Was sending animals to space, where they died in most cases, a moral thing to do?
>>18547418Most of these guys experienced acceleration of 30+ g's and that did not kill them. What got them mostly was overheating, hard impacts (bad parachute) or even surviving landing, but getting euthanised later for brain research like in the French cat's case.
Of course it’s nasty business, but as long as meat industry exists, it’s hard to see sacrificing couple of animals for genuine scientific breakthroughs a particularly pressing moral issue.
>>18547418Animals lost the war. Vae victis.
>>18547418They react in varying different ways. Some are more chill in a weightless state, others panic