Does farting make you lighter or heavier ?

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A balloon full of helium has more mass than a balloon without helium, but less weight en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_versus_weight.

  Methane weighs more than nitrogen (70% of atmosphere); you lose weight and mass. Molar mass of nitrogen 7; methane 16.

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  • miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This guy farts.

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    • sanguinepar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      But he doesn’t let it weigh him down.

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Methane is lighter than air. Methane is indeed ~16 but nitrogen has atomic number 7, molecular mass ~14, and the molecules are N2, so ~28.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At room temperature methane is lighter than the atmosphere on Earth’s surface, not heavier.

    However, pressurized in your body it may he heavier. I see no studies measuring this.

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• Greg@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sharting makes you lighter for sure

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  • CaptainBlagbird@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Only if you’re naked.

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    • scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I shit your pants

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• gedaliyah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Farts are mostly particulate. So, you’d be lighter.

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  • Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    m… mostly?

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please discuss this with your doctor.

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  • m0darn@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    On top of the fact that the gases have lower molecular weights than air, they are also at 37°C or 310K ie ~5% lighter still.

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  • Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think “mostly particulate” would have to cause visible exhaust fumes 😅

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• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Makes me muuuuuch lighter. At least that’s the feeling in my belly!

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is less pressure, not weight.

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Methane is lighter than air, so farting makes you heavier.

  But not in any measurable way.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As a homogenous blob, you would become lighter and denser.

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• ITGuyLevi@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You get heavier, totally anecdotal evidence on my part but I’ve stepped on the scale in the morning, let a glorious one rip, and the number went up by 0.1.

  I am not saying that I gained 0.1 lbs, just that afterward the scale rounded it up instead of down.

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  • Obi@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sounds like solid scientific research to me, I will now carry this nugget of information as an absolute fact.

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• BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think, you get lighter from the thrust, and the loss of those rarefied substances also reduce your mass.

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