Study Finds Passengers Passing Gas Mid-Flight Healthy...

[stevie_d_64]

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I feel vindicated...Relieved...Back in the saddle...Obviously in original form of years passed...

This certainly passes (snicker) for "Off-Topic"...

[RX8er]

Being an old fart, as my kids say, I knew I should have passed reading this one.....

[Andrew]

I am showing this to my Bride! I knew it was good for ya all the time!

[LSUTiger]

This a quote from another thread running......

I'm getting tired of saying this, "the TexasCHLforum is not the National Inquirer." Stop now!

Chas.

Passing gas anytime is healthy except for the people around me, I'm not busting a gut for nobody.

[Maxwell]

I fly bewteen 40-60K miles a year for biz. And while I am guilty... I have been on a couple of flights where the stench through the cabin triggers only one thought: "OMG! Are they still alive?!?!?!?"

I even asked a flight attendant once what that smell was. Her response was "somebody passed gas..."

[sjfcontrol]

I suppose I should "pass" on this...

But it only makes sense. After all, as the altitude increases, atmospheric pressures decreases, and the volume of any gas would expand. So if you didn't "pass" it, eventually you'd HAVE to let go, and you'd go flying around the cabin like a released balloon.

Come to think of it, maybe THAT'S why they advise that you keep your seatbelt fastened while in flight!

[Topbuilder]

I suppose I should "pass" on this...

But it only makes sense. After all, as the altitude increases, atmospheric pressures decreases, and the volume of any gas would expand. So if you didn't "pass" it, eventually you'd HAVE to let go, and you'd go flying around the cabin like a released balloon.

Come to think of it, maybe THAT'S why they advise that you keep your seatbelt fastened while in flight!

Ooh... now it all makes sense...

[ajwakeboarder]

I suppose I should "pass" on this...

But it only makes sense. After all, as the altitude increases, atmospheric pressures decreases, and the volume of any gas would expand. So if you didn't "pass" it, eventually you'd HAVE to let go, and you'd go flying around the cabin like a released balloon.

Come to think of it, maybe THAT'S why they advise that you keep your seatbelt fastened while in flight!

That's true, but in a pressurized plane the interior is kept at 8000 feet MSL. That means that the inside of the plane is kept at the pressure that you would be if you were flying at 8000 feet. However, airliners usually fly a lot higher than that. In the event of a rapid or explosive decompression, the gasses could expand so rapidly that it could cause serious injury. The notion that the pilots shouldn't pass gas for "safety" is laudable. The opposite is in fact true. If the pilots were holding in their gas then they would most likely be incapacitated in the event of a rapid decompression.

[RPBrown]

It stinks in here. Somebody open a window.

Glad to see you back stevie. Missed your words of wit

[anygunanywhere]

Years back I was flying somewhere. I was seated in the aisle seat. A very attractive woman, a mother, was in the center seat and her 6-7 year old daughter was at the window. I was minding my own bidness reading the WSJ.

A horrible stench erupted in the cabin. I continued to read my paper thinking that the stench deserved a commendation. Truly an admirable event.

A few minutes later it occured again. I dropped my paper to try and move the air to get a decent breath and see if I could locate the author. I glanced right and both the mother and daughter were staring a hole through me.

"I am innnocent" I said. "If that was mine I would have claimed it. That was a magnifocent fart."

They were not amused.

I guess some people grow up in a world where intestinal gas smells like chocolate covered cherries.

Welcome back, Stevie!!

Anygunanywhere

[Abraham]

I make certain to keep "Beano" on hand, for my wife...honestly.