Comment on Does farting make you lighter or heavier ?

givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Methane is lighter than air

  Objection! ;-)

  This comparison is not relevant, unless you take in as much air immediately as you have just pressed out.

  Would you now please show us how you do that?

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  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    If it’s lighter than air, it’s lifting you while it’s inside of you…

    If it’s not there, it’s not lifting you, and you’re heavier.

    Think of a balloon that is so old it doesn’t rise anymore. It just stays neutrally bouyant. In this case it’s even less than that. It is a completely and totally negligible amount of difference. But while holding a fart you’re technically a very shitty balloon.

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    • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      But while holding a fart you’re technically a very shitty balloon.

      But you don’t know at what immmmense pressure I can hold my farts!

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      • jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        There is a limit beyond which it will simply dissolve into your blood stream.

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• OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Unless you are in a vacuum chamber, then it makes you lighter. Also you would be dead.

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• jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It depends on how pressurized it is. And clearly farts are pressurized.

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