Friday, June 17, 2011

In search of that perfect cross

There are couple of good stories in Mahabharata about how to get on target 1. Arjuna not seeing anything other than bulls eye and 2.hitting the target which is eye of fish by looking at its reflection in water. So its amazing some thing like that got incorporated, real stories or authors created fiction?

What i really wonder is, ability of human mind to launch projectiles and hit them on target. Two games i had experience of these test are golf and football. In both games first u have to play the ball in your mind( but one must know from experience how they will actually behave) and then do it same on the ground.Anything else is just a fluke. Now the degree of imagination is what i question here, i just look at the target spot which has to be like a foot or a head,( but i can imagine what shot that guy will play from there on wards , this is stretching of point since here only discussing the initial trajectory)
In golf one has more time to imagine and decide on the exact trajectory more i guess than football, but the idea remains the same.

In both games one also needs a consistent technique , otherwise one cant deal with the real behavior.

certain test - get a target and illuminate while leaving the path in between completely dark. see if a person can hit the target , also see if the person can improve

Its amazing that other than humans , no other animals use projectiles. humans can kick, throw etc and land stuff on target. whats really important to me is how we do it . This can show us about the brain, its ability of doing certain things without knowing, how to do it. This shows us about the learning capacity of our brain.

P.S - even though the blog post is not good, there is a story behind it. Let me reveal it. there is stray dog which is friend of my dog buddy. Now this dog has got lot of ticks on its body so i don’t want it to come near my dog since he already had tick fever once. This dog is always trying to come and play with buddy , so earlier i use to take stones and but only throw them very close to dog but always making sure i never hit him. Now this dog learnt this and started to feel less scared. So i decided to actually hit the dog, but i have been unsuccessful till now ( some 1500 stones thrown).

i have couple of theories one being the first 500 stones trained the dog to dodge and second i have a bad aim(which i dont believe since i have perfected it by throwing stones at other dogs). but my mom said i have a bad aim . So i set out to test it. I tried to hit a pole which was illuminated by its own light but rest of the path was dark(or the light blinded me , as i always lost path of stone ). Only after i hit the wall on the other side of pole would i see the stone again, i found this very hard and so came up with the test.

P.S 2 even now that fucking dog is barking outside.

1 comment:

  1. Good, your mom gives you impartial criticism, very few moms do. And nice post, dog wala ancedote is funny.

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