Farting in a Tank

[slaphead]

@Freezair SilverEye

Woohoo, thanks! Very enlightening. (The first paragraph not so much, but the second one is clear as crystal.) You know, I don’t know if this is stupid of me or just an ordinary person extending their limited knowledge, but I always figured missles used the same fuel as space shuttles and the like, such as liquid oxygen. I don’t know if that would actually work in a missle or not.

Well, it would, i suppose. The space shuttle uses liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, I think, while the solid rocket boosters on the side use a solid rubbery fuel with aluminium powder, perchlorate, and stuff mixed into it. If you divided one of those solid boosters into stages and stuck a warhead and a guidance system on the tip, it would be a pretty good approximation of a ballistic missile. The shuttle probably uses what a cutting-edge missile would have used back in the sixties.

Oh, and to get things back on track - ale, pepperami, fried breakfast, ale, leave to ferment for a few hours. Wooooh!

[Lust4Life]

@askeptic

Nope, they don’t filter methane.

Isnt a fart reminiscent of Sulphur Dioxide or something ?(bad eggs) so you could tape a respirator over the perpetrators arse and if he persisted in his anti social behaviour ram it up there which might be a solution to the problem .

But I’m just guessing ,never been a tankie.(failed the medical when they discovered that I had a sense of smell)

[Malacandra]

@Lust4Life

Isnt a fart reminiscent of Sulphur Dioxide or something ?(bad eggs) so you could tape a respirator over the perpetrators arse and if he persisted in his anti social behaviour ram it up there which might be a solution to the problem .

But I’m just guessing ,never been a tankie.(failed the medical when they discovered that I had a sense of smell)

The bad eggs smell comes from hydrogen sulphide (H[sub]2[/sub]S) - not sure if you get that in farts or not.

I’ve never been a tanker but I once induced a disgusted-looking shop assistant to scurry off and fetch a can of air freshener.

[Tranquilis]

@ivylass

He says the term rings a bell, but he doesn’t remember what it means. It’s been a few years…can you refresh his memory? He was on a fast attack, if that makes a difference.

No - Fast boats and boomers both do it; Venting sanitary tanks inboard, after having blown Sans overboard.

Vile beyond belief.
As for personal gas, I always found that bad red wine did it worst for me - corrosive, ugly, noxious…

[Bear_Nenno]

That’s what you get for riding in a vehicle with no ramp, troop doors or air-sentry hatches.

[slaphead]

@Tranquilis

No - Fast boats and boomers both do it; Venting sanitary tanks inboard, after having blown Sans overboard.

Whoa! Why on earth do that? Is it to conserve air or just a way of torturing the crew?

[Anaamika]

I love this thread and normally I hate fart threads. Thanks, everyone, very enlightening.

[Tranquilis]

@slaphead

Whoa! Why on earth do that? Is it to conserve air or just a way of torturing the crew?

Sorry - Away at a family reunion.

Why? Because in order to blow sans, you have to pressurize to some pressure above sea pressure. 20psi or there-abouts. But… If you let the overpressure vent over the side, you get…

Wait for it…

A giant farting noise!

One that can be heard far and wide across the ocean.

So, instead, just before the tanks are completely empty, the over-hull valves are shut, and the excess pressure is bled back into the boat, quietly. But not unnoticeably! It’s the most vile smell I’ve ever smelled in a long life full of vile aromas. Farting in a tank? Heh! Minor league! How about ten thousands farts, released into the ‘people tank*’?
*People Tank == Boat-speak for pressure hull.

[Shirley_Ujest]

@ivylass

It’s a boy thing. Boys are gross.*
*I like boys. I have two in my family. But whereas women are highly embarrassed by such things, boys like to compete against each other.

This is not exactly true. Mr. Ujest was raised in a non-farting family. It simply is not done. Yes, he is capable of waking me up in the middle of the night if he is on the toilet, door closed, with what I refer to as Creeping Death. It is truly foul.

I was raised in a partially non-farting family. My own siblings and parent unit were/are so emotionally constipated that farting simply was never done. EVER.

Thankfully, I had my wild irish cousins and their amazingly stinky butts of death to teach me the finer points of Fartdom. If it tweren’t for them, I don’t even want to think of the kind of person I would be today.