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Les chimpanzés ont été beaucoup utilisés dans la recherche spatiale. Du moins jusqu'à la découverte de leur cousinage étroit avec l'espèce humaine... Un documentaire qui renouvelle les termes du débat pour ou contre l'expérimentation animale.


Depuis des décennies l'homme utilise et martyrise des animaux pour ses expériences en laboratoire. Ce film s'intéresse plus particulièrement aux recherches dans le domaine de l'aéronautique. Dans les années 50, la Nasa a énormément utilisé les chimpanzés pour étudier leur résistance à l'apesanteur, la vitesse, la pression notamment au moment du décollage des fusées. Les images d'archives nous montrent les tortutes et souffrances infligés aux chimpanzés et dans quel état d'esprit ces recherches étaient effectuées. Du fait de leur proximité avec l'homme les chimpanzés étaient vraiment les "candidats" idéaux. Mais au fur et à mesure des découvertes biologiques et paléontologique établissant un cousinage de plus en plus patent entre cette espèce et l'espèce humaine, les scientifiques concernés par ces recherches ont commencés à avoir des scrupules mais n'en continuaient pas moins a envoyer ces animaux en enfer. Dans ce film certains d'entre eux reconnaissent qu'ils ne pourraient plus soumettre les chimpanzés aux expériences traumatisantes qu'ils ont subies.
Prise de conscience éthique certes mais trop tardive. Mais surtout témoignage de l'évolution de notre rapport aux animaux, particulièrement avec ceux qui nous sont le plus proche.

La France et et l'URSS n'ont pas fait mieux, mais dans ces pays, à la différence des Etats-Unis, il y a peu d'investigations officielles donc moins de documents ouvert au public.

Actuellement la recherche spatiale de tous les pays qui y sont impliqué continuent de torturer des animaux en laboratoire. Les russes prévoient d'envoyer prochainement des singes sur la planète Mars.



http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2007/11/laika-and-her-%E2%80%9Cc...


http://books.google.be/books?id=OwWwAKgtrnAC&pg=PA116&lpg=PA116&d...


http://www.amsat-france.org/spipamsat/article.php3?id_article=315


http://www.releasechimps.org/


http://www.releasechimps.org/harm-suffering/research-history/air-space/


Chimps on death row


Chimpanzees captured from their homelands in Africa were injured or killed in tests conducted by the U.S. Air Force (USAF) as part of the Air & Space Research program.

In the early 1950s, the U.S. Air Force secured the capture of 65 young and infant chimpanzees in Africa and used them to establish an aeronautical research facility at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico.


Americas perception of itself as the worlds preeminent scientific and technical leader was shaken in October 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik into orbit. Our deep fear of the possibility of Soviet scientific supremacy was quickly reinforced by the November launch of Sputnik II carrying the dog, Laika.


The United States accelerated its space program and began consuming increasing numbers of nonhuman animals for space flight research. Mice, guinea pigs, and several species of monkeys were used in experiments prior to human space flight.


Chimpanzees had been used in military flight experiments starting in the early 1950s. As the space race heated up, they were used increasingly as test subjects for space flight research. (1)


Chimpanzees as crash test dummies


The height of the space research program involving chimpanzees lasted from the early 1950s to the early 1960s. During that time, chimpanzees were used to test the forces of gravity, the effects of high-speed movement, and other conditions anticipated in space travel.


Strapped into small, pitch-dark metal capsules, they were spun, jettisoned, and catapulted on track courses and in decompression chambers. Some were killed, and others were severely maimed, although the exact numbers were not documented.


After the first successful manned space flights, the Air Force leased out most of its surviving chimpanzees for use in biomedical experiments rather than sending them to sanctuaries. Many of these unfortunate chimpanzees ended up in the hands of Fred Coulston, a toxicologist.


The chimpanzee was adequately secured against flailing, but helmet and clothing proved unsatisfactory; the flying suit tore and exposed the subject to serious burning from windblast. Roughly forty per cent of the body was covered with second and third degree burns.
— Project Abrupt Deceleration,
Weekly Test Status Report,
16 September and 26 October 1954, 8 February 1955.
NASA History site

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  • la honte

  • carrément neutality tu parles quel bandes de salaud ils faudrait tester tout sur humain

  • how very sad what the humans did to these baby chimpanzees, not to mention ripping them away from their mothers. This testing was like using a 2 year old child, not like using a grown human. Please everyone, work to keep Alamagordo chimps from returning to research. Let these chimp people retire in peace.

  • "nous en étions trés affécté" mito!!mmmmmmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iTO

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