Yes, I have changed the title and thumbnail on this video about 50 times and I know a lot of you don't like that, but this video is absolutely tanking for some reason. I've gotten a few comments that people don't want to watch it because what happens to the animals makes them sad. Maybe that's it? Anyway, apologies.
@@manuelvale3996 EXACTLY what I was thinking, that monkey thumbnail it currently is screams AI generated to me for some reason, it is like spotting photoshop, something is just.... off. I didn't click this video for the content, I clicked to see if anyone else noticed or suspected an AI thumbnail.
I first didn't click on the video because I didn't find laika in Space interesting. But the claim "Most astronauts were animals" made me click on it in the end. I would prefer more interesting space-related topics though.
@@Iwitrag Well, human passengers are only increasing the total number of animals flying. But you still have to discount plants and bacteria from the tally somehow.
I’m a grade 1 teacher at an international school in China, and my students were literally asking me to check which animals had been to space one by one today... love your content. Touches lives around the world in ways you could never imagine. I’ll be using this information to dazzle some inquisitive 6 year olds tomorrow. Thanks for every video.
While I learn many things from your videos, learning that Laika's trainer took her home the night before the flight just to give her a "last meal" with love and care really sticks with me...
I know that's a joke but fun fact, they actually DID study cats in zero g for that specific reason but they did it on the Vomit Comet & that data lead to the design of the gyroscopes used for the ISS. Also the films footage of those experiments is hilarious. If you wanna see cats doing the cat flip in zero g & then clawing the crap out of Airmen's arms & legs it's 100% worth the watch.
I don’t say this ever, but You are providing my RU-vid feed with educational and intresting videos and You are one of my top 10 youtubers (number one in the educational category). Furthermore i want to thank You for the amazing videos that Even though they don’t seem like it, they really stand out compared to a lot of other stuff on this plattform. Have a wonderful day, and i wish You well on your RU-vid career! I will follow You through this journey for as long as i can muster.
@@jip5889 i usally just stumble upon these types of videos, but i will be sure to keep them in mind. I think i have seen some videos of theirs before, but i can’t say for certain.
What a wonderful coincidence. I just started researching Laika last night. I'm gonna make a short comic about her for my art class. The image of her looking at the earth and seeing it as a ball makes my tear up :P
There were some other survivors from _Columbia_ -- there was an Australian spider experiment aboard, and some of these (the same ones that launched) were found alive in the debris field.
As someone who starting a RU-vid channel, the last few months have been really nice as I get to see a little bit more of the actual side of your Dallas home every once in awhile. I live in the Oklahoma City area and I to having similar kitchen and spare room getting set up for video making. Nice to know you're just a regular everyday dude like the rest of us, love seeing you give your dog all the love as well.
imagine yuri gagarin asking if they've tested the space suit he's going to use to go to space, and the scientists proudly tell him about the experimental prototype they filled with like a hundred assorted rodents, and how - on *that* basis - they're certain he'll be fine. and he still went through with it.
@Cyber Ghost you reminded me of Tom Hanks. He was on Conan and they were talking about movies he likes to do. He said that if it has something to do with a topic he's actually interested in (WW2 or outer space), then there's a greater chance that he'll do it. So Conan's like, "Oh you like space?" Hanks responds with (paraphrasing), "If they wanted to send someone up there just to see if it'd still hurt getting staples in your head, I'd be the first to sign up."
I’m still thinking about the Russian farmers. If they’d gotten there first… like if they’d opened the suit and all of those rodents came spilling out… How many years of therapy would you need to get over that? Yikes.
I don't know if I'm emotionally ready to hear about the dog astronauts. It was tough to even watch Guardians 3 knowing Cosmo's story. But damn, that one video of Laika damn well makes me cry every time.
As the story goes, the ground control center for the Laika flight had her heartbeat on the speaker. After a point, when everyone knew she was going to die, they proceeded as normal with the heartbeat on the speaker. Finally, the controllers couldn't take it anymore and turned off the sound telemetry.
