TIL you produce about three and a half metric tons of feces and 38 000 liters of urine during an average lifetime.
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someone, at some point, took the biggest dump in history. and didn't even know it
It was Bono's dad
My $ is that it’s been someone in the last 30 years who is a big eater with an opiate habit.
They suspected. They couldn't confirm it.
``Doesn't seem fair if you count diarrhea. All that water weight.
If so, it's probably someone with cholera
Pffffft...
Those are rookie numbers
I can do that in a year when my IBS is flaring up
Fisting with IBS, hey?
I thought cooking bacon naked was playing dangerous games.
That escalated fist.
This is how I cook dangerously...
Click at your own risk!
You load 3.5 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in shit
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
My toilet over-flows on the company floor
OP is full of shit.
Rookie numbers
How many miles of feces? Are we talking to the scale of as long as the Panama canal, the length of New York, around the equator, or to the moon (and back)?
The average density of human feces is approximately 1.06 grams per milliliter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_feces
Normal stool (Type 4) typically has a diameter of about 1 to 2 cm http://d2xk4h2me8pjt2.cloudfront.net/webjc/attachments/73/57bbee4-bristol-stool-chart.pdf
Radius = 0.75 cm
Density = 1.06 g/cm³
Mass = 3,500,000 g
Volume = 3,500,000 / 1.06 = ~3,301,887 cm³
Cross-sectional area = π × 0.75² = ~1.767 cm²
Length = 3,301,887 / 1.767 = ~1,868,000 cm = 18,680 m = 18.7 km
So 18.7km or 11.6 miles
That would depend on the tightness of the anus
Are we talking about someone who squeezes out pencils, or a log-dropper?
Irrelevant. We roll them into ISO standard poo diameter after excretion
Mom look im finally above average
Those are rookie numbers!
I need a visual
Of what, a metric shit-ton?
🤣
A metric half shit-ton.
3 and a half metric shit tons.
Faeces Georg
Was an outlier and will not be included in this study.
My uncle knocks that out every leap year. 3,5 tons ain’t shit.
How much cum?
I'm going for the high score
38 liters sounded impossibly low, and then i saw the 3 zeros after the space
And a smidgeon or three of PFAS and plastics and heavy metals.
Maybe you do; I produce far more feces by replying to comments on the internet
I am the one who shits. 😤
Where does that all go?!?
Sandman slim taught me that you can shit on a tarp for a year, dry it in the sun, and all that shit will fit in a shoebox at the end of the year.
Not without additional steps, a shoebox for big boots or being malnurished.
For reference, a large normal shoebox can hold 10-11kg of water, which is about the same mass as a year of dried average and healthy expulsions(~29g per day). And without compressing it as it dries or other methods, the tarp-dried feces wont be as dense as water.
It should also be mentioned that there are people who produce over three times as much, simply because they eat a lot more.
Well Jimmy was talking about a northern CA hippie with a weed growing operation so yeah I'd say odds of being a vegan were pretty high. Would all that fiber make more or less shit?
Nah, you're supposed to shit in a bottle and cover it with a balloon and leave it in the sun until the balloon is inflated and then inhale.
Double that for me.
Well shit.
My loving sibby once told me to look around me while on a bus. Said look to the left of you, look to the right. Everyone you see is full of shit. Was a nice gesture, and I think I've kept that with me always =)
A corollary to that: we spend our entire lives moving shit from one place to another.
Works for both definitions.
So, uh... where does it all wind up? Like all of our tons of shit---where are they stock piling it?
https://extension.psu.edu/what-is-sewage-sludge-and-what-can-be-done-with-it
Approximately 99% of the wastewater stream that enters a treatment plant is discharged as rejuvenated water. The remainder is a dilute suspension of solids that has been captured by the treatment process. These wastewater treatment solids are commonly referred to as sewage sludge.
At present, almost all sewage sludge produced in Pennsylvania has been treated and is of sufficiently high quality to be classified as biosolids. Somewhat less than half of this material is disposed of by landfilling or incineration, while the remaining biosolids are recycled to the soil by use in agriculture, mine reclamation, landscaping, or horticulture.
Well theres good news and bad news.
Good news is that it's organic matter that can easily change form.
Well it should be going back on the crop land. The circle of life.
The ocean. Such a waste
I'm on that low% speedrun
People who say we need petro chemicals for modern agriculture need to understand this
So, what you're saying, is that they don't understand shit.
One could wonder why modern agriculture systems don't use free human waste
Because we don't care about the negative externalities of using fossil fuels.
Corporations don't care about harming people
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