animals in space

I vividly remember gazing the stars from my patio when I was a kid. Enamored by constellations, I would move my finger in the sky as if to connect the dots that would form The Great Bear, Orion and the likes. Looking back at the times that they were, I’m convinced that if I were to be bound by co-ordinates of space and time, I would love to be but a speck in my event horizon. Remember reading about Laika, the Russian dog who was sacrificed to space for scientific pursuits? The motion picture ‘My Life as a Dog’ (Mitt Liv Som Hund) is based on the autobiographical novel by Reidar Jonsson.