Category: Coward
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Primates, astronauts, experiments. The necessary (?) ugly side of science.
When we think about primates in space, we usually think of Ham, the monkey that preceded NASA’s Mercury astronauts on a suborbital Redstone mission. But more than a decade before this notable primate flight there were a series of monkeys named Albert who were also launched to gather data about the effects of spaceflight on…
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Important people. Useless (coward) captains.
Captains abandon their sinking ship first, but ordinary crew member give their lives to save passengers. (1, 2) Sherpas die anonymously at mount Everest in order for westerners to pretend they are “climbers” and celebrate their achievements, by doing what these people simply do every day. (3, 4) Everyday heroes are among us. With the most worthless…
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