someone, at some point, took the biggest dump in history. and didn't even know it
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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
I am currently in process. Haven't stopped pooping for 17 years.
That's probably why the YMCA won't let you in.
You should see a doctor for that
The doctors made me this way I'm not sure what they're gonna do to help
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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
Rookie numbers
OP is full of shit.
Mom look im finally above average
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
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Those are rookie numbers!
I feel like I'm trending in line to make at least like 6 metric tons of shit. 3.5 seems low.
3 and a half metric shit tons.
I'm going for the high score
My uncle knocks that out every leap year. 3,5 tons ain’t shit.
How much cum?
Maybe you do; I produce far more feces by replying to comments on the internet
I am the one who shits. 😤
Well shit.
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.
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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.
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Where does that all go?!?
And a smidgeon or three of PFAS and plastics and heavy metals.
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.
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Double that for me.
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.
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