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LastKnightoftheproms wrote:
Kofi Annan wrote:Expert: is it possible to fart in space and if so can you smell it and can it be heard?

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Sound does not travel in a vacuum so no, it wouldn't be heard. That of course presumes that the farter was unprotected by a space suit and was exposed to the full vacuum of space rather than in a space suit or a capsule.

With regard to the possibility of farting, it is essentially the expelling of gas from a closed system. Given that it's effectively a moving of gas from a higher pressure area to a lower pressure area there is no theoretical barrier.

Lastly, the odour issue. It would be "possible" to smell it but only in high density. Given the vacuum, coldness of space, the fact that you couldn't breath and the rapid dispersal in a weightless vacuum, it's unlikely that you would.


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Kofi Annan wrote:Expert: is it possible to fart in space and if so can you smell it and can it be heard?

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Qualification required, inside or outside the spacecraft? Suited & booted or not?

That apart, LastNight appears to have covered the science.
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big mervyn wrote: Supplementary question: why do farts not smell on planes?
Try sitting beside me or my brother sometime Merv, 3 were overcome by fumes on the way back from Birmingham.
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big mervyn wrote:
Supplementary question: why do farts not smell on planes?
They do as I remember you on a plane !
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Can you still get Paris buns? If so, who stocks them?
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big mervyn wrote:Can you still get Paris buns? If so, who stocks them?
No need to buy them...

http://www.northsouthfood.com/paris-buns/




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theCloudSpotter wrote:
big mervyn wrote:Can you still get Paris buns? If so, who stocks them?
No need to buy them...

http://www.northsouthfood.com/paris-buns/




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They don't look right at all.

This is more like it. Big lumps of sugar and so dry it's impossible to eat without a big mug o' Tay.
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Haven't had a Paris bun since the bread man retired in 98.

Three white pan, packet o tatty bread and either Paris buns or Snowballs was the usual order.
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big mervyn wrote:If there are 6 million bicycles in Beijing, why do the Chinese never win the Tour de France?
Short answer - they don't like Western medicine

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Why do men have nipples?
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LadyP wrote:Why do men have nipples?
You know we like when you pay attention to them too. They are also erogenous zones for us

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LadyP wrote:Why do men have nipples?
Quite obvious M'lady, so weemen have something to lick when they are being................... FFS Lady P this is a family show.
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