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Iran brings forward plan for manned space flight
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Published: 05.08.10, 23:59
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1. IRANIAN SPACE PROGRAMME
LAWRENCE RAP ARTISTE ,   SAFED ISRAEL   (08.06.10)
They intend to send a monkey into space (orbit actually ) .I can't remember the name of the monkey ,ahmad something ?
2. Possible since US/Russia did all this years ago
Bloodyscot ,   Dallas, Texas   (08.06.10)
Iran is just trying to show that they are catching up to West and they could do it if they are willing to send enough money. Iran has scientists educated and trained in US/EU/Russia but can they build up their manufacturing base while under sanctions is the big question. China would be the key since they are buying whole US factories and moving them to China, this could give Iran the equipment they will need to pull this off.
3. just like the AIDS cure never to happen.
mira ,   israel   (08.06.10)
iran wants respect so badly.
4. IRAN AND MANNED SPACE FLIGHT- OLD TECHNOLOGY :-)
BENJAMIN ,   SINGAPORE   (08.06.10)
By that 7 years USA & ISRAEL would build a BOTANICAL GARDEN in SPACE :-) May be SYNAGOGUE too :-)
5. Dream on
Mark ,   new york usa   (08.06.10)
More ramblings from a delusional regime living in their own twisted fantasyland. Ahmadinejad and Kim-Jong Il are in a constant competition of who care make up the most nonsense.
6. Maybe
uri ,   Chile   (08.06.10)
perhaps a suicidal astronaut in a one-way trip
7. LOL! We already sent a monkey to space before the Iranian
Yaniv ,   Israel   (08.06.10)
8. To: No. 3
Sarah B ,   U.S.A. / Israel   (08.06.10)
Yeah, well, they aren't doing much to garner respect. Iran is a joke; its boasts shown to be the fantasies that they are and ... oh, well. Pathetic, really. By the way, you cannot "cure" AIDS, any more than you can "cure" polio. The best you can do is discover a vaccine to prevent HIV. You cannot "cure" a viral illness; all you can do is prevent it.
9. Iran space cadets
Steven ,   L.A USA   (08.06.10)
And if you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn I want to sell you.
10. Gaza rockets are Pali space program!
Rehavam ,   Israel   (08.06.10)
Only horrors of zionist occupation deny legitimate plight of pali space exploration!
11. Iran proves they suck the teat of western technology
Brian Cohen ,   Judean Peoples Front   (08.06.10)
Ah, we miserable infidel satans! Woe to us non-believers in Allah that we should shrivel up and die (or have our throats slit) like Al Qaeda wants. Oh the glorious Islamic Republic of Iran! It's amazing heroes building the mighty atomic bomb. The stalwarts of the Koran ready to send a believer into space. And pretty goddamn funny that the do it all with our western technology developed by Jews and Christians with not a drop of Islamic knowledge in there at all..... Well, I'll probably be laughing as the flash above Judea lights up when the Ayatollahs start lobbing nukes at us Zionists... ...but on the positive side, look at all those lucky Jordanian martyrs downwind of the radiation fallout clouds - I'll be in hell while their bouncing in bed in paradise with their 72 virgins each...
12. to #1
ZD ,   USA   (08.06.10)
if you can't remember the name, I help you. the name of the monkey is Moshe .
13. Israel contunues to
Izik ,   Holon   (08.06.10)
feed suspicions. It is a good sign of Israel's inevitable strike at Iran.
14. LOL ! IRAN MAY SENT THEIR FIRST MONKEY AHMEDMONKEYTAN !
Benjamin ,   singapore   (08.06.10)
15. I hope their first astro-nut is a monkey named Ahmadinejad..
Scott ,   USA   (08.06.10)
16. Just to add to #3 an 7 about Iranian medicine.
Bartley Kulp ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.06.10)
The current medical practice that is apparently being deployed by the Iranian ministry of health consists of stoning to death suspected adulterers, hanging homosexuals and flogging people who are thinking about being promiscuous.
17. With a magic carpet?
Albrecht Klein ,   Germany   (08.06.10)
18. Hallal Spam in a can for export coming soon. (end)
Bartley Kulp ,   Haifa, Israel   (08.06.10)
19. I wish good luck and pleasent flight for
Daniel ,   Israel   (08.06.10)
the person abroad. Suggestion: Why not send Ahamadinijaad as co passenger?
20. testing ICBM nosecone technology
zionist forever   (08.06.10)
ICBMS leave the atmosphere and reenter above the target. You want an ICBM you need to develop reentry technology. Putting up a satellite is easy but putting a rocket into space thats going to come back down to Earth in one piece is another matter. If Iran was openly developing ICBM technology the whole world would look up and say we need to do something because maybe Irans nuclear program won't just be for destroying israel and Israel is disposable anyway. Now though that nuke might be landing on our head as well and I am not disposable. If its for a space program Iran can boast all about what they are doing and the world will look up and praise Iran. Also if its a manned program it means the rocket needs to be capable of carrying a heavy payload just a like a nuclear weapon needs. Unless there is a military element to it there is no point at all in Iran developing manned space flight except for propoganda and the investment needed would be an expensive bit of propoganda... money Iran doesn't have to waste. This program allows them to develop satellite launch vehicles which is the only useful bit of the space technology and it allows them to develop ICBMS as a bonus.
21. Thats nothing....!
Mr Green ,   Manchester   (08.06.10)
Soon to be announced 1. Ah MAD inejad to live for ever 2. Colonisation of Mars 3. Anti Matter Propulsion 4. Perpetual Motion Machine 5. Iranian World domination and racial supremacy And the most impressive? Getting Nasrallah to lose some weight!
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