Jonathan Coulton - Space Doggity

Video I tossed together for Space Doggity using this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yI4f6kRnEH8

MP3 Link: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songdetails/Space%20Doggity

Lyrics:
The cage is very small
A tiny silver ball
That makes you a hero
The moment you step inside
The world is watching you
What youre about to do
Will live on forever
Even though youll be dead
And gone
Buckle up
Were about to turn the engines on.

Boyoyoing

Hello from Sputnik 2
I am receiving you
Thanks for the dog food
Im somewhere above you now
Guess what Malashenkov?
I took the collar off
Im holding my own leash
And walking myself outside
This door
I dont think
I want to be a good dog anymore.

Now Im floating free
And the moons with me
And its bright enough
To light the dark

And its so high up here
And the stars so clear -
Are they close enough?
Will they hear me bark from here?

Moscow to Sputnik 2
I think were losing you
Your life signs are fading
We cant really say that were
Surprised
Its a shame
There is always something that gets compromised

Now Im floating free
And the moons with me
And its bright enough
To light the dark

And its so high up here
And the stars so clear -
Are they close enough?
Will they hear me bark from here?

Category:

Music

Tags:

• coulton
• jonathon
• space
• doggity
• sputnik
• laika

[franciscojavierm]

Bawwww Poor Laika! You sure deserved a better life and death.

[Elevenbane]

MY TEARS ARE NEVERENDING!!

[RoadSideCircusM77]

Jonathan Coulton song! This is going to be funny as hell!

*Finishes Song*

Jonathan Coulton- Y U MAKE ME CRY!?!?!

[delete1997]

cat person / dog person. its all about love. love cant be put in boxes. but poor laika can...

[TheLalavava]

This song and Laika's whole story just breaks my heart. And goddammit, I'm supposedly a cat person! :(

[franciscojavierm]

@SparklezBakery Oh the mighty Animal King Turret! It is indeed a great profile pic! You can steal it because It's no crime to steal from a thief, I pick it, I'm not sure if it was from /b/ or from some forum on Steam... either way now it's mine LOL **epic trollface**

[SparklezBakery]

@franciscojavierm I don't have anything to say to that. I agree in every way with you. That is exactly what I was trying to get at with my other comment. Although, before I post this comment, I'd like to comment on how awesome your profile picture is. XD Lol, if it's what I think it is, then I'm totally stealing the picture. *trollface*

[franciscojavierm]

@SparklezBakery Not to worry, I understood your main point . Sadly the Sputnik 2 was never meant to be retrieved so it was basically a one way trip. I don't think Gazenko regrets the mission itself, but the fact of sending her to die just for the sake of sending something alive to orbit. I think delaying the mission a little bit in order to apply a retrievable design would have been more ethically responsible and more scientifically valuable as they could have had more feedback.

[SparklezBakery]

@franciscojavierm I noticed that my other comment didn't express my thoughts very well. I then noticed that I couldn't even explain my thoughts accurately. Excuse the seemed rudeness of my comment.

[SparklezBakery]

@franciscojavierm Basically, as they didn't even think any living thing could survive the gravity of the lift off. Gazenko expressed his thoughts very well, but you can't take something like that back. I wouldn't prefer that Laika didn't go on the mission either, though. Although, I don't prefer Laika on the streets. Laika was not a hero. Laika was beyond that. The only thing that Oleg Gazenko did is give us a reason to cry. The best thing would be just to somehow get her to survive.

[franciscojavierm]

@SparklezBakery So they took her away from the streets just to kill her inside a can.

Oleg Gazenko, one of the scientists responsible for sending Laika into space, expressed regret for allowing her to die:

"Work with animals is a source of suffering to all of us. We treat them like babies who cannot speak. The more time passes, the more I'm sorry about it. We shouldn't have done it... We did not learn enough from this mission to justify the death of the dog"

[SparklezBakery]

@ArmorArmadillo She experienced no pain, as she died asleep, dreaming of play. A lack of oxygen was the RSF's fault.