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letterfromajax · 1 year

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still having a. Moment

Apparently Sputnik ii and Laika returned home, but bc the thermal insulation was damaged during the launch and also it was originally a one way trip both of them burned up upon reentering earth’s atmosphere and that’s still rlly sad and it makes me very upset to think about how we will probably never know the nature of her death but also I can’t help but wonder if that would make any difference you know? Whether she died of poison or overheating, peacefully or painfully it doesn’t rlly make a huge difference… I think it would be nice to have the peace of mind knowing that she passed peacefully and not scared she was a 3 y/o stray and despite all efforts the trainers and scientists involved in the project all felt a deep connection to the dogs in the program and I think that says a lot abt people and their nature like they loved her in some capacity, more than they thought they would have and did and years later her trainer says that she feels so much regret over having done that bc they didn’t learn enough from the mission to justify doing that to Laika and I’m just…. This is rlly one of those things where u can’t like balance it out into this or that bc it’s rlly a combination of a lot of things and somehow that makes me frustrated bc like I want to be mad at those people and say they’re bad people for doing this but I can’t.. what they did wasn’t right at least in my opinion and knowing what we know now it wasn’t worth it and i know if they had known that the mission wouldn’t provide a significant amount of data they wouldn’t do it and it’s sad to think that their love was not enough to save her but the fact still remains that they love her and she is still loved and that makes me rlly emotional like 60 years later and there are people who only know of laika from reading her story and they mourn her and grieve for her and love her and are angry for her even tho it’s all been said and done and like she is just so loved even today and she will continue to be loved and mourned 100s of years from now and man……. It’s just also weird bc bad things like this happen a lot at least a lot more often than we are aware of and we don’t know abt a lot of them bc they’re not as big as this and that also makes me really sad that means nobody can love them from our distance in time and I’m rlly sleepy and I’m just..love is jsut such a universally shared feeling among the living and I’m just….man I’m rlly sad abt laika I love her and she is loved so much and it won’t make it better or right ofc it won’t but k think love makes it all a little easier

#twinkling.txt #passes out

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