Sex Geckos Circle The Earth

[Rogue]

Sex Geckos Circle The Earth In Out-Of-Control Russian Satellite
The Huffington Post | By Ed Mazza
Posted: 07/25/2014 1:08 am EDT

Next time you look up at the sky and spot a passing satellite, consider this: It just might be an out-of-control Russian spacecraft loaded with sexually-active geckos.



The lusty lizards are among the 22 experiments, including fruit flies and mushrooms, sent into space aboard the Foton-M4 satellite on July 18. On Thursday, Russia's mission control said the craft will not respond to its commands.

That means the geckos -- and everything else aboard the craft -- could be doomed.

In the meantime, the space agency says it's able to receive data from the satellite, and so far the four females and one male have been busy with their "work."

"The equipment which is working in automatic mode, and in particular the experiment with the geckos is working according to the program," Oleg Voloshin, a spokesman of Russia's Institute of Medico-Biological Problems, told Phys.org.

Scientists have even been able to watch videos of the geckos doing it lizard-style in space, according to Al Jazeera. However, they're hoping to recover all of the creatures alive at the end of the 60-day experiment to gather more data.

If mission control can't restore communications, the geckos will run out of food, then the satellite will come crashing to Earth a few months later, according to Ars Technica.

It wouldn't be the first critter catastrophe for the Russian space program. Last year, the Bion-M satellite loaded with gerbils, mice and fish crashed shortly after launch, killing most of the creatures aboard, The Moscow Times reports.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/24/sex-geckos-satellite_n_5619440.html

[Agartha]

Are the Russians the only ones sending animals to space?

[Rogue]

The Japanese did send some Cherry tree seeds a while back   

[Agartha]

The Japanese did send some Cherry tree seeds a while back   

Is that an animal?....   


lol

[Rogue]

[Kaere]

Nice work if you can get it lol...

I read about those cherry tree seeds... apparently *dundundunnnn* the blossoms on those trees are quite different than usual, there's a different number of petals and they look different. I'll have to search for the article.

[Agartha]

Yes, we discussed that tree a while back, K!   

I just read that the satelite with the geckos is having problems and it may not be able to land as planned in two months.......those poor creatures!

[Rogue]

Lol that was the article above?   

[Agartha]

Lol that was the article above?   

hahahaha this thread is in its own online bermuda triangle like.........things we post don't make sense!!
LOL

[Rogue]

Lol and it started off as a perfectly good thread   

[Mordae]

Oh, so it wasn't about zero-G Gecko porn then?   

Although you would have thought they would leave one or two of the beasties up there, if only to gather data on the effects of zero gravity on infant development (assuming these are the live-bearer varient)

[Kaere]

Aww... poor wee beasties didn't make it. And no one knows if they were fooling around or not either! What a waste of little geckos...

Personally, I think their little swing broke *sad face*

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/space-sex-geckos-found-dead-upon-return-to-earth-russia-says-1.2752868

[Rogue]

Damn shame!

[Kaere]

I'm a little bit stuck on geckos...

[Rogue]

They are just so darn cute! Like Meercats!!

[Kaere]

Hehe... meercats are so funny.

Did you knowwww that you can see right through a gecko's head? There's a hole clear through to the other side!

[Rogue]

Blazing octopi! No I have never heard of that! Imagine keeping that clean!!

Especially if you're an OCD gecko!

[Kaere]

omg... you made me snort.