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# Yay for Mr Spoon.
If you are floating in outer space and release a fart are you propelled forwards?
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! 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.
(I helped save b3ta! Captain Nostril, Tue 14 Oct 2003, 16:12, archived)