NASA'S CRUEL INTENTIONS You may have heard recently about Paul McCartney's unsurprising outspokenness on NASA's plans to orbit monkey's into space. The ultra-active animal rights musician has been a PETA spokesperson for the better part of his post-Beatles career. While a pessimistic naysayer can argue McCartney's activism is less about good heart and only for reputation and press, this specific issue is undoubtedly one the Beatles legend is involving himself in out of personal prerogative. So, it's perhaps worthy to see him here as more than a activist pushing out a cliche message of considering the innocent on earth, as NASA is an organization very close to his heart. McCartney's an enthusiastic supporter of space exploration who has performed for the crew of STS-114. Additionally, he worked with NASA to beam Beatles music into space decades ago.
So, why specifically is orbiting monkey's into space so immoral? Well, as McCartney argues, its the very motive of the experimentation that should make even the fiercest carnivore at some inorganic butcher house cringe. NASA wishes to launch our closest relatives into space solely to test the negative health effects long-term space travel could perhaps have on humans. These effects, off the bat, should include : lonesomeness, confusion, claustrophobia, nausea and insanity. It's perhaps worse than just caging an animal and witnessing the typical misery that ensues, its orbiting an animal to the middle of nowhere for the sole purpose of seeing what the lonely torture can accomplish to show us- as if it isn't predictable.
This monkey to be orbited, unlike a NASA astronaut, is not a sufficient example of what to expect anyway. It does not know what's coming, it is not consenting to its separation and the amount of confusion and uncertainty it will experience surpasses that of the human mind.
The truth is- its both nasty and unnecessary to orbit monkeys to the stars and the public majority would never support such a ludicrous experiment. We know the long term effects of separation from society on humans- and the public perhaps thinks of Tom Hank's suffering in Cast Away as their best knowledge of the full extent of distortion to the human mind this creates. Why must we know what the mind of a monkey endures when there is no doubt its god awful? Again, the truth is, we don't. NASA, as Paul McCartney eloquently argues, should be able to accoplish investigate the health effects of space travel "without confining and experimenting on animals as was done in the old days". It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. NASA, quit the bullshit. I'm not saying be a compassionate organization, I'm just saying don't be cruel, fool.
So, why specifically is orbiting monkey's into space so immoral? Well, as McCartney argues, its the very motive of the experimentation that should make even the fiercest carnivore at some inorganic butcher house cringe. NASA wishes to launch our closest relatives into space solely to test the negative health effects long-term space travel could perhaps have on humans. These effects, off the bat, should include : lonesomeness, confusion, claustrophobia, nausea and insanity. It's perhaps worse than just caging an animal and witnessing the typical misery that ensues, its orbiting an animal to the middle of nowhere for the sole purpose of seeing what the lonely torture can accomplish to show us- as if it isn't predictable.This monkey to be orbited, unlike a NASA astronaut, is not a sufficient example of what to expect anyway. It does not know what's coming, it is not consenting to its separation and the amount of confusion and uncertainty it will experience surpasses that of the human mind.
The truth is- its both nasty and unnecessary to orbit monkeys to the stars and the public majority would never support such a ludicrous experiment. We know the long term effects of separation from society on humans- and the public perhaps thinks of Tom Hank's suffering in Cast Away as their best knowledge of the full extent of distortion to the human mind this creates. Why must we know what the mind of a monkey endures when there is no doubt its god awful? Again, the truth is, we don't. NASA, as Paul McCartney eloquently argues, should be able to accoplish investigate the health effects of space travel "without confining and experimenting on animals as was done in the old days". It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. NASA, quit the bullshit. I'm not saying be a compassionate organization, I'm just saying don't be cruel, fool.
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