Thursday 8 October 2009

Dogs in Space

The first creature from earth to get itself in to outer space was Laika, a dog on the 2nd of november 1957. Say you were looking from the outside, as an alien, might it not cross your mind that rather than a cannary in a coalmine or a guineapig, Laika was the most advanced creature on earth. I imagine, that, since then, a dialogue has been taking place with dogs, omitting the servant humans that brought her thier. It is clear that dogs understand humans better than humanms understand dogs. I have friends, interested in philosophy, noses in books, that blinker them to being able to observe dogs and what they do. It is thier loss.
There is the small capsule used by Laika, the first dog in space. There are the two other space dogs, Belka and Strelka, both of them stuffed. Hanging from the ceiling is the worlds first satelite Sputnik. There is the tiny Vostock capsule used by Major Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. After Russias early space endeavours they took a break. Now they're back on a trip to mars and a new £54m museum to show off the old achievements. Old items like Gagarins space suit were sold to America, other bits and pieces chucked out on the street during the '90s. Laika, sadly is neither in space or on earth, she was sent up on a low orbit and burned up on reentry. Belka and Strelka, however got back safely and went on to lead happy lives. They were stays, the soviets had learned that stray dogs were better at space travel than other dogs being genetically programmed to survive.

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