Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Sneezing in Slow-Motion



Okay, promise me never to sneeze within 15 feet of me! I love this beautiful australian ad for getting your flu-shot!

3 comments:

The Pansy Bastard™ said...

That is just NASTY! And funny, too! I was thinking, before the last spewing part, I wondered if those facial expressions are not unlike those of one having an orgasm.

daan said...

Not only the expressions are like having an orgasm. A good sneeze (you know the ones) can even FEEL a little bit like an orgasm.

ennalegov said...

:-)
While generally harmless in healthy individuals, sneezes are capable of spreading disease through the potentially infectious aerosol droplets that they can expel, which commonly range from 0.5 to 5 µm in diameter. About 40,000 such droplets can be produced by a single sneeze.[2]

The speed of human sternal release has been the source of much speculation, with the most conservative estimates placing it around 150 kilometers/hour (42 meters/second) or roughly 95 mph (135 feet/second), and the highest estimates -such as the Health World Museum in Barrington, Illinois- which propose a speed as fast as 85% of the speed of sound, corresponding to approximately 1045 kilometers per hour (290 meters/second) or roughly 650 mph (950 feet/second).