Gravity Hard-Coded Into The Brain

guiding_knight writes: "A study by French scientists suggests that gravity is imprinted in the human brain. Interesting article, tells of human ability to calculate effects of Earth-normal gravity and how difficult it is to adapt to another model."

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think video games

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I was able to accurately play video games that used non-earth physics when I was younger. This can't be too different. I am sure it got to the point that I did not have to think about compensating for constant speed rather than acceleration.

Okay, so that wasn't a scientific experiment, I just find that there reasoning is quite poor, baby's on a glass table are scared, ya, that is really good scientific proof.

One way to figure this one is to test one of those dudes whose been in space for months, and then test him just as he get's back to earth, I bet for at least a few hours he would be on "space gravity".

just my $.02

What about catching a frisbee on the ground?

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If someone throws you a spinning frisbee, it flies level at about constant speed--aerodynamic lift prevents it from accelerating downward. Yet you can catch it as accurately as a baseball.

I think a more valid conclusion from that experiment might be that free fall makes you clumsy.