Iran Has Put a Satellite Into Orbit

Dekortage writes "'Dear Iranian nation, your children have placed the first indigenous satellite into orbit,' announced Iran's President Ahmadinejad yesterday. The satellite, named Omid ('hope'), was launched to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution. Video shown on Iranian television shows a Safir-2 rocket rising into the sky, as a follow-up to a test firing last August."

"With god's help"

[Crumplecorn]

The real achievement here may be that religion was instrumental in space flight.

Re:Dear Iranian nation

[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Dear Iranian nation

[Anonymous Coward]

FYI: Canada has nuclear power stations AND has launched satellites. Are you scared now? We have just demonstrated that we can drop nuclear beer and back-bacon on any city worldwide.

Re:Dear Iranian nation

[armer]

Well first off every Canadian knows that there is no way we are going to irradiate our beer. And for sure there is no way in H E double hockey sticks that we are going to irradiate it and then strap it onto a rocket and shoot it out of the country. Don't even get me started on the bacon... mmmmmm bacon....

Re:pretty impressive

[Dunbal]

What do you mean? This satellite is a shoe... and it's expected to de-orbit over Texas in the near future.

Re:Dear Iranian nation

[nobodylocalhost]

ZOMG Iranians have reached space age, we must re-assert our technical superiority by building seven invincible mechas, and we shall call them GUNDAMS! *back drop music*

Re:Wake up call

[Shakrai]

We have enjoyed a technological advantage over the rest of the world for a good while now but it is being eroded at a fantastic rate

Sounds like a reason to increase our funding of the science adviser guy at the expense of the elvis guy ;) We'll just hide behind our nukes/great wall/united nations for a few turns while we fund him, then switch to fundamentalism and take care of those Persian bastards once and for all!

Re:Dear Iranian nation

[Anonymous Coward]

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AllahMakeMissileGo x++
}

Re:Take them at face value.

[jellomizer]

Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.

Re:Dear Iranian nation

[horatio]

Canada's military power is to be feared. They have a frigate [satirewire.com] as well. I keep waiting for it to show up on Lake Erie and start shelling Cedar Point because they don't have cool theme parks like we yanks do.

Obligatory 300 reference

[0xdeadbeef]

Ahmadinejad went on to say "Our satellites will block out the sun."

Re:Respect

[ijakings]

In soviet russia, motherland praises YOU!

Re:Congratulations

[gentooligan]

"their dicks are not significantly bigger than the average Western male."

Their dicks are close to 6 feet long?

Re:Citation Needed? - Confirmed

[Anonymous Coward]

OK, so NORAD has confirmed it. But how about NetCraft?

Re:Congratulations

[crabboy.com]

because society doesn't give them any choices that are more attractive to them.

Unlike all the rest of us, right? I'd be snorting coke off a supermodel's ass right now, but society didn't give me that choice. So, I had to take a job in IT instead...

Re:Respect

[Schemat1c]

Of course that's because you're a total coward : you only complain if the side you're madly blabbering about doesn't attack you back.

Geez, another brainwashed Fox clone. Go back to the TV and leave us alone you robot.

Re:Dear Iranian nation

[Dahamma]

This isn't a message to the world screaming, "Fear Us!". This is a message to the world asking, "Respect Us."

Yeah, right. Just like China's message to the world after shooting down one of their old satellites wasn't "look, we have the technology to shoot down satellites", it was "everyone rejoice, we now have the means to help defend our great united human race when Mars Attacks!!"

Re:Respect

[Fluffeh]

We don't do military conquest anymore, only economic ones.

How is that working out for you?