XPost: alt.politics, alt.politics.obama, alt.politics.terrorism   
      
   Ubiquitous wrote:   
   > "The logo of Omid, Iran's first domestically-built satellite, is to be   
   > featured on coins and banknotes, according to a cabinet decision," reports   
   > Iran's Press TV:   
   >   
   > 	The Iranian Cabinet approved the proposal presented by the   
   > 	Central Bank of Iran (CBI) to issue coins and banknotes with   
   > 	the logo of Omid Satellite.   
   > 	   
   > Blogger Yitzchak Goodman notes that the logo bears an uncanny resemblance to   
   > the Starfleet insignia from "Star Trek." Perhaps the Iranian satellite   
   > industry can also adopt the slogan "To boldly go where Oman has gone before."   
   >   
   > But do the mad mullahs know what they're getting into here? Having worked   
   hard   
   > to set back their country centuries, aren't they worried that they'll   
   > accidentally slingshot around the sun and return to the present? What if   
   > Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is suddenly replaced by his beardless "good" counterpart   
   > from an alternative universe?   
   >   
   > And even granting that this is all just science fiction, do the Iranians have   
   > any idea what fanatics those Trekkies are?   
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   >   
   Can we send Obama on a ride with them Perhaps he has a good counterpart   
   in an alternate universe   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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