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motion sickness
I've been thinking of writing a paper on motion sickness. We've been
studying space sickness in my astronautics class. As a man of action, adventure, and danger, I've experienced motion sickness many times. My instructor says that when he's been up in the space shuttle for several months and he gets back on land, he experiences some vertigo that takes about 20-25 minutes to go away. Many people have experiences this when leaving a boat. We call it getting our, "land legs," back. And for me it only takes a few seconds. But I've never spent six months on a boat. I've noticed many times while doing a fast descent on a black diamond and doing a hockey stop at the bottom, I often feel a sense of vertigo, which takes a moment to go away. Has anyone else felt this? I attribute this to gravity. While going downhill rapidly, gravity is reduced and your heart pumps more blood to your head. While stopping rapidly there is much more gravity pulling on you and the blood pools toward your legs. The same thing happens in zero-gravity. Any discussion on this will be appreciated. ------------------------------------------------------------- This signature is now the ultimate power in the Universe Horvath --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: --- |
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