countless Posted December 5, 2008 Share Posted December 5, 2008 A few days ago some children had a chance to meet up with mr De Winne, a Belgian astronaut who will fly to the ISS (international space station) soon.The children could ask all kinds of questions.One of the questions was : what do you do when you have to sneeze enormously in space ?Mr De Winne laughed and so did the audience. Well, he said, I will need to cover with a kerchief or tissue. The air filters of the ISS will destroy all germs, but my colleagues would not be happy with snot floating around anywhere...C Link to comment
MonkeyMan Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Hahaha!! Gotta love kids. Link to comment
Kiwifruit Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 Awww the kid's got the right focus that's so cuuute!! Link to comment
InsanityStreak Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 lol! Seeing snot rockets floating in space (no pun intended) would be quite funny... kinda like a lava lamp Link to comment
vampiresneeze Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 That makes for an interesting mental picture!I wouldn't mind witnessing that at some point in my life....Seeing snot rockets floating in space (no pun intended) would be quite funny... kinda like a lava lamp Link to comment
Kiwifruit Posted December 6, 2008 Share Posted December 6, 2008 lol! Seeing snot rockets floating in space (no pun intended) would be quite funny... kinda like a lava lamp rofl...ewww but wow awesomeness!! i want to be an astronaut now just on the off chance that i might get to see that... Link to comment
Vetinari Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 lol! Seeing snot rockets floating in space (no pun intended) would be quite funny... kinda like a lava lamp rofl...ewww but wow awesomeness!! i want to be an astronaut now just on the off chance that i might get to see that... I think there's supposedly lots of dust up there. I seem to recall reading a comment from a female astronaut that she had spent most of her time sneezing.Link to article....... Link to comment
vampiresneeze Posted December 7, 2008 Share Posted December 7, 2008 I think there's supposedly lots of dust up there. I seem to recall reading a comment from a female astronaut that she had spent most of her time sneezing.Link to article.......I never thought about that, but it makes sense! In high school I had to do a huge project on comets, and their tails are made of gases and dust. Any one here would love to see me be an astronaut. Dust makes me sneeze in mini fits Link to comment
count tiszula Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 Ah, the lovely Helen Sharman! I've seen her interviewed a couple of times, and she always told the sneezing in space story. Before she was forgotten about.It almost made you wonder why she was so insistent on it; after all, would one really be that much sneezier just because particles of dust were weightless? It would argue that one was pretty damned sneezy in any situation.However, I had not taken in that she was propelled backwards Newtonianly by the force of her sneezes. And yet..again, why would this be so ; well I suppose it would if one were unattached to anything, except that the traditional sneezing motion involves having to bend over forwards with the force of the sneeze. Perhaps this is a survival of the days when we were all Martians and had to be driven forward to counteract the lack of gravity. Link to comment
shy guy Posted December 10, 2008 Share Posted December 10, 2008 my colleagues would not be happy with snot floating around anywhere...CIt sounds to me like he's got the wrong colleagues! Link to comment
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