Playing Ball in Space

oo7tushar writes "Although most experiments in space seem simple they have profound results. Take this for example, astronauts trying to catch a ball in space. What's so hard about that? Nothing much really, down here on Earth. In space it's a completely different story. Here on earth our eyes see the ball and our brain anticipates it's movement according to gravity. In space the brain continues to anticpate gravity but unlike motion sickness (which is adapted to within days), astronauts continue to anticipate the path of a ball for 15 days (after which they start to show progress). What are the ramifications? The brain must have some sort of internal gravitation model."

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The main problem as we see it

[Anonymous Coward]

There are those folks who exist that are simply too stupid to run a Unix-like operating system.

You know who they are; in fact, many of them frequent this very site with their IE browsers and MSN Messenger rip-offs of applications that were too innovative for Microsoft to come up with themselves even though they spend more money on R&D than any other company in the history of the world.

My friends, co-workers, and I refer to these individuals as people with TSTR*, or Too Stupid To Run *nix syndrome.

Do you know anyone suffering from this? If so, please make a note of it and remind them of their simple minds whenever they mumble some "*nix isn't ready for the desk top" while you're using KDE 3 and Evolution, which are a superior desktop environment and mail client, respectively.

What's happening with slashdot

[guillebot]

There used to be interesting things here.

More info on subject here at Ananova

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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