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."

Comments

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.