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Re:The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Majo... by drcode on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:18PM (#13133896)
I'm sorry, but if I'm in a tin can 30,000 feet in the air, defying gravity, I'm going to freak out at the smallest bit of turbulence, whether it's rational or not.
Re:The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Majo... by quonn on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:24PM (#13133937)
Moving at 100 mph in a car does not seem exactly natural either.
Re:The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Majo... by drcode on Thursday December 08, 2016 @03:28PM (#13133964)
My lizard brain disagrees with you.
Re:The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Majo... by ceejayoz on Thursday December 08, 2016 @04:25PM (#13134435)
A "lizard brain" (besides being a hypothesis largely dismissed by neuroscientists) seems unlikely to have any reference point or other handling for "I'm sitting in a tube 30,000 feet up at 700mph". Similar to how we're basically incapable of thinking about numbers like a billion dollars effectively.
Re:The Silent Anniversary: Fifteen Years Since Our Last Majo... by bdamm on Friday December 09, 2016 @12:48AM (#13136936)
Interestingly there is a great deal of work that weather services, air traffic control, and pilots do to avoid turbulence for this exact reason.