I asked why people said it has never been working in the country.
The rocket used for this launch is one of the smaller rockets Iran uses for the purpose.
Their main rocket carried a 50kg satellite to 500km in 2011 and their new rocket (i.e. Simorgh with 4 engines in first stage) is able to launch very much bigger loads.
You don't know what you are speaking about. Iranian women have a 60% share of universities (i.e. 2.5 million seats) and they are possibly more educated than (percentage wise) most other countries.
At least 50% of almost 10 million university graduates are women.
Iran has had 3 successful confirmed satellite launches. This one is a smaller rocket and it has failed once before. When the last launch failed Iranian head of IASA confirmed the failure.
I still don't find any reference to unsupervised "nuclear material" (i.e. what NPT is about) except those very small amounts mentioned here "late 1970s and early 1980s, and continuing into the 1990s and 2000s" which is referring to a decade ago. Currently all the fissile material is under supervision.
Conducting tests with highly explosives (non-nuclear material) and missiles is not covered by NPT agreements.
1- CIA and other intelligence agencies have expressed several times that Iran does NOT have an active nuclear weapons program. No one has ever proved them to have such an active program.
2- All nuclear material in Iran is under 24hours IAEA supervision and accounted for. IAEA has never complained about considerable (more than a few grams) of material missing.
3- Iran has not enriched Uranium at military levels (i.e. more than 24%). There has been one occasion in which an slightly higher enriched trace was found but later it was resolved (it was because of calibration problems in some centrifuges).
Now you show us any PROOF you have of them producing nukes.
But seriously, I always think "didn't open source cause software engineers and developers" to live a poor or at least not so good life?
I have developed software for 28 years (freelance, my small company, as an employee of another company) . I have created hundreds of small and sometimes large software, been team member of huge projects (core banking), created websites with millions of members...
After 4x years of life, with a recent PhD I am living a miserable life (compared to my friends which work in construction and civil engineering, medical fields etc.).
I have always been abused by clients who compared my prices with free software, those who threatened to use open source free alternatives, those who thought software should not be expensive if not free, and those who thought a 100MB software can be stored on a single $0.1 CD and is nothing and last but not least relatives who thought installing windows and other software on their PC is a small favor (as if my time is free like free open source).
We software people did it to ourselves. Professionals in other fields never did that. No civil engineer or architect would design building for you for free.
No one noticed their cookies are removed without any reason? "IF" no one really noticed that, then I would ask myself what kind of people have been using it.
Or perhaps there were more important bugs and problems and people did not push on this one?
Why not Buy one of those Chinese A9 tablets for less than $60? They come with LCD, battery, USB and SD card extension. You can remove the case if you like.
Even if it could be jail-broken, how people are going to develop native WindowsRT software? Is there any compiler and Windows RT (native) SDK available?
The buying decisions should be made based on the requirements. If what you buy meets your requirements (until the life time of the device is over and you want to upgrade) you should not regret your decision.
That applies to smart phones, DSLR and normal cameras, PCs, tablets etc. These devices have a great advancement pace and you will always regret if you want to compete with the market.
All the ballistic missiles and rockets are German V2 scaled ups by your logic.
N.K is now the 11th launch capable country ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite ) and they deserve the credit. No analysis and humiliation could change the fact that a small country which has been under severe embargoes has succeeded in its technical (possibly military) ambitions.
I was not expecting them to be able to put such a heavy satellite in 500km orbit. Iran has only been able to put a sub 50km satellite in a lower orbit.
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It is an RC. The head designer SAID it himself. They had a propeller model and a jet model. Both of them were small sized.
The head of the design team himself said they have only performed test flight with two smaller models (one with a propeller, the other with a micro jet). These are from the slides he presented.
Propeller-powered sub-scale model:
http://sphotos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/250662_10151268717323603_1355114109_n.png
Jet-powered sub-scale model:
http://sphotos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542333_10151268717468603_1294585182_n.png
The one in photos was a mock up. Like any of these:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2667/pavillion22so.jpg
http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/bobro15/NAA-FX-2_zps79959a9a.jpg
http://i50.tinypic.com/2yl7cs8.jpg (the one in front)
Did you read my message?
The Photoshop was done by "Fars News Agency" and it was known only after the IRGC published the real photo on it's website.
Attributing the stupidity of an editor or a reporter of "Fars News Agency" to the country is utter trolling.
But the reference that Iran did not confirm failure of the launch is obviously incorrect. The minister of communications of Iran confirmed the failure and mentioned that the mission did not achieve any of it's targets.
According FoxNews (should be valid enough for most!):
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/02/iranian-space-official-says-photo-shows-wrong-monkey/
Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity, also said this week's monkey space flight was real, but he had a slightly different explanation for the photo mix-up. He claimed the light gray monkey with the mole died during a failed space mission in 2011.
"The monkey with the mole was the one launched in 2011 that died. The rocket failed. It did not get into space," McDowell said. "They just mixed that footage with the footage of the 2013 successful launch."
