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The United States Navy has a gauge for measuring sea-sickness. It's called the Motion Sickness Indicator (MSI), and it's included in a craft's modeling software to ensure that the ship doesn't ride too rough. There are even charts that plot sea sickness vs. time (with sea sickness approaching zero after a couple days at sea). The MSI is determined from actual testing. That is to say, they find a bunch of college kids, strap them into a simulator, and roll them around until they puke. For, like, three days straight. They record all the different conditions that cause them to puke and use the values to calculate the MSI range.
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Amerika by Franz Kafka
“As Karl Rossman, a poor boy of sixteen who had been packed off to America by his parents because a servant girl had seduced him and got herself a child by him, stood on the liner slowly entering the harbour of New York, a sudden burst of sunshine seemed to illumine the Statue of Liberty, so that he saw it in a new light, although he had sighted it long before. The arm with the sword rose up as if newly stretched aloft, and round the figure blew the free winds of heaven.”
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