View Full Version : Iran launches Monkey into Space
Kyobanim
01-28-2013, 21:48
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50614548/ns/technology_and_science-space/
Guess they have to find a new leader now . . .
Barbarian
01-29-2013, 07:24
Guess they have to find a new leader now . . .
That's an insult to monkeys everywhere.
Ret10Echo
01-29-2013, 07:45
It concerns me that these nutjobs are flinging stuff into space.
On a more humorous note I enjoyed this byline....
"No independent confirmation of the monkey's safe return"
However, this photo was later leaked....
What's Call Sign: Dead Meat in Farsi?
Utah Bob
01-29-2013, 21:09
Damn! Flying monkeys from space! With nukes!
It don't get no worse.:rolleyes:i
Now I know where my boss has been:D
GratefulCitizen
01-29-2013, 21:21
Flying monkeys?
Does the Secretary of State have something to do with this?
Ambush Master
01-29-2013, 21:39
So now they can launch a nuke anywhere in the world if/when they get their "peaceful" nuclear program going. And we havent given Israel the green light why again.........
The Israelis have downgraded the "Nuclear Threat Potential" for Iran. There was some sort of explosion in their main Nuclear Research Facility recently and their program has suffered a major setback. This follows on the heels of several "Power Transmission" lines that were cut just a few months back.
Later
Martin
Utah Bob
01-29-2013, 22:04
The Israelis have downgraded the "Nuclear Threat Potential" for Iran. There was some sort of explosion in their main Nuclear Research Facility recently and their program has suffered a major setback. This follows on the heels of several "Power Transmission" lines that were cut just a few months back.
Later
Martin
Damn bad luck, that.
Real shame.
:D
Seems Iran is at least 50 years behind us in the "Space Race". Judging by the pictures, it would appear that our little space traveler was a bit happier about his voyage!
From the California Science Center:
"January 31st marks the 52nd anniversary of the flight of HAM the chimpanzee in his Mercury-Redstone capsule.
To appreciate HAM's congribution to spaceflight it's important to remember where we were in the process of space exploration more than 50 years ago.
Rocket boosters didn't work very well. Human ability to function normally during spaceflight had yet to be proven. Space capsules were crude by today's standards although extremely advanced for the period. HAM was actually the subject of an experiment in mental acuity and hand-eye coordination. He pulled a set of levers in response to flashing lights in part to determine if a complex mammal (like a chimp) could manage to complete assigned tasks during weightlessness. To learn more about HAM's historic flight (and historic it was!) check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_2. Then come to the Science Center to see HAM's MR-2 capsule on display. Compare MR-2 to the Space Shuttle Endeavour and you'll see first hand what 50 years of progress in human space exploration actually means."
-Dr. Ken Phillips, Curator for Aerospace Science
Utah Bob
01-30-2013, 21:04
Seems Iran is at least 50 years behind us in the "Space Race". Judging by the pictures, it would appear that our little space traveler was a bit happier about his voyage!
From the California Science Center:
"January 31st marks the 52nd anniversary of the flight of HAM the chimpanzee in his Mercury-Redstone capsule.
To appreciate HAM's congribution to spaceflight it's important to remember where we were in the process of space exploration more than 50 years ago.
Rocket boosters didn't work very well. Human ability to function normally during spaceflight had yet to be proven. Space capsules were crude by today's standards although extremely advanced for the period. HAM was actually the subject of an experiment in mental acuity and hand-eye coordination. He pulled a set of levers in response to flashing lights in part to determine if a complex mammal (like a chimp) could manage to complete assigned tasks during weightlessness. To learn more about HAM's historic flight (and historic it was!) check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury-Redstone_2. Then come to the Science Center to see HAM's MR-2 capsule on display. Compare MR-2 to the Space Shuttle Endeavour and you'll see first hand what 50 years of progress in human space exploration actually means."
-Dr. Ken Phillips, Curator for Aerospace Science
Iran is more than 50 years behind. More like several centuries.;)
Barbarian
01-31-2013, 08:29
Iran is more than 50 years behind. More like several centuries.
I kept waiting for a picture of the giant trebuchet they used, to launch the monkey. I guess that's classified, though.
I kept waiting for a picture of the giant trebuchet they used, to launch the monkey. I guess that's classified, though.
Now that is funny!
Utah Bob
01-31-2013, 10:26
Now that is funny!
Atomic powered trebuchet.
For peaceful purposes onlynyou understand.
Seems that the pic of the monkey that was sent up by Iran, doesn't match the monkey that they showed post-flight.
Monkey see, Monkey do (http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/02/Iranian-Space-Monkey-Not-Dead-But-No-No-You-Cannot-See-the-Iranian-Space-Monkey)
Best quote from the article:
The official explanation is that “the first images provided to Iran’s official news outlets to illustrate their reports had mistakenly shown another of the five monkeys that trained for the flight at the space agency—the one with the mole—and not the one that had actually taken part.” Iran “insisted that the monkey that had made the flight was in good health” but “did not, apparently, offer to disprove rumors that one of the monkeys had died by showing them both.”
Consider another possibility: the theory of multiple monkeys. Iran sends God even knows how many monkeys into space and then cobbles together, surgically, a pastiche monkey from the various limbs of the countless monkey corpses strewn about the spacecraft after it lands. It’s like a Rauschenberg Combine of severed primate remains. Is the “new monkey” one monkey? Is it every monkey? Is it all of us? At a certain point it becomes more of an ontological/philosophical question and less of a biological one.
Hahaha...suck it Iran
:D:D:D
Watch, they'll use these next .....
:munchin:
Ahmadinejad is ready to join the monkey(s) two of a kind, no? :D
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/04/ahmadinejad-wants-to-get-shot-into-space/
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told Iranian scientists Monday that he would like to be strapped on top of a rocket and blasted into space.
Having mastered the art of shooting monkeys into space just last week, making Iran the sixth country in history to do so, Ahmadinejad’s explosion into the heavens would place the Iranian space program on par with the American and Russian space programs of 1961.
“I am ready to be the first human to be sent to space by Iranian scientists,” said Ahmadinejad, warning Iranian scientists of possible sabotage by its enemies.
snip
The Reaper
02-05-2013, 18:02
Ahmadinejad is ready to join the monkey(s) two of a kind, no? :D
http://dailycaller.com/2013/02/04/ahmadinejad-wants-to-get-shot-into-space/
I'm in for a $20 donation to watch him do it.
Anyone else want to finance his departure on a shaky spacecraft built by people mired in the 15th Century?
TR
I am in Who is collecting the funds........?????:munchin
Put me down for $10 .....
:munchin
Put me down for $10 .....
:munchin
No it is $20 per person. Cheapskate. :p
No it is $20 per person. Cheapskate. :p
Oh sorry.
I had ear-marked the other $10 for S&H of package being shipped SOTB.
Guess there won't be G.S. Thin Mints heading that way this year. ;) :p
T.R. .... Put me down for $20
Oh sorry.
I had ear-marked the other $10 for S&H of package being shipped SOTB.
Guess there won't be G.S. Thin Mints heading that way this year. ;) :p
T.R. .... Put me down for $20
I can live with that. It is a worthy cause to send more space trash into permit ate orbit. :eek:
I can live with that. It is a worthy cause to send more space trash into permit ate orbit. :eek:
You know what ???? .... I might be able to scrap up another $5 for extra gas, and let him be the first human to land on the Sun.
So he doesn't get too worried, we'll send him a night ... so he should be fine. :lifter
Kyobanim
02-06-2013, 10:39
I'm in for 20, and I'll spring for a bag lunch from Sonny's BBQ