Scientists finally discover why some poop floats and other sinks

[anothernewbbaccount]

@bobtato

Or perhaps it depends on where in the GI tract the turds become solid;

As I understand it, fecal matter is liquid in the small bowel, where most of the nutrients are absorbed, and it is in the large bowel reabsorbs water to produce firmer stools.

@bobtato

fecal buoyancy depends on so many interconnected factors that you really can’t infer much from that alone.

You hit the nail on the head… like I said:

@anothernewbbaccount

they have not really got to the bottom of it

Poo is complicated!

[FGD135]

[Scientist]

This is such a great article.
Who hasn’t wondered what an SEM of mouse poop looks like:

And this figure of absurd sinker/floater bar plots:

Also if anyone is looking for the most techno-jargon way to describe picking corn kernels out of shit, they developed a fluorescence-activated sorting strategy to distinguish fecal undigested food particles (UFP) based on size and granularity

[puzzler]

Poop floats - - I thought you were talking about the least popular item at the local soda fountain when I was a kid.

[anon87143080]

I’d like to see this data cross-referenced against the bristol clumpiness.

On second thought, perhaps not.