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I Like Laika

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by tochatihu, Nov 9, 2017.

  1. tochatihu

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    Spacedog that everybody liked. Just past 60th anniversary a happy-poignent piece. Good dog.


     
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    Link linking failure. Search BBC Laika to get it.
     
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    I, on the other hand, recently became FURIOUS about Laika.

    About 15 years ago, I went to Minsk World. At the time, it was a theme park in Shenzhen; now it is a theme park in Tianjin. It is centred around the Minsk, an aircraft carrier that used to be the flagship of the Soviet Navy. It is really, really good.

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    You can wander round the ship. There are performances by Russian marching bands, and you can ride a tank through an assault course on the wharf. It is the best thing ever.

    On the ship, one of the exhibits was a forlorn-looking stuffed dog. The sign next to it said it was Laika. I then went around for 15 years thinking I had seen Laika.

    Two weeks ago, it was my daughters' school play. It was all about space exploration. It was during the school play that I found out that Laika's body was never recovered.

    The stuffed dog in Shenzhen was fake. I am appalled.
     
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    I guess you missed the part about her flight predating the first attempts to bring back a payload from orbit.

    As a youngster, I had understood that she was euthanized in orbit to avoid suffering. Later, that was revealed to be untrue.
     
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    "Laika's body was never recovered." Most certainly not. First, she got got cooked in orbit because 'big hurry' meant no time to engineer adequate thermal controls. Second, there was never a plan for 'biological' re-entry. Laika's human friends knew they were saying good bye.

    Good dog.
     
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    That "euthanized" lie (sorry) was pretty icky. Based on shutting off oxygen. Please do not think about death of a chained critter without oxygen.

    Laika was not alone in one-way tripping though.

    Good dogs. Good monkeys. Good mice.
     
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    In context of those biologicals, it is well to consider Yuri Gagarin and Alan Shepard. Both their governments asserted that 'issues' had been resolved. Only a coupla heroes were needed to do that thing.

    Good Guys. Crazy guys! How to begin this thing in any other way?
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    Did it come from a restaurant?
     
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    The stuffed dog . . . . LOL :eek::ROFLMAO:
     
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    Could have been stuffed with sage and onion stuffing with a hearty portion of sausage meat. :ROFLMAO:
     
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    Trollbait It's a D&D thing

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    Perhaps a sausage baby.
     
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