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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago (3 children)

First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.

After that: people.

And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Very suspicious if you ask me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Maybe there's a secret program that They don't want us to know about.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe they don’t want to go

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

A blue whale would be impressive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

South Park tried it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OH I CAN SEE THE WHAAAAAAAALES

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

LOOOOMING OUT OF THE DAAAAARK

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

"we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard."

But really I was just pretending to misunderstand the early test flights as a progression of sending larger life-forms, and that we should continue sending larger and larger animals.