Kofi Annan wrote:Expert: is it possible to fart in space and if so can you smell it and can it be heard?
Interested
I await Baggy's response but can't resist!
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.
Boy it's awful not having Ulster Rugby.
in space, no-one can hear you fart ... that's from a fillum (probably)
Supplementary question: why do farts not smell on planes?
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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?
Interested
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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NEVER MOVE ON. Years on, I cannot ever watch Ireland with anything but indifference, I continue to wish for the imminent death of Donal Spring, the FIRFUC's executioner of Wee Paddy & Wee Stu, and I hate the FIRFUCs with undiminished passion.
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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