🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1147132954.610178.28280@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
   "Edward Green" <spamspamspam3@netzero.com> wrote:
>jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>
>> In article <445e64ad.12647836@news.west.earthlink.net>,
>>    bw@barrrk.net (B1ackwater) wrote:

>> >Human balance is a DYNAMIC act - a thousand minor corrections
>> >to our position a minute.
>>
>> Sure.  And the detection devices are the toes coordinated
>> with the inner ear turbulence.
>>
>> > Requires energy, requires a fair amount
>> >of brain quietly dedicated to the task. We're always teetering
>> >on the brink of collapse. A quick push or a few slow gin fizzes
>> >and we're back to all fours again.
>>
>> That's why beer is better.
>
>Heh.   This reminds me of the interesting demonstrations of the human
>balance mechanism performing under extreme conditions I have witnessed.
> Normally we seem to stay very close to a fully poised condition or
>else fail catastrophically -- a few quick stabs or emergency arm
>flailing forming the fleeting intermediate states.  But I've seen a
>drugged person fall in slow motion, never quite contacting the ground
>with anything but their feet, and yet keeling over at such alarming and
>bizarre angles and attitutes that you are absolutely certain it is
>physically impossible for them not to fall in another microsecond --
>and then, incredibly, somehow pull themselves back into an upright
>posture!  And not once, but repeatedly.  This system has ranges of
>motion beyond our usual experience.

There must be some tendons and muscles that are strained from
those balancing efforts.

/BAH