Very OT:Why does fart not diffuse on a flight?

[workin4somethin 0]

I flew trans-atlantic and farted at some point on the flight, but i noticed that the smell stayed with me for the rest of the flight (4+ hours)as opposed to diffusing and getting mixed with everyone so that no one could know the source.

Anyone knows why fart does not diffuse on a flight at 38,000 feet?

I believe the pressure gradient at the bubble surface is obtained by differentiating the total number of all gases in tissue, including solvent vapor. Partial pressure of nth infinitely diffusible gas in bubble is often the product of gas constant and temperature. It’s simply a dummy variable of integration in time.

Gas transport by perfusion varies in the tissue when it is not well stirred. Tissue-blood gas exchange at all points throughout the tissue includes a position-independent component, which is for a tissue of infinite extent. Tissue-blood gas exchange is modified by a diffusion-limited contribution from bubble-tissue gas exchange, which is largest close to the bubble. All gas losses or gains by the bubble, therefore, occur entirely through the diffusion equation. It is erroneous to include an additional accounting for these losses or gains via a d(PiVi)/dt term in the ancillary mass-balance equation for Pt. Consequently, one cannot incorporate the influence of bubble growth on the tissue dissolved gas tension Pt in a normal two-region model, while it is appropriately used for this purpose in a three-region model. This analytic property of the three-region model makes it particularly well suited to simulate how dissolved gas depletion by bubble growth influences the evolution of one or more bubbles in a given tissue. Modeling of such interactions in a two-region model is also possible but only by considering the anisotropy of the diffusion field and explicitly solving the gradient equation in all directions around each bubble, a process that is too tedious for application in probabilistic models of DCS occurrence.

It is clear that a two-region model with given and Dt is equivalent to a three-region model with Db = Dt and h = 1/ , provided the tissue volume Vt in the three-region model is sufficiently high to render the d(PiVi)/dt term negligible. Recall 2 = 1/ Dt. Because of the reciprocal relationship between h and , h increases with both tissue half-time (= 0.693 ) and diffusion constant Dt (= Db) in equivalent two- and three-region models. With tissue half-time ranging from 0.36 to 360 min and Dt ranging from 1.3 × 10 8 to 1.3 × 10 3 cm2/min in a two-region model, the boundary layer thickness in the equivalent three-region model ranges from a fraction of a micrometer to several millimeters.

[matako 0]

I must add that at the end of it all, I will never meet those people on that flight who clearly knew that am the one who 'let the dogs out'.

But this should be a lesson to all of you: DO NOT fart on the flight and especially not on your seat...no wonder people walk around the aisles whenever I fly long distance-no prizes for guessing what they are doing at that time.

[babybunny 2]

What you do is "let er rip" as you walk down the aisle. That way everyone gets a taste

[almaty 19]

I flew trans-atlantic and farted at some point on the flight, but i noticed that the smell stayed with me for the rest of the flight (4+ hours)as opposed to diffusing and getting mixed with everyone so that no one could know the source.

Anyone knows why fart does not diffuse on a flight at 38,000 feet?

maybe you sh!t your trousers..

[michellek1976 0]

My advice is take acidophilus tablets before boarding the plane. Smelly flatulence can be an indication of an imbalance of good flora in your intestines.

This is a crazy thread. But this one made me laugh the most. So factual !!!!

[Sister Fracas 5]

OMG!!!

I'm laughing so hard, and trying NOT TO, which is making it worse, that my co-workers think I've lost it....AGAIN.

<----- It's always a good day on VJ when I can use the fart emoticon...

Edited September 22, 2006 by Frances

[Ban Hammer 13,438]

OMG!!!

I'm laughing so hard, and trying NOT TO, which is making it worse, that my co-workers think I've lost it....AGAIN.

<----- It's always a good day on VJ when I can use the fart emoticon...

but this is my favorite one

[Sister Fracas 5]

OMG!!!

I'm laughing so hard, and trying NOT TO, which is making it worse, that my co-workers think I've lost it....AGAIN.

<----- It's always a good day on VJ when I can use the fart emoticon...

but this is my favorite one

heehee... snatched the first one!!

[LiszyandKenny 5]

I never knew a fart could last 4 pages and still going

[Sister Fracas 5]

I never knew a fart could last 4 pages and still going

apparently it can last for hours too at 38,000 feet!

Farts RAWK!

[almaty 19]

farting brings out the worst in people

[Ban Hammer 13,438]

farting brings out the worst in people

just be happy if you never have to sit next to richard gere on an airplane

[Sister Fracas 5]

farting brings out the worst in people

whew! yeah... I'll say...

[almaty 19]

farting brings out the worst in people

just be happy if you never have to sit next to richard gere on an airplane

excellent point

[Ban Hammer 13,438]

farting brings out the worst in people

just be happy if you never have to sit next to richard gere on an airplane

excellent point

i wonder if anyone else figured that one out