Yes, I have changed the title and thumbnail on this video about 50 times and I know a lot of you don't like that, but this video is absolutely tanking for some reason. I've gotten a few comments that people don't want to watch it because what happens to the animals makes them sad. Maybe that's it? Anyway, apologies.
@@manuelvale3996 EXACTLY what I was thinking, that monkey thumbnail it currently is screams AI generated to me for some reason, it is like spotting photoshop, something is just.... off. I didn't click this video for the content, I clicked to see if anyone else noticed or suspected an AI thumbnail.
I first didn't click on the video because I didn't find laika in Space interesting. But the claim "Most astronauts were animals" made me click on it in the end. I would prefer more interesting space-related topics though.
@@Iwitrag Well, human passengers are only increasing the total number of animals flying. But you still have to discount plants and bacteria from the tally somehow.
While I learn many things from your videos, learning that Laika's trainer took her home the night before the flight just to give her a "last meal" with love and care really sticks with me...
I’m a grade 1 teacher at an international school in China, and my students were literally asking me to check which animals had been to space one by one today... love your content. Touches lives around the world in ways you could never imagine. I’ll be using this information to dazzle some inquisitive 6 year olds tomorrow. Thanks for every video.
There were some other survivors from _Columbia_ -- there was an Australian spider experiment aboard, and some of these (the same ones that launched) were found alive in the debris field.
What a wonderful coincidence. I just started researching Laika last night. I'm gonna make a short comic about her for my art class. The image of her looking at the earth and seeing it as a ball makes my tear up :P
I know that's a joke but fun fact, they actually DID study cats in zero g for that specific reason but they did it on the Vomit Comet & that data lead to the design of the gyroscopes used for the ISS. Also the films footage of those experiments is hilarious. If you wanna see cats doing the cat flip in zero g & then clawing the crap out of Airmen's arms & legs it's 100% worth the watch.
I don’t say this ever, but You are providing my TH-cam feed with educational and intresting videos and You are one of my top 10 youtubers (number one in the educational category). Furthermore i want to thank You for the amazing videos that Even though they don’t seem like it, they really stand out compared to a lot of other stuff on this plattform. Have a wonderful day, and i wish You well on your TH-cam career! I will follow You through this journey for as long as i can muster.
@@jip5889 i usally just stumble upon these types of videos, but i will be sure to keep them in mind. I think i have seen some videos of theirs before, but i can’t say for certain.
imagine yuri gagarin asking if they've tested the space suit he's going to use to go to space, and the scientists proudly tell him about the experimental prototype they filled with like a hundred assorted rodents, and how - on *that* basis - they're certain he'll be fine. and he still went through with it.
@@ImperfectVoid8479 you reminded me of Tom Hanks. He was on Conan and they were talking about movies he likes to do. He said that if it has something to do with a topic he's actually interested in (WW2 or outer space), then there's a greater chance that he'll do it. So Conan's like, "Oh you like space?" Hanks responds with (paraphrasing), "If they wanted to send someone up there just to see if it'd still hurt getting staples in your head, I'd be the first to sign up."
I’m still thinking about the Russian farmers. If they’d gotten there first… like if they’d opened the suit and all of those rodents came spilling out… How many years of therapy would you need to get over that? Yikes.
As someone who starting a TH-cam channel, the last few months have been really nice as I get to see a little bit more of the actual side of your Dallas home every once in awhile. I live in the Oklahoma City area and I to having similar kitchen and spare room getting set up for video making. Nice to know you're just a regular everyday dude like the rest of us, love seeing you give your dog all the love as well.
your dog is cracking me up. he's like "DAD WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY ARE YOU HUGGING ME AND SOBBING LET ME GO I AM CONFUSION" and i know this because i do the same to my dog every time i watch a movie where the dog dies
Somewhat appropriate that this video drops on the Monday after Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 was released, which for the first time gives some characterizaton to Cosmo, who appears to be one of the Soviet dogs launched in the 50s or 60s that somehow survived and came to be in The Collectors... er... collection. She wears a CCCP-marked spacesuit (sans helmet and paw coverings), speaks (in Russain-accented English) through a digital translator that apparently just reads her mind... and she's telekinetic.
I don't know if I'm emotionally ready to hear about the dog astronauts. It was tough to even watch Guardians 3 knowing Cosmo's story. But damn, that one video of Laika damn well makes me cry every time.
As the story goes, the ground control center for the Laika flight had her heartbeat on the speaker. After a point, when everyone knew she was going to die, they proceeded as normal with the heartbeat on the speaker. Finally, the controllers couldn't take it anymore and turned off the sound telemetry.
@DeeDee Yeah. I think the future must be vegan both morally and environmentally, but I do eat meat. It's different from the torture Laika had to go through, but still bad I acknowledge.
I live in Huntsville and I visit her grave often, a lot of people don’t notice it but space animals are very important to me so I make sure to pay my respects to miss baker
You know what I think is crazy? Most of these were able to get the animals into space but somehow couldn't manage to figure out how to make a parachute work. Insane
@@damenwhelan3236 did they think they could use existing parachute designs used to jump out of airplanes and they'd be fine though? 🤦 Because that was way too many failed parachutes.
