A very simple question this week:
The first vertebrate sent into space was not a dog. What kind of animal was it?
First correct answer posted to comments wins a plastic replica of same, or perhaps of some other kind of animal, or perhaps a piece of plastic in a shape that could be said to resemble an animal if you had a child's wonderful imagination, which, alas, you no longer do.
Posted by BT at March 29, 2002 01:06 PMthe whiskey rebellion?
Posted by: mlang on March 29, 2002 01:21 PMa frog monkey!
Posted by: bootsy on March 29, 2002 01:31 PMone a them spineless, fraidy ruskies
any points for a good wrong answer?
Posted by: teenidol on March 29, 2002 03:03 PMNegative points: a spineless russkie could very well be a vertebrate, now could he?
Posted by: BT on March 29, 2002 03:16 PMgah...urgh... couldn't very well be a vertebrate...
Posted by: Bt on March 29, 2002 03:17 PMI'll go ahead and guess mouse. We're always fucking with mice.
Unless Noah's missing dove counts . . .
Posted by: Hackly Fracture on March 29, 2002 03:43 PMWell, whatever the answer is, it directly contradicts 'Can You Hear A Shout in Space?' (from my son's library), which posits that Laika was the first living (and dying) being in space.
I'll guess wombat.
Posted by: bup on March 29, 2002 03:49 PMIs a fish a vertabrate? Just because you can't love a fish in re lack of feelings doesn't mean you can't shoot it into space, right? And it's not to the moon, anyway, it's just space. So i think fish. If you'd like me to be specific in re species i'll guess Flounder but that's my own arbitrary bias. And it's more realistic than Frog Monkey. Unless you mean a Frog Monkey Fish. But i think it's a fish.
Really, a turtle made sense to me.
Posted by: BT on March 29, 2002 04:42 PMit's prolly a rat.
dem's what we fuck wit, not mice,
foolish hackly eff.
but, for some reason,
i want to say 'kitty cat'.
meow, buzz aldrin.
Wasn't it a monkey? (Note: NOT a frog monkey). Despite the fact I'm saying "monkey", I really thought it was a dog, named Laika.
Or am I hallucinating again? Hmm...
Cheers,
Garthmeister J
Memo to self: feel free to read the next blog update before commenting on older blog update. Somehow I now have to claim that I _really_ knew that the dog's name was Laika, etc. etc. and I wasn't just cheating in some kind of vain attempt to win approval or something.
Of course, I shall manage to convince no one of my pure motives, least of all myself.
Cheers,
Garthmeister J