2007-10-09 01:34:42 · 6 answers · asked by El Viejo Pantera 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
You will be lighter - but only by a tiny amount.
When you fart, you are expelling gas, and that gas has a weight.
2007-10-09 01:41:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Funny question. It depends on the density of the fart while it is inside you... if the fart is more dense than the air, then you will lose weight (as shown on a scale here on earth). If the fart is less dense, then you wil gain weight.
Most farts should be more dense than the air your body is displacing, so you'd be just a little lighter.
Farting in the bathtub would make you heavier. Farting in space would make you lighter.
(I realize I'm taking liberties with atmospheric buoyancy issues here, but for the purpose of this question, I feel that it is reasonable to do so).
2007-10-09 01:46:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A fart is heavily laden with sulfur,a heavy element,sort of.
If you eliminate a heavier gas in the presence of a lighter one you would be slightly lighter. I think:)
2007-10-09 01:48:54 · answer #3 · answered by Billy Butthead 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Makes no difference. You would need a weighing device accurate to 0.000000, to even tell. Besides that, your bodies standard metabolism makes very small changes to your weight as the metabolic processes goes.
2007-10-09 02:13:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You will be heavier-but only by a tiny amount.
The gas you have just expelled would have been buoying you up.
2007-10-09 01:43:23 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Neither, since it is only air, air has no weight at all, it just makes you feel lighter, since all the pressure has now be relieved.
2007-10-09 01:43:17 · answer #6 · answered by trey98607 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