About the first dog in space, it is so sad...read this?

Question

I think it is so sad. Go to this link and take a while to read this and then put what you think. I never knew the facts about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/2367681.stm

Answer 1

That is terrible. The poor dog got taken from a familiar area, shoved in an increasingly smaller cage, and was chained so it couldn't even move to be comfortable. I don't even think the astronauts like their food in jelly form, say nothing of a dog. Just because it was a stray doesn't mean it didn't belong to someone before it was put on the murder-mission. Scientific advancement doesn't justify cruelty. Many medical and scientific advancements came as a result from holocaust victims.....does that mean the holocaust was justified? No!!!

Answer 2

I am so sad about what they did to laika, it was so cruel to strap her in like that where she couldn't move. She must've been terrified and died a terrible death. i am really upset at how people treat animals which were given to us by God to accompany us on this planet.
Not only that, they sent up more monkeys and dogs afterwards and alot of them died too!
How cruel mankind is.

Answer 3

i think its sad that nature takes the backseat to man's experiments, well really everything we do causes damage to earth nowdays.
poor dogs, i actually like animals more than i like people and you got me depressed

Answer 4

wow, that is said. Poor dog. If I ever have a dog, I'm not launching it into space.

Answer 5

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sputnik_2

Apparently, the cooling system didn't work right because the satellite did not separate fully from the booster.

Answer 6

i hope whoever sent laiki up died horrible slow and painful deaths.. i hope they suffered from cancer for years.