Comments on: Lost People Really Do Walk In Circles

By: carl

carl — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:16:43 +0000

“nature’s tuning fork”….really? How gullible!

Geese fly in a V because they’re drifting not unlike Nascar racers. Moss grows on the north side of trees (kinda…sorta) in this hemisphere because fo the position of the sun.

It’s not Nature’s tuning fork. It’s the reality of the physics of existence.

Feel free to thank the Lord for that. But not any anthropomorphized “nature”!

By: Ride Fast

Ride Fast — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:48:53 +0000

Ersatz,
The reason has been clear for thousands of years. The study didn’t do anything that hadn’t already been done with simple empirically gathered data.

I’m not against the scientific method, I support that wholeheartedly.

By: ersatz

ersatz — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:16:39 +0000

the reason why scientific studies like this are performed is to clarify the reasons behind such phenomena. Otherwise we could equally attribute it to a longer leg, the position of the sun, or the invisible sky man.

By: Ride Fast

Ride Fast — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:44:17 +0000

Where do I go to get funded to study stuff like this? This fact has been known for thousands of years. Your legs are not identical in length.

I don’t remember if it was in survival school or the Boy Scouts I first learned how to deal with this well known phenomenon. Or was it kindergarten? Shessh.

By: Mass Spectrometry

Mass Spectrometry — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 17:13:41 +0000

I’d agree with that. We all go on holiday to get to the sun so why not rotate areound it?

By: Zecc

Zecc — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:38:05 +0000

Is the sun any influence?
Are we like moths around a lamp?

By: Skipweasel

Skipweasel — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:50:31 +0000

When you think about it – how likely is it that we’d be able to walk in a reliable straight line? Any deviation will eventually bring you back around – a straight line is highly improbable.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:53:58 +0000

When I was a boy scout the reason I was given was one leg your dominat tends to steer you. So with a right dominant leg you will veer to the left and vice a versa.

By: abdulhamid

abdulhamid — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:12:55 +0000

It seems the same force the makes ducks fly in a “v” formation, the one that guides monarch butterflies through their annual transamerican journey, the one that makes moss grow on the north side of trees, is at work in humans as well, albeit to a less productive degree. I am not surprised. This is nature’s tuning fork we are responding to.

It is also impossible to walk in a straight line when your eyes are closed.