I live in Huntsville and I visit her grave often, a lot of people don’t notice it but space animals are very important to me so I make sure to pay my respects to miss baker
Somewhat appropriate that this video drops on the Monday after Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 was released, which for the first time gives some characterizaton to Cosmo, who appears to be one of the Soviet dogs launched in the 50s or 60s that somehow survived and came to be in The Collectors... er... collection. She wears a CCCP-marked spacesuit (sans helmet and paw coverings), speaks (in Russain-accented English) through a digital translator that apparently just reads her mind... and she's telekinetic.
It would be worth mentioning that there was a student experiment on board of space shuttle Columbia that involved some worms. The crew studied it for 14 days while on orbit. Even though the shuttle disintegrated during reentry, the worms survived. Those were not the same worms that launched but the next generations of these creatures. In a way, this is some legacy of the crew of Columbia.
You know what I think is crazy? Most of these were able to get the animals into space but somehow couldn't manage to figure out how to make a parachute work. Insane
@@damenwhelan3236 did they think they could use existing parachute designs used to jump out of airplanes and they'd be fine though? 🤦 Because that was way too many failed parachutes.
@XSemperIdem5 Nope. They used un tested designed on test bed craft to determine if they would work. They did not. But can't know till you try and try and try
@XSemperIdem5 Test craft are very seldom ever meant for retrieval. The Russians just kept trying for retrieval so they could claim the achievement if it happened. Initially. The USSR used a ditch and deploy method. The cosmonaut ditched the craft and used a traditional parachute to land.
I like the set Joe. The old one was iconic but frankly a bit "early days". Love the blue, the typewriter and the pictures. And Starships tend to tie rooms together well :) Fits the aerospace side the channel often has.
"Alas, poor Yorick..." Actually, I didn't know of him, Horatio. I knew of Laika, Ham the chimp, and two other dogs the Soviets launched (but not their names.) So thanks, Joe. I had no idea the roster was so extensive.
Thank you for paying respect to all the critters with their truth...and with your usual combination of lighten-the-mood and genuine-feeling :) (love the current color/fade treatment on the film...I confess, I treat a lot of my video similarly :D I grew up in the 70s and 4 color separation flavoured color grading choices make me happy!) (thoroughly enjoying all the new set-up & technique playing ya'll are doing! AND OMG THANK YOU FOR KEEPING TANGENT CAM [with The Correct No I Will Not Be Taking Questions FONT lololol] I have an inordinate love for Tangent Cam & all its cousins :D)
I saw Miss Baker at the Alabama (later US) Space and Rocket Center when I first visited there around 1981 or 1982. It was one of the things that made me want to go to Space Camp, which happened in 1984, only the 3rd year of Space Camp.
Ugh. You weren’t wrong… I’m only on on Lika at 4:06 and this is hard!!!! So sad. I see the benefits her life provided but at a huge cost. I’m still going to try to get through this! ❤
your dog is cracking me up. he's like "DAD WHAT IS HAPPENING WHY ARE YOU HUGGING ME AND SOBBING LET ME GO I AM CONFUSION" and i know this because i do the same to my dog every time i watch a movie where the dog dies
It’s feels like it’s been too long since I watched a Joe video and this was a good one but at the end I realized that I really enjoy the way Joe ends his videos and I think I always have a lil anxiety cuz I’m afraid it’s gonna be different and then when he ends it with “I love you guys” it’s strangely satisfying and the universe is perfect and safe
There were 24 mice on the recent SpaceX CRS-27 mission, I know this because I did experiments on these mice myself. One did die in space, but the remaining 23 made it back to Earth.
@@T.Lspitz I personally did grip strength testing for our little mousetronauts, but there was about 50-70 people in total on this project. The main field of research for these mice was osteology, looking at bone and muscle mass, body fat composition, walking gate, and more. At least the NASA side was osteology based, I'm actually unsure what the JAXA side was working on specifically, but I believe essentially the same. I currently work in a neurology lab though, we focus on Alzheimer's disease. I was lucky enough to work with another lab on this project, it was my first experience working with animals that have been to space.
