Farting in space

Sho · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:23

The_Baron said:
magnificent thread.

MooMoo444 · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:24

PinkFloyd said:
Yes it would act as thrust. As would breathing out.
However it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference to your velocity due to it being such little thrust compared to your weight.

You would not be able to breath out. Air would leave your lungs and your body before you even knew it.

Atlas23 · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:24

MooMoo444 said:
You would not be able to breath out. Air would leave your lungs and your body before you even knew it.

Like some kind of fart thief?

Suarez7 · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:28

MooMoo444 said:
You would not be able to breath out. Air would leave your lungs and your body before you even knew it.

This is why you couldn't fart, hence my 1st reply no.

BigglesPiP · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:34

MooMoo444 said:
You would not be able to breath out. Air would leave your lungs and your body before you even knew it.

The vacuum of space is actually not that strong. If you're lungs were half full to start with and you were expecting it, you could probably hold in the 0.5 bar of pressure as your lungs simply expended to their largest.

Edit:
This topic is borderline airplane on a treadmill.

Xire · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:39

AJK said:
Did you think "what if you sharted" and "it would float into your mouth" were serious answers?

Why so srs?

Outline · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:46

Suarez7 said:
No

/thread

Redz said:
Yes
/thread

That's sorted then
/thread

plasmahal · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:46

PinkFloyd said:
Yes it would act as thrust. As would breathing out.
However it wouldn't make a whole lot of difference to your velocity due to it being such little thrust compared to your weight.

If you are in space then your are 'Weightless', I'm sure you meant mass though.....

W = mg

Skeeter · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:50

BigglesPiP said:
Edit:
This topic is borderline airplane on a treadmill.

But this would be far more interesting to test

plasmahal · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:52

Cosimo said:

LOL, 'My eyes are burning'.......

B@Th*nG · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:52

every action has an equal and opposite reaction. yes it would propel you, albeit slowly, assuming the fart thief didn't get there first

ps. weight has bugger all to do with it.

B@

MooMoo444 · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:53

BigglesPiP said:
Edit:
This topic is borderline airplane on a treadmill.

Except we KNOW that a jet airplane would not go anywhere in such a scenario. We do not know what happens to nakey people in space.

4737Joker · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:54

if you aimed your behind towards earth and fired out a log would break up in the atmosphere?

Skeeter · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:55

MooMoo444 said:
Except we KNOW that a jet airplane would not go anywhere in such a scenario.

(at a massive risk of igniting this into yet another plane on a treadmill thread....)

You what?

BigglesPiP · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:56

4737Joker said:
if you aimed your behind towards earth and fired out a log would break up in the atmosphere?

If you were orbiting, then no, that's a very inefficient way of de-orbiting a thing. You would need to poop with your bottom pointed retrograde.

Skeeter · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:58

BigglesPiP said:
You would need to poop with your bottom pointed retrograde.

Even though I don't know what this means, I chuckled

4737Joker · 22 Oct 2013 at 12:58

lol me too

AndyT · 22 Oct 2013 at 13:06

Haha first reply is classic GD.

Assuming you just appeared in space with bad guts and empty lungs you would be propelled and also start rotating about your centre of mass. If you did absolutely nothing else afterwards you would keep going forever until you fart-spun into the gravitational field of something larger. There is nothing to breathe in space so at least you wouldn't be able to smell it.

B@Th*nG · 22 Oct 2013 at 13:13

Skeeter said:
Even though I don't know what this means, I chuckled

lol, he means you don't fire it down, as it would still be travelling at the same speed and remain in orbit. what you need to do is slow down the poop to ensure its orbit decays (fnar) so you would poop in a direction opposite to your current orbital path.

However this may also speed you up, causing an elliptical orbit, which may eventually slingshot you off into the depths of space... all for a cheeky duke

B@

Greboth · 22 Oct 2013 at 13:15

MooMoo444 said:
Except we KNOW that a jet airplane would not go anywhere in such a scenario. We do not know what happens to nakey people in space.

Not sure if troll or srs? We KNOW that a jet plane would take off and we KNOW what happens to nakey people in space.

To answer the OP, yes it provides thrust. I don't know how much thrust though so don't know whether it would provide enough to move you.

All I can think of now is a monty python voice is "What is the space speed veliocity of farting naked man?"