Comments | hvw: what do you call this?

hvw

what do you call this?

Feb 03, 2009 10:33

I just saw a headline about how Iran has reportedly launched a satellite into orbit. The headline indicates that it's a HOMEMADE satellite ( Read more... )

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autologik February 3 2009, 11:47:49 UTC

Clearly you don't appreciate the kind of traditional folksy satellites like grandpa used to whittle on the porch on Sunday afternoons.

hvw February 3 2009, 11:58:52 UTC

Eh, mine was more the type to sit on the porch with a shotgun whittling gophers and starlings. But he wasn't Iranian, either.

akadashi February 3 2009, 20:29:41 UTC

What a gruesome, painful death for those poor little creatures.

hvw February 3 2009, 21:52:51 UTC

Yes, but think of the sheer skill involved. Shotgun whittling is one of the truly lost arts, much like tiddly winks show jumping.

morlith February 3 2009, 13:14:42 UTC

Does this mean that they used a trebuchet to launch it?

How cool would THAT be?

hvw February 3 2009, 13:18:43 UTC

That would be BITCHIN'!!!

ammitnox February 3 2009, 14:57:10 UTC

BBC is calling it homegrown now, which is a little better.

how is that better? hvw February 3 2009, 15:07:07 UTC

Where was NASA getting all those things they threw into space?

Am I misunderstanding? This IS snark, right?

not snark ammitnox February 3 2009, 17:48:36 UTC

It's at least 11 times better, because now we know that the Iranians have developed a tree that bears satellite fruit.

Re: not snark theantichrist February 7 2009, 18:01:35 UTC

Dude, I WANT that tree. I hear all the little squirrels in it wear adorable little space-squirrel helmets!

You misread... smjayman February 3 2009, 15:46:21 UTC

"Ho made." In other words, it was cobbled together by Iranian prostitutes.