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50 Posts About Cyborgs

September 2010 was the 50th Anniversary of the coining of the term 'cyborg'. Over the course of the month, this site was updated 50 times with links to material — most of it new — celebrating 50 years of one of the 20th Century's more enduring concepts.
 
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  • 44. This is the taxidermied body of Miss Able, one of the first two monkeys to successfully return to Earth after being launched into space. She died on June 1st 1959, four days after her trip. The cause of death was a bad a reaction to anaesthetic, which she was under for surgery to remove an infected electrode. Like most of the monkeys that NASA launched into space, she had implants that allowed scientists on the ground to measure her vital signs. While Kline and Clynes were envisioning technologically enhanced spacefaring humans, NASA was launching monkey cyborgs into space, to learn what would happen.  It didn’t go well for the monkeys. Most subjects of the program died during or just after flight. Exceptionally, Miss Able’s co-passenger, Miss Baker, survived until 1984.  Able (by Dan Coulter)

    44. This is the taxidermied body of Miss Able, one of the first two monkeys to successfully return to Earth after being launched into space. She died on June 1st 1959, four days after her trip.

    The cause of death was a bad a reaction to anaesthetic, which she was under for surgery to remove an infected electrode. Like most of the monkeys that NASA launched into space, she had implants that allowed scientists on the ground to measure her vital signs.

    While Kline and Clynes were envisioning technologically enhanced spacefaring humans, NASA was launching monkey cyborgs into space, to learn what would happen. 

    It didn’t go well for the monkeys. Most subjects of the program died during or just after flight. Exceptionally, Miss Able’s co-passenger, Miss Baker, survived until 1984. 

    Able (by Dan Coulter)

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