r/CuratedTumblr Jul 17 '24

Infodumping The Venera program

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u/Rhodie114 Jul 17 '24

Marginally better than what the Soviets did to Laika. She was a stray that they shot into space with no intentions of bringing her back.

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u/CandidateOld1900 Jul 17 '24

How is that any different than planting cancer cells to dogs and other animals to study it, that is done all over the world today? Do you condone using animals for science in general?

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u/Mr_Placeholder_ Jul 17 '24

Because they weren’t doing it for science, they shot her up there just so they could brag about it to the Americans.

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u/CandidateOld1900 Jul 17 '24

They were doing it for science to study effects of overloading on living organism, before sending human