I S09E09 Pt 2

part two

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[Callithyia]

@HerdULeikMudkips to be fair, though, it's also got its fair share of tossing ewoks into lakes of liquid fart ;)

[Saitothesushi]

I thought the king George painting look a lot like Stephen when he played melchett....

[swingingsinger]

The King George painting, for some odd reason, reminded me a lot of Tim Currey. Or is that just me?

[slytown]

When they talked about episodes of farts did anyone else think of Karl Pilkington's story about his aunt who farted for five minutes?

[lottetje88]

@vitopetre : I don't know exactly why it can't all be burbed out at once, (most of it is burbbed not farted out) but it probably has something to do with these multiple stomages which are sort of sealed off ocasionally because then degration has to take place. I also think they said that these microorganisms need a special low oxigen environment. This way they can't let it be an open passage. they told us that the cows stomages had to be twice as big if they didn't produce methane :P

[lottetje88]

@vitopetre Thats what I mean, it's something like: cows have to digest grass, but this is low in nutrients that they can actually consume. What they do, is they almost 'farm' specialized microorganisms in there first stomage. these microorganisms can break down most of these products to produce sugers, vitamins and the like. They sort of eat these grown microorganisms and by this way get the nutrients. These have to be digested in their next stomages

[vitopetre]

@lottetje88

Thanks for the anwer again! - I can imagine, that that was a very "interesting" experiment in university...

But so you know, that you are not only more "eco-friendly" but also less likely to get fat - good news!

Could you explain the bit of your first answer, where you said: "It's why cows produce so much methane."

Did you mean, because CH4 takes less space, they can produce more of it? But wouldn't they just fart or burp it out anyway if the pressure is too high?

[lottetje88]

@vitopetre : Just biology, i'm thinking about majoring in neurobiology though :P We've had an research project about this subject, I myself can proudly proclaim that I do NOT in fact, produce methane! (you are more eco-friendly when you produce H2, it's more easily disposed off by microorganisms :P) We had one guy who's methane production went almost off scale. That was fun :P

[vitopetre]

@lottetje88

Wow - that is what I call a competent answer! BIG RESPECT!

Are you studying biochemistry or something similar?

[lottetje88]

If cows would not convert all there H2 into methane they would practically explode by there massive gas production. By converting the H2 into methane the save themselves twice the space needed to temporarily store all that gas.