Iran is launching a satellite, they say.
I say Israel should shoot it down.
Just a thought.
The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Didn’t make it ten miles from the launch pad, according to the Pentagon. The fact that the “satellite” displayed in all their news broadcasts has wheels is pretty good evidence Israel has nothing to worry about… yet.
However, it’s pretty clear by now that Iran does, in fact, have a pretty serious community of scientists, no doubt kept on a very short leash by the mullahs. They did invent the basic principles of rocketry, apparently on their own, and build a space-capable rocket using resources available only in their own country.
The failure of the rocket would be devastating to the Iranian leadership, if their people learned about it, but to a scientist a failure is a new opportunity to learn what doesn’t work. I’m pretty sure they learned a lot from their failed launch, and the next one (there will be a next one) will work a lot better.
Maybe even well enough to drop a payload on Tel Aviv.
Is this going to be the first goat in space?