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Orleander
06-08-08, 05:22 PM
If I needed to make sure I never got dizzy from spinning around and around, would any surgery make sure that would be possible? Removal on my inner ear? Removal of a certain section of brain?

visceral_instinct
06-08-08, 05:33 PM
The dizziness happens because your inner ear fluid is still moving, but your body isn't. I think, anyway, anyone else reading, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

So I don't know how you would get around the dizziness thing...

Orleander
06-08-08, 05:36 PM
if you removed all the inner ear fluid and there was nothing to move....

visceral_instinct
06-08-08, 05:46 PM
wouldn't you just have no balance?

cosmictraveler
06-08-08, 06:18 PM
If I needed to make sure I never got dizzy from spinning around and around, would any surgery make sure that would be possible? Removal on my inner ear? Removal of a certain section of brain?

Just stay off of or out of things that spin. Your children must think you're a real trip with some of the stuff you come up with. ;)

cosmictraveler
06-08-08, 06:19 PM
if you removed all the inner ear fluid and there was nothing to move....

You'd be sitting down and not standing or walking ever again without that fluid.:rolleyes:

Orleander
06-08-08, 06:22 PM
My Mom has excellent balance (even though she is deaf due to cochlear deformities). She can do flip after flip on her trampoline. But a while back we all went to Mystery of the Cosmos (http://http://www.cosmosmysteryarea.com/tours.htm) and she fell and fell and fell.
It was all an optical illusion. Why would she get dizzy?

Orleander
06-08-08, 06:24 PM
Just stay off of or out of things that spin. Your children must think you're a real trip with some of the stuff you come up with. ;)

Maybe, but they are now 'outside of the box' thinkers. Its funny how that's frowned upon in grade school, but rewarded in real life.

cosmictraveler
06-08-08, 06:25 PM
Maybe, but they are now 'outside of the box' thinkers. Its funny how that's frowned upon in grade school, but rewarded in real life.

Yes, rewarded with a parent like yourself! :D:rolleyes:

Orleander
06-08-08, 06:29 PM
Yes, rewarded with a parent like yourself! :D:rolleyes:

ok then.

If you wanted to incapacitate someone, could you just remove their inner ear fluid? Would it be permanent? If you sat them in a chair and spun them around and around, would they get dizzy?

cosmictraveler
06-08-08, 06:30 PM
Why not just hit them with a hammer, that should incapacitate them pretty quickly.

Orleander
06-08-08, 06:41 PM
cos, are ya just posting to give me crap?

cosmictraveler
06-08-08, 06:42 PM
cos, are ya just posting to give me crap?

:shrug: :rolleyes:

visceral_instinct
06-09-08, 12:41 PM
C'mon Cos, she was just curious.

Orleander
06-12-08, 04:39 PM
If the viscosity of the fluid in the ear was changed, would that stop the dizziness?

synthesizer-patel
06-12-08, 05:34 PM
If the viscosity of the fluid in the ear was changed, would that stop the dizziness?

Probably, but I wouldn't recommend it as you wouldn't be able to balance properly