Someone posted the inline quoted tweet above. Note that the author is a philosoper/classics scholar who is on the latest Ezra Klein show. Just from the general discussion and more particularly concerning her family (son went through a phase where they had to stop and talk in depth to homeless people) it’s pretty clear this is an accurate account. It’s like the child of a hardcore football fan analogizing some event to, say, a past Superbowl (eg, the falcon’s blowing big lead).
They can do a one-handed row of something like 3x their body weight. It’s crazy because there’s this old timey study where a scientist measured them doing like 8-12x their body weight, but the whole study suffered from more methodology and equipment. So now, people say the revised estimated figures as “only” ____ where the blank is something ludicrous.
So one of the most ridiculous things on pubmed is a case report detailing this woman who kept having free air in her abdomen (this is super bad… normally it means your bowel burst open and bacteria is spilling out).
Turned out that her partner was blowing air up her vagina as some sort of sex thing they were in to, and the air went through the cervix, uterus and Fallopian tubes into her belly.
you would need massive amounts of airflow through the gut. Lung exchanges roughly ~5 L/min in normal people at rest IIRC. Would assume the gut would need a lot more than that to have any sort of exchange.