[decimon]

Sober sailor ping.

[Nervous Tick]

>> Everybody who has been aboard a ship has heard the advice: if you feel unsteady, look at the horizon.

It’s pretty hard to look at the horizon when you’re throwing up.

[The_Reader_David]

Well, that’s good. It’s always nice to see controlled studies confirm what people have known for centuries.

[oh8eleven]

Thomas A. Stoffregen of the University of Minnesota has been studying “body sway” for decades...
Undoubtedly, funded by taxpayers for decades too. What a waste of time and money. Get a feckin life.

[Nervous Tick]

>> if you feel unsteady, look at the horizon

What do submarine sailors do?

[oh8eleven]

Thomas A. Stoffregen of the University of Minnesota has been studying “body sway” for decades...
Undoubtedly, funded by taxpayers for decades too. What a waste of time and money. Get a feckin' life.

[JoeProBono]

[arderkrag]

So, they had this study to discover that sailors are generally right in their own environment. YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK!
Put 'im in the longboat till he's sober,
Put 'im in the longboat till he's sober,
Put 'im in the longboat till he's sober,
Ear-ly in the morning!
(Proud to be from a family of sailors!)

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The underlying assumption here is that nothing is true until state-run media quotes a "scientist" who says it's true.

[libertarian27]

So how much did this ‘decades of study’ cost us?

This has been known for years.

Wonder if he has a study that confirms that drunks sway.......

[Vendome]

Here’s a fun game I like to play on a ship:

Get a bunch of drunk people together on the fore deck and tell them to stand with their feet together while looking out across the bow of the ship.

Now if you do this on a sailboat that is 360 feet long in 12 foot seas, it gets real hilarious, real quick.

The only people who make it are snowboarders and surfers.

[Blue Collar Christian]

If one can look at the horizon, the brain can tell the body how to maintain vertical stability. DUH! Any ocean sport fisher can relate to this.

Of course, this doesn’t explain why Mrs. BCC gets sick when we point the car towards the coast. And, no, she won’t go out fishing with our club.

[MDspinboyredux]

Any college-age kid who has too much to drink knows this.

[bunkerhill7]

Centuries of Sailors Weren’t Wrong: Looking at the Hore eyes on Stabilizes Posture

[Larry Lucido]

Not sure about looking at a Horizon, but trying to do someone in the back seat of one is horrible for posture.

[stylin19a]

now to figute out how to use this info on my golf swing

[stylin19a]

now to figure out how to use this info on my golf swing

[HonkyTonkMan]

Next study: Putting your foot on the floor stops the room from spinning

[stylin19a]

now to figure out how to use this info on my golf swing

[GOPJ]

...in this study, he rode on the research vessel Atlantis as it went between two points in the Gulf of California. “It had nothing to do with the fact that I like cruising near the tropics,” he jokes.

LOL - sounds like one likable guy...