Airtight room question.

[tobbogonist]

Can someone please help
I used this the other day whilst doing stand-up, it just sorta came to me whilst on stage and basically the idea was:

If you are in an airtight room, can you pass wind?

I mulled it around abit and talked on the subject for a while but basically i was just wondering if anyone knew?

I have asked alot of people, mainly concentrated on dads and uncles because they normally know about these things but no one has ben able to give me a direct yes or no answer..

Does anyone know?
Thankyou,
Tom

[ivan]

Of course you can. Why not?

Unless the pressure in the room is higher than the pressure in your "wherever-it-is-that-you-store-the-wind". Edit: but then you wouldn't be able to stay in that room for long anyway.

Also, I don't think you'd really want to do it, no ventilation, you know what I mean...

[tobbogonist]

Ahh i remmeber my school science now..

Air molocules can squish.. :)

but i was thinking air tight pressurised.. hypothetically

[ivan]

Then, depends on the pressure. Inside the container and inside your gut. Whichever one is higher, wins.

[onelesscar]

Then, depends on the pressure. Inside the container and inside your gut. Whichever one is higher, wins.
Which brings up an interesting point. What is the pressure of "gas"?

And, if the pressure in the room is higher than this...can you inward fart??

[ivan]

Wanna try?

And I think the pressure would be variably, as the volume is variable. Your guts can expand and contract, can't they?

[john_childs]

can you inward fart??
Yes. Ask Mr. Methane (http://www.mrmethane.com/). That's how he loads up. He's able to suck wind then expel.

If high pressure air was to be able to overwhelm the sphincter seal then deep sea divers would end up with a water enema when they fart while diving. Hopefully that is not a problem for divers cause that could get messy when they get back to the surface.

[harper]

Yes, you can fart in an airtight, pressurized room. Your internal pressure will equilibrate with whatever the ambient pressure is. As long as you can survive you can keep on tooting. Your lungs can produce a differential pressure of about 0.5 psig. Your colon and sphincter can't quite manage that. Flatulence pressure will be well below 0.5 psig. The volume is rather small, about a liter distributed over 14 daily emissions. This is less than 100cc per blast with a pressure of less than 0.04 bar, nothing dramatic there. Your volume will change (decrease) slightly as you rip one and the gas will fill the newly available volume produced in the room.

[Racenut]

You can fart on an airplane. Though you may be questioned by homeland security when you land.

[dan de man]

Yes. Ask Mr. Methane (http://www.mrmethane.com/). That's how he loads up. He's able to suck wind then expel.

DUDE i can so do that i have been able to this for like 8 years man it is a great ice breaker

[Hazmat]

I can't remember where i heard but apparently if you fart simultaneously for 6 years +. You'll have enough gas to create an atomic bomb. :eek: :eek:


WHOA freaky. :D

[mr_charm]

that was on the comedy channel. its 6 years and 9 months if memory serves me well

[beeper]

Can someone please help
I used this the other day whilst doing stand-up, it just sorta came to me whilst on stage and basically the idea was:

If you are in an airtight room, can you pass wind?

I mulled it around abit and talked on the subject for a while but basically i was just wondering if anyone knew?

I have asked alot of people, mainly concentrated on dads and uncles because they normally know about these things but no one has ben able to give me a direct yes or no answer..

Does anyone know?
Thankyou,
Tom

Sounds like a job for the mythbusters.

[Hazmat]

that was on the comedy channel. its 6 years and 9 months if memory serves me well
I knew i saw it somewhere. :D :D :D

[ivan]

You'll have enough gas to create an atomic bomb even if you only fart once. They don't make atomic bombs out of gas.

They use heavier stuff - uranium, plutonium, etc.

[johnfoss]

People can fart anywhere. Like elevators. Thanks a lot.

Now if you were to be in a room with *no* air, you'd fart automatically. Other unpleasant things would follow...

[ivan]

Hmm, so people will automatically fart to "fill the void" in a conversation?

How interesting...

[Qweld]

Havent you ever broken wind wearing coveralls?? Of course then you emediatly inhale to keep from beathing so even though you let gas out your breathing in so it equalizes out. One wonders about skin divers (divers without air tanks) if they dive deep enough can they pass gas?? Or since thier bodies are exposed to the water pressure and possibly equalizing with it then the extra internal pressure would allow them to fart thereby popelling them further down. This would also make them heavyer.


Remember: If it isn't mined it has to be grown.

[Hazmat]

:D :D The side effects of farting in a wetsuit. (http://media.funny.co.uk/files/4008.jpg) :D :D

[john_childs]

DUDE i can so do that i have been able to this for like 8 years man it is a great ice breaker
You should read up on Le Pétomane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane).

[dan de man]

You should read up on Le Pétomane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_P%C3%A9tomane).
already have

[tobbogonist]

Thanks all those who answered :)

another wind related question.

I was once told if you pass wind, sneeze, cough, burp and such at the same time it is life threatening. At which i told them it would depend on ones company..
but i was wondering, is that even possible to accomplish?

[Hazmat]

Well me and 1 of my friends can hic-urp which is when you hiccup and burp at the same time or close enough. :D
Thanks all those who answered :)

another wind related question.

I was once told if you pass wind, sneeze, cough, burp and such at the same time it is life threatening. At which i told them it would depend on ones company..
but i was wondering, is that even possible to accomplish?
To a certain extent, yes. But very doubtful of it happening though. :confused:

[Danni]

Thanks all those who answered :)

another wind related question.

I was once told if you pass wind, sneeze, cough, burp and such at the same time it is life threatening. At which i told them it would depend on ones company..
but i was wondering, is that even possible to accomplish?

I witnessed my mother fart, burp and sneeze. She lived, and is still happily passing wind daily.