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| Iran's President Ahmadinejad offers to go into space |
| 2013-02-04 |
| Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has volunteered to become the first person sent into space by his country's fledgling space programme. "I'm ready to be the first Iranian to be sacrificed by the scientists of my country and go into space," he is quoted by state media as saying. Iran announced last week that it had successfully sent a monkey to space. Western nations have expressed concern that Iran's space programme is being used to develop long-range missiles. Such missiles could potentially be used to carry nuclear warheads. Iran denies it is seeking to develop nuclear weapons and insists its nuclear programme is solely for peaceful purposes. Worms President Ahmadinejad made his space-travel offer during an address to scientists on Iran's national day of space technology in Tehran, state media report. It comes a week after Iran said it had successfully sent a monkey to an altitude of some 120 km (75 miles) for a sub-orbital flight. The monkey returned unharmed. In the US Senator John McCain mocked Mr Ahmadinejad's announcement, using Twitter to compare the Iranian president to the nation's space monkey. "So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there last week?" Mr McCain wrote. The tweet provoked an angry response from many who saw racist overtones in his comparison of the dark-skinned, bearded Mr Ahmadinejad to a monkey. That prompted Mr McCain to tweet again, saying: "Re: Iran space tweet - lighten up folks, can't everyone take a joke?" Pictures released by the Iranian presidency website on Monday showed President Ahmadinejad meeting the monkey. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #9 ION MOUD NEWS, WAFF > IRAN'S PRESIDENT SAYS HE WISHES TO VISIT GAZA, to walk + chat among the Paleo people barring any resistance or denial by Israel = Tel Aviv of his formal request to pray in Jerusalem. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-04 23:19 |
| #8 I strongly support this idea. Is there a fundraiser somewhere? Does he need a promotional website? How can I help get him on the end of rocket? I'll put up a sign in my yard if needed. |
| Posted by: Beau 2013-02-04 22:46 |
| #7 Truth be told, being a Spacenaut was long a personal dream = life goal of his since a young Tween, before Khomenei + the Islamic Revolution came along. Personally I blame the APOLLO PROGRAM + "I DREAM OF JEANIE [Barbara Eden]". |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2013-02-04 22:42 |
| #6 This stuff just writes itself, don't it! No wonder Scrapple Face went out of business. Who can compete? |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-02-04 22:21 |
| #5 The tweet provoked an angry response from many who saw racist overtones in his comparison of the dark-skinned, bearded Mr Ahmadinejad to a monkey. and there's the rub, oh sensitive ones. "Sons of Pigs and Monkeys" is OK for the Juice, but not for an unshaven unclean hate-spewing dwarf POS like Ahmadinejad? If anything, the monkeys should take offense at the comparison |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-02-04 19:06 |
| #4 "So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there last week?" Mr McCain wrote. The tweet provoked an angry response from many who saw racist overtones in his comparison of the dark-skinned, bearded Mr Ahmadinejad to a monkey. That prompted Mr McCain to tweet again, saying: "Re: Iran space tweet - lighten up folks, can't everyone take a joke?" "Dark-skinned" my ass. That race card is just plum worn out. Nice shootin' from the hip, John McCain. |
| Posted by: Dopey Sinatra9196 2013-02-04 18:35 |
| #3 I think this would violate the prohibition on space junk |
| Posted by: Frank G 2013-02-04 18:17 |
| #2 Can you leave him up there? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2013-02-04 18:05 |
| #1 I hear the weather is quite nice on Venus this time of year. Nothing beats a vacation on Venus. I hear alot of people love it so much they don't come back. see: http://www.scribd.com/doc/23657356/The-Marching-Morons |
| Posted by: George Glaigum7976 2013-02-04 18:02 |