@XSemperIdem5 Nope. They used un tested designed on test bed craft to determine if they would work. They did not. But can't know till you try and try and try
@XSemperIdem5 Test craft are very seldom ever meant for retrieval. The Russians just kept trying for retrieval so they could claim the achievement if it happened. Initially. The USSR used a ditch and deploy method. The cosmonaut ditched the craft and used a traditional parachute to land.
"Alas, poor Yorick..." Actually, I didn't know of him, Horatio. I knew of Laika, Ham the chimp, and two other dogs the Soviets launched (but not their names.) So thanks, Joe. I had no idea the roster was so extensive.
I like the set Joe. The old one was iconic but frankly a bit "early days". Love the blue, the typewriter and the pictures. And Starships tend to tie rooms together well :) Fits the aerospace side the channel often has.
It would be worth mentioning that there was a student experiment on board of space shuttle Columbia that involved some worms. The crew studied it for 14 days while on orbit. Even though the shuttle disintegrated during reentry, the worms survived. Those were not the same worms that launched but the next generations of these creatures. In a way, this is some legacy of the crew of Columbia.
Thank you for paying respect to all the critters with their truth...and with your usual combination of lighten-the-mood and genuine-feeling :) (love the current color/fade treatment on the film...I confess, I treat a lot of my video similarly :D I grew up in the 70s and 4 color separation flavoured color grading choices make me happy!) (thoroughly enjoying all the new set-up & technique playing ya'll are doing! AND OMG THANK YOU FOR KEEPING TANGENT CAM [with The Correct No I Will Not Be Taking Questions FONT lololol] I have an inordinate love for Tangent Cam & all its cousins :D)
Ugh. You weren’t wrong… I’m only on on Lika at 4:06 and this is hard!!!! So sad. I see the benefits her life provided but at a huge cost. I’m still going to try to get through this! ❤
I saw Miss Baker at the Alabama (later US) Space and Rocket Center when I first visited there around 1981 or 1982. It was one of the things that made me want to go to Space Camp, which happened in 1984, only the 3rd year of Space Camp.
I find it interesting that they were able to get to space with pretty good consistency, yet consistently made parachutes that didn't work. Seems like a parachute is more simple than a rocket but shows what I know. 🤷
Speed/Velocity.. Mass.. ..Look at the size of the parachute needed to slow a 200lb human jumping from a plane going roughly 100mph.. Now scale that up to a muti-ton vehicle that's going about 17,000mph..
10:05 Loved this video and I live in Huntsville, I was so happy to hear someone reference my hometown that was literally one of the most important towns for space flight in the US.
There were 24 mice on the recent SpaceX CRS-27 mission, I know this because I did experiments on these mice myself. One did die in space, but the remaining 23 made it back to Earth.
@@T.Lspitz I personally did grip strength testing for our little mousetronauts, but there was about 50-70 people in total on this project. The main field of research for these mice was osteology, looking at bone and muscle mass, body fat composition, walking gate, and more. At least the NASA side was osteology based, I'm actually unsure what the JAXA side was working on specifically, but I believe essentially the same. I currently work in a neurology lab though, we focus on Alzheimer's disease. I was lucky enough to work with another lab on this project, it was my first experience working with animals that have been to space.
I don't know why but if they send dogs to space especially if they don't come back living I could cry for hours. Maybe because I love dogs so much (having one very cute myself). Layka was such a sweet little puppy. And I could not think about what she went through during her ride. And I know how much you love your dog. I am certain that you totally understand. 🥰
Felicette is the most upsetting in my opinion. She remained calm (which is incredible considering what was hapening) and she survived. The fact that they chose to euthanise her to run tests afterwards just hurts. The USSR didn't even euthanise any of their animals that survived.
Agreed. We really should name some of our space infrastructure after these, and though I'm sure Laika Ham and Albert would get priority, Felicette really needs to be near the top of the namesake list.
Can you imagine being that monkey that flew to space and lived for so many years after surviving... Imagine having an interesting life ahead of launch - humans putting you through all kinds of tests and stuff that you don't understand but you're like "meh they feed me, life is cool" then you get strapped in a rocket and you're probably pretty unhappy cuz it's not like a normal car ride and you're alone. And then liftoff! And you're like ohhhhhh myyyyy gaaawwwd wtf... I am peeing and pooping cuz Holy crap what is happening!!!! And then get to microgravity and be all like "whaaaaat why am I floating!!" but you still prove ability to move in weightlessness by using that thingy you were trained to use.... Then you land on Earth, survive, go back to a non-astronaut life but at any given time you think back and remember that holy shit time you went on some crazy bonkers ride that no other monkey has done before..... Just wild to have that kind of experience!!! I wonder what it would be like for us to meet aliens... Maybe similar experience 😂
the columbia nematodes make me so happy for some reason. even in such a horrible situation, something survived it all. also, i want to know what would happen to a budgie in space. could a bird fly in the ISS? also, you’ve gotta talk about the ejection seat bears sometimes
15:26 fun tip for French pronunciation that will blow your mind, like in ballet every last letter isn't pronounce unless it's require like in monosyllabes. The apostrophes works like in English for skipping letters in the words if sound the same.
