Bunch of short questions to be verified

Factual Questions
1

I received an email today saying those facts. If anyone can confirm any of these, it would be great.

  1. If you’re yelling for 8 years, 7 month and 6 days, you’re producing enough energy to warm a coffee cup.

  2. If you farting for 6 years and 9 months, you’re producing enough energy to create an atomic bomb.

  3. A Pig’s orgasm last 30 minutes.

  4. Some insect can live 9 month with their head cut off.

  5. Knocking your head on the wall burn 150 cal/hour.

  6. Human and Daulphin are the only animals having sex for fun.

Thanks everybody for your time.

Please excuse my poor english, this is not my natal language.

homerggg

2

Maybe, No, no, no, thirty-two, Yes, and yes.

Oh, the answers aren’t in the same order as the questions; I alphabetized the answers.

3

Now that was a fast answer. I alphabetised the questions too so answers are matching perfectly now.

Thanks !

homerggg :wink:

4

Well, I know #6 is incorrect. Some apes, most notably the pygmy chimp or benobo, also appear to engage in non-reproductive intercourse.

5

Mostly bollocks I would say.

Depends how loud you yell, warmly you fart, how much the pig’s been drinking, etc. Dolphins and humans are the only animals having sex for fun? How do they know? Have they asked them? Dogs give themselves blowjobs - sounds like fun to me…

Also, the one about the atom bomb is deliberately misleading to make it sound more impressive than it really is. The fact that an atom bomb explodes doesn’t mean that it takes the force of an explosion to create it. Might as well calculate the amount of farting required to make a toaster or a car.

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About the atomic bomb, it is probably a translation issue (email was in french) It is better to say :

Farting for x years produce same quantity of energy as an atomic bomb do.

Question is how much energy is a fart ? And how much energy is an atomic bomb ?

Thanks

homerggg

7

Depends on the fart and the bomb. No way is that a credible statement.

8

Was there perchance anything about ducks in the original source homerggg?

9

If we take it to mean a continuous emission equal to the rate of gas expulsion for the average fart, the amount of energy could certainly be cosiderable. Let’s say the average fart produces a cubic foot of gas per second. Methane gas has an energy density of 1,150 BTU/ft[sup]3[/sup]. Thus farting continuously at one cubic foot of gas per second for 6 years, 9 months will produce about 213,013,800 cubic feet of gas with an energy of 2.45[sup]11[/sup] BTU. A Hiroshima-sized bomb is 80,000,000,000 BTU, or 8.0[sup]10[/sup]. And there you have it. Farts are more powerful than bombs.

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That should read 2.45 x 10[sup]11[/sup] and 8.0 x 10[sup]10[/sup], respectively.

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  1. If you can call that living…
12

This is almost as much wild guessing as in the list, but it shows how far off it is :
For the coffee, let’s use 200 mL o’ water at room temp.

The precision of the time length here is ridiculous, especially since ‘month’ is somewhat undefined. I’m saying 8 yr, 7 mo., 6 day = 3140 days.

3140 days = 271300 sec. This is the total time T.

to warm 1 degree C :

E = 200 cal = 837 J

P = E/T = 3.08 x 10[sup]-6[/sup] W

referenced to 10[sup]-12[/sup]W give us a 130 dB sound power. A rather loud scream.

Using a more reasonable sense of ‘warm’, say +20 deg C :

=156 dB

Going the other way assume an 80 dB scream. To warm 20 deg C :

P = 80 dB = 1 x 10[sup]-8[/sup] W

E = 16744 J

T = E/P = 1.6744 x 10[sup]12[/sup] sec

= 1.94 x 10[sup]7[/sup] days ~ 53,000 years.

13

Cockroaches can live for “several weeks” without a head, but I can’t find a reputable cite for it.

The sound wave problem is interesting. A human scream is about 110 dB, giving a pressure compression ratio of about 316,228? A ball park figure suggest that the water will boil a lot quicker than several years.

14

Oh thanks panamajack - acoustic engineering isn’t my strongest point.

15

Cecil deals with #3 in this column from September, 1982.

To cut to the chase: female pigs, like most animals (excepting humans and perhaps some apes) do not have orgasms.

16

Thinking about it, about 1/3 cubic foot per second is probably a more reasonable rate of flatulus expulsion, which means that #2, at least, is pretty much dead on target.

17

Q.E.D. You’re right. A cubic foot gaz fart is… hum… a really good fart. If I’m doing that once in my life, I really want to be outside.

So we’re saying

213,013,800 / 3 = 71,004,600 cubic foot of gas

at 1,150BTU = 8,16 * 10E10

Since Hiroshima was 8,10 * 10E10… we can say that it is pretty much true that we can fart an atomic bomb.

The original sentence is not enough precise but kind of true.

The corrected sentence would be :

If you’re farting 1/3 cubic foot of gas every second for 3468 days, you’re producing approximatively the same amount of energy potential than the hiroshima bomb.

Is this ok ?

homerggg

18

Yep, that’s about right. I would have worded it as follows:

If you fart 1/3 cubic foot of gas every second continuously for 3468 days, you’re producing approximately the same amount of potential energy as a Hiroshima-type atomic bomb.

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Ok, time for a briefing :

  1. If you’re yelling for 8 years, 7 month and 6 days, you’re producing enough energy to warm a coffee cup.

Answer : False. You have to yell for 53,000 years (for 20 degree C)

Thanks to panamajack

  1. If you farting for 6 years and 9 months, you’re producing enough energy to create an atomic bomb.

Answer : Can be true. See previous post. Thanks to Q.E.D.

  1. A Pig’s orgasm last 30 minutes.

Answer : False. Pig doesn’t have orgasm.

Thanks to marley

  1. Some insect can live 9 month with their head cut off.

To be verified.

  1. Knocking your head on the wall burn 150 cal/hour.

To be verified.

  1. Human and Daulphin are the only animals having sex for fun.

Answer : False. Some apes do, and apparently humans too (omg !).

Thanks Q.E.D.

homerggg

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Ahh, but energy = mass × (speed of light)2. Without doing the calculation, I reckon there is more energy in a fart that a ‘Hiroshima-sized bomb’.