Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)

A few good news from Iran totally made my day.
- Iran has successfully copied the CFM56 jet engine. Not using a blue print, mind you (as far as news says), but by reverse-engineering.
What is interesting about it is that, airliners have both business and military use. And since I still do not think Iran can handle any big business successfully (superpowers easily fuck them up by sabotage and enforced corruption via high bribes), I think they want to get into building such stuff only for the military use, not business.
And generally it is obvious to see that any technical progress that proved successful in Iran was made by either the militia or the military, because superpowers cannot penetrate and/or manipulate them. Nazis don't have a way to use money to influence them.
This engine, goes on airbus and Boeing airliners. So I think Iranians intend to later make their own military transport planes as a matter of defense and independence. About time they get into stuff other than just missiles. A lot depends on logistics, not what weapons one has. This CFM56 has that promise about it :) If not the main step, building it is the first step towards those goals, and since they've already nailed it, it is very promising.
They've done pretty well also in utility vehicles and various industrial tools, again for the same reasons, because they were immune to superpowers' sabotage. They didn't involve ordinary individuals going out to make money the American way, so Nazis had no one there to work on and corrupt and fuck up the projects.
But cars? Ordinary cars for ordinary people?.. Heh. Forget THAT shit. To this day Iran is shamelessly dependent on foreign imports. You can't make the car industry a government matter, so ... it's easy prey for superpowers.
Nothing that's made to make money with can be made independent of superpowers in Iran, regardless of how vital it is for the country. Iranians aren't there yet. But will be.
So this engine has no airliner business for it in the future. Such planes can only be made by, and for, the military and the militia.
Realities are different for citizens of superpowers, compared to citizens of non-superpower countries. Business is different. Military is different. Constitution is different. Government is different. And that's how it should be. In the presence of superpowers, nothing else will keep a non-superpower country independent. You just have to adjust for superpowers' presence by doing stuff that is never required for citizens of superpower countries, because the latter isn't facing some SUPER-superpower pest in the world, meddling into their affairs.
The news isn't disclosing which group was it that did the job, but the know-how will spread like wildfire among anybody anywhere who's involved in non-business use of it. Then the improvements upon them begin by various parties involved. Iranians have always made their first copy of a foreign country's device later better, cheaper, simpler, and more efficient. All the nonsensical clutter in them get replaced with simpler and cheaper than the original parts, and at least as effective as them.
Especially American products have a good dose of clutter in them, because they're not just products, they're also rip offs. You know, like all that irritating noise in the background of every old movie made in the 1950s and 60s and the 70s in the USA, fucking the films up and sounding like shit, only so they would create easy money for their musician friends.
Watch Iranian movies to see what I mean, or any foreign movie for that matter. You won't even notice that there's no such ridiculous nerve-wracking noise constantly in the background. That's the type of "clutter" that Iranians will separate and throw away from those copies, making room for real improvement. Price, ease and/or speed of manufacturing, longevity, performance... not something that's also for rip off.
Another good example of what I described above is how the case of covid vaccine in Iran was handled. Iran, about six months after its spread, began working on making a vaccine. Unfortunately "Rohani"'s admin was too stupid and like anything else they fucked up by acting at the level of a high school graduate and delegated the whole job to the largest pharma company in Iran and went about their own business. That's all that they did.
Months passed, and nothing happened! The stupid Rohani got under the impression that there can perhaps be no vaccine for that thing, especially since no other vaccine for it had yet been made in the world.
Then the dimensions of the dying grew significantly and the VF himself intervened and had the job get looked into, fast, by the militia and several other groups of independent scientists. That pharma business, by the way, couldn't do it because it wouldn't do it! They weren't allowed to do it. That pharma had ties to the Americans and Europeans for some of the material they needed to run their business, and those countries didn't want any help become available to Iranians.
So that was the extent of what a "Reformist" admin would do about this important matter. And this was so until, as I said, the Leader gave the job to the militia and the scientists of Iran, none of them business people. All of a sudden an impressive aggregate of scientists got behind making a vaccine for covid. Especially, a fundamentalist medical research institution that did not even believe in capability of the militia and independent scientists was among them. It was called "setAde ejrA'iye farmAne emAm" - loosely translated as "center for  the realization of the orders of the Emam", and the vaccine they developed was called Barkat ("blessing"). The ministry of defense scientists (bioweapons guys) developed Fakhra ("proud"). And two or three other institutions developed their own versions, Razi developed CovPars and the old Pasteur made the PastoCoVac, and the Baghiyatollah Medical Science University scientists developed Nura. There was only one private high-tech company that also had joined and successfully made their own version of vaccine (Spycogen). The latter had no ties to Europe or USA, so they succeeded in their efforts.
All these vaccines were of course immediately tested, and the winner turned out to be Barkat :) Those top scientists may have been right in their assessing of other Iranian scientists :-) Barkat was a humble vaccine which didn't claim to be such and such like those of pfizer and others. But nobody who was vaccinated by it died, including the ones who were in the susceptible categories. All of them survived. It was only 70% effective in preventing the symptoms, but if you contracted the virus, you would not die of it. You would only experience a strong case of flu like ailment, and then you'd fully recover. This was the magic of Barkat, and probably this was why it was called so :-)
Barkat was the first covid vaccine authorized for use in Iran and all other countries in the region.
I know of three people in my own workplace who were vaccinated by pfizer's version, and died of Covid a few months later! I don't know how many others were out there who died of Covid even after getting vaccinated by that product. So if you ask me, Barkat worked better! And did so, again, in this Iranian way. It was literally a hundred times cheaper, much faster to make, much easier to transport and store, much more stable, and it was not as refined and overdeveloped as pfizer's, and it didn't even prevent 30% of the vaccinated people from getting sick by covid, and yet it would save the lives of 100% of people vaccinated by it! That's the touch of Iranian that I'm talking about in this and other products of theirs.
- Want to know another fun thing that put a smile on my face? They say this is what mimic-birds of Israel sound these day and times:
https://streamable.com/osbg5j
Hahhahhahh :-))
One can even listen to their fucking birds and find out how Mossad fucked that country up.