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by nextaccountic 1267 days ago
That's fitting. The first monkey in space was sacrificed for humanity's self-centered project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkeys_and_apes_in_space

> The first primate launched into subspace was Albert, a rhesus macaque, who on June 11, 1948, rode a rocket flight to over 63 km (39 mi) in Earth's atmosphere on a V-2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight and may actually have died in the cramped space capsule before launch.[1][2][3]

Killing Albert was entirely unneeded; we did it because we could.