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First we sent small animals into space: a dog, then monkeys.
After that: people.
And then we stopped. I expected that we would have sent cows, horses, maybe even hippos or elephants by now.
A blue whale would be impressive.
And a bowl of petunias.
Not again!
OH I CAN SEE THE WHAAAAAAAALES
LOOOOMING OUT OF THE DAAAAARK
South Park tried it
Very suspicious if you ask me
Maybe there's a secret program that They don't want us to know about.
Maybe they donβt want to go
What would be the point?
"we do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
But really I was just pretending to misunderstand the early test flights as a progression of sending larger life-forms, and that we should continue sending larger and larger animals.