Talk:Soviet space dogs
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[edit] Earth-born
Laika was the "first living Earth-born creature in orbit...." I'm glad the author cleared up that Laika wasn't from Mercury or Uranus.
The "earth born" has its place here because you can't space out(haha for the pun) the possibility that other living creatures were in space before Laika. --DocBrown 23:08, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Translations
Would the anonymous users who have kindly provided translations for the dog names be willing to do a full Russian translation for the Russian Wikipedia? :-) Zerbey 04:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
[edit] On a Similar Topic of Translations
84.10.168.106 (talk • contribs • count) has been making questionable edits to this article, regarding the translation of the dogs' names. For instance, Pchelka = "Little Flea" as opposed to "Little Bee." I frankly have no knowledge of Russian and do not know whether his translations are accurate; however, I assume someone here must. As (s)he's editing from an IP account and leaving no edit summaries, I felt it best to inform the regular editors of this article that such changes have been made, so that they can review them and revert them if necessary. AmiDaniel (Talk) 06:46, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
- "Pchelka" is "Little Bee". --ajvol 10:59, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Ren & Stimpy
Should the Ren & Stimpy episode with the obvious allusion be mentioned in the article? I think it is a humorous allusion to this subject. Rintrah 09:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
The doggies in the picture of the lead are cute! Rintrah 09:16, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Break Up
This article is about Belka and Strelka, not about the history of Dogs in Space (pun). I feel that it should be broken into a new article: History of Russian Canine Spaceflights (or something else...), but I don't know the appropriate template. Geo 03:40, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
- If it is a joke, I don't understand. Mukadderat 02:29, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
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- Oops! Sorry, I misread. I was ill then, after all... Geo 22:51, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Russian pig in space
Does any one want to write an article about this? Mukadderat 02:26, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Russian dogs?
Is this an insult for Russian people? It was a Soviet space program. The name should be Soviet space dogs. --Tigga en 08:19, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
- You do have a point, if enough people post requesting the change the article can be moved. However, there are many other pages that link to this one. Zerbey 13:08, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
- Moved. BTW both phrases collect rather insignificant google hits. But "Soviet" is indeed a more correct one. `'Míkka 17:28, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
This is preposterous... the term "Soviet" is to "Russian" as "British" is to "English" so the two are informally interchangeable. This makes it so because before The Russian Empire was carved up, there were never recognied states as, say Kazakhstan or Ukraine before that. Anything "Soviet" can also be referred to as though Russia did it. All the other Former Soviet Republics exist today merely because of the fact that Lenin carved them out of the Russian Empire. Had Lenin not done so, Russia would still be in one piece as it should have. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.210.9.36 (talk) 20:00, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Race
I was casually reading the article and noticed, well, I jusnt didn't see any mention of it... What race were these dogs? Well, I know they were stary dogs, obviously not all of them were from a particular race but is there any information somewhere about this?.
[edit] Gender of the dogs
It appears that more than two thirds of the dogs were female. Is there any information on that possibly female dogs could take space voyage better than male ones? Or it is a casual coincidence? Garret Beaumain (talk) 18:34, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
