Chimps in Space

I've been thinking chimps a lot, especially in relation to Intervention Theory. Were our ancestors genetically modified chimps? I've also been thinking about how we love to dress chimps up as humans and make all sorts of hilarity out of it, never realizing what horrible, cannibalistic bastards they are. Now there's this- two famous astronauts pay tribute to space chimps at a preserve in Florida:

The two NASA heroes came to acknowledge the contributions of a group of chimpanzees known as the "space chimps."

In the 1950s and early 1960s, the space program, very much in its infancy, used monkeys and chimpanzees to test how space flight would affect the human body. Before Alan Shepard Jr. made his famed first American space flight in 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham completed a successful suborbital flight in a Mercury capsule.

Astronauts and chimps- there's a fascinating allegory in there somewhere.

I'm thinking of starting my own charity. It's called "Screw the Chimps, Save the Gorillas."

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