I saw this story in the Express Thursday morning, but I'm copying this text from the Baltimore Sun:
Iran announced Wednesday it launched a menagerie of animals - including a mouse, two turtles and worms - into space on a research rocket, a feat President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said showed Iran could defeat the West in the battle of technology.
The brief article concludes with this:
To test a life-support system of use to humans, "the obvious choice would be to send a monkey," said James Lewis, senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Worms in space serve no purpose."
Am I the only person who thought that Iran got this wrong but for an entirely different reason than what James Lewis suggests? If you're going to send worms, turtles and a mouse into space, why not pigs?
For folks in the DC area, let's hope we make it through the Blizzard of the Decade!
Friday, February 05, 2010
Worms in Space?
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4 comments:
Ha ha - as soon as I read the title of the post all I could picture was "Pigs in Space".
Well, I misread the title at first and wondered why Women in Space would be newsworthy.
Sexism aside, hasn't the West gone beyond sending mice, turtles, and worms into space? I'm not a scientist, but isn't sending a human into space more technologically difficult than a 9 year old's pets?
I'm guessing it's because Muslims don't have much to do with pigs. Dietary laws and all that.
Nichole - Great minds think alike.
Hand of Godard - Women is space would have been a completely different post! I agree with you about Iran's space program though.
Gilahi - Great point. Plus, they may not know the Muppets.
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