Wednesday, June 01, 2005
Achoo!
Question:
When we sneeze we always close our eyes, why is that?
Hint:
When we sneeze we actually build up pressure inside the body, partly because our lungs are a little leaky but also because we are using lots of muscles and build up liquid pressure under our skin.
There's a real chance that on a big sneeze if we didn't close our eyes our eyeballs would pop out.
-Told you it was gross.
Hmm, it could be that this explanation may be false:
see straightdope about this.
When we sneeze we always close our eyes, why is that?
Hint:
- The answer is kinda gross
- It's not because we may get snot in the eyes.
- It's not because of some historical evolutionary accident.
When we sneeze we actually build up pressure inside the body, partly because our lungs are a little leaky but also because we are using lots of muscles and build up liquid pressure under our skin.
There's a real chance that on a big sneeze if we didn't close our eyes our eyeballs would pop out.
-Told you it was gross.
Hmm, it could be that this explanation may be false:
see straightdope about this.
# posted by Scott Kirkwood @ 9:50 AM 
