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Asking the important questions. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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https://www.iflscience.com/if-you-farted-in-a-jar-and-opened-it-20-years-later-would-it-still-smell-of-farts-78468

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[–] myster0n@feddit.nl 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That reminds me of when I was a kid, farting in the bath. As I saw the bubbles coming up to the surface, I wanted to catch them.

So I took whatever plastic container I could find around the bath - most likely the cap of a shampoo bottle - submerged it, and held it close to my butt when I felt the next fart coming.

I succeeded in catching some of the fart in the cap. Then I claimed my prize by sniffing directly from the cap. It was so much worse than any fart I've ever smelled.

As a true scientist, I've repeated the experiment on a few later occasions, and without a doubt : bath farts captured in plastic containers smell much worse than normal farts.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember sitting in the hall during school as a second grader taking to a friend. I said, "I wonder if you farted in a balloon if it would float." A teacher overheard me and scolded me about it, for some reason.

[–] barneypiccolo@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

That was the perfect opportunity to teach the first step of The Scientific Method. The next step was the Hypothesis - what do you think will happen, based on the scientific knowledge you already have?

Then you have to Plan The Experiment, which in this case, would probably really energize the students' brain power. They'll LOVE figuring out this experiment. I would bet that EVERY student would be engaged in this one.

It's the Doing The Experiment that might be problematic, and end up with the teacher explaining themselves to the School Board: "All I can say is, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I guess you had to be there."

[–] Depress_Mode@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

TL;DR: No. The half-life of hydrogen-sulfide (one of smelliest constituents of a fart) reacting with the oxygen in the jar from just your fart is 12-37 hours. The article gives an example of a particularly potent hypothetical fart that would only retain any distinguishable odor for 9 days tops.

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

This guy farts

[–] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Who do you think you are?

Runnin' round leaving scars

Saving your jar of farts

Tearing love apart

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago

I say that every time I hear this song too hahaha.

You're gonna catch a cold,

From the ice inside your hole.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"It happened ONE TIME in 4th grade!!"

~I~ ~lied..!~

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 0 points 3 months ago

Had to scroll too far for this.

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why does the fart jar in the picture have a spoon in it?

[–] Tiger@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Fartspoon > poopknife.