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We've built a flying saucer, boasts Iran (even if it does look like....)
Daily Mail ^ | 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

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: flyingsaucer; iran; napl; uav; ufo
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1 posted on 03/17/2011 11:31:14 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

All your base are belong to us!


2 posted on 03/17/2011 11:32:39 PM PDT by exnavy (May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
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To: exnavy

Resistance is futile! LOL.


3 posted on 03/17/2011 11:33:48 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (The way to crush the bourgeois is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation)
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To: exnavy

is “balloon boy” in it


4 posted on 03/17/2011 11:34:20 PM PDT by 1000 silverlings (everything that deceives, also enchants: Plato)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Also does windows, scrubs floors?


5 posted on 03/17/2011 11:34:38 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: exnavy

That’s it dudes....game over. American military superiority is definitely an afterthought. (snicker)


6 posted on 03/17/2011 11:36:49 PM PDT by max americana
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To: TigerLikesRooster
FYI: Batteries not included.


7 posted on 03/17/2011 11:39:04 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Wow, looks like they invented the hills of Kentucky too.

Nice work.


8 posted on 03/17/2011 11:45:25 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The only thing higher than Obama's chin, is his ass facing West five times a day.)
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To: tet68

Just set it on the floor and it will vacuum your carpet automatically!


9 posted on 03/17/2011 11:47:07 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (Life - It's 10 percent circumstances and 90 percent how you react to circumstances - Sarah Palin)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I think they misspelled “Farce”.


10 posted on 03/17/2011 11:48:18 PM PDT by theDentist (fybo; qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The US has such a thing for years and years.
11 posted on 03/17/2011 11:49:33 PM PDT by ASOC (What are you doing now that Mexico has become OUR Chechnya?)
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To: ASOC
True.


12 posted on 03/17/2011 11:56:06 PM PDT by americanophile ("this absurd theology of an immoral Bedouin, is a rotting corpse which poisons our lives"-Ataturk)
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13 posted on 03/17/2011 11:58:57 PM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: Vendome

Seem like those things would be easy pickings for a WWII P- 51. Probably would catch hell from a Cessna with a door gunner.


14 posted on 03/18/2011 12:11:36 AM PDT by The Cajun
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To: DoughtyOne

Yea and Jesus was just a lower prophet too, and there is a piece of wood from Noah’s ark with Mohammads name on it in the Russian museum of history, and the halocaust didn’t happen, and Mohammad wasn’t a pervert, yea, yea, yea, ok where is the genie and the flying carpet..

Ok, you have a pie pan that can take off and crash, I buy that one..


15 posted on 03/18/2011 12:15:11 AM PDT by aces
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To: TigerLikesRooster; Salamander; Slings and Arrows; JoeProBono; Markos33
Iran's new Minister of Science, Technology and Information -



Ed Wood Jr.

(They're working on a new addition to the Hadith.)


16 posted on 03/18/2011 12:18:04 AM PDT by shibumi (Vampire Outlaw of the Milky Way)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Anti gravity saucer, awesome...highly unlikely, but some one will discover that one day...perhaps Farrakhan has promised the mother ship technology to them if they “Keeeel all of the Christians and Jews”..


17 posted on 03/18/2011 12:19:36 AM PDT by aces
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To: The Cajun

Any Boyscout with a slingshot could ground at least 10 in no time.


18 posted on 03/18/2011 12:21:19 AM PDT by Vendome ("Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it anyway")
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To: ASOC

True, just no antigravity propulsion yet..that we know of..


19 posted on 03/18/2011 12:21:24 AM PDT by aces
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To: americanophile

Reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode with Agnes Moorehead.


20 posted on 03/18/2011 12:30:24 AM PDT by LukeL (Barack Obama: Jimmy Carter 2 Electric Boogaloo)
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