Tegan

Right.

Whereas flatulent comes from the Latin flatulentus, which comes from a root meaning to blow.

Right.

And we're going to blow hard today, Norman.

Okay.

And hydrogen.

And hydrogen, which we'll come to later.

There's actually quite a lot of research into farting.

We'll get into some of it soon.

But I did really enjoy this particular study that was done in 1998, where there was a US scientist called Michael Levitt, and he used rectal tubes for a detailed study of fart compositions in six healthy women and ten healthy men.

Big study.

Would you like to know a rough volume of gas that was emitted from these people's, between 106 mils on the lower end up to 1600 mils?

A litre and a half of air.

The biggest farts are produced over half a litre of hydrogen, which I think could be some sort of renewable energy source.

The thing that really caught my attention, though, is that the smelly components of the fart were quite small.

So together, hydrogen sulphide, methane ethyol, which smells like rotten cabbage, and the garlic-like dimethyl sulphide, on average, were just 50 parts per million of each fart.

Stenchy farters.

I think that you are foreshadowing research that we will get to.

But before we get to legitimate research, I have to introduce you to the Invisible College of Experimental Flatology, which is a website that exists.

When I first saw flatology, I was like, oh, is this some sort of flat earth society?