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foo12bar | on: Three new discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics
Your lungs have sensors that can detect being coated by a liquid which invokes coughing. In that sense, you can detect wetness.
teiferer | parent
They detect being coated, no matter liquid or not. (Source: Parents who smoke. And don't tell me the crap they are inhaling is a liquid.)