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I wonder if it is disorienting standing or walking on the movement isolating floor. There's a (thought?) experiment you can do where you put someone inside a f
by saalweachter 9y ago
I wonder if it is disorienting standing or walking on the movement isolating floor.
There's a (thought?) experiment you can do where you put someone inside a fake room built like an overturned box, and then jerk the walls in a random direction while the floor stay still. You get disoriented and fall over. Or the more common experience where you're on a stopped train and the train next to you starts to move, and it takes you a minute to figure out which of you is actually moving.
I'd have to imagine standing on the isolated floor while the rest of the building moves would be similarly confusing.
- lojack 9y agoor like the spinning tunnel effect, where the walls are spinning around you and you have difficulty walking straight because your brain thinks you're falling over https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_tunnel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_tunnel
- hinkley 9y agoThe guys in that video look to me like they are experiencing some vertigo from the room shifting. They keep grabbing things to steady themselves.
- mannykannot 9y agoThe apparent motion of the floor makes running along the edge of the gap, as one guy does towards the end, look particularly risky.