EPIC EPIC!

Rember kids, Stalin ran Russia right up until Putin took over.

Mmm, tinfoil hats.

What head in ass asserted way do you equate the mention of animals killed during the early years of space exploration to tin foil hat wearing?

well he's stupid, for many reasons, and for arguing that animal testing was covered up, both countries have clear records of using everything short of a human in tests, before a human was sent up.

he's saying that an unspecified number of cosmonauts died before and after Vostok-1 and that the Russians were very careful to keep those failures from the official records.

Yup. They often airbrushed trainee cosmonauts from pictures and removed them from records, and as such you'll find fragments of their history floating around but not the complete story.

See? right there, you can see it's airbrushed, I CAN SEE THE PIXELS!!

The US sent up a chimpanzee that got so scared he ripped the catheter out of his dick and pissed all over the controls. He also attacked the poor sailors who opened the hatch. That's way cooler than freeze-drying some poor a dog.

You ever have a catheter in your dick? Fear may have nothing to do with it.

If NASA never accomplishes another meaningful thing, they'll still have given me one of the best laughs in my entire life on the basis of that chimp anecdote.