My Epiphany!

Yesterday as I was sitting in my Fire Weather refresher class, I suddenly had an epiphany. We were talking about an unstable atmosphere and how heat rises and cold air sinks. For some odd reason, my mind went back to a conversation I had with Candace one night while we were watching tv.

We were sitting on opposite ends of the couch, curled up against our respective armchairs so that our butts were pretty much facing each other. I believe it may have been me that farted, although I can't be sure now. It actually smelled pretty bad. So we got into a conversation about how sometimes farts smell and sometimes they don't (seriously). So Candace made a comment that she has noticed that when farts are warm (when you can actually feel the warmth on exit) thats when they smell bad. I figured this may have had something to do with something so rank coming out of your body that it's actually warm. Weird.

So here's where the epiphany set it. Hot air rises, right? Very basic science. So if for some odd reason, your fart wasn't so warm, it may stick around in the vicinity of the origin- or even sink. Now if some one had a nose on their toes, this may have led Candace to make another conclusion. However, our noses are usually positioned in an area above our butts, and therefore only smell it if it actually rises. See, scents are actually air particles of whatever you're smelling (think about that one for a minute or two), so if the particles aren't near your nose, you aren't going to smell it.

So there you have it folks. Warm farts smell worse than cold ones..... because the warm ones make it to your nose more efficiently. And yes, that does have a lot to do with fire weather. Warm and cold air masses and all....