Asri-unix.1082 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!C70:sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC Mon Mar 22 23:11:19 1982 Stowaway and unplanned experiment Oh my goodness, a fruit fly snuck into the Columbia and has been flying around in zero-gee since orbit was established. I hope the shuttlenauts have the presence of mind to take advantage of this serendipitous event, by carefuly observing the ability of the insect to navigate in zero-gee. (On a later flight a get-away special is supposed to monitor moths trying to fly in zero-gee, but now we have a chance to get some preliminary info earlier, and possibly modify the moth experiment to get more info, like we modified the Voyager 2 schedule after the unexpected Voyager 1 results.) ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.