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Asking the important questions. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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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 114 points 1 week ago (5 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.

[–] Uli@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week ago

That's the same way they did it on Mythbusters.

[–] chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 week 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 18 points 1 week 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."

[–] hanke@feddit.nu 7 points 1 week ago

Thank you for your contributions to science

[–] IrritableOcelot 5 points 1 week ago

I think its because while its under water it doesn't have a chance to diffuse into a larger volume of air -- normally farts are pretty dilute by the time it makes it to anyone's nose.

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 week ago

It was probably because of the increased humidity. Same thing why shower farts smell worse

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 23 points 1 week ago

They've chosen the worst jar to put in the picture

[–] UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] D_C@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

To agitate the fart in 20 years.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 1 week ago

A better question might be what kind of farts did they have to laminate the inside of that jar so thoroughly that only a spoon could extract it?

[–] socsa@piefed.social 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

What an image

[–] h3mlocke@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Yahh the article said farted not sharted...

[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

At least there isn't a My Little Pony in the jar.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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

~I~ ~lied..!~

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 3 days ago

Had to scroll too far for this.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

It'd probably smell like flowers based on where the world is going

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I guess it dependson how you store it?

Yes, funny, but methane falls apart if exposed to UV light. Then again, glass blocks most UV...

[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

methane does not have a smell. most hydrocarbons don't. that's why they put smelly stuff (mostly thiols, which are very smelly sulphur compounds) into butane, gasoline, etc.

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago

Wouldnt the poop particles have rotted away in that time and maybe turned into fertiliser? Maybe some interesting fungi would be growing. Ah, the circle of life.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish I could be a big enough thot to sell my farts for $45k.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 4 points 1 week ago

I wish I could be a big enough ~~thot~~ capitalist to sell my farts for $45k.

You should give them away for free, comrade. They are the people's wind.