Comments on: NASA’s Monkey Business http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/02/nasas-monkey-business/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:28:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ian http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/02/nasas-monkey-business/#comment-447 Ian Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:27 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=8359#comment-447 Before we begin colonizing other planets, we should probably first learn to peacefully coexist with the animals on this planet rather than treating them as resources that we are free to exploit. Readers can contact NASA Administrator Charles Bolden via PETA's online Action Alert: www.peta.org/nasa Before we begin colonizing other planets, we should probably first learn to peacefully coexist with the animals on this planet rather than treating them as resources that we are free to exploit.

Readers can contact NASA Administrator Charles Bolden via PETA’s online Action Alert: http://www.peta.org/nasa

]]> By: Joan Bien http://www.enviroreporter.com/2010/02/nasas-monkey-business/#comment-446 Joan Bien Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:39:07 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=8359#comment-446 I grew up in the 1960s and we were the dead center target of a generation raised to expect and adore space exploration. It was supposed to prove that we were better than everyone else. Such a sad commentary on what has become the ultimately corrupt core of that concept that its legacy has been reduced to a plan to torture a small group of little monkeys. As Michael points out, we already know what happens when a living creature is nuked with radiation. It is not good. So what is the point? Aside from satiating someone's sadism or someone's incomprehensible indifference to suffering, it must ultimately be about a lot of money. A lot. It is always the money. I grew up in the 1960s and we were the dead center target of a generation raised to expect and adore space exploration. It was supposed to prove that we were better than everyone else. Such a sad commentary on what has become the ultimately corrupt core of that concept that its legacy has been reduced to a plan to torture a small group of little monkeys. As Michael points out, we already know what happens when a living creature is nuked with radiation. It is not good. So what is the point? Aside from satiating someone’s sadism or someone’s incomprehensible indifference to suffering, it must ultimately be about a lot of money. A lot. It is always the money.

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