The day of this posting is the 57th anniversary of the Soviet space flight of the dog, Laika. Laika was the first animal to go into orbit around the Earth in a craft named Sputnik 2. Due to a failure in the thermal control system of Sputnik 2, Laika died from overheating about five hours into the mission.
In the drawing, Victor Kazovik Wolf persuades Laika to go up in the rocket. Nollo Chozinsky Wolf stands by to affirm Victor's claims about how safe the rocket is suppose to be. Laika is really skeptical about the whole ordeal. But in the end, she trusts Victor, Nollo and the others involved in the mission, and goes for that fateful ride into space.
Actually, it would have been more merciful if she had died due to burning up upon re-entry. She died about five hours after take off from the sunlight heating up the craft after it's temperature control system failed. One source stated that the heat in the cabin aboard Sputnik 2 was like a pressure cooker when she died. Sputnik 2 remained in orbit for months after Laika had died. Sputnik 2 re-entered Earth's atmosphere in April of 1958, somewhere over the Caribbean sea.
Actually, it would have been more merciful if she had died due to burning up upon re-entry. She died
Poor girl. Space Dandy even did an episode where the first half or more was centered around laika. where she waas trapped on a distant planet...thought nobody wanted her...and spent her last few hours bonding and playing with Dandy...I'm rying a little thining about it...the last prt was the usual comedic mayhem to make up for it but...
Poor girl. Space Dandy even did an episode where the first half or more was centered around laika. w
I thought of names for my two wolf characters in this posting. The dark grey one, Nollo Chozinsky Wolf. (Cho zints' ke) The light grey one talking to Laika, Victor Kazovik Wolf. (Kah' zoh vik)
The names sort of hit me as I was looking at the wolf characters.
I thought of names for my two wolf characters in this posting. The dark grey one, Nollo Chozinsky W
Early space animals and some humans* ,Russian cosmonauts, died in space. Legends greatly exaggerate the number, but some did die due to incompetence of designers, technicians... Laika was reported to be orbitting earth nicely, but this was a fabrication and a reputation-sparing lie as monitors indicated she had died in hours.
* Such as Vladimir Kumarov. His last entry was a curse against his superiors, and that he sacrificed his life so that a friend , Yuri Gargarin, did not have to take his defective spaceship. His earlier efforts to alert his superiors to the defects in the craft, only got him rebuked.
Early space animals and some humans* ,Russian cosmonauts, died in space. Legends greatly exaggerate
There was a frightful incident where a crowd of technicians, posing for a group photograph at the rocket as it primed its engines, were flash-incinerated when a malfunction detonated the engines. Most were utterly cremated and had to be buried in a common grave (no way to individually identify the ashes). A few staggered away,but ,being fatally burned, died soon after. One did survive -because he had stepped away to make a phone call or take a final puff on a cigarette. He had survivor guilt afterwards.
This horror was, like other such disasters, covered up.
There was a frightful incident where a crowd of technicians, posing for a group photograph at the ro
The Russians did not have the moral restraints that we Americans have. I even found on the 'net plans to cut off a collie's head and graft it onto a robot body as a soldier. To my knowledge, this cyborg atrocity was never really carried out.
The Russians did not have the moral restraints that we Americans have. I even found on the 'net plan
During the Soviet era they removed a dog's head and kept it alive and conscious with a mechanical pump circulating the dog's own blood through his head from a reservoir tank. They made a machine that removed the carbon dioxide from the blood and oxygenated it. The dog's eyes would follow objects, and the tongue would lick sicks with sweet stuff on them. The dog's head lived for only 6 hours. Even though they had all that elaborate life support equipment attached to it, that equipment still was not able to remove toxins from the blood as the kidneys do. Nor was the equipment able to regulate the water content as the intestines do, or regulate the blood sugar as the pancreases does. Nor was the equipment able to take in nourishment, and preform other vital functions the body was able to do...There was even no way for adrenaline to be produced. Later throughout the day, the health of the dog's head deteriorated and eventually died.
During the Soviet era they removed a dog's head and kept it alive and conscious with a mechanical pu
In the picture I have in my "cyborg" folder, the dog head was shown on some pump-like machine. The head attached to-and presumably controlling- a robot body with huge arms, was conjecture. There was also a photo of the robot body =without a controlling head.
In the picture I have in my "cyborg" folder, the dog head was shown on some pump-like machine. The h
