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  June 24, 2009 11:08 a.m. friedgreencorrado HalfDork

  Experiments show that your brain accepts the tool as part of your body, and changes your spacial map to fit.

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8112873.stm

  "More telling, however, was an experiment performed with the participants blindfolded after the tool use.

  After an experimenter touched the participants' elbow and middle fingertip, they were asked to point using the other hand to those two locations.

  After a session of using the tool, the participants indicated locations further apart than before tool use: they seemed to perceive the tool-using arm as longer."

  Is this why I always drop the nut after changing from the ratchet to my fingers?

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  June 24, 2009 12:10 p.m. John Brown SuperDork

  friedgreencorrado wrote: Is this why I always drop the nut after changing from the ratchet to my fingers?

  No, that's puberty.

  Broppabroppabroppa... kuhwhrOPPPPaa... POPPOP... Broppabroppabroppa... kuhwhrOPPPPaa... POPPOP... KROBBADAROBBADAROBBADAWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA pop pop pop KUHWAAAAAAAAAAAA

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  June 24, 2009 12:38 p.m. thatsnowinnebago HalfDork

  John Brown wrote:

  friedgreencorrado wrote: Is this why I always drop the nut after changing from the ratchet to my fingers?

  No, that's puberty.

  www.instantrimshot.com

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  June 24, 2009 3:36 p.m. friedgreencorrado HalfDork

  thatsnowinnebago wrote:

  John Brown wrote:

  friedgreencorrado wrote: Is this why I always drop the nut after changing from the ratchet to my fingers?

  No, that's puberty.

  www.instantrimshot.com

  ROFL! He'll be here all week, folks...

  How can it be a midlife crisis, when I've driven sportscars my entire life?

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  June 24, 2009 4:13 p.m. DILYSI Dave SuperDork

  Anyone who has driven a backhoe can attest to this phenomenon.

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  June 24, 2009 4:15 p.m. RX Reven' Reader

  I remember being reprimanded by my flight instructor for holding my head level with the horizon while banking the aircraft…”become part of the aircraft, when it moves, you move”.

  One of several aviation rhymes that are taught:

  I am a pilot – this is my plane – it is my body – I am its brain

  “There is no try…only succeed & succeed not”

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  June 24, 2009 9:03 p.m. confuZion3 Dork

  RX, I like that chant.

  You do start to feel the plane become part of you as you progress too. The back of my head would be red at the end of a flight early on. "What's that rudder for?" my instructor used to ask. He could feel the plane crabbing. After a couple of hours, you get the feel for something like that.

  This article is fascinating. I have always been interested in how the human brain works (and why it works). I wonder if it is the same between genders? They didn't discuss that. I thought it was going to be a picture of a sharp object embedded in someone's head on an X-Ray.

  I wish I had lasers in my fingertips. Then I could shoot lasers from my fingers.

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  June 24, 2009 11:41 p.m. Appleseed HalfDork

  DILYSI Dave wrote: Anyone who has driven a Bobcat can attest to this phenomenon.

  Fixed it.

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  June 25, 2009 2:24 p.m. friedgreencorrado HalfDork

  RX Reven' wrote: I remember being reprimanded by my flight instructor for holding my head level with the horizon while banking the aircraft…”become part of the aircraft, when it moves, you move”. One of several aviation rhymes that are taught: I am a pilot – this is my plane – it is my body – I am its brain

  I like that. My instructor at my first SCCA Drivers' School used to tell me you wanted to wear a race car, not ride in it. To "..make it an extention of yourself..".

  How can it be a midlife crisis, when I've driven sportscars my entire life?

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