Asking the important questions.

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• Depress_Mode@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  TLDR; No. The half-life of hydrogen-sulfide reacting with the oxygen in the jar (even if the jar contains only your fart) is 12-37 hours.

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  • HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This guy farts

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  • SpicyColdFartChamber@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My dreams have been shattered.

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    • nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      *sharted

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  • Eheran@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    There is a reasonable amount of oxygen in farts? Really?

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    • Depress_Mode@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      4% of a fart is oxygen, according to the article.

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    • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Persumebly not but there is oxygen in the air, usually.

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  • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So if I farted into a vaccum sealed bag… I could save it then?

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    • LethargicPuppy14@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Sadly, the fart itself comes with oxygen included

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  • lunarul@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What about the other odor producing compounds? From wikipedia:

    (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatulence#cite_note-Suarez…) Hydrogen sulfide, methyl mercaptan (also known as methanethiol), dimethyl sulfide, dimethyl disulfide and dimethyl trisulfide are present in flatus.

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• myster0n@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That reminds me of when I was a kid, farting in the bath. As I saw the bubbles coming up to the surface, I wanted to catch them.

  So I took whatever plastic container I could find around the bath - most likely the cap of a shampoo bottle - submerged it, and held it close to my butt when I felt the next fart coming.

  I succeeded in catching some of the fart in the cap. Then I claimed my prize by sniffing directly from the cap. It was so much worse than any fart I’ve ever smelled.

  As a true scientist, I’ve repeated the experiment on a few later occasions, and without a doubt : bath farts captured in plastic containers smell much worse than normal farts.

  Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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  • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I remember sitting in the hall during school as a second grader taking to a friend. I said, “I wonder if you farted in a balloon if it would float.” A teacher overheard me and scolded me about it, for some reason.

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    • barneypiccolo@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That was the perfect opportunity to teach the first step of The Scientific Method. The next step was the Hypothesis - what do you think will happen, based on the scientific knowledge you already have?

      Then you have to Plan The Experiment, which in this case, would probably really energize the students’ brain power. They’ll LOVE figuring out this experiment. I would bet that EVERY student would be engaged in this one.

      It’s the Doing The Experiment that might be problematic, and end up with the teacher explaining themselves to the School Board: “All I can say is, it seemed like a good idea at the time. I guess you had to be there.”

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Your teachers sucked. Mine would’ve told me to try at home

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  • Uli@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s the same way they did it on Mythbusters.

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  • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My brother used to fart in a tennis ball can and hold me down and make me smell it. I agree, contained farts are awfuler.

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  • hanke@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Thank you for your contributions to science

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  • IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think its because while its under water it doesn’t have a chance to diffuse into a larger volume of air – normally farts are pretty dilute by the time it makes it to anyone’s nose.

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  • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was probably because of the increased humidity. Same thing why shower farts smell worse

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• abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They’ve chosen the worst jar to put in the picture

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  • HexadecimalSky@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, they didn’t fart in that jar, shart maybe…

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    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I thought it was just gas!

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• Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who do you think you are?

  Runnin’ round leaving scars

  Saving your jar of farts

  Tearing love apart

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  • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I say that every time I hear this song too hahaha.

    You’re gonna catch a cold,

    From the ice inside your hole.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    *Tearing love butt apart

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  • hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Image

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• UraniumBlazer@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Why does the fart jar in the picture have a spoon in it?

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  • Tiger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fartspoon > poopknife.

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    • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      aaah the infamous poop knife

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    • blackbrook@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That’s nothing compared to the shartspork.

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  • Pregnenolone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hey sweetie, would you like anymore fart mousse?

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    • prex@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Image

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  • zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You know why.

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  • D_C@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To agitate the fart in 20 years.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    why is the jar brown to start with, what kind of a fart are we dealing with here sir?

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  • Etterra@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A better question might be what kind of farts did they have to laminate the inside of that jar so thoroughly that only a spoon could extract it?

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• socsa@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What an image

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  • h3mlocke@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yahh the article said farted not sharted…

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  • HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    At least there isn’t a My Little Pony in the jar.

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• RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  We should sell barrel aged farts to rich idiots.

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  • 0ops@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Mmm myess, I detect a subtle nuttiness mmmhhmhmm exquisite mmmm

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    • Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This was a running joke in Bio-Dome, with Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin

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• Rin@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’d probably smell like flowers based on where the world is going

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• NotLemming@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Wouldnt the poop particles have rotted away in that time and maybe turned into fertiliser? Maybe some interesting fungi would be growing. Ah, the circle of life.

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Farting in jars is dangerous business. You don’t want to end up like that lady from 90 Day Fiancé do you???

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  • MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Something about that story smells fishy.

    $1k / jar and brought in $100k… so that’s 100 jars total. Maybe a little extra in case of an accident during shipping. So why did she need to fart 50x per week? Shit, that would be $2.4 million per year of she could actually sell that.

    So the way I see it, she was farting in a jar 50x per week but only selling 2 of them… that’s not a business, that’s a fetish she managed to squeeze a whiff of money out of.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I guess it dependson how you store it?

  Yes, funny, but methane falls apart if exposed to UV light.

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  • Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    methane does not have a smell. most hydrocarbons don’t. that’s why they put smelly stuff (mostly thiols) into butane, gasoline, etc.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    What? This isn’t even remotely true. Standard glass blocks half of UV at best, and it’s not even the most harmful half.

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• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “It happened ONE TIME in 3rd grade!!”

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• Etterra@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I wish I could be a big enough thot to sell my farts for $45k.

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  • fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I wish I could be a big enough thot capitalist to sell my farts for $45k.

    You should give them away for free, comrade. They are the people’s wind.

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• normalexit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  How can we preserve it?

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  • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    How do you preserve a sunset, or a child’s laughter? How do you preserve the feeling of a first kiss, or the flavor of your mom’s hug? How do you preserve the memory of your lost love, or the fish that flew away? How do you preserve the anxious feeling of your first ritual death match in the ring of eternal fire, or a crisp autumn day?

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    • normalexit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I now see the folly of my inquiry.

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  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fart in a vacuum or maybe in nitrogen? Seems like oxygen is the enemy.

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    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      maybe if you fart into a cryogenic chamber right into a pot of liquid nitrogen. then you can heat it up again later and… why am i here again?

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Just store it in an office chair.

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