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Laika, First Dog in Orbit
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| 11/2/2007
| Associated Press
Posted on 11/02/2007 1:02:42 PM PDT by cdbull23
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Interesting story, though I can't help but feel bad for the poor dog.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:02:43 PM PDT
by
cdbull23
To: cdbull23
Also, not really related but hopefully somebody knows (Admin?) — why is it that when you type “dog” into the FR search box, you get no results?
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:03:45 PM PDT
by
cdbull23
("If it's brown, drink it down. If it's black, send it back." - Homer on what's good to drink.)
To: cdbull23
Yeah but it showed space flight was possible. Laika is the unsung hero of the Space Age.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:06:06 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: cdbull23
I had heard they the commies sent this dog into space, but what I didn’t know was that they knowingly sacrificed the poor animal to get a leg up on the space race of last century.
Typical Soviet Union mentality.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:06:26 PM PDT
by
Baladas
To: cdbull23
I had to put my cat of 15 years down this morning due to kidney failure.
The wife and kids don't know about it yet.
My stomach is in a knot.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:08:52 PM PDT
by
lormand
To: cdbull23
why is it that when you type “dog” into the FR search box, you get no results? Same for 'oil'. Might be the search engine needs more than three characters.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:09:10 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(anti-razors are pro-life)
To: Baladas
It was impossible to do everything in such a short time. No one in either the Soviet Union or America wanted to risk human beings on such an unknown venture. So if they had to use a living thing to test the final frontier - a dog turned out to be the perfect candidate.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:09:27 PM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: cdbull23
To: cdbull23
why is it that when you type “dog” into the FR search box, you get no results? Dyslexic atheists will use that as proof that there is no dog.
Or else at look at the end of the search page:
Limitations: Only article titles can be searched and words with three or fewer letters are not searched at all.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:14:45 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: cdbull23
Interesting story, though I can't help but feel bad for the poor dog. Nah. Save that for the 1950s-era Bryukhonenko/Demikhov severed dog head experiments.
Video NOT FOR SQUEAMISH DOG LOVERS *here*.
The Bryukhonenko/Haldane experiments with grafting two heads onto the same body at least equally unsettling.
Woof! woof!
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:17:47 PM PDT
by
archy
(Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
To: goldstategop
Laika is the unsung hero of the Space Age. Unsung here. maybe. Better known at home.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:19:03 PM PDT
by
archy
(Et Thybrim multo spumantem sanguine cerno. [from Virgil's *Aeneid*.])
To: cdbull23
why is it that when you type “dog” into the FR search box, you get no results?Try pit bull...
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:19:35 PM PDT
by
null and void
(First reporter of the great (5.6) San Jose 'quake of '07...)
To: lormand
Damm. Just damm. I hope the right words come to you.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:20:40 PM PDT
by
null and void
(First reporter of the great (5.6) San Jose 'quake of '07...)
To: lormand
My sincerest condolences.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:22:24 PM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Hubba Hubba...)
To: lormand
You have my prayers for you and your family.
.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:23:57 PM PDT
by
JMJJR
(Just doing my part to slow the coming of the next impending ice-age)
To: goldstategop
I understand that, it seems cruel in retrospect to send the dog into orbit with no re-entry plan.
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:25:16 PM PDT
by
Baladas
To: cdbull23
Man on the Moon...
To: cdbull23
Laika inside Sputnik 2 [Tass News Agency photo via Russian Space Agency]
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:34:31 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: blam
Laika Before Launch. 1957
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:37:25 PM PDT
by
blam
(Secure the border and enforce the law)
To: SIDENET; null and void; JMJJR
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posted on
11/02/2007 1:40:56 PM PDT
by
lormand
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