Re: High g on Earth?

Tue Sorensen <sorensonian@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Erik Max Francis wrote:
Howard Brazee wrote:

I think a low-G restaurant would be more fun.

I don't know. I've experienced the Vomit Comet and why it was called
that.

Yeah. Not everybody gets sick when in weightlessness, but a very
significant percentage of people do. Even veteran astronauts who had
never experienced problems on missions before suddenly found themselves
succumbing to space sickness.

Low gravity is one thing, but any microgravity environment for civilians
would necessarily involve some very significant percentage of them
getting sick.

I'm not sure that's necessarily so. This sickness owes to
disorientation, which owes to the people not being used to it, and not
knowing what sensation to expect. If it was common to experience
weightlessness at regular intervals, and people had been doing it
regularly since they were young children, I'm not at all convinced that
anyone would get sick at all. But ICBW. Difficult to know for sure at
this very early point in human space-faring history.

Maybe, maybe not. I'll make one data point: I get motion sickness somewhat
easier than most people (although I'm far away from being seriously
abnormal), mostly in busses and sometimes car back seats. Despite an
ever-increasing exposure to these situations during my lifetime, the
problem has been growing gradually worse, not getting better. Whether
space sickness operates on the same mechanisms or whether I'm just
different from regular people is something I couldn't possibly say.

--
Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software
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