Laika

15 years ago

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Current Music: Placebo -- Space Monkey ♬

12 Responses:

  1. perligata says:
    15 years ago at 4:09 pm

    Aw, Laika.
  2. mackys says:
    15 years ago at 4:15 pm

    "I think the inimitable The Onion put it best, in Our Dumb Century: "Soviet Space Program Ahead in Dog-Killing Race"."

    "But didn't the US beat them in the chimp killing race?"

    "No, the U.S. tried to squash a chimp on launch but he made it back alive. The Russians shook their heads in disgust and said, "If we wanted to squash a chimp we would have done it properly and put a 400 pound weight in the capsule above his head. The imperialist running pig-dog lackeys are such amatures.""

    -http://www.bautforum.com/space-exploration/66327-sputnik-2-50th-anniversary-first-animal-blast-into-space-laika-3-11-1957-a.html
  3. gytterberg says:
    15 years ago at 4:39 pm

    I know how you inexplicably feel about Achewood, but this one is hilarious and topical.
  4. buz says:
    15 years ago at 4:56 pm

    Hell - She's fine. She's even got a MySpace...
    http://a834.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/73/m_6c3c2baa7cc029af1557ef6d9773a2d1.jpg

     Laika's Interests
    Cosmonauts, Astronauts, Astronomy, Russia, Sputnik, Animal Rights, Alternatives to animal testing.
    Music
    Laika Dog, Laika &; The Cosmonauts, Laika, Gorillaz.
    Movies
    My Life as a Dog (Mitt liv som hund) by Lasse Hallström.

    But why stop at Laika when there are so many more?
    Russian Dogs Lost in Space
  5. dronny says:
    15 years ago at 8:51 pm

  6. antifuchs says:
    15 years ago at 1:54 am

    Huh, synchronicity. I just set http://dlanham.com/art/spacedoggy/ as my desktop picture - I knew that this drawing reminded me of something.
  7. luserspaz says:
    15 years ago at 7:21 am

    The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum has one of the space monkeys stuffed and mounted in her little monkey rocket harness:

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