BCP 201 FD: v7 (Second Timers)

NOSE AERODYNAMICS 1:  Your nose is packed with advanced aerodynamics, more than jet wings have!  Three sets of flattened-membrane covered bones shaped like rectangles are built into the walls of the skull cavern behind your nose.

NOSE AERODYNAMICS 1: Turbinate bones are life-and-death important. They cause the incoming air to become a smooth laminar flow and channel the air you breathe into three streams.

NOSE AERODYNAMICS 1: In people, 10% of the incoming air is routed to the top inside of the nose where there are about 25,000 smell receptors. (Olfactory receptors.)

NOSE AERODYNAMICS 1: Your lower two turbinates, the middle and superior turbinates, act like shutters of an air conditioning vent. They swirl the air and guide it down to your lungs. The air is heated to 89-93º and becomes 95% humidified like air is on a hot muggy summer day.

NOSE AERODYNAMICS 1: The heating and moistening of the air you breathe because of what the turbinates do is critical for your lungs to absorb enough oxygen. The turbinates also keep things quiet in your head. Without the turbinates, turbulent air would rush by your inner ear making life unbearably noisy like you were living next to a jet engine all the time.

NOSE AERODYNAMICS 1:  There are nerves which act like computers monitoring everything happening with your nose air currents.  Info goes to your spinal cord and it enlarges or shrinks the turbinates according to your needs!

NOSE AERODYNAMICS 1: Without your turbinates, you’d be continually exhausted because of poor oxygen uptake by your lungs. You also couldn’t smell much and you’d not be able to sleep because you’d be taking in too little oxygen. But hi-tech nose air-guiding bones do the trick to eliminate all these problems!

TURBINATES & SMELLING: Have you ever seen a dog suddenly start sniffing? Ever notice that you automatically sniff when you want to smell something? Why?
It’s because sniffing to smell is a DNA brain-wired instinct. You sniff to draw the air in slower than usual so it can slowly pass over your olfactory smell receptors. (Look up part if you need to.)

TURBINATES & SMELLING: Dogs have well-developed turbinates which make long, hard treks much easier. They also help sled dogs survive arduous journeys in arctic conditions.

TURBINATES & SMELLING: House cats’ turbinates are much less pronounced than a dog’s turbinates. That’s why cats do much better with easy-going stealth hunting and shorter trips.

GIANT SALAMANDER: A rattlesnake is a carnivore. It strikes faster than the blink of an eye. If a race car was able to accelerate this fast, it would go from 0 to 200mph in one tenth of a second!

GIANT SALAMANDER: The Chinese giant salamander is a huge amphibian. This gentle giant weighs in more than the weight of 2 kids–about 100 pounds.

GIANT SALAMANDER: This giant salamander slowly creeps up on his unsuspecting prey. He opens his mouth with incredible speed and drops the cartilage floor in it. Before the fish can blink an eye, it’s sucked into the smiling amphibian’s big mouth..

GIANT SALAMANDER: This giant salamander can accelerate prey to 5 g’s to get it into its mouth. They hi-speed vacuum up their food!

GIANT SALAMANDER: When jets fly through their most rigorous maneuvers, they can hit at 15 g’s.