I loved that movie. I have Laika issues still. She didn't make it back from space. Mitt's dog made it back from Canada, but in what condition? People who do cruel things to dogs should have to spend their eternities in Un Chien Andalou.
Laika issues: You know, Kristen, that I have this whole "thing" about how fucking stupid scientists have been ever since, oh, about 1940 or so. They are going to succeed in setting into motion something unstoppable which will destroy humankind. They almost did it with nukes, then someone thought: "Hey! It would be really neat-o to put a DOG inside this and blast it off!" Who knows what it will be that actually ends it all? Corn? I suspect it will be corn.
Andrew, I think you are right. Scientists should be saving the world, not destroying it. Laika's story completely shattered my belief in the good of mankind in third grade, when I learned about her. This was also the year that Diablo Canyon was being built on an earthquake fault. My faith rests entirely on writers like you and A.S. and Micael and Joe and Sara Z. and Matthew and this community. And my students. Corn, yes. Ebola-enhanced corn. That's how I see it.
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Umm...?
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Wow.
Wim Wenders.
Anyone remember Lasse Hallstrom's MY LIFE AS A DOG?
I loved that movie. I have Laika issues still. She didn't make it back from space. Mitt's dog made it back from Canada, but in what condition?
People who do cruel things to dogs should have to spend their eternities in Un Chien Andalou.
Laika issues: You know, Kristen, that I have this whole "thing" about how fucking stupid scientists have been ever since, oh, about 1940 or so. They are going to succeed in setting into motion something unstoppable which will destroy humankind. They almost did it with nukes, then someone thought: "Hey! It would be really neat-o to put a DOG inside this and blast it off!" Who knows what it will be that actually ends it all? Corn? I suspect it will be corn.
Andrew, I think you are right. Scientists should be saving the world, not destroying it. Laika's story completely shattered my belief in the good of mankind in third grade, when I learned about her. This was also the year that Diablo Canyon was being built on an earthquake fault.
My faith rests entirely on writers like you and A.S. and Micael and Joe and Sara Z. and Matthew and this community. And my students.
Corn, yes. Ebola-enhanced corn. That's how I see it.
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