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| Delta Airlines Answers the In-Flight Air Filtration Question |
| 2019-01-26 |
| [The Drive] Everybody farts. It's one of those comforting truisms in life‐until you're crowded into an enclosed space with 300 other people, forced to breathe in some choice flatus. A Delta Airlines frequent flier recently raised that very concern to the company on Twitter, and surprise of surprises, whoever runs the account took it seriously enough to provide the answer we've all been waiting to hear. Short answer: Yes, there is a fart filter. Sort of. The flatological story started off when a Twitter user named DJ Rankan posted a frightening statistic claiming passengers expel around 368 liters (that's about 13 cubic feet) of gas during the average flight and pleading with Delta to say there's some sort of fart filter on board. That number is in fact a little bloated‐it comes from this non-scientific study by The Sun last year, and it's their guess at how much gas the 525 passengers on a fully-loaded Airbus A380 would pass in total during a 13-hour flight. Still, the visual of 13 cubic feet of pure fart is an arresting one. |
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| Posted by: Anomalous Sources 2019-01-26 18:13 |
| #2 You know those vents that bring in fresh air? Tapped off of the engine compressor stages. So the air has to be allowed to bleed out of the cabin, or it would blow up like a balloon, right? Mostly through the luggage compartment under the floor and then outside. (Now you know what chemtrails are...) |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2019-01-26 10:59 |
#1 the visual of 13 cubic feet of pure fart is an arresting oneNot to mention the "olfactory" of 13 cubic feet, etc. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2019-01-26 02:01 |