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Re: Nostrils: a definition
Colin Campbell (colinc@crl.com)
23 Jul 1995 18:52:51 -0700
rlh2@columbia.edu (Ralph L Holloway) writes:
> The air that gets into our lungs isn't sucked into them, it falls
> into the lungs, and there are no obstacles confronting out breathing as
> such a curve implies. Besides, it is your diaphragm that is doing most of
> this 'work', which allows gravity to "force" air down into our lungs, as
> it were.
I guess this explains the tragic results of the manned space program's
long record of zero-gravity asphyxiations...
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