David Latane wrote:
>Laika Laika
>long gone
>but a reigning dog
>gone long
>Laika Laika
>
>3 November I was five -
>
>Cinder was my dog then, and Flash
>earthbound doggy
>uninteresting to the SPCA
>
>Still is her photo, pixellated pup
>three C P Laika
>done to for what?
>
>
Nice. For what? Ad majorem Scientiam gloriam, doncha know? Same as
testing chemicals on cats before including them in beauty lotions.
Nice someone remembers the first animal launched into space. Sputnik
II, 1957. One online site that mentions this small mutt says she was
remotely euthanized after 10 days because nobody knew how to or intended
to get her back. Well, it wasn't like she could tell what she saw up
there, so why waste the technology? They had the technology to croak
her after 10 days but not to get her home. Maybe she didn't speak
Russian. Poor puppy. Dogs are social animals and she must've spent the
last days of her life bored and/or scared out of her mind.
Reminds me a bit of a curious, upsetting, and finally somewhat mawkish
film from the late 1980s, Project X: Matthew Broderick and Helen Hunt.
Irradiated chimps who, like the 9/11 hijackers, were taught to fly but
not to land.
Ken
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Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.
W.H. Auden
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