# How fast do farts travel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 25, 2008, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569 "2008-05-25T16:20:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/41 "2008-05-26T16:38:53Z")
[QUOTE=danceswithcats] That would be an lolshat. [/QUOTE] Lolscat? ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/42 "2008-05-26T17:15:52Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Old farts travel about 15 mph for at least 10 miles. [/QUOTE] In the left lane with their right turn blinker on the entire way, ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/43 "2008-05-26T19:58:07Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] How fast do farts travel? [/QUOTE] [dylan]The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind The answer is blowing in the wind[/dylan] ---
**Author:** ![goodie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@goodie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/goodie)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/44 "2008-05-27T13:08:52Z")
10 feet per second. That’s not so very fast. So I guess when I claim to be “tootin’ up a storm”, it’s even less true than I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/45 "2008-05-27T17:52:44Z")
Parting salutation: _May the wind at your back never be your own._ ---
**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/46 "2008-05-27T18:06:52Z")
[QUOTE=K364] How nice to know that you are snorting up gas molecules that were in some other person’s intestines only 1 second ago. [/QUOTE] I believe they’re called “Farticles” ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/47 "2008-05-27T18:24:38Z")
[QUOTE=Love Rhombus] So, have I helped to fight ignorance by asking this question? [/QUOTE] I don’t know about fighting ignorance, but it’s been a gas. ---
**Author:** ![DudleyGarrett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DudleyGarrett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DudleyGarrett)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/48 "2008-05-27T19:19:13Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Are these invisible feces, 'cause i have never noticed any skidmarks after even the most pungent and durable barking spiders. [/QUOTE] Just because you didn’t notice them doesn’t mean they weren’t there, Andretti. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/49 "2008-05-27T19:23:29Z")
[QUOTE=DudleyGarrett] Just because you didn’t notice them doesn’t mean they weren’t there, Andretti. [/QUOTE] Yes it does. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [May 27, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/50 "2008-05-27T21:22:32Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] Guy lights candle with fart: ![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/zVoIT7oUC3s/maxresdefault.jpg)https://www.youtube.com/embed/zVoIT7oUC3s?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque Gotta love the grunt of determination! [/QUOTE] Fake as hell, but funny. I’ve always wondered what the volume of an average fart is. ---
**Author:** ![imthjckaz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/imthjckaz/32/3223_2.png) [@imthjckaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/imthjckaz)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/51 "2008-05-28T01:04:25Z")
This question was also asked in this thread from a few years ago. [Velocity of Flatulence](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=91856). ---
**Author:** ![JoseB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/joseb/32/1530_2.png) [@JoseB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JoseB)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/52 "2008-05-28T07:37:14Z")
[QUOTE=chowder] Lit or unlit? [/QUOTE] I don’t kn… AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaa…! ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_Panic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/don_t_panic/32/398_2.png) [@Don\_t\_Panic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_Panic)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2008, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/53 "2008-05-28T09:01:19Z")
[QUOTE=imthjckaz] Velocity of Flatulence [/QUOTE] Band name? ---
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569/54 "2008-05-31T13:10:12Z")
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63] The signs of the prophets are written on the bathroom stalls: _Here I sit all broken-hearted; Came to shit and only farted._ [Reply] _Don’t you bitch, you had your chance; I tried to fart and shit my pants._ [/QUOTE] So I stay in the stink and vapor Some SOB used all the paper! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-fast-do-farts-travel/450569.md?page=2)