http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/a-football-stadium-of-farts/ Making Numbers Fun Sun, 03 Jan 2010 23:29:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/a-football-stadium-of-farts/comment-page-1/#comment-112 » Can You Fart Yourself To Death? Answers That Help » Blog Archive Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:41:52 +0000 http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=6#comment-112 [...] to an article over at Rough Equivalents, where they calculated how many farts it would take to fill a football stadium, the average fart is 110 milliliters of gas and a cubic foot is 28,316 [...] [...] to an article over at Rough Equivalents, where they calculated how many farts it would take to fill a football stadium, the average fart is 110 milliliters of gas and a cubic foot is 28,316 [...]

]]> http://www.rough-equivalents.com/2008/04/a-football-stadium-of-farts/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Tab Sun, 13 Apr 2008 18:27:49 +0000 http://www.rough-equivalents.com/?p=6#comment-2 This prompted me to look up whether methane, the main gas in farts is heavier or lighter than air. http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com/Encyclopedia.asp?GasID=41 says " Specific gravity (air = 1) (1.013 bar and 21 °C (70 °F)) : 0.55," so it seems to be a safe assumption that the methane would float on the air and not drop down to the bottom of the stadium and do in the players on the field before it got to the fans in the upper decks. This prompted me to look up whether methane, the main gas in farts is heavier or lighter than air. http://encyclopedia.airliquide.com/Encyclopedia.asp?GasID=41 says " Specific gravity (air = 1) (1.013 bar and 21 °C (70 °F)) : 0.55," so it seems to be a safe assumption that the methane would float on the air and not drop down to the bottom of the stadium and do in the players on the field before it got to the fans in the upper decks.

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