0-G problems

From: Andrew Goddard [mailto:a.goddard@....uk]

> In zero-G, I suspect a bird can learn to adapt the
> motion to all thrust and no lift,

Arthur C. Clarke wrote a short story about a canary on a space station
who had done precisely that.

I was very encouraged by the fact that it was Skylab's experience that
spiders could eventually learn to successfully spin normal webs in 0-G.
If something with a brain much smaller than the head of a pin can modify
its behavior to adapt to 0-G conditions, then it makes me optimistic
that anything with a bigger brain could as well.

Regards,

Mike Combs