Forgive me for asking, but I really want to know...?

Question

I learned in Chemistry class that when you cook chicken soup and you smell it, it means that the steam from the chicken soup is dispersing through the air. So when you enter a bathroom after someone has just taken a dump, are their sh!t particles going into your nostrils?

Answer 1

Yes. Actually, there was a good article in discover magazine that talked about air and water molecules. Basically, every time you breathe, you're breathing in molecules that other people have expelled. You even get molecules Abe Lincoln once breathed, etc. Same thing with water. If you dumped a bottle of wine into the ocean and came back 50 years later and took a sample of the ocean water (even across the globe in another place), you'd get at least 1 molecule of the wine you dumped in it. So, think of how many people pee in the ocean. There are still pee molecules from everyone who ever peed in it when you swim in it. It's kinda gross, but really interesting. I think it was the January or February 07 issue of Discover if you want to check it out.

Answer 2

AARRRGGG!!! nasty. Well, they do say that when you flush the toilet particles can contaminate surfaces up to 6 feet. Which is why they say you should not leave your tooth bruch uncover.

However, smell is not the whole story. I think that what you smell is just the gas part of the provevial crap. It may ot have all the components. But there you go, there you have your next science project. Here is what you do. Set up some pietry dishes. Take a few swab of your nostrils and clothing. These are the controls. Have a fellow volunteer do their bussinness and emediately walk into the bathroom. They can be behind the stall ofcourse. Then take swabs of your nostrils and clothes. Then go measure if there any fecal matter in the pietree dish after a while.

Answer 3

in short, yes! saw a program about the effect of hand dryers on airquality. It was truly disgusting! Apparently these molecules are happily floating around in the air & the hand-dryer then sucks them all in, heats them up & blows them directly onto your hands when you're drying them -GROSS!!!! I always use the paper towels now & run like a lunatic when someone uses the hand-dryer (lol). As for my home, i kinda reckon that we all share each others germs, good & bad, all the time anyway so i've almost (!!!!) got over the disgust....

Answer 4

Yep.

Answer 5

Probably..

Answer 6

Afraid so. Please put the lid down before you flush.