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| 03/18/11
| Michael Theodoulou
Posted on 03/17/2011 11:31:07 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
We've built a flying saucer, boasts Iran (even if it does look like it belongs in a 1950s B-movie)
By Michael Theodoulou
Last updated at 1:36 AM on 18th March 2011
It's not clear how far or how high it can fly – or even how big it is and what makes it take off. But an aircraft created by scientists in Iran is, they claim, the world’s first flying saucer. Called the Zohal - or Saturn in English - it said the unmanned spaceship is designed for 'aerial imaging' but added it can be used for 'various missions'.
| The hardline Fars news agency illustrated its story with a photo of a flying saucer, akin to one appearing in a 1950s Hollywood B-movie, hovering over an unidentified wooded landscape |
The hardline Fars news agency illustrated its story with a photo of a flying saucer, akin to one appearing in a 1950s Hollywood B-movie, hovering over an unidentified wooded landscape. The reports gave no indication of the spaceship’s size. But they indicated it was small by claiming, somewhat bizarrely, that it can also fly indoors. 'Easy transportation and launch and flying, making less noise, are some of the advantages of the device,' said ISNA, Iran’s students’ news agency
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flyingsaucer; iran; napl; uav; ufo
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To: McGruff
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posted on
03/18/2011 8:49:07 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet - Visualize)
To: aces
Heh, heh, heh..., you’ve wrapped that up rather nicely.
We’re on the same page.
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posted on
03/18/2011 9:15:30 AM PDT
by
DoughtyOne
(The only thing higher than Obama's chin, is his ass facing West five times a day.)
To: TheOldLady
103
posted on
03/18/2011 9:18:01 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: paulycy
104
posted on
03/18/2011 9:20:45 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Puckster; Brett66
105
posted on
03/18/2011 9:30:56 AM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
To: Slings and Arrows
Premature. I can’t get them to leave. Saucer isn’t big enough.
To: TigerLikesRooster
Iranians have the shape down cold - next month work starts on an engine.
107
posted on
03/18/2011 9:43:41 AM PDT
by
GOPJ
(http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/index2.php - It's only uncivil when someone on the right does it.- Laz)
To: TigerLikesRooster
108
posted on
03/18/2011 11:18:25 AM PDT
by
Darksheare
(Dear Interdimensional Monstrosity, I fear our relationship has taken a turn for the worse...)
To: Slings and Arrows
According to IRNA, the official Islamic Republic news agency, the national Police chief has implicitly verified the news about the confiscation of a number of squirrels, equipped with eavesdropping devices, on the Iranian borders.Mossad Squirrels. I cannot confirm or deny. You know better than to ask. I'm surprised at you.
They take a nice picture though, don't they?
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03/18/2011 12:19:58 PM PDT
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paulycy
(Islamo-Marxism is Evil.)
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