come in, space cadet
i peeled my face from the cold, wet, glass
i must’ve fallen asleep looking outside again
like a kid watching sports through the windowfront of a store
that little blue marble
mounds of green and brown
i can obscure it with the warm white splotches of my breath
fogging up the glass
i wonder what it’s like down there right now
i imagine a deer trotting down a forest trail
and an opossum hiding in a bush, its babies clung into it like fruits
ripe for the picking
maybe someone falling in love for the first time
or a family photo being taken at this exact moment, cementing a core memory for everyone there
i’m sure it’s nice
i’m so far away from the movement and noise of every day life
but even up here, i think about quite often
because now that im at face with the largest thing that we can comfortably comprehend
it’s comforting to remember the small stuff that i tend to forget
wait
“i think i see my house from here!”
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August 19
On August 19, 1960, the Soviet satellite Korabl-Sputnik 2 launched with a passenger list including numerous plants, 40 mice, two dogs, and two rats. Thankfully, the saucer men who encountered the satellite were vegetarians, so the mice, dogs, and rats returned uneaten.
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This is Kudryavka (little curly) who came to be known to the world as Laika (barker). Only recently I learnt her story. (It's a sad one)
She was a stray dog that used to live in Moscow. She was taken with several other stray dogs to be tested to be sent to the space.
All doggies were put through hard and uncomfortable tests. Like fitting sanitation devices to their pelvic area. They didn't like it.
Another dog "outperformed" her, but she (the other dog) had just recently given birth. So they chose Laika for her soft energy, and they chose a female because they were more docile.
They sent her with one meal, and oxygen for 7 days. Her heart rate tripled and her breath quadrupled by the noise and pressure from the flight.
She wasn't expected to come back. She was used to "test waters" before humans in space travel. She was also used because Russian's premier wanted to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Russian's Bolshevik revolution.
She didn't make it. They expected her to die of oxygen deprivation. She didn't. She died soon after launching when the temperature inside the spacecraft reached 90 degrees. Celsius I assume.
Other dogs were used later on. 71 between 1951 and 1966. 17 died. But all had some expectation of making it alive. All except Laika.
Some groups opposed to launching in Great Britain. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty and the Society for Happy Dogs. Also a group of dog lovers attached protest signs to their animals and marched outside United Nations in New York.
The soviet government lied for sometime saying she had made it alive. They wanted to say she was the first live living to be on a spaceship.
It was so wrong on so many level. The use of an animal for pure human ego purposes. Sending an animal to a certain death. Removing an animal from their natural environment.
But in addition, they abused their soft energy. They use it against the being, to put them in they worst of situations. So the softer the animal the most eligible. That still goes on.
Also they used the fact that she was a stray to abuse of her. A dog "no one" would miss.
This abuse and use of another life, of an earthling, another being; shows the degree of sickness of a society, the unbalance of humanity, the disconnection from all that we are part of.
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sad-story-laika-space-dog-and-her-one-way-trip-orbit-1-180968728/
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Esta es Kudryavka (pequeña rizada) quien fue conocida como en el mundo como Laika (ladradora). Recientemente conocí su historia. (Es triste)
Ella era una perrita que vivía en las calles de Moscú. Fue llevada con otros perros y perras de calle para ser examinados y elegir a quién enviar al espacio.
Perros y perras fueron sometidos a pruebas duras e incómodas. Como colocarles dispositivos sanitarios en su zona pélvica. No les gustó.
Otra perrita tuvo un "mejor" puntaje que Laika, pero ella (la otra perra) acababa de dar a luz. Así que eligieron a Laika por su energía suave, y eligieron a una hembra porque eran más dóciles.
La enviaron con sólo una comida y oxígeno que le durara por 7 días. Su frecuencia cardíaca se triplicó y su respiración se cuadruplicó por el ruido y la presión del vuelo.
No se esperaba que volviera con vida. Ella fue usada para probar antes que los humanos viajes espaciales. También fue usada porque el primer ministro de Rusia quería conmemorar el 40 aniversario de la revolución bolchevique rusa.
Ella no sobrevivió. Esperaban que muriera por falta de oxígeno, pero no lo hizo. Murió poco después del lanzamiento cuando la temperatura dentro de la nave alcanzó los 90 grados. Centígrados supongo.
Posteriormente se utilizaron otros perros y perras. 71 animales entre 1951 y 1966. 17 murieron. Pero todos tenían alguna expectativa de hacerlo con vida. Todos, excepto Laika.
Algunos grupos se opusieron al lanzamiento en Gran Bretaña: La Real Sociedad para la Prevención de la Crueldad y la Sociedad de Perros Felices. Además, un grupo de amantes de los perros pegó carteles de protesta a sus animales y marchó fuera de las Naciones Unidas en Nueva York.
El gobierno soviético mintió durante algún tiempo diciendo que ella había llegado con vida a órbita. Querían decir que ella era el primer ser vivo en estar en una nave espacial.
Todo lo que ocurrió esto tan mal en tantos niveles. El uso de un animal para propósitos del ego humano. Enviar un animal a una muerte segura. Sacar un animal de su entorno natural.
Pero además, abusaron de su energía suave. Usaron en contra de su ser el ser hembra y el ser suave para ponerla en la peor de las situaciones. Entonces, cuanto más suave sea el animal, más elegible es. Eso todavía ocurre.
También utilizaron el hecho de que ella era una perrita de calle para abusar de ella. Un perra que "nadie" extrañaría.
Este abuso y uso de otra vida, de un ser de la tierra; muestra el grado de enfermedad de nuestra sociedad, el desequilibrio de la humanidad, la desconexión de todo aquello de lo que formamos parte.
Fuente: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/sad-story-laika-space-dog-and-her-one-way-trip-orbit-1-180968728/
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afterglow - a rain song
subtle drips from the raindrops echo through my bedroom
a rhythm that leaves you wanting more and hits at the exact moment you want it
like the tears at the end of a large fight
the drizzles feel exhausted
remnants, reminders of just minutes ago
a storm is a person
a person is a cloud
thundering, roaring, massive catharsis
now the world teaches us about replenishment
prostrate oneself to the rain cycle,
and learn to empathize with the world
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Last pic of 'Kosmonavt', my piece for 'Shrine'. This is what was written next to the work: "'Kosmonavt' (meaning ‘cosmonaut’ in Russian) is a monument to Laika, the ultimate good dog. She was an unknowing martyr to space travel. Her skull, saturated in stars and nebulae sits eternally protected by celestial guard dogs." 🌔
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