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The "Centrifuge Brain Project" started in the 70's.

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Dr. Brenswick at the University of the State of New York

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was involved in a research

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on the effects of kindergarden rides

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on the learning curve of 4 year old children.

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We developed the idea of building a larger, stronger device

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to examine the effects also on adults.

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The first tests were a desaster.

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It reached 6 G's and it broke apart.

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We lost our academic standing.

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And then we had an idea.

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Matt's brother-in-law was on the board of a company

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that designed and manufactured amusement park rides.

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They had all the resources for us to continue our experiments.

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We designed our first real prototype which was the "Spherothon".

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When the rotation starts the seats are lifted slowly,

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causing the people to float upside down.

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The difficulty was stopping the rotation

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without people coming crashing down in the upper levels.

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We established an independent company funded by amusement park visitors.

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Well, the more people that came around to the amusement park

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the more funding we had.

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The second machine was named the "Wedding Cake"

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because of the four platforms set on top of each other.

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These machines provide total freedom.

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Cutting all connections from the world you live in:

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Communication, responsibility, weight

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everything is on hold while you're being centrifuged.

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Some of the test results that year were a little too extreme to be published

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so for the next phase we shifted our attention to height instead of acceleration.

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Well actually the first day wasn't really planned out very well.

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Everybody wanted to get on and not realizing that it was a 14 hour ride

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some people fell asleep, missed their stops

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and had another 14 hours, you know,

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and you could imagine the problems that entailed.

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Well, after the experience of the"High Altitude Conveyance"

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we found that people needed something to do in there

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and we introduced an interactive option.

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Each cabin was equipped with a button.

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This way they felt they had a little bit control over the ride itself.

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Except for one incident where the "Expander"

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was placed a little bit too close to a building

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there were no real problems with it

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and there was a level of undefined brain activity

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around 30% higher than the kids who stayed on the ground.

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This contraption was the "Dandelion".

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It was designed to simulate the prenatal experience.

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For example, when a mother is walking, the baby would kind of move around.

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So we tried to compensate for the weight

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and size differential between an adult and a baby.

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The concept behind this one was that the subject

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had no idea which track it was going to take

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Unpredictability was an important aspect of our work

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which in many people resulted in readjustments of key goals and life aspirations.

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We are using only ten thousand horsepower now,

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but l am convinced once we reach twenty thousand

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we are going to be free of all boundaries.

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Permanently, and it will be very stable.

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We had set backs, but I wouldn't say that it was a mistake.

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It was not a mistake. If anything, the mistake is in nature.

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Gravity is a mistake.

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We fight the forces that hold us down

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and the whole life is an effort to escape from reality.