Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Iranian astronauts declared haraam.

(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.

7 comments:

  1. 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.

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  2. MIRV. I don' care who y'are, thass funny, right there...

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  3. Since it's Persian, shouldn't it be called a PIRV?

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  4. MIRV?

    Miniature incendiary rodent vest? :)

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  5. OMG that made me LOL!

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  6. Multiple Independent Re-entry Vermin?

    Jim

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  7. 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.

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