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Manatees aren’t the only ones.
Only manatees are known to do this. Womanatees are disgusted by the practice.
They don’t even poop.
No butts? 😯
Or from a Sith either, one would imagine/hope! 😎
That guy’s always smiling. I bet he knows exactly how to do it. Who is going to call him out?
Darth Flatulence
(also @lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works)
(I almost went with “I find your lack of farts disturbing”, but this works way better-er-est)
Cool. How does it work?
When (low density) gas is released, the overall density of the manatee is increased (more volume is from the high density meat and fat bits instead if the low density gaseous bits) so the manatee sinks. Then, through digestion and such, gas inside manatee can increase, making its overall density lower and it floats. (Kind of like how ships float even though their made of metal, since the majority of the vessel is air, the overall density is less than water)
This is also how submarines sink and resurface I think, but they release and let in water.
Thank you. When I read about an endless cycle of farting, I expected some sophisticated organ for pressure changes or something, which sounded unlikely. Like the submarines, which reuse the same air. I would hardly call this a cycle. It’s neat nonetheless :-)
Buoyancy, farting, or manatees?
I completely missed there’s a link too, sorry.
Sure, but how does it work?
Fart to sink, and don’t fart to start to raise after a while.
I bet that guy who has lied to his family about liking manatees for the past 20 years knew this, even if he didn’t want to.
🎵We’re farting, forever, oh oh!🎵 - Manatee Like Me by TV on the Radio
I had no idea air jet propulsion also worked under water…
May I… unknow this now, please and thank youze⁉️
Why on earth would you want to unlearn something as awesome as that??
The joke, which I apparently absolutely failed at delivering, is that it is SO awesome (how awesome 😎 is it you may ask, well then I will tell you…) than I in fact do not want to unlearn it.
I think I was supposed to be born a manatee.
