Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/02

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Subject: Re: [Leica] the slow horrible death of leica
From: Chandos Brown <cmbrow@wm.edu>
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 14:43:12 -0400

Uh, I hate to correct a good story, but the dog's name was "Laika," which 
is apparently Russian for "bark" or something like that: nothing to do with 
cameras, Leicas, Zorkies, or otherwise.

Chandos

see, for instance: 
http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/space_level2/laika.html


At 12:34 PM 06/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>there was an article in George about a year and a half ago (when i was
>still reading it under the foundless impression that it would eventually
>get good) by the russian scientist who trained "leica", the dog in space,
>they knew the dog was going to die in space (as they had no plans to bring
>it back) and the guy had gotten attached to it while they were working
>together. he said the dog looked scared and he wanted to pat her on the
>head but he didn't want to look unscientific in front of his bosses, so he
>just shut her in. once the capsul got in space the defective heat shield
>raised the inside temperature of the capsule 1 degree every orbit and she
>baked slowly to death.
>
>but should't the dog have been named Zorki?
>
>kc

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