Posted on 07/26/2014 4:02:18 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
RUSSIAN scientists have lost contact with an experimental satellite filled with geckos that was to be the focus of new research on animal sex in zero-gravity.
The Foton-M4 spacecraft was launched from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on 19 July and made several orbits of the planet before it stopped responding to commands from Roscosmos, Russia's Federal Space Agency.
"So, there is only one-way communication," a spokesperson for mission control was quoted as saying by news agency ITAR-Tass, adding that engineers were looking to fix the problem in case life systems were disrupted, killing the creatures on board.
The five geckos on the Foton-M4 - four female and one male - were launched into space for a 60-day flight to find out about the effects of weightlessness on the creatures' sex lives.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.echonews.com.au ...
Bonking? I thought it was Boinking. Same difference.
I don’t want to live in a world where “You made the earth move!” is meaningless.
I am the Lizard King, I can do anything.
One male had to service four females on this trip???
Wow..,....
Cant wait to see some comments here,.......
They should check the ground beneath their commercial airline flight paths — they might have shot it down accidentally.
Four females and just one guy? Putin’s practicing to send all his troublesome islamonazis to Uranus?
I think they just get light-headed
The Russian space program. Always losing things, satellites, astronauts, lizards...
islamonazis to Uranus...
That would be INto Uranus!
"You've lost another lizard, Andrei?"
Where will these radioactive lizards land?
Probably south of Japan.
heh
OMG. The gorn from Star Trek. Brings back memories.
Is research into animal sex activity in space a prelude to doing this research with humans???
Maybe they just wanted a little privacy...
pretty sure the original story had it as four male, one female. Those comments were even worse.
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