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Help[Opinions] Re: Names like Laika
in reply to a message by Hopeful
I looked Laika up on Wikipedia and found this, inter lots of alia:
"Future space missions carrying dogs would be designed to be recovered; the first successful recovery followed the flight of Korabl-Sputnik 2, wherein the dogs Belka and Strelka, alongside dozens of other organisms, safely returned to Earth.[31] Nonetheless, four other dogs later died in Soviet space missions: Bars and Lisichka were killed when their R‑7 rocket exploded shortly after launch on 28 July 1960,[32] while Pchyolka and Mushka died when Korabl-Sputnik 3 suffered an emergency and had to be detonated."
The article also states that Laika is the name for some Russian breeds of dog. Which would presumably make it unisex. But the Russians seemed to enjoy -ka names for their space dogs: what about taking Bars and adding something almost but not quite Russian: Barski? Barsvi?
"Future space missions carrying dogs would be designed to be recovered; the first successful recovery followed the flight of Korabl-Sputnik 2, wherein the dogs Belka and Strelka, alongside dozens of other organisms, safely returned to Earth.[31] Nonetheless, four other dogs later died in Soviet space missions: Bars and Lisichka were killed when their R‑7 rocket exploded shortly after launch on 28 July 1960,[32] while Pchyolka and Mushka died when Korabl-Sputnik 3 suffered an emergency and had to be detonated."
The article also states that Laika is the name for some Russian breeds of dog. Which would presumably make it unisex. But the Russians seemed to enjoy -ka names for their space dogs: what about taking Bars and adding something almost but not quite Russian: Barski? Barsvi?
