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a lot of people find the story of laika romantic for some reason

i don't quite see it

hero dog went to heaven

Nietzslime wrote:a lot of people find the story of laika romantic for some reason

i don't quite see it

I don't get it either. I mean, it's not like the fucking dog volunteered. I wonder if romanticizing it and heroifying Laika helps them smooth over the fact that a cute little dog got shot into space to die. I mean, I can see thinking "eh, just a dog, worth the sacrifice", but then the dog's not any kind of hero--it's just a lab animal that got killed for a more interesting experiment than most.

RedImperator wrote:I wonder if romanticizing it and heroifying Laika helps them smooth over the fact that a cute little dog got shot into space to die.

That's my opinion. A lot easier to think "hero dog went to heaven" than "SCIENCE murdered innocent dog".

I betcha if you gave random medical lab rat #342 a name and a story, people would get attached there too.

ehhhhhhhh i'd wager not actually

dogs have charisma and personality while rats bring like the plague or some shit

RedImperator wrote:

Why not something evocative of the inherent risks and dangers associated with early space travel like the 'Laika'? (first animal in orbit, if not the first in space).

Did I miss the joke, or did this dude just suggest the Federation name a starship after a dog that was sent into space to die?

I'm still angry about my grade 7 English teacher insisting the dog wasn't named Laika, but Muttnik. It might be one of the few times in my life where someone was so wrong and didn't back down but instead used her authority to shut me up.

I got sent to the office

seems likely the russians would name the dog with an english pun that wouldn't make sense until three years after the dog was born

does painrack have to spazz out over every Btech thread with lame justifications

RedImperator wrote:

Why not something evocative of the inherent risks and dangers associated with early space travel like the 'Laika'? (first animal in orbit, if not the first in space).

Did I miss the joke, or did this dude just suggest the Federation name a starship after a dog that was sent into space to die?

I could see naming something after Laika as a kind of "sorry we murdered you for no reason" memorial.

A spaceship is probably not the most tactful approach.

Coming soon: Federation starships named after other Krushchev publicity stunts, such as:

USS Kitchen Debate
USS Cuban Missile Crisis
USS That Time Kurschev Banged His Shoe on the Table and Looked Pretty Silly

USS Destalinization?

USS Ivan Drago

darth wong is the quintessential teoite

or model

whatever fuck lexicon


he's the template for all the others

ATTN STOFSK :

I do no want to alarm you, but it seems there's a bug on TOB which makes your name appear in green...

archetypical, that's the word

Oxymoron wrote:ATTN STOFSK :

I do no want to alarm you, but it seems there's a bug on TOB which makes your name appear in green...

The power will corrupt him.

OH SH-

Sellout!

Sellout!

Sellout!

FUCKIN' DOG.

YOU'LL GET YOURS DOG.

i'm not even j/kin darth wong is a low quality poster

i can't get over it

on a private forum

can't you say that since the owner is the boss

'qulaity' is defined as how closely someone aligns themselves with that person

thus by definition the owner is always qulaity

I hate it when people use the word "quality" meaning something good. "Quality" can be good, bad, or anything in between.