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From: slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden)
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: Weird Gravitational Effects
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Date: Mon, 9-Sep-85 14:08:08 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep  9 14:08:08 1985
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I think effects mentioned in this discussion are quite common.  At any 
rate, often when I am driving in the mountains I could swear that I am
moving level or downhill when my car is letting me know that it is going 
uphill.  (It tends to complain.)

I wonder how much of this is optical illusion and how much is confusion 
of the inner ear--the same sort of thing that a pilot may experience under 
instrument conditions.  I have heard of cases where a pilot refused to 
believe the instruments and dove into the ground, thinking that the plane 
was in level flight.