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cheekyTopic: Scientific Progress...
Here we are: a nonlethal weapon (and a flashlight, no less) that automatically makes one hurl upon exposure to the retinas.
Vomiting, as any gradeschool child knows, is the result of the chemoreceptor trigger zone being stimulated in the lateral medullary reticular formation of the brainstem (I'll avoid the obvious pun about the overall mechanism of action being a real 'pain in the postrema', hehehe)...
(hmmmm... as nerd puns go, that actually wasn't too bad)
...but it got me to thinking: there must be an easier way to trigger the vomit center of the brain through visual stimulation, right? But what kind of stimulus could we use?
hmmm...what indeed?...
Scientific progress goes stumbling for the nearest toilet.
Posted by shanekentknolltrey
at 1:57 AM ADT
Updated: Tuesday, 7 August 2007 2:03 AM ADT
