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Iran To Send Animals Into Space
2008-12-03
Iran plans to send exploratory rockets into space with live animals on board, paving the way for manned space flights, a space research official said on Tuesday.

Posted by:3dc

#11  Can we count on them to really do it? They got a bunch that live there.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-12-03 15:23  

#10  Manned space flight by Muslims? I don't think so. Haven't they heard about Pigs In Space?
Posted by: SteveS   2008-12-03 14:01  

#9  I hear some gay Zoroastrian Volunteers have been recruited.
Posted by: Jusoque Dark Lord of the Jutes3360   2008-12-03 13:30  

#8  Koranimals?
Posted by: Crusader   2008-12-03 11:58  

#7  They have about 10,000 taliban in Pakistain that qualify as animals. So why waste a chimp?

I do understand that those lions of islam's courage only extends as far as rape, murder and blowing up innocent farmers............
Posted by: James Carville   2008-12-03 10:45  

#6  Gonna float some mullahs, eh?
Posted by: Spot   2008-12-03 08:09  

#5  Nutjob's going to be a jihadinaut astronaut?
Posted by: john frum   2008-12-03 05:46  

#4  My sources say that Iran will be launching tribbles. Mums the word.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Nikolaevsk, AK   2008-12-03 04:15  

#3  Live animals are so much more... scientific... than those dead ones.
Posted by: mojo   2008-12-03 01:39  

#2  Ohh.... Allan is going to be so pissed!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2008-12-03 01:26  

#1  Iranian chimpanzee selection announced.
Posted by: ed   2008-12-03 01:19  

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