<hgroup class="clearfix"> Science finds ways to reduce pee splashes at urinals
</hgroup>Peeing ? you're doing it wrong, according to two American scientists who researched "urinal dynamics."
Men can reduce unsightly and unhygienic splashes by adjusting the angle and distance of the stream, said professors Tadd Truscott and Randy Hurd, who will present their findings at a meeting of the American Physical Society.
The pair run the Splash Lab at Brigham Young University. Their efforts to reduce "undesired splash-back," they say in their abstract, came "in response to harsh and repeated criticisms" from their mothers and "several failed relationships with women."
They simulated the pressure and "flow rate" of healthy males and found that aiming for a vertical surface, like the back wall of the urinal, is preferable to a horizontal surface, like a typical toilet, and that a "low-impact" angle ? as far away from 90 degrees as possible ? reduced droplet "impact and intensity."
Splash is "nearly nonexistent," they said, if the stream hits a close target, before it starts to break up.
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</hgroup>Peeing ? you're doing it wrong, according to two American scientists who researched "urinal dynamics."
Men can reduce unsightly and unhygienic splashes by adjusting the angle and distance of the stream, said professors Tadd Truscott and Randy Hurd, who will present their findings at a meeting of the American Physical Society.
The pair run the Splash Lab at Brigham Young University. Their efforts to reduce "undesired splash-back," they say in their abstract, came "in response to harsh and repeated criticisms" from their mothers and "several failed relationships with women."
They simulated the pressure and "flow rate" of healthy males and found that aiming for a vertical surface, like the back wall of the urinal, is preferable to a horizontal surface, like a typical toilet, and that a "low-impact" angle ? as far away from 90 degrees as possible ? reduced droplet "impact and intensity."
Splash is "nearly nonexistent," they said, if the stream hits a close target, before it starts to break up.
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