It’s feels like it’s been too long since I watched a Joe video and this was a good one but at the end I realized that I really enjoy the way Joe ends his videos and I think I always have a lil anxiety cuz I’m afraid it’s gonna be different and then when he ends it with “I love you guys” it’s strangely satisfying and the universe is perfect and safe
Just speculating here, but I think the monkey's were all named Albert after the popular canned tobacco, Prince Albert. I'm assuming they were making a bit of an elaborate pun based around the capsule's being "cans"
A former NASA Shuttle Console Operator at Ground Control and I decided that Space Bat needed a name. We called him Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson. A graphic artist friend of ours took the pic of Bat in a spacesuit and gave him a nametag. My only other connection to animals in space is that I was born at almost the same time as Laika was being launched aboard Sputnik II. I've had what is literally a life-long connection to that dog ever since. --Dan
I love the Bat Masterson story! Good for you guys! I was a space nut starting as a child (I was 9 when we got to the moon) & I also wondered a lot about the various ground crew, tech, science, etc folks. You guys must have so many cool stories! And speaking of young folk in the space program (was I?), I bet you've seen the "NASA Johnson Style" video, a spoof of "Gangnam Style." If you haven't, you MUST. It was done by various brilliant young interns (how they came up with the spare time, I cannot imagine!), & it makes my week every time I watch it. Oh, the NASA Johnson Style vid: th-cam.com/video/2Sar5WT76kE/w-d-xo.html
The release of this video is personally interesting as I just went to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS, which is one of the most amazing museums I've ever been to (though they REALLY SUCK at self-promotion, not mentioning how rare the soviet artifacts in thier museum are). With the Soviet's jumping out of the early capsules, apparently, they lied for decades about Yuri Gargarin doing so, due to rules around recording records at the time.
I *_love_* the _Cosmosphere,_ but don't get to see it often enough. That's because I live near Seattle, where at least we have the _Boeing Museum of Flight_ to compensate.
There’s a graphic novel about Laika from an author named Nick Abadzis that I read a few years ago. The story told in its pages was so sad that I was crying while reading the book in public and I had to hug my chihuahuas even harder for days afterwards…
@@rachel_sj Yeah I'm trying really hard to find something positive here! 😆 There is also the fact that it was only a few animals compared to the pharmaceutical industry that has been killing like hundreds of them every day for many decades...
The Albert name might have been a reference to chewing tobacco? The brand Prince Albert came in a can. I don't know if that's true or not but it sounds like 50s humor
I appreciate every living being that made the ultimate sacrifice. It is thanks to these lives that we not only are inspired, but we are given hope that someday us, the inhabitants of Earth may not have to face Extinction but instead become universal travelers learning and becoming more enlightened than we ever could have possibly imagined from the fruit fly, to the astronaut, we citizens of Earth salute you
99.999999% of citizens of Earth are only saluting stuff to either keep themselves alive or for an ass-kiss promotion, very few are saluting creatures shot up into space. Hell, I really don`t want homo-sapiens to become universal travellers in our current state. In fact if we do go extinct, it might be a blessing for the universe.
Why didn’t I just skip this video and wait for another day ffs 🥺 I’m way too emotional for this but I’m not going to stop because it’s still such quality content and I still want to know what the other ones are (just finished the Laika section and the trainer taking her home just killed me 😢) Thank you though Joe - fantastic vid as always
Don't be too hard on yourself. Your content is ABSOLUTELY amazing. I just discovered you a couple of days ago and have maybe watched/listened to about 20 of them since (or maybe 5 or 6 of them, bc you know, I have a very active social life). Any chance you've done anything about crows? I'm obsessed and want to learn how to become "friends" with one ... ummmm .... my NIECE wants to learn. Yeah, that's it. THANKS!!!
My Rat Terrier looks a lot like Laika. I will NOT be sending her to space, but that's okay because she thinks sticking her head out of a car window is much more exciting!
My favorite thumbnail was the cat one. The monkey one second, and the dog one the third. I was waiting to see if there was a forth, but after a few hours it looks like that’s it.
Just an FYI...the picture you showed of "Patricia and Mike" were not 2 crab eating macaques. One was a crab eating macaque but the one on the right is actually a squirrel monkey (rather than two crab eating macaques)!😊
@@kingkill5169 oh my...is this somehow a touchy subject for you? How strange that you would get upset over something so trivial, _bud_ (I spend more than enough time outside as I am an animal behaviorist/ethologist who works with primates which was why I was aware of what species was pictured and which is also why you have no need to worry about my time spent outdoors since i often spend weeks at a time "outside"! But thanks for your concern!)
