How many farts wouldit take to fuel the spacechuttle?

Question

4 crew members to the moon and return?

Answer 1

just one ...you

Answer 2

It sure is easy to tell who the little children are.

Answer 3

None.

Shuttles use a mixture of powdered aluminum and ammonium perchloratefly to take off and hydrazine mixed with liquid oxygen as main fuel cells.

Answer 4

Typical gas volume percentages in a f**t:

Nitrogen: 59%

Hydrogen: 21%

Carbon dioxide: 9%

Methane: 7%

Oxygen: 3%

Stinky stuff (hydrogen sulfide & methyl mercaptan): 1%

An average f**t has a volume of 35.7 cubic centimeters.

Nitrogen: 21.0 milliliters

Hydrogen: 7.5 milliliters

Carbon dioxide: 3.2 milliliters

Methane: 2.5 milliliters

Oxygen: 1.1 milliliters

Stinky stuff: 0.357 milliliters

A perfect gas at STP has a molar volume of 22.4 liters. That means a f**t contains:

Nitrogen: 0.000938 moles

Hydrogen: 0.000335 moles

Carbon dioxide: 0.000143 moles

Methane: 0.000112

Oxygen: 0.000049 moles

Stinky stuff: 0.000016 moles

Nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen are all diatomic, forming molecules of N2, H2, and O2 at standard temperature and pressure. The molecular weights are N2 (28), H2 (2), CO2 (44), CH4 (16), O2 (32). The molecular weight of methyl mercaptan (CH3SH) is 48.1. The molecular weight of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is 34.8. That means the masses of the gases in a f**t are...

Nitrogen: 0.0263 grams

Hydrogen: 0.0003 grams

Carbon dioxide: 0.0063 grams

Methane: 0.0018 grams

Oxygen: 0.0016 grams

Stinky stuff: 0.0008 grams

The total mass of a f**t is 0.0371 grams.

The "fuel" value of a f**t is in the hydrogen and methane. You can get 142000 Joules per mole of H2 burned in O2, so the 0.000335 moles of hydrogen gas in a f**t will yield 47.57 J. You can get 890400 Joules per mole of CH4 burned in O2, so the 0.000112 moles of methane will give us 99.72 J. The combined combustion potential energy of a f**t is, therefore, 147.29 Joules. It would keep a 60-watt light bulb lit for one second, if the efficiency of conversion of chemical energy to electricity were 40.7%.

The rest is up to you. Find out how many Joules of chemical potential energy is contained in the usual load of fuel for the spacescuttle, then divide that by 147.29 Joules. The ratio will be your answer. However, I read somewhere that it takes about 1E13 Joules to put the spacescuttle into orbit, so the approximate answer is: 68 billion farts. Everyone on Earth would have to contribute ten farts.

Answer 5

well start doing it in a plastic bag and tell us

Answer 6

Well,I know it would only take one to clear it.

Answer 7

Space Shuttle can't go to the moon. It can't generate the energy necessary. All shuttle missions have done is exactly what is in their name, shuttle people and things from the Space Station to Earth. The shuttle has also served as a laboratory, among other things.

Think about the rockets of the Apollo era. Massive monstrosities of machine, right? But how much of that machine actually got to the moon? A command module and a lander. Then just the command module got back to earth. On the other hand, the Shuttle is a giant compared to the puny command module and lunar lander, and it's for that reason that it doesn't have the fuel capacity or capacity in general to generate enough energy to reach the moon.

Oh. and for something actually related to the question, well, that is the only true renewable resource. At least in me it is.