 Why is Wyandotte didactic?
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from Galaxy Science Fiction November 1951. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] Rootless and footloose, a man in space can't help but dream of coming home. The knowledge that much of it was motivated by envy soothed him as he clumsily let himself into the lock. "No, but my father—" "Your parents left Terra during the Second Colonization of Cassiopeia II, didn't they?" He was uncomfortable; Wyandotte seemed to know all about him. "Oh, I've landed a few times, even walked around for a while...." Short of Gravitational conditioning, there is nothing to stop you from going to Terra." Your body is conditioned to a normal state of free fall, or at best to a state of acceleration." Once on Gerymeade...." "You were ill, couldn't keep your balance, felt dizzy. It helps suppress certain physiological reactions to an entirely new set of conditions. They play an important part in our awareness of balance. Without gravity they act up for a time, then gradually lose function. Returning to gravity is rather frightening at first." "You've undoubtedly read popularizations in tapezines. "Do you know what sailors of ancient times meant by 'sea legs?'" asked Wyandotte. During the days that followed, the psychologist seemed to Craig to become progressively more didactic. He spoke repetitiously of the "growing complexity of Terran society." They were incredibly varied, even those that supported life. He had weathered difficult landings on worlds with rip-tide gravities, had felt the pull of the incredible star-tides imparted by twin and even triple star systems. He had been on Einstein IV, the planet of eight moons, and had felt the pulse of all eight of the satellites at once that no PON could completely nullify. But even if he could accept the psychologist's authority for the cumulative effect of a gravity system, he could not understand the unspoken warning he felt underlying all that the man said. "Yet you are so completely sure you will want to live out your life there, that you are willing to give up space service for it." You will be given a very liberal supply of PON—which you will definitely need. On the eighth day, two attendants, who showed the effects of massive doses of PON to protect themselves from the centrifugal force, had to carry a man out of the tank.
 He thinks Craig will be a fish out of water in Terran society.
 He is likely being monitored by the Terrans and cannot speak freely.  He thinks Craig is an uneducated hick.  He knows that gravity conditioning is horrible. He is trying to change Craig's mind about going to Terra.  He thinks Craig will be a fish out of water in Terran society.