In the 1980s, we managed to catch a giant horsefly at the beach on a weekend we were sending up Estes rockets. I had built a rocket modeled after the space shuttle, which had a payload compartment in the capsule. We named the ship "SKY-FLY" and put our giant horsefly in the capsule. We launched the insect and it survived with no problems. We launched it again over six to eight times, and it still survived. We honored it by letting it go at the end. It flew off unperturbed.
Hey, I recently told my MIL (who I love) about how sloths descend from trees about once a week to poop and if they fall on the way back up they often die. 🙃 She’s into sloths. I also told my brother about how the original voice actress for Ducky in the Land Before Time movies and Charlie from All Dogs Go to Heaven was brutally murdered by her father before it was released in theaters and the song about love persisting after death was dedicated in her memory. 😓 The burden of knowledge is a heavy one at times.
Was that Tom Scott? 😂 What a great video! I'm in the "no animal testing" camp because Dad wouldn't even let us keep bugs in the popular "bug catchers" of the 1960s. (No shade if you make different choices though!)
12:20 In the russian language, black is just a colour. Doesn't have the same connotations as in english. In fact, the word for ink is Chernyla, so a nother good translation would be *Inky* .
I have to say I am a huge animal lover but your reactions make it sad/funny like it's so sad but same time I'm laughing so hard I'm crying thank you definitely wouldn't be able to handle this topic without your humor not to mention I always learn so much from your videos
Going to watch this later when I'm better prepared for it, but Joe I gotta say, LOVING the hair! Idk what you would call that style, but it's working for you
Yes, I have changed the title and thumbnail on this video about 50 times and I know a lot of you don't like that, but this video is absolutely tanking for some reason. I've gotten a few comments that people don't want to watch it because what happens to the animals makes them sad. Maybe that's it? Anyway, apologies.
I was wondering what the hell was going on. I am cool with all the titles and thumbnails anyhow
Great video!
AI thumbnail?
@@manuelvale3996 EXACTLY what I was thinking, that monkey thumbnail it currently is screams AI generated to me for some reason, it is like spotting photoshop, something is just.... off. I didn't click this video for the content, I clicked to see if anyone else noticed or suspected an AI thumbnail.
I first didn't click on the video because I didn't find laika in Space interesting. But the claim "Most astronauts were animals" made me click on it in the end. I would prefer more interesting space-related topics though.
@@Iwitrag Well, human passengers are only increasing the total number of animals flying. But you still have to discount plants and bacteria from the tally somehow.
While I learn many things from your videos, learning that Laika's trainer took her home the night before the flight just to give her a "last meal" with love and care really sticks with me...
...same. yeah, I had to do "that spontaneous deep breath thing" when he described that part
3:06 "The trainer took her home the night before the lift-off to play with her"
Every dog really does have its day (or night, in this case).
I’m a grade 1 teacher at an international school in China, and my students were literally asking me to check which animals had been to space one by one today... love your content. Touches lives around the world in ways you could never imagine. I’ll be using this information to dazzle some inquisitive 6 year olds tomorrow. Thanks for every video.
You can't access TH-cam in china
@@randomllama4994 Prove it.
COMMIE
@@randomllama4994 VPNs 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Lol 😊
There's actual audio of Laika as she's in orbit, its of her heartbeat.
🥺😓 Oh God! 😭
The struggle snuggle with Zoey was perfect and much needed ❤️😂
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Thank you for including some humor in this one; the list of animals was just as grim as I expected and the humor was much appreciated.
There were some other survivors from _Columbia_ -- there was an Australian spider experiment aboard, and some of these (the same ones that launched) were found alive in the debris field.
I am surprised you didn't mention the three cows launched into orbit, that became known as the herd shot round the world.
That’s udderly hilarious.
You're milking this, aren't you?
Eso es la leche!😅
You're right, i haven't herd this one before, and i can't hide my intrigue now.
BOOOOOOOOOO!
What a wonderful coincidence. I just started researching Laika last night. I'm gonna make a short comic about her for my art class. The image of her looking at the earth and seeing it as a ball makes my tear up :P
Zoey had this "ohhh shit I guess this is happening" expression in her eyes.😂😅
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@@Emira_75 7:02
Haha Zoey is my dogs name!
ive never seen a dog so afraid to be loved LOL
@@pvic6959 RIGHT?! LOL 😆 🤣 😂
I can't believe they didn't use cats for these early test flights, everyone knows cats always land on their feet.
Ah, a bit of levity.... Nicely done
I know that's a joke but fun fact, they actually DID study cats in zero g for that specific reason but they did it on the Vomit Comet & that data lead to the design of the gyroscopes used for the ISS. Also the films footage of those experiments is hilarious. If you wanna see cats doing the cat flip in zero g & then clawing the crap out of Airmen's arms & legs it's 100% worth the watch.
True 😊
Your mad!
That's exactly why they couldn't. It would give them false positives
I don’t say this ever, but You are providing my TH-cam feed with educational and intresting videos and You are one of my top 10 youtubers (number one in the educational category). Furthermore i want to thank You for the amazing videos that Even though they don’t seem like it, they really stand out compared to a lot of other stuff on this plattform. Have a wonderful day, and i wish You well on your TH-cam career! I will follow You through this journey for as long as i can muster.
