Small Live Animal, One Hopes--or, Monkey Business

Why waste money on sending a monkey into space. Give A'madinnerjacket the honour and a one way ticket.

Wait a minute, ain't that the president of Iran in that picture?

Iranian logic.

Jews = monkeys

monkey in space = Jew in space.

Send the Jews to outer space!

Future Iranian space pilots need a history lesson:

Project Mercury 1961-

Gus Grissom: You've got it all wrong, the issue here ain't sex. The issue here is monkey.

John Glenn: What?

Gus Grissom: Us. We are the monkey.

Deke Slayton: What Gus is saying is that we're missing the point. What Gus is saying is that we all heard the rumors that they want to send a monkey up first. Well, none of us wants to think that they're gonna send a monkey up to do a man's work. But what Gus is saying is that what they're trying to do to us is send a man up to do a monkey's work. Us, a bunch of college-trained chimpanzees!

Gus Grissom: Frckin' A, bubba.

Deke Slayton: Alright, so what Gus is saying is that we've got to change things around here. He's saying that we are pilots. And we know more about what we need to fly this thing than anybody else. So what we have to do is to alter the experiment. And what that comes down to is who is gonna control this thing from here on out.

Gordon Cooper: What Gus is saying here is that we've got to stick together on this deal.

Right Stuff...

Iranian space pilots better stick together,
or wind up suicidal bombers.

Iggy!
No wonder nobody's heard from him since the election -- space cadet training! It's not rocket science folks.

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My gawd, now that I have a second look -- what was their idea of a monkey's high-tech space suit back then? Looks like they cut out the back of the old wicker chair that was sitting on grandma's porch.

Chuck Yeager:

Monkeys? You think a monkey knows he's sitting on top of a rocket that might explode? These astronaut boys, they know that, see? Well, I'll tell you something - it takes a special kind of man to volunteer for a suicide mission, especially one that's on TV.

Ha.

Chuck never heard about 72 virgins.

Monkeys DID go to space:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curious_George_Gets_a_Medal

Something’s very strange about this, why would they send a monkey when they have so many Sharia abusing Iranians to send?

They obviously just want to give the honours and tributes to the monkey instead, a higher citizen class than your average bruised forehead camel jockey.

Why not another Laika instead?

Oops, I've managed to be culturally insensitive while probably offending Kate as well. That's not an easy trick.

The true story of Laika the Space Dog.

Is this true?

I'm pretty sure that if the Iranians were sending EJackULayton into space he would have been crowing about it in front of the NDP convention this morning.

I had better go check the CBC webpage.

One small step for Iran, one giant step for Islam.

Is it just me or does anyone else think Ahjamadmonkey man looks like a monkey?

I live near KSC and frequent the Junkyards. One NASA fellow, Charlie Bell (rip) owned two carrier wagons (imilar to flexible flyers): One was labled ABLE and the other BAKER. These were painted red, white and blue and had seats with seatbelts. Mr Bell had a Jupiter Capsule too. I was very priviledged to have know this man.

Iranian logic.
Jews = monkeys
monkey in space = Jew in space.
Send the Jews to outer space!
Posted by: Doug at June 18, 2011 2:18 PM

Already been done, Doug. ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdjEPqWjTeU&feature=related

The real hard part is finding a monkey that isn't a Zionist spy.

dmorris >

"One small step for Iran, one giant step for Islam."

Could someone please remind me again what exactly Iran or Islam has invented or done that is not a product of the west and western ingenuity?

And not the concept of “zero” again please that idea was plagiarized/ stolen from the Hindu Indians. I did hear once that some intellectual Iranian invented some new way of collecting camel urine for tea without the use of the ceremonial tea pot directly under its testicles, but do not have enough information on the breakthrough to elaborate.

"Iran to send monkey into space"

LOL, the jokes just write themselves, don't they?

A vain PR stunt to convince the world Iran is only 50yrs. instead of centuries behind the rest of the world.

I'm a racist and should not comment on this topic. Monkeys, islam, vomitadimajad: the possibilities are too tempting. Lululululu....

Send over a little school bus yellow banana shaped drone and blast it on the launch pad, just as they're about to say "2"
Level 4 Ebola, not today thanks.

Meanwhile// "space monkey sex "do"s and "don't"s?" has crashed the server at "Ask A Mufti.com

They had no choice but to use a monkey. All their qualified personel are trained to detonate their vehicles at the end of the count down. It would take too long to re-train them, so they went with a primate with the closest genetic similarities to their sub-species.

knight99, look up "facetious" in your Funk and Wagnalls.

The real problem here is if they can put a monkey into space, they can put a warhead (when they get one built) on top.

They're using monkeys as a payload because building something useful like a communications satelite is beyond them.

Ted High, I wouldn't worry about any payload that would weigh as little as a monkey does unless it was VX nerve gas or a bio-agent.
The real trick is whether or not they bake the monkey on re-entry.

K99:

No one has ever said Islam invented anything, but parts of the Arab world (Alexandria, for instance) were hotbeds of scientific inquiry (astronomy, math, chemistry) for hundreds of years.

Then, Islam came around, and all learning and education (outside of the Koran, of course) ceased. Nothing important has come out of the Arab world since. Compare that to the rest of the world. Even tiny Canada has produced a number of world-known brands from technology like RIM and the oil sands (which I consider a huge tech achievement, not just pumping up oil from a few thousand feet), to resource companies like Potash and Teck. And that's in just a few hundred years.

13 centuries of Islam, and I can't think of a single company in the Arab world that's world-known for anything except oil, and that was almost all discovered and developed by Americans.

You can demean Iran all you want, it does not change the fact that it got a bomb on our generation's watch.

They're using a monkey as PR. They will claim peaceful purposes and the UN and all the other terrorists will agree that indeed Iran is merely trying to explore space. Meanwhile we all know what the true purpose of building a rocket capable of launching a "monkey" into space is.

iF only it was the monkey man Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hiself , who would b flung from the World he see's so filled with people he despises.
Lost in Space would look good on this guy.
It would be a balm to the Planets. Send him out as the first man to see the center of the Sun.

dmorris >

Was not disagreeing or mocking, was only upping your "facetious" comment with another :)

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing....

The iranians may succeed in detonating a nuclear devise...developing a practical weapon which their launchers can deploy is quite another matter.

It took the US about a decade after Hiroshima to succeed in reducing the size and mass to be a practical warhead. The USSR took longer...the vast "throw weight" of their launchers is evidence of that.

Constructing a nuclear devise is very simple compared to miniturizing, boosting efficiency to the extent that a huge aircraft such as a B29 is not needed.

The most likely scenario is their packing their crude devise into a shipping container or an airliner on a suicide mission.

This is why the nuclear arsenal of such 3rd world types such as India, Pakistan and N. Korea are more or less paper tigers. On the other hand, I have every confidence that Isreal's arsenal is reliable and missile deployable.

Better make sure the simian is no Israeli spy.................