Do farts show up in thermal camera footage?

[boingboing]

Originally published at: Do farts show up in thermal camera footage? | Boing Boing

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[anon52120741]

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!

[zzzz]

thermal camera- fart,piss,cough,sneeze

Wait til you see it on smell-o-vision!

[Evylla]

That’s impressive that he was able to do all three of those at the same time.

[Grasshopper]

I’m pretty sure that Mythbusters busted the idea. Farts don’t show up on thermal cameras.

[DukeTrout]

…unless you light them.

[joey_bladb]

I recall a handful of YouTube science channels debunking this.

[sebastian]

Not this one.

Most Haunted (Hugh Laurie) - SNL

[MonkeyT12]

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.

[MrShiv]

Butthole Surfers - I Saw An X Ray Of A Girl Passing Gas

Seems apropos

[bdeblier]

Mythbusters busted this one.

[Hover_Board]

Seriously. They tested this (I hate typing this phrase - so much time has passed) 15-or so years ago.

Spoiler: They do not.

Edit:

No.

[iknownuurthing]

If hot air showed up in thermal images, you’d be able to see qongress from space.