@@jip5889 i usally just stumble upon these types of videos, but i will be sure to keep them in mind. I think i have seen some videos of theirs before, but i can’t say for certain.
@@ugaboga9829 cool. There are many great youtube channels with their own style and energy. Keep on surfing!
@@jip5889 True
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Facts
You should call this channel "Answers with Alice"....
Every video is a rabbit hole 😅
Love them!
"Echo located his way to God." I just spewed coffee 🤣
As sad a topic as it is that bit with wee Zoe (the truth and the light ;)) filled me with so much joy. We love ya Joe
imagine yuri gagarin asking if they've tested the space suit he's going to use to go to space, and the scientists proudly tell him about the experimental prototype they filled with like a hundred assorted rodents, and how - on *that* basis - they're certain he'll be fine. and he still went through with it.
tbf the abort system was to jump out of the rocket, and the landing plan was also to jump out of the rocket
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@@ImperfectVoid8479 you reminded me of Tom Hanks. He was on Conan and they were talking about movies he likes to do. He said that if it has something to do with a topic he's actually interested in (WW2 or outer space), then there's a greater chance that he'll do it. So Conan's like, "Oh you like space?" Hanks responds with (paraphrasing), "If they wanted to send someone up there just to see if it'd still hurt getting staples in your head, I'd be the first to sign up."
@@TheMunchkinita2509 i dont understand
I’m still thinking about the Russian farmers. If they’d gotten there first… like if they’d opened the suit and all of those rodents came spilling out… How many years of therapy would you need to get over that? Yikes.
As someone who starting a TH-cam channel, the last few months have been really nice as I get to see a little bit more of the actual side of your Dallas home every once in awhile. I live in the Oklahoma City area and I to having similar kitchen and spare room getting set up for video making. Nice to know you're just a regular everyday dude like the rest of us, love seeing you give your dog all the love as well.
It is definitely hard to find space to film. 😅
Your dog seems confused, but is not about to question bonus hugs 😂
your dog is cracking me up. he's like "DAD WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY ARE YOU HUGGING ME AND SOBBING LET ME GO I AM CONFUSION" and i know this because i do the same to my dog every time i watch a movie where the dog dies
Thanks for recognizing the audience needed a break--had to rewatch 7:03 a few times to make it through the video
Somewhat appropriate that this video drops on the Monday after Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 was released, which for the first time gives some characterizaton to Cosmo, who appears to be one of the Soviet dogs launched in the 50s or 60s that somehow survived and came to be in The Collectors... er... collection. She wears a CCCP-marked spacesuit (sans helmet and paw coverings), speaks (in Russain-accented English) through a digital translator that apparently just reads her mind... and she's telekinetic.
I don't know if I'm emotionally ready to hear about the dog astronauts. It was tough to even watch Guardians 3 knowing Cosmo's story. But damn, that one video of Laika damn well makes me cry every time.
As the story goes, the ground control center for the Laika flight had her heartbeat on the speaker. After a point, when everyone knew she was going to die, they proceeded as normal with the heartbeat on the speaker. Finally, the controllers couldn't take it anymore and turned off the sound telemetry.
Cosmo is a GOOD DOG and no one is going to tell me different
@@Nehmo well shit, now I'm crying.
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@DeeDee Yeah. I think the future must be vegan both morally and environmentally, but I do eat meat. It's different from the torture Laika had to go through, but still bad I acknowledge.
6:55 I felt that. "I-I love youuuu, I would never let anything happen to you. I love you so much." ❤😂
I live in Huntsville and I visit her grave often, a lot of people don’t notice it but space animals are very important to me so I make sure to pay my respects to miss baker
I'm glad Joe finally acknowledges his way more famous and more posh sounding brother at 9:44
Press F to pay respect to all those animals. Including Zoey... Poor Zoey.
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All that did was make the video portion of this clip go fullscreen.
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You know what I think is crazy? Most of these were able to get the animals into space but somehow couldn't manage to figure out how to make a parachute work. Insane
Making something go fast is pretty easy.
Getting it to stop... not so much.
@@damenwhelan3236 did they think they could use existing parachute designs used to jump out of airplanes and they'd be fine though? 🤦 Because that was way too many failed parachutes.
@XSemperIdem5
Nope. They used un tested designed on test bed craft to determine if they would work. They did not.
But can't know till you try and try and try
@XSemperIdem5
Test craft are very seldom ever meant for retrieval.
The Russians just kept trying for retrieval so they could claim the achievement if it happened.
Initially. The USSR used a ditch and deploy method.
The cosmonaut ditched the craft and used a traditional parachute to land.
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"Alas, poor Yorick..." Actually, I didn't know of him, Horatio. I knew of Laika, Ham the chimp, and two other dogs the Soviets launched (but not their names.) So thanks, Joe. I had no idea the roster was so extensive.
