Iran fires rocket into space

[TarJak]

Interesting. Funny coincidence, I'm reading Tom Clancy's Debt of Honour this morning and read the chapter where Japan test fires it's ICBM in a "failed" shot and then saw this story:

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/iran-fires-rocket-into-space/2007/02/25/1172338463699.html

EDIT: Can't help thinking about whether the payload contained any U283...

[The Avon Lady]

What goes up............ (http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/122202) :roll:

[Skybird]

Persian Rodeo:

http://www.jesseshunting.com/photopost/data/555/2204slim-pickens-dr-strangelove-bomb-ride.jpg

[ASWnut101]

EDIT: Can't help thinking about whether the payload contained any U283...


I doubt it. I don't think His Majesty Akmedinijad would be stupid enough to throw what little bomb making material into space.

[Chaotic42]

Rocket? Space? Akhmed just used too much lighter fluid on the lamb shishkabobs. They're tender, juicy, *and* sub-orbital.

[Torplexed]

Hardly a stunning accomplishment. It appears to be a simple sounding rocket, similar to those the US has been launching by the hundreds for some time now. I don't see any reason to doubt it, with a couple hundred thousand dollars and a few years, it isn't too difficult to make a sounding rocket that will reach space.

[Dowly]

*Cleaning lady in Iran´s Nuke bunker*
-"Ah, there it is! Our first nuke! Too bad we cant build another one for years... Oh well! This´ll do! We just aim to the west and lit the world on fire!"
*continues cleaning*
-"Oh dear... this keyboard is so messy! I just quickly clean it"
*Bleep*
"NUCLEAR MISSILE BIG BAD IRANIAN LAUNCHING IN 5 SECONDS"
-"Oh dear... master wont be pleased..."

[waste gate]

This is really not a suprise, but it should be a warning. Europe will be held hostage to the whims of islam.

[Oberon]

*Cleaning lady in Iran´s Nuke bunker*
-"Ah, there it is! Our first nuke! Too bad we cant build another one for years... Oh well! This´ll do! We just aim to the west and lit the world on fire!"
*continues cleaning*
-"Oh dear... this keyboard is so messy! I just quickly clean it"
*Bleep*
"NUCLEAR MISSILE BIG BAD IRANIAN LAUNCHING IN 5 SECONDS"
-"Oh dear... master wont be pleased..."

Meanwhile over in the 'decadent west':
http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~friedel/computer_fun/images/nuclear.jpg

[Dowly]

:rotfl:

[STEED]

:rotfl: :rotfl:

[waste gate]

putzfrau rule!!

[flintlock]

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t287/idachs/subsim/0008.jpg

[The Avon Lady]

You can't make this stuff up (http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2007/February/middleeast_February420.xml&section=middleeast&col=). :nope:

[HunterICX]

what, they shot a rocket...


I see
Achmed: Ha there she goes..the first Iran Rocket!!!
Arabtech: ACHMEDDD!! ACHMEED!!!!
Achmed: Ya?
Arabtech: We Have a vewy vewy vewy big problem
Achmed: What is the problem we put in in everything of the latest technology, we even have the Vista software programmed in the rocket
Arabtech: Thats de problem Achmed, Vista doesnt support the rocket drivers!!!

5 sec later
***FATAL ERROR*** DRIVER NOT FOUND
http://www.vasanth.in/content/binary/RedScreen-tm.jpg
and:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2005/20050624_explosion.jpg

[The Avon Lady]

Bab el-Wahb the Builder (http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1390wmv&ak=null).

Long winded but interesting propaganda piece. My favorite subtlety: the Japanese reporter. :D

[Shaffer4]

Hiking the 'mater prices hmm?.... attempting to deprive the Iranians of the funky fruit...

What? Death by prostate cancer?

Tis a sound assumption.....:88)

[Oberon]

Bab el-Wahb the Builder (http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ai=214&ar=1390wmv&ak=null).

Long winded but interesting propaganda piece. My favorite subtlety: the Japanese reporter. :D

Wait a minute...isn't this the trailer for the next 'Worms' game? 'Worms: Infidel Wars'? :lol:

Anyway, how comes Italy gets an adult worm and the rest of the UN get diddy worms, with Japan's the smallest. :-?

And those faceless workers (Face-less because they've had their faces chopped off under Muslim law?) we could use a few of them at Wembley stadium, building a nuclear power plant in under a minute....pretty good!
Though I bet we can dismantle it quicker than that. :smug:

[JSLTIGER]

EDIT: Can't help thinking about whether the payload contained any U283...

I doubt it. I don't think His Majesty Akmedinijad would be stupid enough to throw what little bomb making material into space.

U-238 is stable and does not perform well in fissile situations...what you're both thinking of is U-235, which also formed the basis for Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Fat Man, dropped on Nagasaki, used plutonium).

[ASWnut101]

But can you not change U-238 to U-235, or even U-239?:know: :hmm:

[baggygreen]

here everyone is, worrying about the fact they actually managed to fire a rocket into space.

The problem is, they werent aiming for space....:lol:

[Chaotic42]

But can you not change U-238 to U-235, or even U-239?:know: :hmm:

It's not easy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_enrichment

[TarJak]

EDIT: Can't help thinking about whether the payload contained any U283...

U-238 is stable and does not perform well in fissile situations...what you're both thinking of is U-235, which also formed the basis for Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Fat Man, dropped on Nagasaki, used plutonium).

U-238 is also used as the casing for re-entry vehicles for nuclear weapons 1. because it is stable, 2. because it is actually very resistant to friction and 3. because it helps create more fall out as it is disintergrated in the explosion and scattered to the wind.

[The Avon Lady]

But ask yourselves if the Iranians can launch this (http://www.beerlauncher.com/)! :rock:

[Oberon]

Britains space program has had difficulties lately too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oj1TMTPYuM)

[The Avon Lady]

Britains space program has had difficulties lately too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Oj1TMTPYuM)
Jumping Jiminy! :o