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Posted on 04/03/2006 11:00:11 PM PDT by anymouse
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But what makes this satellite particularly interesting is not its capabilities, which are rudimentary, but its owner: Iran. With last year's launching and another planned in the next few weeks, Tehran has become the newest member of the international space club.
The question now asked in Washington and other capitals is whether Iran's efforts are simply part of its drive to expand its technical prowess or an attempt to add another building block to its nuclear program. In that sense, it is the newest piece of the Iranian atomic puzzle.
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But it turned out that a Russian company in the Siberian city of Omsk built Iran's first satellite, Sina-1, named after a Persian philosopher. And the Russian military launched the spacecraft from a remote base in the wilds of northern Russia.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
What's next, a few SS-25s?
I am ordering more ammo.
Why would a country that is sitting on 10% of the world's known oil and gas reserves need nuclear power?
Why would a country whose economy is lagging behind other oil powers, let alone world's economic powers, need to spend money on a space program (and nukes)?
Any rational explaination escapes me.
Remember, these people are NOT Arabs -- they will tell you quickly that they are Persians -- and so we can't assume its another fit of Arab inferiority complex behavior (a la Baathist or Nassir).
Are they trying to extort something from the West? If so, what is it, and why haven't they made those demands known?
A possible technology transfer concern that officials should look into is that a company named, Final Analysis, Inc. located in Lanham, MD also worked with the only Russian satellite maker in Omsk, Siberia - Polyot. This would be of only minor concern, if the owner and upper management were not Iranians, getting their private capital from sources within Iran.
From their web site:
Could this effort be a technology mining effort for Iran to gain both U.S. and Russian space technology?
space ping
"I am ordering more ammo."
But when Iran has ballistic missile capacity, and has nukes on it and launches it onto New Mexico, your ammos would be largely useless. You would be dead even before you could act, provided the national missile defence system had not been able to stop the missiles.
Who says I am still going to be here in NM when it starts? That is a VERY large assumption.
I don't know - I'm just picking this out at random. But still my point remains: it would be useless to defeat enemies with your guns if the enemy decides to annihilate you using ICBMs. One, two, three, four,...in successions, they could actually reduce a whole region to rubbles without theoretically suffering any casualties from the American militias because they would be dead before they could fight back.
There will be some form of retaliation, however the devastaion, as you said, of a few areas would be catastrophic to the normal structure of government. There would be chaos, starvation, lawlessness and a general breakdown of society. Even ONE nuke will be a horrible thing on any part of the Western Hemishpere. If they shoot at Israel, Armeggedon ensues. And there is no telling how that will end except in a sea of fire around the world.
I prefer to be prepared enough to NOT be close to any metropolitan area and in a spot that is not readily accessible.
Paranoid? Hardly. Prepared? Always.
Solution, knock out the capability BEFORE it becomes a crisis.
Now that being said, it is the responsibility of the world to not allow Iran the ability to create this kind of havoc, no matter what it takes to stop it.
I was original thinking that Iran would try to bomb America with everything they had so that everyone in the US ends up dead - that's why I thought guns would be useless in such cases. But now I see your point.
I agree, that we must act to stop Iran from being able to implement this monster of the plan.
No payoff is necessary, they just want you dead. The demands are to convert to Islam or die, and they have been saying that on the radio, TV and newspapers for years.
Such is Islam.
While we can pretend there is no such thing as good and evil, and choose to reject God, It not only does not make God not exist, but it does nothing to evil men. Except make their jobs much easier.
God will respect our wishes and stop blessing us, but Evil men will not consider our inability to comprehend their evil as anything other than opportunity.
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They might be concerned about Global Warming. It would be a little odd considering they are trying to bring about the return of the mahdi and the apocalypse, which would make Global Warming an academic question, but they might also be hedging their bets just in case the mahdi doesn't return anyway.
They might be concerned about Global Warming. It would be a little odd considering they are trying to bring about the return of the Mahdi and the apocalypse, which would make Global Warming an academic question, but they might also be hedging their bets just in case the Mahdi doesn't return anyway.
Any pusher knows better than to sample the product. Also, the less they use, the more they have to sell.
Yea... But since the Russians built the satellite and the Russians launched it for them, the Iranians don't appear to have squat except money.
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