Thank you Joe for; once again, helping me to learn something new today. You've been quite good at that over the years. 🧐😎
Awwwwww poooor little bat you got me choked up thanks Joe didn’t think I’d start the day sobbing over a bat
I like the set Joe. The old one was iconic but frankly a bit "early days". Love the blue, the typewriter and the pictures. And Starships tend to tie rooms together well :) Fits the aerospace side the channel often has.
Albert IV sounds so fancy. Like *in an English accent* "Pleased to meet you. My name is Albert, fourth of his name. I've been to space, you know."
It would be worth mentioning that there was a student experiment on board of space shuttle Columbia that involved some worms. The crew studied it for 14 days while on orbit. Even though the shuttle disintegrated during reentry, the worms survived. Those were not the same worms that launched but the next generations of these creatures. In a way, this is some legacy of the crew of Columbia.
Was mentioned in the video
...but let's not open that can...
Thank you for paying respect to all the critters with their truth...and with your usual combination of lighten-the-mood and genuine-feeling :) (love the current color/fade treatment on the film...I confess, I treat a lot of my video similarly :D I grew up in the 70s and 4 color separation flavoured color grading choices make me happy!) (thoroughly enjoying all the new set-up & technique playing ya'll are doing! AND OMG THANK YOU FOR KEEPING TANGENT CAM [with The Correct No I Will Not Be Taking Questions FONT lololol] I have an inordinate love for Tangent Cam & all its cousins :D)
Ugh. You weren’t wrong… I’m only on on Lika at 4:06 and this is hard!!!! So sad. I see the benefits her life provided but at a huge cost. I’m still going to try to get through this! ❤
I saw Miss Baker at the Alabama (later US) Space and Rocket Center when I first visited there around 1981 or 1982. It was one of the things that made me want to go to Space Camp, which happened in 1984, only the 3rd year of Space Camp.
Don't forget the dinosaurs who were catapulted to space from the explosion when the comet hit. What a tragic story.
*meteorite.
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Don´t forget the space plankton, and space bacteria, even space virus.
@@Kabup2 SPACE AIDS!
they survived and became reptilians?
I have forgotten those.
19:50 god I love Joe’s sense of humor.
I find it interesting that they were able to get to space with pretty good consistency, yet consistently made parachutes that didn't work. Seems like a parachute is more simple than a rocket but shows what I know. 🤷
Speed/Velocity.. Mass..
..Look at the size of the parachute needed to slow a 200lb human jumping from a plane going roughly 100mph..
Now scale that up to a muti-ton vehicle that's going about 17,000mph..
@@rogerwilco1777 yeah I see what you're saying. That's heavy + inertia... squared. Yikes. 🤠
Love the video Joe. Thanks for bringing attention to all of the brave animal astronauts. Always appreciate the laughs as well ❤
ok but now i feel the need to travel around visiting and paying my respects to all these monuments/ burial sites!
When you mentioned the Drosophila I was also expecting you mentioned they were one of the first four organisms to have their genome sequenced.
I have the mental image of some poor monkey being forced into a capsule as it screams, "You've fixed the parachutes, right?! RIGHT?!'
10:05 Loved this video and I live in Huntsville, I was so happy to hear someone reference my hometown that was literally one of the most important towns for space flight in the US.
That "one nice night before send-off"... I've had to put 2 dogs I've owned to sleep and did the same thing.
Omg I can't believe how much this affected me! I've just given my Labrador a hug too
There were 24 mice on the recent SpaceX CRS-27 mission, I know this because I did experiments on these mice myself. One did die in space, but the remaining 23 made it back to Earth.
What types of experiments did you do with the mice?
What is your field of research?
I'm genuinely interested.
When we have power over over those without choice like animals or children we can either be the hero or the monster.
There was a space burial of the mice, kind of ejecting the body? :)
@@Kabup2 haha, to my knowledge, no, I wish tho
@@T.Lspitz I personally did grip strength testing for our little mousetronauts, but there was about 50-70 people in total on this project. The main field of research for these mice was osteology, looking at bone and muscle mass, body fat composition, walking gate, and more. At least the NASA side was osteology based, I'm actually unsure what the JAXA side was working on specifically, but I believe essentially the same. I currently work in a neurology lab though, we focus on Alzheimer's disease. I was lucky enough to work with another lab on this project, it was my first experience working with animals that have been to space.
I don't know why but if they send dogs to space especially if they don't come back living I could cry for hours. Maybe because I love dogs so much (having one very cute myself). Layka was such a sweet little puppy. And I could not think about what she went through during her ride. And I know how much you love your dog. I am certain that you totally understand. 🥰
Felicette is the most upsetting in my opinion. She remained calm (which is incredible considering what was hapening) and she survived. The fact that they chose to euthanise her to run tests afterwards just hurts. The USSR didn't even euthanise any of their animals that survived.
Agreed. We really should name some of our space infrastructure after these, and though I'm sure Laika Ham and Albert would get priority, Felicette really needs to be near the top of the namesake list.
Your channel is one of my favourites. Thank you for the content.