I find it interesting that they were able to get to space with pretty good consistency, yet consistently made parachutes that didn't work. Seems like a parachute is more simple than a rocket but shows what I know. 🤷
Speed/Velocity.. Mass.. ..Look at the size of the parachute needed to slow a 200lb human jumping from a plane going roughly 100mph.. Now scale that up to a muti-ton vehicle that's going about 17,000mph..
Felicette is the most upsetting in my opinion. She remained calm (which is incredible considering what was hapening) and she survived. The fact that they chose to euthanise her to run tests afterwards just hurts. The USSR didn't even euthanise any of their animals that survived.
Agreed. We really should name some of our space infrastructure after these, and though I'm sure Laika Ham and Albert would get priority, Felicette really needs to be near the top of the namesake list.
I don't know why but if they send dogs to space especially if they don't come back living I could cry for hours. Maybe because I love dogs so much (having one very cute myself). Layka was such a sweet little puppy. And I could not think about what she went through during her ride. And I know how much you love your dog. I am certain that you totally understand. 🥰
I appreciate every living being that made the ultimate sacrifice. It is thanks to these lives that we not only are inspired, but we are given hope that someday us, the inhabitants of Earth may not have to face Extinction but instead become universal travelers learning and becoming more enlightened than we ever could have possibly imagined from the fruit fly, to the astronaut, we citizens of Earth salute you
99.999999% of citizens of Earth are only saluting stuff to either keep themselves alive or for an ass-kiss promotion, very few are saluting creatures shot up into space. Hell, I really don`t want homo-sapiens to become universal travellers in our current state. In fact if we do go extinct, it might be a blessing for the universe.
the columbia nematodes make me so happy for some reason. even in such a horrible situation, something survived it all. also, i want to know what would happen to a budgie in space. could a bird fly in the ISS? also, you’ve gotta talk about the ejection seat bears sometimes
The Albert name might have been a reference to chewing tobacco? The brand Prince Albert came in a can. I don't know if that's true or not but it sounds like 50s humor
My favorite thumbnail was the cat one. The monkey one second, and the dog one the third. I was waiting to see if there was a forth, but after a few hours it looks like that’s it.
Just speculating here, but I think the monkey's were all named Albert after the popular canned tobacco, Prince Albert. I'm assuming they were making a bit of an elaborate pun based around the capsule's being "cans"
The release of this video is personally interesting as I just went to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS, which is one of the most amazing museums I've ever been to (though they REALLY SUCK at self-promotion, not mentioning how rare the soviet artifacts in thier museum are). With the Soviet's jumping out of the early capsules, apparently, they lied for decades about Yuri Gargarin doing so, due to rules around recording records at the time.
I *_love_* the _Cosmosphere,_ but don't get to see it often enough. That's because I live near Seattle, where at least we have the _Boeing Museum of Flight_ to compensate.
A former NASA Shuttle Console Operator at Ground Control and I decided that Space Bat needed a name. We called him Bartholomew "Bat" Masterson. A graphic artist friend of ours took the pic of Bat in a spacesuit and gave him a nametag. My only other connection to animals in space is that I was born at almost the same time as Laika was being launched aboard Sputnik II. I've had what is literally a life-long connection to that dog ever since. --Dan
I love the Bat Masterson story! Good for you guys! I was a space nut starting as a child (I was 9 when we got to the moon) & I also wondered a lot about the various ground crew, tech, science, etc folks. You guys must have so many cool stories! And speaking of young folk in the space program (was I?), I bet you've seen the "NASA Johnson Style" video, a spoof of "Gangnam Style." If you haven't, you MUST. It was done by various brilliant young interns (how they came up with the spare time, I cannot imagine!), & it makes my week every time I watch it. Oh, the NASA Johnson Style vid: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2Sar5WT76kE.html
Why didn’t I just skip this video and wait for another day ffs 🥺 I’m way too emotional for this but I’m not going to stop because it’s still such quality content and I still want to know what the other ones are (just finished the Laika section and the trainer taking her home just killed me 😢) Thank you though Joe - fantastic vid as always
There’s a graphic novel about Laika from an author named Nick Abadzis that I read a few years ago. The story told in its pages was so sad that I was crying while reading the book in public and I had to hug my chihuahuas even harder for days afterwards…
@@rachel_sj Yeah I'm trying really hard to find something positive here! 😆 There is also the fact that it was only a few animals compared to the pharmaceutical industry that has been killing like hundreds of them every day for many decades...
