View From The Porch: Iranian astronauts declared haraam.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

(CNN) -- Iran said Wednesday it had launched a rocket carrying a rat, two turtles and some worms into orbit...

All of which were wearing teeny, tiny explosive vests, no doubt, making it the first Persian MIRV.

Rabbit said...: How do you say 'Allahu akbar!' in Rodentia?

If they were snapping turtles, they could be self-attaching bombs.

Worms- sorry, I got nothing. Not enough coffee yet.

Regards,
Rabbit.; 12:10 PM, February 03, 2010
The Old Man said...: MIRV. I don' care who y'are, thass funny, right there...; 12:55 PM, February 03, 2010
rick said...: Since it's Persian, shouldn't it be called a PIRV?; 1:08 PM, February 03, 2010
GuardDuck said...: MIRV?

Miniature incendiary rodent vest? :); 2:41 PM, February 03, 2010
Michael said...: OMG that made me LOL!; 8:24 PM, February 03, 2010
Anonymous said...: Multiple Independent Re-entry Vermin?

Jim; 12:06 AM, February 04, 2010
Dr. StrangeGun said...: Rick tweaked in on the punchline I was going to use, but from a different angle...

The worms won't make it, so it's a Partial Independent Reentry Vehicle.

What they didn't tell you, is they're using a video microscope to monitor the health of plankton in the water for the turtles, an important part of zero-g aquaculture since the surface area, and hence the gas transfer rate, changes. They call this Enhanced Rotifer Tracking.

PIRV-ERT.; 2:08 AM, February 06, 2010