Can you imagine being that monkey that flew to space and lived for so many years after surviving... Imagine having an interesting life ahead of launch - humans putting you through all kinds of tests and stuff that you don't understand but you're like "meh they feed me, life is cool" then you get strapped in a rocket and you're probably pretty unhappy cuz it's not like a normal car ride and you're alone.
And then liftoff! And you're like ohhhhhh myyyyy gaaawwwd wtf... I am peeing and pooping cuz Holy crap what is happening!!!! And then get to microgravity and be all like "whaaaaat why am I floating!!" but you still prove ability to move in weightlessness by using that thingy you were trained to use.... Then you land on Earth, survive, go back to a non-astronaut life but at any given time you think back and remember that holy shit time you went on some crazy bonkers ride that no other monkey has done before..... Just wild to have that kind of experience!!!
I wonder what it would be like for us to meet aliens... Maybe similar experience 😂
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the columbia nematodes make me so happy for some reason. even in such a horrible situation, something survived it all.
also, i want to know what would happen to a budgie in space. could a bird fly in the ISS?
also, you’ve gotta talk about the ejection seat bears sometimes
Fantastic topic and hilarious too! I think your dog is going to need puppy therapy after shooting those scenes!
15:26 fun tip for French pronunciation that will blow your mind, like in ballet every last letter isn't pronounce unless it's require like in monosyllabes. The apostrophes works like in English for skipping letters in the words if sound the same.
It’s feels like it’s been too long since I watched a Joe video and this was a good one but at the end I realized that I really enjoy the way Joe ends his videos and I think I always have a lil anxiety cuz I’m afraid it’s gonna be different and then when he ends it with “I love you guys” it’s strangely satisfying and the universe is perfect and safe
Just speculating here, but I think the monkey's were all named Albert after the popular canned tobacco, Prince Albert. I'm assuming they were making a bit of an elaborate pun based around the capsule's being "cans"
I love the Maximillian statue in the background Joe. One of my favorite movies from when I was a kid.
Félicette: the only house trained animal astronaut.
You are right.
It is interesting to tell their story.
A former NASA Shuttle Console Operator at Ground Control and I decided that Space Bat needed a name. We called him Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson. A graphic artist friend of ours took the pic of Bat in a spacesuit and gave him a nametag.
My only other connection to animals in space is that I was born at almost the same time as Laika was being launched aboard Sputnik II. I've had what is literally a life-long connection to that dog ever since. --Dan
I love the Bat Masterson story! Good for you guys! I was a space nut starting as a child (I was 9 when we got to the moon) & I also wondered a lot about the various ground crew, tech, science, etc folks. You guys must have so many cool stories! And speaking of young folk in the space program (was I?), I bet you've seen the "NASA Johnson Style" video, a spoof of "Gangnam Style." If you haven't, you MUST. It was done by various brilliant young interns (how they came up with the spare time, I cannot imagine!), & it makes my week every time I watch it. Oh, the NASA Johnson Style vid: th-cam.com/video/2Sar5WT76kE/w-d-xo.html
Damn that straight up call-out at the end really got me by surprise lmao, and you're right, even those nematodes achieved a feat none of us have done
The release of this video is personally interesting as I just went to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS, which is one of the most amazing museums I've ever been to (though they REALLY SUCK at self-promotion, not mentioning how rare the soviet artifacts in thier museum are). With the Soviet's jumping out of the early capsules, apparently, they lied for decades about Yuri Gargarin doing so, due to rules around recording records at the time.
I *_love_* the _Cosmosphere,_ but don't get to see it often enough. That's because I live near Seattle, where at least we have the _Boeing Museum of Flight_ to compensate.
Love the Tom Scott footage.
There’s a graphic novel about Laika from an author named Nick Abadzis that I read a few years ago. The story told in its pages was so sad that I was crying while reading the book in public and I had to hug my chihuahuas even harder for days afterwards…
I absolutely read that. Thought about it when I was doing the research.
Sometimes dying is a better faith than being tortured for many more days, so in some sense they were probably the lucky ones to have a "quick" death.
@@Reth_Hard Although true, that doesn’t make the story any less sad, at least in my opinion
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Yeah I'm trying really hard to find something positive here! 😆
There is also the fact that it was only a few animals compared to the pharmaceutical industry that has been killing like hundreds of them every day for many decades...
Love the picture of Ham smiling with the newspaper!
Damn. I never knew American parachutes were so deadly. Guess we know for sure what happen to DB Copper...spat.
Thank you Joe.
The Albert name might have been a reference to chewing tobacco? The brand Prince Albert came in a can. I don't know if that's true or not but it sounds like 50s humor
11:28 Ooh Chimpanzee that, Money News!
Rule 1 of space travel: NO FUCKIN “ALBERTS”
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Man, 3 thumbnail changes in one day? You’ve made your point. I’ll watch lol
We need to take up a donation to buy Joe a segue cam. That was a classic.
loved when you cut to hugging your doggo
I appreciate every living being that made the ultimate sacrifice. It is thanks to these lives that we not only are inspired, but we are given hope that someday us, the inhabitants of Earth may not have to face Extinction but instead become universal travelers learning and becoming more enlightened than we ever could have possibly imagined from the fruit fly, to the astronaut, we citizens of Earth salute you
You’re bad man
Utilatiarism I see? Im not with you, our species using innocent lifes for experimenting its one reason why we maybe should go extinct
You think them critters made that choice, lol?
