Russia blasts gerbils into space

Yes but sending them into space is a lot better that the American practice called (I believe) feltching.

As a funny afterthought on the topic

Imagine the puzzlement an alien race would face if they had a first contact scenario with that spaceship?? :lol: :lol: :lol:

Countless hours spent trying to decipher the language followed by an endless amount of time trying to figure out how they managed to reach the level of technology required to build and lauch a space craft hehe :lol:

@~Pebbles~ wrote:

@ubermik wrote:

@~Pebbles~ wrote:

The Russian space agency has blasted ten gerbils into space for a 12-day mission to test the possible effects on humans of a flight to Mars. Hmmm I think I see a flaw in their thinking here, how exactly will sending Gerbils into space tell us anything at all about HUMANS?

Apparantly sand gerbils can live for a month without using liquid, well theres the first thing we DONT have in common with them.

Seems like a pointless and cruel excerise to me :twisted:

But we regularly send humans into space too dont we? So how is it cruel to do it to gerbils but not humans?

And many people are queueing up to pay millions of dollars to go into space, yet these gerbils can go for free

Sounds pretty rodentalicious really

Pointing out the obvious here, humans choose to go into space, the gerbils have been locked in a cage and blasted off, and on their return will be disected. Hardly what I would call a holiday.

Yeah but youre not a gerbil tho are ya? You dont fill your mouth with nuts (well maybe two if youre into teabagging of course) and you wont spend monotonous hours running on a little wheel in a cage

So how do you know that to a gerbil the chance to crap in zero gravity isnt an ace holiday away from their usual gravity ridden prison, a holiday they might not mind being dissected afterwards for lol

Even people on death row often reach a point where they prefer the end result of their sentence to the constant imprisonment, maybe gerbils are the same lol :D

Anyway, some people like going camping, and compared to that 12 days in space followed by dissection seems like a far less painful experience I reckon hehe

As for it being pointless, to an african villager I am sure building a railway or hospital would seem pointless, as they arent sufficiently socially evolved or conversant to understand the relevance

So just because sending gerbils into space seems pointless to you doesnt equate to it being so