Re: Look backwards for safety

From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2001 - 20:22:03 MDT


>David Lubkin wrote:
>
> Years ago, I read an article about a NASA researcher who came up with a
>technique for inoculating you against all manner of motion sickness. The
> trouble was that it required about a dozen hours of non-stop nausea.
>
> I've wondered whether if it were commercially available, I would go through
> it, in order to gain a lifetime of being able to read on long car rides,
> etc. And just who volunteers for studies like this....

I'd actually volenteer. I do have what most people would call an "Iron
Stomach," but even I get slightly uncomfortable in 8 ft seas on a beam
reach while reading. It would be nice not to have to worry about this, and
I imagine that the treatment wouldn't be so bad for me.



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