• pimento64
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    Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I’m sorry about it. We shouldn’t have done it … We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog.

    —Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists who worked on Sputnik 2

    I disagree, Mr. Gazenko. The Soviet Union learned the incredibly valuable lesson that if you lock a dog in a hot box, it dies. Truly valuable science.

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      1 year ago

      They also learned that living beings do not die from being weightless and the general conditions in space. This was not so clear at this time.

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    And he came back down from space and played and ate steaks and still does to this day and will live forever, god damn it. 😭