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epitome of incomprehensibility
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The scientific method says you make hypotheses and revise them as new information comes along.
Such was the case with one of mine. With my parents' dog came poop, and bending down to scoop it brought a whiff of ew, leading to
Hypoothesis 1: Dog poop smells worse than human poop.
Fast forward to 2023, immer_immersion in Germany, where the host family had two bathrooms and the older, smaller one had a "poop shelf" (look at YouTube where "Feli from Germany" explains it, or the book Fear_of_Flying where it's described). Basically the solid waste lands on a ledge before the whooshing flushwater whisks it away. In case the pooper needs to examine it first? In any case, I used that bathroom once, leading to my
Hypoothesis 2: Poop stinks more in air than in water. Presumably air molecules carry the smell better. So whatever animal you are, if you're big enough to produce smellable number twos, your shit probably stinks sometimes.
(Though I don't plan on going around sniffing the droppings of every animal. Even "For Science!" has its limits.)
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