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Old 09-03-2009, 12:31 AM   #1
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Sept 3, 2009: Fart Smeller

No, not the brown-nosing dork at school, it's a Cornell University senior project, in computer-engineering class.

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After learning in class how breathalyzers work, Robert Clain and Miguel Salas assembled a fart detector from a sensitive hydrogen sulfide monitor, a thermometer and a microphone and wrote the software that would rate the emission. A “slight perturbance in the air” near the detector sets it to work measuring the three pillars of fart quality: stench, temperature and sound. Temperature, Clain explains, is critical. The hotter a fart, the faster it spreads.


It's not just a joke, it actually has useful applications.

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The contraption could even have use outside of fraternity houses, Clain says, as a biosensor for harmful hydrogen-sulfide-producing bacteria in hospitals. Or dentists could use it to measure oral malodor. They’ve also received some interest from doctors with four-legged patients. “You can test the health of livestock through the quality of their farts,” Salas says. “Smell and sound can tell you a lot about their bowel movements.”
Oh, and the Prof gave them an A for the project.

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Old 09-03-2009, 05:28 AM   #2
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:03 AM   #3
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Takes a couple of smart fellers to invent something like this.
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Old 09-03-2009, 07:51 AM   #4
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Takes a couple of fart smellers to invent something like this.
fixed that for ya.
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Old 09-03-2009, 09:21 AM   #5
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Seeing how it's the one who smelt it, is it also the one who dealt it? Rendering it useless.
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Old 09-03-2009, 10:07 AM   #6
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I must not be very smart
I clicked on a story about farts!
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Old 09-03-2009, 10:12 AM   #7
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So I sent the link to my two brothers (who bring family and love and fart machines to most holiday functions) and copied mom who wrote back and said "You know one of those will show up at Christmas, don't you?"
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Old 09-03-2009, 10:18 AM   #8
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Takes a couple of smart fellers to invent something like this.
"Takes a couple of smart fellers to invent a fart smeller"
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Old 09-03-2009, 10:25 AM   #9
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Was the carpet brown before people started testing this?
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Old 09-03-2009, 10:29 AM   #10
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Takes a couple of smart fellers to invent something like this.
Q: how many IOTD readers does it take to make a wisecrack?

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Old 09-03-2009, 10:30 AM   #11
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HA! (cause I was gonna say something.)
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Old 09-03-2009, 11:29 AM   #12
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...smell and sound can tell you a lot about their bowel movements...
If the fart doesn't smell like a cow's backside and if it doesn't bellow like a cow's frontside, then the cow is probably dead. Do we need a machine to tell us that?
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Old 09-03-2009, 11:39 AM   #13
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If the fart doesn't smell like a cow's backside and if it doesn't bellow like a cow's frontside, then the cow is probably dead. Do we need a machine to tell us that?
Spoken with the authority of one who is obviously very familiar with cow farts.
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Old 09-03-2009, 12:39 PM   #14
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Having worked on a relatives dairy farm every summer growing up, you can find out all about the quality of a cow's bowel movements by being behind one when the tail goes up and it lets loose.
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Old 09-03-2009, 02:09 PM   #15
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Spoken with the authority of one who is obviously very familiar with cow farts.
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