Originally published at: Do farts show up in thermal camera footage? | Boing Boing
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I am very sad that I am unable to locate a single picture of the background High School PSA poster from the show Extraordinary (a show about a world where everyone has a superpower, often a useless one) that says:
Some People Have Visible Farts
That’s Just Life!
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Wait til you see it on smell-o-vision!
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That’s impressive that he was able to do all three of those at the same time.
I’m pretty sure that Mythbusters busted the idea. Farts don’t show up on thermal cameras.
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…unless you light them.
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I recall a handful of YouTube science channels debunking this.
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Not this one.
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Schlierin imaging might catch farts on film, but I can’t find any videos - except for one that postulates that very idea, but doesn’t try it.
Seems apropos
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Mythbusters busted this one.
Seriously. They tested this (I hate typing this phrase - so much time has passed) 15-or so years ago.
Spoiler: They do not.
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If hot air showed up in thermal images, you’d be able to see qongress from space.
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