Yay for Mr Spoon.
If you are floating in outer space and release a fart are you propelled forwards?
( spoonmuppet, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:07, archived)

yes
yes you are, next?

p.s. IF you are then youre naked and probably decompressing violently at the same time so its largely irrelevant.
(DopplerSow, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:08, archived)

unless there was some sort of non-return vent in your space suit.
Currently I imagine the astronauts just have to put up with the odour until their air scrubbers get to work.
( jonas is not my name, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:10, archived)

I kind of meant
in a spacecraft, in outer space. So with air but no gravity. No matter, wasn't intending on testing it out just yet.
( spoonmuppet, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12, archived)

No
you just pollute your spacesuit.

If you're not wearing a spacesuit, in theory you would be pushed forward, but the combined effects of all your bodily fluids gently boiling are likely to dominate.
( Captain Nostril, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12, archived)