How much methane does an adult cow actually have?
Let's say it it ate something and spontaneously combusted from within.
Would the concussive force produced be akin to a grenade and obliterate everything around it? Or would it be like a Dodongo in Zelda and just blow up a little and die?
I'm writing a story.
>>8097998
They are literally Hindenburg waiting to explode.
Technically, and this is from an ultra realistic scientific perspective mind you, cows have the equivalent of 100 tons of TNT or 1/2 the yield of an early atomic bomb packed to an area of about 6 square feet.
This is why farmers never combined traditional plowing with gas plows, due to the fact a simple malfunction could level a Country.
>>8098007
>literally
>>8098035
MOO MOTHERFUCKER, MOO
I think not!!
>>8098027
Fucking cows man
>>8098027
This actually made me laugh a little. We should just stick matches in cow asses and drop them on other countries instead of actual bombs.
methane is a serious concern with industrial cow and pig farmers. huge barns have exploded because of methane build up from the poo collection tanks.
>>8097998
Not a lot, they aren't explosive. But over time they do produce enough to be a significant source of greenhouse gases.
Spontaneous combustion is pseudoscience, not a real thing. Documentation surrounding it can be compared to documentation surrounding ghosts or UFO's.
>Would the concussive force produced be akin to a grenade and obliterate everything around it?
Absolutely not.
Write more realistic stories, they're more interesting that way.
It'd be more realistic to say that a bunch of cows were in an airtight indoor feed lot, which had poor ventilation and accumulated enough of it, but even then it probably wouldn't be of high enough concentration to be combustible. Giant lagoons of excrement are very common on industrial stockyards, which do produce fumes that can incapacitate. It's not uncommon for farmhands to be walking near shit lagoons, pass out, and drown. It's also not uncommon for people to go in to save them and have them die too in the same way. Write about that.
>>8098078
wellaware1 is wellaware
>>8098125
Thanks for the thorough explanation and suggestion, but nah. The story is about these genetically engineered clones with IR and chemical scanners who go back in time.
I was going to have the main character try to drop a cow on one, and then upon it missing, shooting a flaming arrow into it, to blow it up.
This being the only way to get an explosive element near one of the clones.
Joking aside, our lust for beef is killing the planet, lol.
>>8097998
>I'm writing a story
>I can't estimate the methane production of a cow
>bcoz I can't into Google/Bing/Wikipedia
I predict failure and disengagement
