Space sickness cure?

I mentioned something along these lines about a year back. The idea
would be to control the inputs so that wherever the astronaut's torso
was pointing became their "down", or alternately, a certain direction in
the spacecraft would be the same thing:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/arti...ance-back.html

Pat

In sci.space.policy, on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 02:15:07 -0600,
Pat Flannery sez:

I mentioned something along these lines about a year back. The idea
would be to control the inputs so that wherever the astronaut's torso
was pointing became their "down", or alternately, a certain direction in
the spacecraft would be the same thing:
http://www.newscientisttech.com/arti...ance-back.html

Cool. Has potential, but it would be quite tricky to do usefully.
You wouldn't want to do the sort of complete replacement of the
balance organ they describe, that would render you dependent
on a prosthesis for the rest of your life. What you'd want is
a reversible procedure which would only add a directional
signal to your existing system. This will be awfully difficult
to do, I imagine.

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