Did the space monkey do it?


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CNN) -- Iran says it has decoded and released footage from a U.S. drone that it downed more than a year ago.

The black and white aerial footage, Iran claims was from a RQ-170 spy plane, was aired by Iranian news agencies and placed on YouTube.

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Translation: Iranian scientists, working around the clock for approximately a year, found the play button for the video gear used during landings/taxiing/takeoffs.

At this pace, the entire technology will be available in . . . twenty years?

On a serious note, it's not actually clear that these images are from the drone; the steady stream of bs propaganda that comes from the country (witness the space monkey, the supposed Iranian stealth interceptor, etc.) make it hard to accept anything at face value. But even if they are, they are hardly as significant as the rest of the technology aboard the aircraft, most importantly its instrument package, which any prudent official has to consider already compromised - not by Iran, but by countries that can actually do something with it.