I was just thinking about how dangerous it must have been when a caveman had gas. For us it’s just embarrassing. For them it had to be downright dangerous.
Imagine trying to hunt when the Brontosaurus burger from the previous nights dinner starts coming back on you. Letting out a little gas would surely scare away any animals you were trying to make that evenings meal. They could smell that green cloud a mile away even if it was an SBD.
Then again, letting out some gaseous fumes could also make you the hunted. A lot of predators hunted by smell. That cheesy blaster probably would lead them right to you. Imagine feeling the relief of blowing a good one only to have the feeling replaced by the fear of seeing old T-Rex sniffing you out not 20 feet away. Worse yet, if you did a noisy one, that would give your hiding place away for sure.
Yep, gas had to be a really bad thing for the cavemen & women. It could cause you to starve or be eaten.
I hadn’t thought of that before.
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