@@kronikkronolov9793 Im surprised, I thought most people was going to comment like the original comment, glad that it wasnt like that
99.999999% of citizens of Earth are only saluting stuff to either keep themselves alive or for an ass-kiss promotion, very few are saluting creatures shot up into space. Hell, I really don`t want homo-sapiens to become universal travellers in our current state. In fact if we do go extinct, it might be a blessing for the universe.
Why didn’t I just skip this video and wait for another day ffs 🥺 I’m way too emotional for this but I’m not going to stop because it’s still such quality content and I still want to know what the other ones are (just finished the Laika section and the trainer taking her home just killed me 😢)
Thank you though Joe - fantastic vid as always
**Presses F repeatedly for all the space animals.**
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Don't be too hard on yourself. Your content is ABSOLUTELY amazing. I just discovered you a couple of days ago and have maybe watched/listened to about 20 of them since (or maybe 5 or 6 of them, bc you know, I have a very active social life). Any chance you've done anything about crows? I'm obsessed and want to learn how to become "friends" with one ... ummmm .... my NIECE wants to learn. Yeah, that's it. THANKS!!!
My Rat Terrier looks a lot like Laika. I will NOT be sending her to space, but that's okay because she thinks sticking her head out of a car window is much more exciting!
My favorite thumbnail was the cat one. The monkey one second, and the dog one the third. I was waiting to see if there was a forth, but after a few hours it looks like that’s it.
Just an FYI...the picture you showed of "Patricia and Mike" were not 2 crab eating macaques. One was a crab eating macaque but the one on the right is actually a squirrel monkey (rather than two crab eating macaques)!😊
@@kingkill5169 oh my...is this somehow a touchy subject for you? How strange that you would get upset over something so trivial, _bud_
(I spend more than enough time outside as I am an animal behaviorist/ethologist who works with primates which was why I was aware of what species was pictured and which is also why you have no need to worry about my time spent outdoors since i often spend weeks at a time "outside"! But thanks for your concern!)
We’ll spotted. Nice to have an expert weigh in.
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@@kingkill5169 4 sentences is too difficult for you to read? Lol
Thanks for the awesome content and great videos!
Its impressive how animals got free ticket to space without any qualifications
Yeah.. they were most definitely chosen for their intellect and integrity. Frfr
Joe i have been here for years, and i still think you are the funniest youtube!
Ah yes, the old "what if we made them see god for a minute?" idea we all had at some point
Without a doubt, one of your BEST shows; extremely interesting! Thanks for your work.
In the 1980s, we managed to catch a giant horsefly at the beach on a weekend we were sending up Estes rockets. I had built a rocket modeled after the space shuttle, which had a payload compartment in the capsule. We named the ship "SKY-FLY" and put our giant horsefly in the capsule. We launched the insect and it survived with no problems. We launched it again over six to eight times, and it still survived. We honored it by letting it go at the end. It flew off unperturbed.
That bat went up like flash paper within a single minute.
I think the crappiest thing I did to my sister was tell her about all the dead space animals.
Hey, I recently told my MIL (who I love) about how sloths descend from trees about once a week to poop and if they fall on the way back up they often die. 🙃 She’s into sloths.
I also told my brother about how the original voice actress for Ducky in the Land Before Time movies and Charlie from All Dogs Go to Heaven was brutally murdered by her father before it was released in theaters and the song about love persisting after death was dedicated in her memory. 😓
The burden of knowledge is a heavy one at times.
Thank you for putting the clip of Philomena Cunk in there! She's brilliant 😂
Was that Tom Scott? 😂 What a great video! I'm in the "no animal testing" camp because Dad wouldn't even let us keep bugs in the popular "bug catchers" of the 1960s. (No shade if you make different choices though!)
Definitely Tom Scott. 🤣
Hi Joe, big fan :) and congrats on the flashy new studio
Joe, have you ever heard of Primce Albert, perhaps in reference to a particular can. Each of the Albert simians was a Prince Albert in a can...
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In the russian language, black is just a colour. Doesn't have the same connotations as in english. In fact, the word for ink is Chernyla, so a nother good translation would be *Inky* .
I have to say I am a huge animal lover but your reactions make it sad/funny like it's so sad but same time I'm laughing so hard I'm crying thank you definitely wouldn't be able to handle this topic without your humor not to mention I always learn so much from your videos
Loved this video!😊
Thanks for taking on some of the 'say what?' subjects. That keeps me coming back
I watch, and love all of your videos, but I have to say, this is amongst the best ever. Nice work Joe. 👍
Going to watch this later when I'm better prepared for it, but Joe I gotta say, LOVING the hair! Idk what you would call that style, but it's working for you
You know what's also the most?
..this is the most times I've almost cried in a Joe video 😅😭