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Cough Captured For the First Time on Film Using Schlieren Photography

Posted October 28, 2008 9:40 AM

From The UberReview:

If you are not familiar with Schlieren photography, you are not alone. It is a photography technique that allows the differing densities of gases to be photographed. Now Dr. Gary Settles, an engineering professor at At Pennsylvania State University and Dr. Julian Tang, a virus expert from Singapore have used the technique to capture, for the first time, the gas dynamics of a cough.

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10/28/2008 2:34 PM

The photo marked Schlieren2 is not what I think it is is it? Well she can never say 'I never fart!' now can she!

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10/29/2008 2:05 AM

That's going to leave a mark!

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10/29/2008 6:24 AM

Some call it a bomb blast, some don't.

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10/29/2008 1:13 PM

Interesting stuff!!
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10/30/2008 1:08 AM

Here is another picture. It is the wind tunnel test of the Ares V at mach 4.5

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1210.html

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11/04/2008 12:18 AM

As we realised years ago, coughs do spread diseases, now the transference is easily seen, as well as felt.

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