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Why it takes you and an elephant the same amount of time to poop (2017)
- michaelbuckbee 8mo agoRead to the end of the article to learn about NASA's Space Poop challenge and the award winning astronaut diaper the author created.
- drunkonvinyl 8mo agoBut did you read to the end while pooping?
- Gualdrapo 8mo agoElephants should do it quicker as they don't do doomscroll when pooping, though
- alex1138 8mo agoThanks Hacker News
- layman51 8mo agoThis reminds me of a news story from many years ago about a research study that won the Ig Nobel Prize. The research study was about how almost all mammals weighing over 3 kg take just about the same amount of time to empty their bladders when urinating.
- cainxinth 8mo agoMammals converged on systems that satisfy the same fluid-mechanics.
- 3eb7988a1663 8mo agoI need to know if this is also true of aquatic animals. A blue whale is ~50x the size of an African elephant. Does that mean that a blue whale expels some 2100 gallons (~8000 liters) in 20 seconds?
- Obscurity4340 8mo agoI wonder how much and forcefully they ejac
- Smalltalker-80 8mo agoMostly solid scientific work, this ;)
- anigbrowl 8mo agoWhy would you expect anything else? It's also easier for larger people to pick up heavier weights, larger bullets to make larger holes, etc. etc. Of course larger animals are going to have larger muscles in their digestive tracts in approximate proportion to everything else about them being larger.
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- rwc 8mo agoI mean, I don’t know what I was expecting but I clicked anyway…
- TheAceOfHearts 8mo agoSince we're on the subject of waste removal, most mammals also pee for roughly the same amount of time [0], around 20 seconds. If you look up a video of an elephant urinating, it's quite the spectacle and the flow is voluminous. [0] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mammals-pee-20-seconds-biology-urination https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/mammals-p...
- emestifs 8mo agoAmazing. Exactly the insightful comments that I hope to see on HN...perhaps not on the current subject but nonetheless > On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 8mo agoThat was a beautiful design choice to use milk jugs for the visual.
- Obscurity4340 8mo agoTendies
- conductr 8mo agoI spent a lot of time in hospitals and got a lot of exposure to everything they do in my early adulthood, a few smells are permanently burnt into my brain including the smell of the GI wing. Fast forward a couple decades, and my dilemma right now is a coworker that I share a restroom with. It’s a low traffic restroom so I have seen and know it’s coming from him, but he has some serious GI issues. Likely he’s digesting blood from my memory of the ailments. And so the dilemma is, do I say something to him? He looks like he is in awful health and high probability with an awful diet (based on profiling him). But I don’t interact with him or have any type of relationship and saying something would be incredibly awkward. Surely he knows I tell myself.
- handfuloflight 8mo agoWait, hold on. Are you saying from lingering smell you're able to determine that there's pathology?
- comboy 8mo agoIf that sounds fun, you gonna love the story of Joy Milne who can smell the Parkinson's disease.
- lm28469 8mo agoThere are a lot of reports of people, and animals, who can smell some cancers and other diseases. It's not very well studied but I don't think it's far fetched
- nitwit005 8mo agoYou can tell something is going wrong at least. I had a university roommate with a hereditary gut issue. I was able to recognize who he inherited from after his father visited.
- lo_zamoyski 8mo agoIt's not difficult for many conditions. Digested blood has a metallic and vile odor. Ketosis and diabetes can cause acetone-smelling breath. Kidney disease can cause ammonia body odor. Liver disease can cause a fishy, musty smell. Unhealthy diets and GI issues can cause bad odors. In the past, I have often wondered what is wrong with people given how badly they smelled in the locker room or after leaving a restroom. Truly unnatural odors.
- Simulacra 8mo agoBut I'm on the clock so..of course I take longer.
- vezuchyy 8mo agoAre you trying to say that an elephant with a phone will need 15 minutes as well?
- cucumber3732842 8mo agoIs that why it's the default setting on those motion lights?
- danilocesar 8mo agoAre elephants addicted to social media too?
- anongoosey 8mo agoSomething about this with urination too right? Like almost every animal takes the same amount of time?
- zahlman 8mo agoYes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280917 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47280917
- Reason077 8mo ago> "elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog's, at 10 milliliters" Surely this depends greatly on the size of the dog. I've seen dog poops that are far bigger than that. That 10 ml poop must be from a very small dog!
- code_duck 8mo agoIt doesn’t make much sense as 20 liters is 2000 times 10 ml, also.
- gvldev 8mo agoThe article says "elephant feces have a volume of 20 liters, nearly a thousand times more than a dog's, at 10 milliliters." Is 10K nearly 20K? Regardless, modern dog breeds vary in size wildly, and I'm curious how they standardize the average fecal volume across the sizes. My dogs are most certainly not expelling just 10 milliliters... I can't imagine that number is even accurate for small dogs.
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- chasing 8mo agoPoop like an elephant, pee like a bee.
- lo_zamoyski 8mo agoI was expecting something about Bernoulli's principle.
- smusamashah 8mo agoThis reminds of a research that mammals take same amount of time to pee and it was 40 something seconds.
- gweinberg 8mo agoSo the reason it takes a human and an elephant about the same amount of time to poop is, the ratio of our poop lengths is about the same as the ratio of our poop velocity? That sounds more like a tautology than an explanation to me.
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