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Russian Monkeys to Mars
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post Apr 15 2008, 12:06 PM
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Belgian newspapers had an article about the involvement of the Sochi Institute for Medical Primatology in Vesjoloje near the Black Sea and its idea of sending Monkeys on a " manned " Mars mission before humans would fly...

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GregM
post Apr 17 2008, 02:22 AM
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(with all respects to Chuck Heston)

the first words spoken by humans on Mars in 40 years or so:

"Get your hands off of me, you damn dirty ape!" rolleyes.gif



On a more serious note, doing the Laika thing in this enlightened age would be nothing but a PR nightmare of the highest proportions.
Wwaaayyy to much vodka consumed the night they dreamed up that one.
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- PhilCo126   Russian Monkeys to Mars   Apr 15 2008, 12:06 PM
- - jamescanvin   The BBC have an article of this as well http://ne...   Apr 15 2008, 03:16 PM
- - imipak   I saw this as well, and just about covers...   Apr 15 2008, 07:05 PM
- - Stu   Wow, the vodka was flowing freely that night, wasn...   Apr 15 2008, 07:10 PM
- - nprev   Doesn't really look like they'll be simula...   Apr 15 2008, 07:58 PM
- - DFinfrock   I have to say... this is the most attention grabbi...   Apr 16 2008, 02:37 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (DFinfrock @ Apr 15 2008, 07:37 PM)...   Apr 16 2008, 02:53 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   Great, just great. All the contamination issues o...   Apr 16 2008, 03:13 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Apr 15 200...   Apr 16 2008, 03:39 AM
|- - David   QUOTE (Holder of the Two Leashes @ Apr 16 200...   Apr 16 2008, 04:20 AM
|- - Holder of the Two Leashes   QUOTE (David @ Apr 15 2008, 11:20 PM) Wou...   Apr 16 2008, 02:53 PM
||- - tedstryk   Zond-5 and Zond-6 were both partial successes. Zo...   Apr 17 2008, 12:52 AM
||- - Holder of the Two Leashes   QUOTE (tedstryk @ Apr 16 2008, 06:52 PM) ...   Apr 17 2008, 08:30 PM
||- - David   The Russians should have erected a monument to the...   Apr 18 2008, 02:54 AM
|- - Greg Hullender   QUOTE (David @ Apr 15 2008, 08:20 PM) Nob...   Apr 17 2008, 04:03 AM
|- - imipak   QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Apr 17 2008, 04:0...   Apr 17 2008, 07:44 AM
- - Shaka   ...circumlunar flight of tortoises Never heard of...   Apr 16 2008, 06:19 AM
- - Stu   It would happen, you know it would...   Apr 16 2008, 07:37 AM
|- - nprev   QUOTE (Stu @ Apr 15 2008, 11:37 PM) It wo...   Apr 16 2008, 07:49 PM
- - ilbasso   I guess they figured that if Bigfoot could survive...   Apr 16 2008, 01:37 PM
- - GregM   (with all respects to Chuck Heston) the first wor...   Apr 17 2008, 02:22 AM
- - Shaka   Tortoises of the Moon, UNITE!   Apr 18 2008, 05:17 AM
- - Holder of the Two Leashes   The article mentioned that 40 monkeys would be sel...   Apr 18 2008, 03:51 PM
- - lyford   With all this talk of tortoises in space, is anyon...   Apr 18 2008, 06:31 PM
- - PhilCo126   A few days ago I visited the Alamogordo museum of ...   May 18 2008, 09:19 PM
- - nprev   Didn't know poor old Ham was there now. I used...   May 18 2008, 11:44 PM
- - PhilCo126   The stories of both HAM and ENOS became a bit morb...   May 19 2008, 07:08 PM
- - nprev   I am glad that Ham has a memorial of some sort, in...   May 20 2008, 12:14 PM
|- - PFK   I guess if one of them does make it to that new wo...   May 26 2008, 09:56 PM
- - PhilCo126   Well, here's the movie: http://www.spacechimp...   May 30 2008, 09:16 AM
- - PhilCo126   BIS Spaceflight magazine July 2008 has a superb ar...   Jun 12 2008, 05:23 PM

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