Fun With Farts: All the Facts You Never Needed to Know
March 20, 2008 by Liberty Kontranowski
Filed under Animals, Blogosphere, Exposed!, Misc., Oddities, Your Body
The way I chastise my husband and kids for erroneously “letting one rip”, I’m actually quite amazed that I’m writing this post. But when I read what one of my favorite health blogs, The Body Odd at msnbc.com had to say about breaking wind, even a prude like me began to appreciate the finer points of flatulence.
So, in the spirit of noisy bum-rumblings, I present to you some Fart Fun Facts. Enjoy!
From The Body Odd:
• On average, a fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. Less than 1 percent of their makeup is what makes farts stink.
• The temperature of a fart at time of creation is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Farts have been clocked at a speed of 10 feet per second.
• A person produces about half a liter of farts a day.
• Women fart as much as men.
• The gas that makes your farts stink is hydrogen sulfide. The more sulfur rich your diet, the more your farts will stink. Some foods that cause really smelly farts include: beans, cabbage, cheese, soda and eggs.
• Most people pass gas about 14 times a day.
From Heptune.com:
• People fart even shortly after death.
• Men are most likely to fart in the bathroom in the morning (aka “Morning Thunder”).
• It really IS possible to ignite a fart.
• Turtles, fish, snakes and other reptiles all fart, as do cats and dogs.
• Termite farts are believed to be a major contributor to global warming.
• Farting up in space would propel you forward.
See? Everything you never wanted to know about farting! Hopefully your day is now complete and the watercooler chat a work tomorrow will be that much more colorful.
Like this segment on farts? Then don’t miss the post from earlier this week – All About Poo.
Sorry, but farting in space WOULDN’T propel you forward – because it would happen inside your space suit!
Everyone agrees that farts are fun, except in a spacesuit. The ultimate authority on this is of course “The Merck Manual”, see the index for “flatus”. This committe had too much fun with this one.
Here’s a link;
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec02/ch008/ch008d.html?qt=flatus&alt=sh
Humans can in fact be in space without a space suit. They don’t wear space suits inside of the shuttle. They still probably wouldn’t move too far while wearing underwear and pants but I bet they’d still be propelled with a big fart. And if naked—they’d better wear a helmet. Hahahaha.
i have a question do crickets fart.
i like to fart.
Could you make an organic flamethrower?
If you farted hard enough, you could float, but you would probably make a hole in the chair
Just for the record, wearing a space suit would have no effect on their propulsive properties. It is a simple action/reaction equation.
Don’t believe it? Try lighting a bottle rocket in a large, sealed, ziplock bag.
writing a paper called barack Obama Farts. the objective is to correlate baracks diets with amount and potency of farts expelled. if you can provide any help please email or facebook i guess. .
Love the fart facts!