freefall, losing your stomach
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I am sure that adrenaline has something to do with the feeling of you losing your stomach because I don't think that anyone could be bored at the top of a hill, but here's what is really happening: Your body is composed of mostly water, and therefore your organs are "floating" in it. When you fall, you are at an angle and your organs are pressed up against your diaphragm, which gives you the feeling your stomach. You can think of your stomach as a coin when you go on the demon drop... although you and the penny are both falling the penny does not fall as quickly as you do because it's mass is not as great. Which shows taht because your organs do not have as much mass as the rest of your body they do not fall as fast. And so they go up until they hit your diaphragm which pulls them down with you. If you were to be lying flat, as you do when you go skydiving, you would not have this feeling. Hope I helped a little bit, leave another post if you've got any more questions!!!
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Well, I care because this a Cedar Point discussion board. It does fit in the scope of the discussion here. Myself and the other moderators will decide what's appropriate, OK? Let them do their job.
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"
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Jeff
Webmaster/Guide to The Point
"And he says 'I'm goin' crazy up there at the lake...'"
If you consider that according to Newton's laws, objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and objects in motion tend to stay in motion unless some net force is applied. This also applies for direction changes. Another factor that will come into play is acceleration due to gravity. WE will take these simple concepts and apply them to the following situations. Firstly: your body in a car while going around a turn. Although your car is moving around the turn, it would rather go forward in its previous direction. This is directly shown through the body of someone sitting in the passenger seat. When turning left, their body presses against the door on the right. Now, go a step further and think of your body being a jar, and internal "stuff" being that coin that someone talked about. When the jar is dropped at any initial speed faster than g, and since the coin inside has no net force being applied to it, the coin will only fall at the speed of gravity. (It would like to remain at rest) Since the jar is continually now falling faster than the coin, the coin inside will tend to move to the upper part of the jar if not hit the top lid depending on the initial difference in velocity of the jar and gravity. The coin will remain at the top of the jar until shortly after the jar stops falling. This is what we call air time.
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-Dave Kochman
Pittsburgh
Okay heres another question for you... Why is it some people dont get that lossing your stomache feeling, and other dont get it as much the more coasters they do in one day, but yet I, get the same feeling no matter what i ride and how many times i do it in one day. This feeling makes me have to get the "nerve" to get on coasters. I love them and all, but I get a "panic" type feeling each and evertime! Any coaster I ride, its like the first time for my stomache I have ever rode a coaster! Drives me nuts!
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The more you ride it, the more you want it!
~~~Darla~~~
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The more you ride it, the more you want it!
~~~Darla~~~
There is an interesting theory about that on display at COSI Toledo. The general idea is that when exposed to extreme accelerations, the fluid in the semicircular canals in the inner ear starts sloshing around. These canals contain detection hardware which is wired to give you a sense of direction and balance. When that fluid starts to slosh randomly, the positional information the inner ear provides to the brain and the positional information that comes from your other senses causes the brain to become confused. The interesting part of the theory is that the brain's reaction is to decide that the body must have been poisoned, and so it responds by shifting the digestive system into reverse.
What I like about that theory is that it explains why some people do not have this problem, and why the problem seems to decline over time with successive Cedar Point visits (gotta keep on-topic, eh?) as your brain can learn that this particular sensation is *not* a poisoning, but rather a roller coaster, and therefore it is not necessary to reverse the digestive tract.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
What I like about that theory is that it explains why some people do not have this problem, and why the problem seems to decline over time with successive Cedar Point visits (gotta keep on-topic, eh?) as your brain can learn that this particular sensation is *not* a poisoning, but rather a roller coaster, and therefore it is not necessary to reverse the digestive tract.
--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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