# Can a person trap a fart? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 12, 2005, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441 "2005-01-12T21:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/41 "2013-09-13T15:04:16Z")
zombie or no questions like this blow me away. if you think this is the funniest thread you’ve read then you haven’t dug deep into the dope yet. ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/42 "2013-09-13T15:24:16Z")
> [@aNewLeaf](#): > > Kids today with their modern conveniences. Cell phones, segways, fart taps. > Sheesh, back in the day we had to _clamp down_ if we wanted to trap a fart. It’s been my experience those who are successful at fart traps passed their apprenticeship by being successful at snipe hunting. Not so sure about zombie farts. ---
**Author:** ![Fubaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@Fubaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fubaya)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/43 "2013-09-13T15:28:21Z")
Heh, I’m not going to look it up, but I asked the exact same question here a few years later. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/44 "2013-09-13T16:45:07Z")
> [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > At some stage someone was selling bottled rabbit farts on ebay. They didn’t seem to sell any while I was watching and I am unsure how someone would capture a bunny fart unless said bunny was really compliant. Perhaps the op has some commercial enterprise in mind? > [@madrabbitwoman](#): > > :smack: dammit zombie got me again **madrabbitwoman** , somebody has to say it, but the combo of obscurity, improbability, and username here has got to be unrivaled in SD, when the username is not created specifically for a guest’s first post. (Although OP does have a good combo too, it must be said.) I’m actually proud to have been here here when it happened. This thread was zombied, right? So tell me, did the memory of that Ebay sale just pop into your head today, and you did an SD search? A Google search? I’d love to hear your research thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/45 "2013-09-13T17:40:51Z")
Thomas Edison’s last breath is in the Henry Ford museum in a jar. I’ve been vainly trying to picture how they managed that for years. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2013, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441/46 "2013-09-13T20:06:06Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > My question is would this said fart balloon float or drop to the group? Could I walk around proudly with my fart balloon floating high and then pin pick it at the proper time? > [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Farts are mostly nitrogen and hydrogen. Methane makes up less than a quarter of flatus by volume, at least in humans, and it’s odorless. Nitrogen is very slightly buoyant in air which is mostly nitrogen and the slightly heavier oxygen. Hydrogen and methane have about 1/14 and 3/7 the density of nitrogen, so a fart should float in air. Whether or not it has enough buoyancy to lift a balloon, I leave as an exercise, but I doubt it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-a-person-trap-a-fart/284441.md?page=2)