Poor doggy =<

faved cuz poem/song and pic are so awesome together =P

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*Nods.*

*wipes a tear away*

Godspeed, Comrade Laika!

Godspeed, Comrade Laika!

When I was three, my mother said to me
Eat up your greens and say your grace
While on TV they put a dog in space
And left her there... Shoulda seen her face

When I was five, the dream was still alive
And Walter Cronkite said: "One day we'll earn our daily bread
Conducting things in outer space"
But still on earth I thrive... and you pretend I'm not alive
And walk by with my substitute
While I fasten the oxygen valve
On my space suit

When I was eight, we shared a coat-rack - it was great
And I pretended I had so much on my plate
I had a speech to write about moonshot trajectory
And during phonics class, perfected my delivery

Now the band's playing "Hail to the Chief"
While my capsule's out floating by some
Tropical reef

All the experts can agree on
regarding your motives
in the Cape Canaveral crash...
is that they know nothing
(it puzzles me so...)

Now I'm full grown, and I've a spacecraft of my own
But there you sit, still upon your Earthly throne
Hey darling, throw this space-pup a bone
Don't touch that dial, don't hang up that phone

Band's playin' hail to the chief
(Don't hang up that phone)

I love Moxy Fruvous

poor Laika, when I was a kid I was told she survived 10 days in space, but recent findings showed the poor thing died of overheating in only a few hours, and the 10 day thing was just propaganda.

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(those are lyrics to a relevant song by Laika and the Cosmonauts, a Finnish instrumental surf band)

I've never seen them before, but I already knew who wrote these lyrics before I read half of them. He just has an incomparable style, espeically for expressing unexpecting topics.

Thank you Skidd for that nice tribute to a wonderful Russian dog.

The Russians didn't treat their human cosmonauts much better.
Loosing several in those early years.
But they knew what they are signing up for.
Laika didn't have that choice.
USA had a few near disasters in space ourselves.
Ed White, during America's first space walk, suite ballooned up and he had a difficult time getting back in.
Same thing happened to the Russian cosmonaut earlier, but of curse they didn't tell us about that little problem.
Armstrong (yes that Armstrong) and Scott nearly lost their lives when their Gemini capsule started tumbling end over end, creating g-forces that almost caused them to black out.
Our early days in space had several interesting secrets.
Like the spacesuite that was found not too long ago in a forgotten store room that bore the name patch of '007'.

007? ...You can't be serious. Got a link? o_o;

Yep..

http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2.....ths-space-suit

Or do a google for '007 space suite'.

cute

Poor dog. ._.;

Poor David Bowie's dog.

beautiful tribute man... somehow I missed this one when it got postered...