Eirene wrote:Tally M. wrote:Answers I Liked Writing:
http://theboard.byu.edu/questions/73694/
I didn't realize that I really kind of enjoy doing math. It was strangely interesting to answer this question, and I don't really care if no one else reads it. I just had fun writing it.
I read your answer! And I have to ask--do you really spend 15 seconds per fart?!
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In terms of one-mississippi-s, I feel like even a one-second long fart would be long enough to be really memorable and kind of freaky.
I was wondering about that, too, since I recently read
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal which has a few (literally three) chapters on flatulence. And her gastroenterologist, Michael Levitt (
http://goodmenproject.com/featured-cont ... -the-wind/)* (who has the distinguished honor of being "the world’s leading authority on flatulence") estimates the average is about 100 milliliters over two seconds. Which seemed more reasonable time-wise to me.
Also interesting, he has, according to the author (
http://www.salon.com/2013/04/07/passing ... c_history/), "scientifically proven (by Levitt) [the fact that]: 'the flatus of women has a significantly greater concentration of hydrogen sulfide and was deemed to have a significantly worse odour by both judges.' (However, this is likely balanced out by the male’s 'greater volume of gas per passage.')" I spent way too long concerned over how one would come to that scientific discovery.
In conclusion, bodies are kind of weird.
*I couldn't get the URL to work and quickly decided I didn't care enough to figure out why (o: