Re: Fish tank in orbit?

[brian whatcott <inet@INTELLISYS.NET>]

At 08:51 10/12/00 -0700, Leigh wrote:
> > At a conference in NH, a mission specialist (veterinarian, sorry I
> > forgot the name) showed a video of just this happening. Fish were
> > swimming fine in the tank, but occasionally were stuck in center bubble
> > (maybe three gold fish lengths in diameter) of the tank. They would
> > drift in the bubble until they hit the other side of the bubble.
>
> That should always happen if the fish is swimming. It "pushes off"
> from one side of the bubble in that case. I can't imagine how one
> would persuade a fish to coast into the bubble.
>
> Leigh

It is a pleasing sight to see the large carp feeding at the lake surface.
Their orange lips, two or three inches across are distinctive.
  That is one motivation for a piscene behavioral program or tropism
to head for an air interface.

Yachtsmen have been experimenting with low friction surfaces - like
some fish display. For them, speed is always a pro survival quality -
so their shapes are generally quite hydrodynamic, and a sort of
ablative coat seems to help their top speed.


brian whatcott <inet@intellisys.net>  Altus OK
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