Does farting make one lighter on the scales?

Question

Imagine I'm standing on highly accurate scales, and I have a massive bum-splitting f**t. By releasing the gas your body would have a tiny reduction in mass. But when you consider hot air rises (less dense than surrounding air), wouldn't that make you heavier?

Answer 1

Besides the jolt which is temporary, you are loosing 1.78e-11 gr (man) or 1.61e-11 gr(woman) , measured on extremely accurate scales, but it is due to the minute perspiration that evaporates, due to the effort.

Answer 2

Take 2 identical balloons.  Weigh each for accuracy.  Blow one of them up.  Now weigh them.  That would be your answer.   one blown up is heavier.

Answer 3

I'm having the exact same debate here at work and we've come to the conclusion that as you can smell a f**t, it must rise and spread, so is lighter than air.

So if you're expelling lighter-than-air gas, unless it's replaced by a similar quantity of lighter-than-air gas, then you'll be heavier.

So if you let one fly the day after a big dinner, but stopped eating afterward so you haven't replenished your arsenal, then you've put on some weight!

Answer 4

AHAHAHHAHAHA THIS IS THE FUNNIEST QUESTION I'VE READ EVER ON HERE.

Anyway, man, if farting made you lose weight, I'd be doing it all day to make sure I stayed thin.