The Blowhard
05-15-2002, 08:54 PM
Science of snot and burps revealed
The science of snot, burps and farts has been revealed in a warts-and-all exhibition on the human body.
Grossology: The (impolite) Science Of The Human Body is using virtual reality, animatronics and interactive exhibits to allow visitors to explore bodily functions.
A 9ft nose greets visitors as they enter the exhibition at the Science Museum, London, where children can pretend to be dust particles passing through the nostrils.
Other exhibits will burp, fart, sneeze or even vomit to order, while a giant wall of fake human skin allows children to climb using spots, warts and bruises as hand and foot holds.
Elsewhere they can crawl and slide through a giant stomach and intestine, or guess which part of the body generated smells pumped out from a gas machine.
A giant virtual reality game allows them to act as kidneys, zapping toxins as they pass through the bloodstream.
The exhibition, featuring more than 20 interactive displays and games, opens to the public tomorrow and children allowed in for a preview, gave it a positive response.
Caity Goreing, seven, from Cambridge, who visited with her mother, said: "It's really fun. I like the game where you fire balls up the nostrils, because I like using the gun, and I like the fart machine."
Kerry-Anne Vaughan, 11, from South Moreton School, Oxfordshire, said she liked the skin wall best, adding: "It's a really fun way to learn things.
"We have done some of it at school but some of it I didn't know, and none of it was like this."
Story filed: 13:26 Friday 10th May 2002
<img src=http://home.ix.netcom.com/~camman/_uimages/Heckler.gif>
"I can see clearly now, the brain is gone."
The science of snot, burps and farts has been revealed in a warts-and-all exhibition on the human body.
Grossology: The (impolite) Science Of The Human Body is using virtual reality, animatronics and interactive exhibits to allow visitors to explore bodily functions.
A 9ft nose greets visitors as they enter the exhibition at the Science Museum, London, where children can pretend to be dust particles passing through the nostrils.
Other exhibits will burp, fart, sneeze or even vomit to order, while a giant wall of fake human skin allows children to climb using spots, warts and bruises as hand and foot holds.
Elsewhere they can crawl and slide through a giant stomach and intestine, or guess which part of the body generated smells pumped out from a gas machine.
A giant virtual reality game allows them to act as kidneys, zapping toxins as they pass through the bloodstream.
The exhibition, featuring more than 20 interactive displays and games, opens to the public tomorrow and children allowed in for a preview, gave it a positive response.
Caity Goreing, seven, from Cambridge, who visited with her mother, said: "It's really fun. I like the game where you fire balls up the nostrils, because I like using the gun, and I like the fart machine."
Kerry-Anne Vaughan, 11, from South Moreton School, Oxfordshire, said she liked the skin wall best, adding: "It's a really fun way to learn things.
"We have done some of it at school but some of it I didn't know, and none of it was like this."
Story filed: 13:26 Friday 10th May 2002
<img src=http://home.ix.netcom.com/~camman/_uimages/Heckler.gif>
"I can see clearly now, the brain is gone."