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from the to-boldly-go-where-geckos-had-not-gone-before dept.
For three days in late July, our eyes collectively turned skyward. We, as a species, sat helpless, united in hope that a satellite full of geckos tasked with a month-long sex romp would be safely returned to orbit—and indeed to Earth—after the Russian space ministry lost control of it. Eventually, Roscosmos regained control of the satellite, and today Foton-M4 touched down in Orenberg, Southern Russia, to worldwide jubilation.
It is thus, with heavy hearts, we report that all five of the Geckos on-board died, according to the Russian space agency. The sad news was confirmed by Roscosmos ( https://twitter.com/mattb0401/status/506451596151382018 ) to the Moscow Times as they prepared a joint statement with the ominously named Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems.
These geckos died in the cause of science, for the greater good, etc. A toast to these pioneering geckos! Four generations of Drosophila flies, microorganisms and plants were also sent into space. Update 16:56 BST: The flies survived and reproduced!
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-09/01/rip-space-sex-geckos
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Blackmoore on Tuesday September 02 2014, @06:01PM
what strange mutation will occur?
and what terror will they unleash upon mankind?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 02 2014, @06:56PM
I'm not to worried about any terrors. We're pretty terrible ourselves. After I posted above, I read that ISIS has beheaded another reporter. What can mutants do to us, that we don't do to ourselves?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by Blackmoore on Tuesday September 02 2014, @07:17PM