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Mythbusters Test Fart Lighting watch!

planetvids.com — The Mythbusters crew look into the myth of lighting farts on fire. Super slo-mo camera captures the truth.

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  • darcyv, on 10/12/2007, -35/+27We highlighted all the fart facts that the Mythbusters guys found from this episode on our blog here: http://farts.typepad.com/farts/2006/09/fart_facts_fart.html
    • duerra, on 10/12/2007, -15/+3Not sure why you were dugg down... but I dugg you up.
    • Chicagoland, on 10/12/2007, -12/+7Digg is full of assholes and that is why people bury stuff.
  • yensed, on 10/12/2007, -29/+5Wow. 24 digs and its on the homepage... Wasn't the new algorithm supposed to raise the amount of digs it takes for a story to make it to the homepage?
    • caseyho, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8Relative to the number of users currently on digg.

      It's 4am PST here.
    • wtcajesuit, on 10/12/2007, -18/+2Who cares? Hurhur, he said fart!!

      Seriously though, I've always wanted to know if this was a myth.
    • diggywiggit, on 10/12/2007, -11/+39The algorithm only applies to Wii, Kevin Rose, Google, Ubuntu, Rubyl, Apple, Digg and AMAZING stories.

      /sarcasm
  • vincois, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2In what you linked there is no fart lighting involved. But, if there was I can tell you it would be confirmed.
  • shredomatic, on 10/12/2007, -10/+16Why would this even be on Mythbusters? It's not a myth that you can light farts, that's a well known fact.
    • ContactPink, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0At DragonCon this year, the staff DID come to the show and they DID show a video of them lighting farts. They just won't air it though, and said if anybody videotaped it and posted it, they'd make them take it down.
  • toneii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8you can burn yourself so be careful. use an old pair of undersuit that you don't mind wrecking. it helps to keep the hairs from catching alight.
    • onewinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I find that wearing a pair of decent jeans will prevent backassflash. Not that I've done it at parties or anything... or at home... or just for fun... ok, I have. As I understand it, ass-gas is composed primarily of methane (a side product of digestion of certain fibers and such), thus giving birth to a bluish-yellowish flame.

      This is quite the departure from my normal posts, but the idea of roasting my naughty bits with bursts of flame from my cornhole is oft too funny to pass up.

      Cheers
    • tinkafoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4(Before I watch this..) I know this is true. My dad has a scar across his knuckles to prove it.

      (after..) oh god. thanks for the slow-mo, guys. :gonk:
    • StripeyMagee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Yep, wear tight jeans, the flame will go right up your leg.
  • Rostin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10That was an awful lot of trouble to learn something I could have demonstrated in thirty seconds with a $0.75 lighter. Of course you can light farts. Are there seriously men on the face of the planet who made it out of junior high and high school without knowing that first hand?
  • dhtmlsite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+41Theres a better version on youtube here:
    http://youtube.com/watch?v=BqFRBHPIE-w

    • xtmno3, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Thank you, after waiting like 3 minutes without even starting the video, I abandoned the original site.
    • masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hah. You know, back at GENCON, Kari Tori and Grant said they'd personally kill us if their exclusive blooper/Discovery Channel unreleased video demonstration was ever on YouTube.

      Well, I'd best start hiding.
  • alexcurpas, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7Since no one else seems to be able to post any smart comments, I guess it's up to me:

    OMG, fart jokes are so kewl !!1!
  • ZeroG52, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Oh my freaking GAWD. My co-workers are seriously wondering what is so funny! Can't believe they wouldn't air that one.
    • ISurfTooMuch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Probably because this is something they know people would try, and some of them very well may hurt themselves in the process.

      I remember seeing a guy do this one summer back when I was in high school. He was a master of pyroflatulation, and he knew it. Whenever he'd get a really good fart built up, everyone would come running down the hall to his room to see how big the flame would be. God, we were easily entertained! :)
  • BigFatCow, on 10/12/2007, -8/+4Count on digg to supply us with the latest "breaking" news...
  • whisperedlie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the "orange banana" is no myth.
  • airship, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5When I was in college, there was an upperclassman named Rod who was a fart-lighting master. He taught us to ALWAYS wear tidy-whities when lighting up, as it prevented butt-hair burn. Rod could control his emissions such that he could produce a steady 3 in. blue flame that would last for up to 15 seconds. Brilliant!
    • sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7In this time of political indecisiveness in the US, it's good to remember real American heroes like Rod. We'll never know how many souls Rod saved from butt-hair burns with his lessons on ass-lighting safety techniques. Take a moment and show some respect people.
  • diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2they did not test lighting farts on fire, inaccurate summary. they tested the myth that lighting a match will clear the stench expelled from ones hole.
  • omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I knew this guy who used to get sloshed at parties and would always drop to the floor on his back and light his farts. One time he leaned too far forward and had a huge one and singed his eyelashes and eyebrows. It was the funniest goddamn thing ever!
    *POOF* AIIEEEE!! hahahaha
  • Azur2, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Now I want the Mythbusters to test the myth that "setting the fart on fire can singe your intestines".
  • MrLunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Thisone is muuuuuuuuch better

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=a_5xpkEO-1M
  • bassman730, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I've seen most of the mythbusters episodes and didn't even know that they tested this. BTW I like the American announcer better than this one.
  • alteal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Any fourteen year old boy knows that you can light a fart and most have. Ironically, if you randomly ask any adult female if she has ever heard of lighting a fart, she is likely to say no.
    • GabeUtsecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ironically?
    • mcrumley, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Ironically..."

      You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
  • priceless721, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1wow i read every comment and would like to say that is the ***** video on the internet. the fart-lighting is not all that funny considering it is old news and many comments about it are bull *****. you can light them obviously but we can't seem to hold a ***** camera still.
  • darcyv, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1BTW...there's a Part 1 of this episode where they tackle the question: Do girls fart?
    You can see it here: http://farts.typepad.com/farts/2006/11/do_girls_fart_b.html
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