So yeah, as the title says. If you fart do you become lighter because you loose mass or does the loss of buoyancy make you heavier ?

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    8 months ago

    Methane is lighter than air

    Objection! ;-)

    This comparison is not relevant, unless you take in as much air immediately as you have just pressed out.

    Would you now please show us how you do that?

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      8 months ago

      If it’s lighter than air, it’s lifting you while it’s inside of you…

      If it’s not there, it’s not lifting you, and you’re heavier.

      Think of a balloon that is so old it doesn’t rise anymore. It just stays neutrally bouyant. In this case it’s even less than that. It is a completely and totally negligible amount of difference. But while holding a fart you’re technically a very shitty balloon.

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        8 months ago

        But while holding a fart you’re technically a very shitty balloon.

        But you don’t know at what immmmense pressure I can hold my farts!