Posted by Carl on June 02, 2001 at 16:26:16:
In Reply to: Re: breathing posted by Frederick J. Young on June 02, 2001 at 11:25:01:
I question the good Doctor's premise of a mere mortal with an 18 liter vital capacity.
>>The amount of air you have is proportional to the cube of your height.
Cube of height? The numbers turn out astronomically large. This is the usual method of dead-reckoning vital capacity:
Vital capacity in males (in milliliters) = 27.63 - (0.112 x age in years) x height in centimeters