{"id":5133,"date":"2010-03-28T03:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2010-03-28T03:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T08:00:01","slug":"crap-you-wont-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5133","title":{"rendered":"Crap You Won&#039;t Believe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704266504575142224096848264.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_3\">Manure Raises New Stink<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dairy farmer has a pool of manure in his back yard, and methane bubbles are forming.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mr. Goltstein asked state regulators to let him pop the bubbles. He said he and his 19-year-old son would slice them open with a knife from a paddleboat.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce Palin, assistant commissioner for the office of land quality at the state environmental agency, said officials were considering the idea. But, he added, &#8220;not knowing how much volume of gas is there and how much pressure is on it, we&#8217;re concerned with just cutting a hole.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Last year, a hog farmer in Hayfield, Minn., was launched 40 feet into the air in an explosion caused by methane gas from a manure pit on his farm. He sustained burns and singed hair.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Goltstein&#8217;s attorney, Glenn D. Bowman, acknowledged that the potential existed for an explosion: &#8220;We&#8217;re aware of that sort of common physics issue,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, exploding shitbubbles apparently fall under the category of common physics issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manure Raises New Stink Dairy farmer has a pool of manure in his back yard, and methane bubbles are forming. Mr. Goltstein asked state regulators to let him pop the bubbles. He said he and his 19-year-old son would slice &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/5133\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,39,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-science","category-physics","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}