Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Damiklos t1_j5x0r1t wrote

Reply to comment by DrHugh in If you were in space facing Antartica and you flew towards it, gravity-wise would you be going up or down? by lifesyndrome

So I get the whole no sense of up or down in space.

Assuming you could survive the descent thru the atmosphere. At what point would the brain perceive your going down towards the ground? I guess at some point the sensation of floating thru space and heading towards the earth changes into falling towards the earth.

Edit: corrected punctuation

1

DrHugh t1_j5x3ao4 wrote

You'd probably get that sense well above the atmosphere. There have been a lot of videos that do a Google Earth kind of "fly in" effect. If you were surrounded by such views, the sense of collision would probably be very strong, regardless of whether you had a sense of acceleration. I would suspect that different people would experience alarm at different altitude or perceived speeds.

2

Damiklos t1_j5x44nb wrote

Yeah so that is kind of the essence of this shower thought I feel.

2