Zero-G Lizard Sex

[Elok]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/07/24/there-is-a-lizard-sex-satellite-floating-in-space-and-russia-no-longer-has-it-under-control/

Summary: Russia sent up a satellite loaded with geckos so it could watch them try to have sex in orbit. The article does not address the matter of why, exactly, Russia, or anyone else, needs to find out how well lizards can do the dirty in microgravity. My best (serious) guess is that they've done pretty well at getting flies through their lifecycle up there, so now they're working their way up the foodchain, and geckos eat flies. It might help that geckos can stick to walls, so they're one of a very few sub-primate terrestrial vertebrates who have even the slightest hope of successfully copulating up there. I'm still not sure why exactly you would want a breeding population of geckos in orbit, though.

Less seriously, one of Putin's wealthy buddies has a weird fetish. Your thoughts?

[My Wife Hates CIV]

hmmm.... so in space, would it be a cream pie or cream float? oh my!!

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Inter-galactic space lizards. David Icke was right all along.

[Lorizael]

So the lizards sabotaged the satellite intentionally, right?

[-Jrabbit]

We need footage.

[Dinner]

hmmm.... so in space, would it be a cream pie or cream float? oh my!!

It would, probably, just be a floating mess.

[molly bloom]

I saw a woman cradling what appeared to be a small iguana on Friday afternoon. Not unusual in some countries, but in East London, in the U.K. ?

Could have been dindins, but she didn't appear to be of Central or South American extraction.

[Sava]

bah, the hipsters of pet owners