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From: pipes@nssdcs (David Pipes )
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: NSS Hotline Update 3/31/89
Keywords: dead chickens
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Date: 4 Apr 89 20:21:15 GMT
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     Howeird,
     (Cool name...)
     CBS News stated, several days after the landing, that the 
experiment was done with a control group, and implied that none had
died from that group (it could have been that only the 'expected'
number had died...I am not sure.  What floored everyone is that the
expected results were on the order of deformities, low hatching weight
or the like.  No one expected dead chickens.  Furthermore, it appears
that the most vulnerable ones were those in very early stages of 
development.  This could be very important to people who want to design
long-term life support systems in which animals would be bred in orbit.
Gravity might be a necessary ingredient for reproduction.
     As to why anyone should consider this worth paying attention to,
well, you tell me.  You certainly seem interested in the results and
methods! :-)

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