Did you know that if you took all of the blood vessels in an adult human body and laid them end to end, they would wrap around the world 4 times?

I recall hearing something like that. I wonder how many times a string of all the atoms in a human body would make it around the world.

I wonder how long a single persons lifetime of fecal matter would amount to in tons.

*Edit- its a seriously legitimate concern.

frapjap wrote:I wonder how long a single persons lifetime of fecal matter would amount to in tons.

*Edit- its a seriously legitimate concern.

It appears others have already asked:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 621AAX008r

And just for fun:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 946AAMEOCv

Some doctors have speculated that the average adult stores 4-10 pounds of fecal matter in their gut at any given time. Ex-lax anyone?-

C-Kwik wrote:And just for fun:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 946AAMEOCv

Lulz. Women doing math. Pretty sure there aren't 5,280 inches in a mile...

Math for wimmin:

2 + 1/4 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 1
2 slices of bread + 1/4 pound of crispy bacon + 2 slices of lettuce + 1 slice of tomato + 1 tbsp mayo = 1 sammich

AppleBonker wrote:Pretty sure there aren't 5,280 inches in a mile...

I'm pretty sure there are...12 of them in fact...

Lulz. Touche. I should've said "exactly".

Did you know that...
Spilling a "shot glass" (one ounce) of gasoline produces the same volatile organic compound emissions as a car driving 56 miles?

C-Kwik wrote:I recall hearing something like that. I wonder how many times a string of all the atoms in a human body would make it around the world.

There are approximately 35 trillion cells in the human body.
Each cells contains 192 trillion atoms.
1 billion atoms = 1 cm
160,934.4 cm / mile.
24901.5 miles around the globe.

6.72^27 atoms in the body. Anyone know what the hell that # is?
6,720,000,000,000,000,000 centimeters.
There are 4,007,498,001 centimeters in 24901.5 miles ( one trip around the globe).

According to those numbers, I get the following answer: 1,676,856,731.6 times. That's 1.67 billion times.

After figuring that out, I realized two things.
1) we need a "head asplode" emoticon
2) I am, without question, a nerd.

Encryptshun wrote:Math for wimmin:

2 + 1/4 + 2 + 1 + 1 = 1
2 slices of bread + 1/4 pound of crispy bacon + 2 slices of lettuce + 1 slice of tomato + 1 tbsp mayo = 1 sammich

Lol, i was like what? How is that equal to one. Had to quote it to get it

Bex, did you mean to type 1.67 billion instead of trillion?

Yeah, it was late. I'll fix it.

AppleBonker wrote:

C-Kwik wrote:And just for fun:

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index ... 946AAMEOCv

Lulz. Women doing math. Pretty sure there aren't 5,280 inches in a mile...

31, 025 days x 3 inches of poop

Pretty sure that 95% of my poops are > 3 inches in length. Especially if I have the runs. This chick must not eat very much. Or poop stink nuggets.

nissangirl74 wrote:Yeah, it was late. I'll fix it.

I'll just be here in my glass house with a pocket full of rocks...

Good idea for a thread..

nissangirl74 wrote:

C-Kwik wrote:I recall hearing something like that. I wonder how many times a string of all the atoms in a human body would make it around the world.

There are approximately 35 trillion cells in the human body.
Each cells contains 192 trillion atoms.
1 billion atoms = 1 cm
160,934.4 cm / mile.
24901.5 miles around the globe.

6.72^27 atoms in the body. Anyone know what the hell that # is?
6,720,000,000,000,000,000 centimeters.
There are 4,007,498,001 centimeters in 24901.5 miles ( one trip around the globe).

According to those numbers, I get the following answer: 1,676,856,731.6 times. That's 1.67 billion times.

After figuring that out, I realized two things.
1) we need a "head asplode" emoticon
2) I am, without question, a nerd

Yes we do!!!

Random scientific fact:

An object at rest cannot be stopped.

Encryptshun wrote:Random scientific fact:

An object at rest cannot be stopped.

The psuedophilosophical response is then, is any object ever truly at rest?

It's physically impossible to sneeze without closing your eyes.

Apparently if you were able to, your eyes would pop out. That's what I've been told.

When I was 5 O_o

At age 5, I was told that if I held in my sneezes by clamping my mouth shut, pinching my nose shut, and putting cotton balls in my ears - I could successfully blow my shoes off. I wasted a LOT of time trying to prove that theory right.

nissangirl74 wrote:At age 5, I was told that if I held in my sneezes by clamping my mouth shut, pinching my nose shut, and putting cotton balls in my ears - I could successfully blow my shoes off. I wasted a LOT of time trying to prove that theory right.

So you stopped trying last year?

C-Kwik wrote:

nissangirl74 wrote:At age 5, I was told that if I held in my sneezes by clamping my mouth shut, pinching my nose shut, and putting cotton balls in my ears - I could successfully blow my shoes off. I wasted a LOT of time trying to prove that theory right.

So you stopped trying last year?

No.

nissangirl74 wrote:At age 5, I was told that if I held in my sneezes by clamping my mouth shut, pinching my nose shut, and putting cotton balls in my ears - I could successfully blow my shoes off. I wasted a LOT of time trying to prove that theory right.

It's amazing you didn't pop your eardrums or give yourself a cerebral hemorrhage. A sneeze is one of the most violet seizure activities a human body can undergo...

Fact: I shot a werewolf once, but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor's dog.

frapjap wrote:Fact: I shot a werewolf once, but by the time I got to it, it had turned back into my neighbor.

me too!

nissangirl74 wrote:At age 5, I was told that if I held in my sneezes by clamping my mouth shut, pinching my nose shut, and putting cotton balls in my ears - I could successfully blow my shoes off. I wasted a LOT of time trying to prove that theory right.

My wife rocks.

There is so much win in this thread it's making me cry from laughing so hard.

Especially this.

nissangirl74 wrote:At age 5, I was told that if I held in my sneezes by clamping my mouth shut, pinching my nose shut, and putting cotton balls in my ears - I could successfully blow my shoes off. I wasted a LOT of time trying to prove that theory right.

C-Kwik wrote:
So you stopped trying last year?

nissangirl74 wrote:
No.

Random fact:

It's impossible to stick your elbows into your ear, hence the saying, "Never stick anything sharper then your elbows into your ear."

And did you know that while peeing, if men sneeze it stops the flow of urine?


I too have heard that if you keep your eyes open while sneezing, your eyeballs will fall out. Wonder if this has ever been proven true or debunked?