Tardigrades may have survived spacecraft crashing on moon

[anonymous-user]

Gandahar said:

As we now think the Laika experiment was rather mean spiritied I am sure in 500 years time this will be similar where our descendants are shocked to see living organisms being sent into a vacuum just to see what happens.

I object to any living organism being used outside their natural environment to test things with the space race to be honest. Whether it be apes being slapped to rocket sleds or things lower down the evolutionary chain being sent into low earth orbit or the moon....

The right stuff should be the right stuff that chose to be the right stuff in the first place.

It really fks me off to be honest

Edited by Gandahar on Wednesday 7th August 00:53

This post made me read up about Laika, seems there was a lot of regret (and lies) about sending her into space and actually very little scientific benefit.

Not sure I agree about the organisms though.

I suppose like many people, my empathy extends to dogs and monkeys but not to all living things down the chain.

[Eric Mc]

Laika was purely a political stunt with little scientific feedback. It was designed purely for political impact (and it worked). Indeed, Laika was launched on what was only the second object ever to orbit the earth (Sputnik 2). Other animal spaceflights should not be judged in the same way as Sputnik 2.

[GliderRider]

I had always wondered what caused the wheels on Space Station V to rotate. Space mice! Its obvious once you think about it.

Did they use space hamsters for the night shift?