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2010-02-20 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Iran's science progress fastest in world: Canadian report

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Posted by Fred 2010-02-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [12 views ] Top
File under: Govt of Iran

#1 If you have enough money you can BUY anything.

How many Nobel Prizes for Innovative and Original Research?

Anything someone ELSE hasnt done FIRST?

They BOUGHT it. Then bought the manual. And are driving it on their potholed road otherwise.

Ask 'em if they can manufacture ball point pens.

And remember that "punch in the West's face" for Feb 11 or was it the 13th, I forget. What was that? I heard they unveiled an electric car. Was that IT? With only one gas refinery in the whole country...maybe an electric car was IT.
The last sentence in your comment wasn't needed and has been snipped by me, Angleton. There are rules here. Abide by them. AoS.

Posted by BlackBart 2010-02-20 08:25|| 2010-02-20 08:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Very facile, BlackBart; you certainly can write. I'm surprised, however, that you didn't realize Iran's "punch in the face" was their announcement, confirmed by the IAEA, that they had achieved 20% uranium refinement -- the first major hurdle toward achieving weapons-grade material. I realize that I'm just a sheltered little civilian housewife while you're... whatever it is that you are, but Rantburg had articles about it at the time, and even I could grasp the import.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-20 11:57|| 2010-02-20 11:57|| Front Page Top

#3 "...while you're... whatever it is that you are..."

Oooooo....snap!

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-02-20 13:20|| 2010-02-20 13:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Posters here will often enough give an indication at some point, Uncle Phester. BlackBart hasn't yet, at least in unsubtle enough terms that I can understand. I just discovered that an SR-71 has something to do with the air force, f'r instance, unless I got that wrong, too -- the problem with being a sheltered civilian housewife.

Posted by trailing wife 2010-02-20 18:41|| 2010-02-20 18:41|| Front Page Top

#5 And I'm a Pennsylvania farm girl with a couple of advanced degrees and some executive and faculty experience who has lived a fairly boring life. And yet like tw I too find myself able to understand a number of matters that seem to puzzle BlackBart / Angleton / etc.

Perhaps it's because I've had the privilege of knowing a number of friends, colleagues and a spouse who've done some rather more interesting things than I myself, in and out of uniform. A few of them we can even discuss in unclassified settings.

Unlike TW, however, I don't wield a clue bat with lovely periwinkle ribbons.

Posted by lotp 2010-02-20 18:57|| 2010-02-20 18:57|| Front Page Top

#6 Fair enuf, TW and lotp!

I am always pleased to read your posts, and don't worry, the SR-71 has been removed from active use in exchange for (first) sats and (now) sats 'n other goodies that, like lotp, my "in the know" buds don't talk about, at least not to me ...!

;->

Posted by Uncle Phester 2010-02-20 19:14|| 2010-02-20 19:14|| Front Page Top

#7 If you start from a low base, then great percentage growths are possible

Posted by BernardZ 2010-02-20 22:13|| 2010-02-20 22:13|| Front Page Top

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