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You know how when you spend time on a boat, and then come ashore and it feels like the ground is moving? I've just finished a 2 hour session in low Kerbin orbit, practicing docking and generally moving about using RCS power.

I closed the game and stood up, and realised that in that time, my brain had begun compensating for the spin of Kerbin beneath me - for about 2 minutes afterwards I felt like I was spinning round very slowly.

Anyone else find this?

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I, for one, seem to be able to change my reference point at will- going from sitting in my chair to, well, what the 9th Doctor says:

"It's like when you're a kid... The first time they tell you that the world's turnin', and you can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standing still.

I can feel it. The turn of the earth. The ground beneath out feet spinnin' at a thousand miles an hour and the entire planet's hurtlin' around the Sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're falling through space, clingin' to this tiny little world, and if we let go...

That's who I am."

Drama FTW

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