Just an FYI...the picture you showed of "Patricia and Mike" were not 2 crab eating macaques. One was a crab eating macaque but the one on the right is actually a squirrel monkey (rather than two crab eating macaques)!😊
@@kingkill5169 oh my...is this somehow a touchy subject for you? How strange that you would get upset over something so trivial, _bud_ (I spend more than enough time outside as I am an animal behaviorist/ethologist who works with primates which was why I was aware of what species was pictured and which is also why you have no need to worry about my time spent outdoors since i often spend weeks at a time "outside"! But thanks for your concern!)
10:05 Loved this video and I live in Huntsville, I was so happy to hear someone reference my hometown that was literally one of the most important towns for space flight in the US.
My Rat Terrier looks a lot like Laika. I will NOT be sending her to space, but that's okay because she thinks sticking her head out of a car window is much more exciting!
In the 1980s, we managed to catch a giant horsefly at the beach on a weekend we were sending up Estes rockets. I had built a rocket modeled after the space shuttle, which had a payload compartment in the capsule. We named the ship "SKY-FLY" and put our giant horsefly in the capsule. We launched the insect and it survived with no problems. We launched it again over six to eight times, and it still survived. We honored it by letting it go at the end. It flew off unperturbed.
12:28 I genuinely LOLed at Joe's reaction to the name Chernushka. See, while the direct translation is, indeed, "Blackie" (which sounds very... questionable), the actual meaning of it is much closer to Cinderella than... that. The implication is "Sooty", not whatever he pictured in his head xD
Hey, I recently told my MIL (who I love) about how sloths descend from trees about once a week to poop and if they fall on the way back up they often die. 🙃 She’s into sloths. I also told my brother about how the original voice actress for Ducky in the Land Before Time movies and Charlie from All Dogs Go to Heaven was brutally murdered by her father before it was released in theaters and the song about love persisting after death was dedicated in her memory. 😓 The burden of knowledge is a heavy one at times.
Going to watch this later when I'm better prepared for it, but Joe I gotta say, LOVING the hair! Idk what you would call that style, but it's working for you
Was that Tom Scott? 😂 What a great video! I'm in the "no animal testing" camp because Dad wouldn't even let us keep bugs in the popular "bug catchers" of the 1960s. (No shade if you make different choices though!)
Joe, I can tell you've done your very best not to bring politics into your channel. I know that may have gave you many followers at some point but you chose not to. I truly respect you for doing that and have remained a subscriber when if left other for not having the professional stance that you have. So Bravo Joe! Keep up the great work!
I have to say I am a huge animal lover but your reactions make it sad/funny like it's so sad but same time I'm laughing so hard I'm crying thank you definitely wouldn't be able to handle this topic without your humor not to mention I always learn so much from your videos
12:20 In the russian language, black is just a colour. Doesn't have the same connotations as in english. In fact, the word for ink is Chernyla, so a nother good translation would be *Inky* .
me to myself: i can't watch this, *goes and cries to my dogs who are confused af*, *feels bad for stopping Joe's video and resumes*. why is this so hard to watch damn!! But as always, great video Joe, thank you for telling us about these animals who helped us gain so much knowledge by giving their life.
Anytime someone says we shouldn't have animal testing i ask that person if they are going to volunteer to take their place, because everything needs to be tested on something or someone eventually. I've never seen anyone volunteer yet. Maybe have the conversation of what animals are ok to test on and which ones aren't, but we need animal testing to make things safe for everyone.
I figure they changed the name to Yorick because at that point they were expecting him to die like his predecessors, and someone wanted to say "Alas, poor Yorick, I knew him well..." MORBID.
