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Did Iran Just Rocket Creatures Into Space? Sure Seems So
- mixmax 17y agoGuess Denmark won't be the third spacefaring nation then. http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
- InclinedPlane 17y agoI guess the Chinese aren't people? Or maybe you're counting from index 0?
- gcb 17y agoOr he was excluding the US. since everyone knows by now that their space program was done in a hollywood basement.
- MikeCapone 17y agoCould this be a disguised ICBM test?
- streety 17y agoI can understand the use of a rat and worms as they're traditional experimental models but why use turtles?
- joubert 17y agoGEB. http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/11/recursive_gener.php http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2008/11/recursive_gen...
- mhb 17y agoGamera, FTW: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamera
- GiraffeNecktie 17y agoIt was a turtle AND a rat. Must be Donatello and Master Splinter
- goodness 17y agoIt's inexplicable: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-K4NGo2HE&NR=1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B-K4NGo2HE&NR=1
- joubert 17y agoWhat does it say on the side of the rocket (besides probably the name)?
- lucifer 17y agoMahvaareh Bar Simorgh ~= Satellite bearing Phoenix.
- riahi 17y agoماهواره بر سیمرغ To echo the sibling post, "Satellite-Bearing Phoenix" is an acceptable translation. Literally, it is "Satellite upon Phoenix", where Simorgh is a Persian mythical bird roughly equivalent to a phoenix of western literature (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simurgh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simurgh).
- joubert 17y agoIs Farsi difficult to learn?
- lucifer 17y agoIts an Indo-European language, so if your native language is Indo-European, then you will encounter many familiar structures and words. (There are quite a few Persian loan words in English, btw.) The script will likely present the greatest challenge. It is Arabic but nevertheless it is an alphabet. Beyond the letter forms, you will need to adjust to the idea of positional capitalization and joins. Farsi/Persian also has a fairly complete coverage of various sounds, some of which may present a problem to the non-native speaker. Finally, Iranians do have a fairly distinct partition between formal (written/official) language and the everyday conversational usage. The conversational style is much more fluid.
- metaforth 17y agoAlthough I don't know Farsi one of the instructors at my college said it was one of the easiest languages to learn. She said many of her students were writing Farsi poetry by the end of the semester.