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29-07-2010, 05:43 PM
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Hatchling
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First tortoise in space
Not sure if this has been posted here before but I just came across this in wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Tortoise First tortoise in space The first tortoise in space, and one of the first animals of any kind in deep space was a Russian Tortoise, sent by the Soviet Union (along with wine flies, mealworms and other biological specimens) on a circumlunar voyage from September 14 to September 21, 1968.[6] |
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29-07-2010, 06:53 PM
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Egg
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: worksop
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one step for man one giant shell for all toroises
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29-07-2010, 09:27 PM
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Adult
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Location: West of Scotland
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Yeah various other tortoises have been sent up into space too. What utter nonesense. The idea that anything of value could be learned by torturing a tortoise in such a way is just sick.
Probably they disected it afterwards to see what they could 'learn'.
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