Iran has never confirmed that a monkey died in 2011, or that there was a failed mission that year.
A complete analysis of the case has been given on NasaSpaceFlight forum: http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=11734.msg1007858#msg1007858
Also quoting from foxnews:
onathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer who tracks rocket launchings and space activity, also said this week's monkey space flight was real, but he had a slightly different explanation for the photo mix-up. He claimed the light gray monkey with the mole died during a failed space mission in 2011.
"The monkey with the mole was the one launched in 2011 that died. The rocket failed. It did not get into space," McDowell said. "They just mixed that footage with the footage of the 2013 successful launch."
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/02/iranian-space-official-says-photo-shows-wrong-monkey/
You may install a free software from that market and still get infected.
Android market is not available in every country. Two months ago I traveled to a specific country and Google Play would not allow login to me. When I asked why people said it has never been working in the country.
The rocket used for this launch is one of the smaller rockets Iran uses for the purpose.
Their main rocket carried a 50kg satellite to 500km in 2011 and their new rocket (i.e. Simorgh with 4 engines in first stage) is able to launch very much bigger loads.
You don't know what you are speaking about. Iranian women have a 60% share of universities (i.e. 2.5 million seats) and they are possibly more educated than (percentage wise) most other countries.
At least 50% of almost 10 million university graduates are women.
Just 6 countries have sent live animals to space. It is original enough for Iran.
Only 6 countries have that capability. No matter how much you troll.
Iran has had 3 successful confirmed satellite launches. This one is a smaller rocket and it has failed once before. When the last launch failed Iranian head of IASA confirmed the failure.
I still don't find any reference to unsupervised "nuclear material" (i.e. what NPT is about) except those very small amounts mentioned here "late 1970s and early 1980s, and continuing into the 1990s and 2000s" which is referring to a decade ago. Currently all the fissile material is under supervision.
Conducting tests with highly explosives (non-nuclear material) and missiles is not covered by NPT agreements.
Stop there.
"UN security council has unanimously voted that they have evidence that Iran is enriching uranium for weapons and ordered them to stop"
Is that a joke?
UN voted that they have enriched Uranium for weapons? Iran has never enriched above 20% level. Show me your proof or I call a huge bullshit.
1- CIA and other intelligence agencies have expressed several times that Iran does NOT have an active nuclear weapons program. No one has ever proved them to have such an active program.
2- All nuclear material in Iran is under 24hours IAEA supervision and accounted for. IAEA has never complained about considerable (more than a few grams) of material missing.
3- Iran has not enriched Uranium at military levels (i.e. more than 24%). There has been one occasion in which an slightly higher enriched trace was found but later it was resolved (it was because of calibration problems in some centrifuges).
Now you show us any PROOF you have of them producing nukes.
But seriously, I always think "didn't open source cause software engineers and developers" to live a poor or at least not so good life?
I have developed software for 28 years (freelance, my small company, as an employee of another company) . I have created hundreds of small and sometimes large software, been team member of huge projects (core banking), created websites with millions of members ...
After 4x years of life, with a recent PhD I am living a miserable life (compared to my friends which work in construction and civil engineering, medical fields etc.).
I have always been abused by clients who compared my prices with free software, those who threatened to use open source free alternatives, those who thought software should not be expensive if not free, and those who thought a 100MB software can be stored on a single $0.1 CD and is nothing and last but not least relatives who thought installing windows and other software on their PC is a small favor (as if my time is free like free open source).
We software people did it to ourselves. Professionals in other fields never did that. No civil engineer or architect would design building for you for free.
No one noticed their cookies are removed without any reason? "IF" no one really noticed that, then I would ask myself what kind of people have been using it.
Or perhaps there were more important bugs and problems and people did not push on this one?
Why not Buy one of those Chinese A9 tablets for less than $60? They come with LCD, battery, USB and SD card extension. You can remove the case if you like.
Thanks for the information. How about a native C++ Windows SDK (i.e. headers, libraries, dlls for native desktop apps, MFC etc.)?
Even if it could be jail-broken, how people are going to develop native WindowsRT software? Is there any compiler and Windows RT (native) SDK available?
I comment the code and leave it there for at least one minor version. If things are all right, I'll remove them. The code is in source control anyway.
The buying decisions should be made based on the requirements. If what you buy meets your requirements (until the life time of the device is over and you want to upgrade) you should not regret your decision.
That applies to smart phones, DSLR and normal cameras, PCs, tablets etc. These devices have a great advancement pace and you will always regret if you want to compete with the market.
This would be a better link : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_first_orbital_launches_by_country
All the ballistic missiles and rockets are German V2 scaled ups by your logic.
N.K is now the 11th launch capable country ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite ) and they deserve the credit. No analysis and humiliation could change the fact that a small country which has been under severe embargoes has succeeded in its technical (possibly military) ambitions.
I was not expecting them to be able to put such a heavy satellite in 500km orbit. Iran has only been able to put a sub 50km satellite in a lower orbit.