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Originally Posted by space cadet
No matter what anyone says, I will always be partial to dogs. After all, you never see cats leading the blind, protecting livestock, or finding people who have been lost or burried under mountains of rubble. And don't make me remind you people that the first earthling to orbit our planet was a dog.
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Well, if you're going for first-Earthling-in-space props, I'd guess that Laika would probably have to tip her hat in turn to various bacteria, protozoans, other microbes, maybe even a few very small insects or mites that probably went up on a Sputnik before her. (I concede that I have no idea how thorough the Soviets were about decontaminating & sterilizing their early satellites, but it seems a good guess to me.)
Power to the protozoans! 8)