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Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath?
Jim Hawkins writes "Well, in case you never have the chance of getting up close and personal with a T.Rex, Dale Air, a company who 'nose' its smells, has recreated Tyrannosaurus Rex's breath for London's Natural History Museum. Seems people made a stink about the rotting flesh smell that would exist on T-Rex's breath - guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
Still waiting for that cure for cancer.
Supposedly it smells a lot like T-Rex ass.
It's been there since 2001.
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Yeah but the chicken's heads they bit off were way bigger.
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I'm sure this has been there for several years - in fact I saw it when I was in London and I've since emigrated! I heard that the smell they recreated was actually a lot tamer than the original would have done, since obviously they didn't want people keeling over or being sick - so the smell they have there is more like vaguely rotting cabbage than the stench of rancid meat. Certainly when I saw it it didn't smell all that bad.
This article should take you back to the dot-com glory days. The opening paragraph:
"After an uncomfortable pause, he looked straight into the eyes of the woman he'd loved for years. As he moved in for the kiss, he caught a whiff of her shoulder and immediately thought of his computer."
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Wow, can't wait till the classic "Jurassic Park" is remade later on in this millenium when you get smells in the movie, too. Maybe, after I've lived for five centuries because of quantum biotechnology, I'll be able to forgive slashdot because I'll have realized that this news item was just ahead of its time, when I go to see the movie utilizing this hot new smelling technology.
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guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth
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Well it is in England...
And I'm English before anyone gets upset
Look at the URL. Those wisecracks at CNN couldn't resist a jibe, could they?
I'm sorry if I haven't offended anyone
No.
And I prefer to keep it that way, ta.
Brushes and flosses regularly, then rinses with 5 gallons of Listerine. He say its worth it cos the ladies like good teeth. He does say he is struggling to find a decent scale moisturiser though. He's such a vain beast.
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What truth?
There is no dupe
I'd hate to have to wake up next to a female t-rex one morning.. don't they know that they should brush their tongues when they brush their teeth?
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And what aroma would that be? Luser eaten by a t-rex?
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
"-Rex's breath - guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
I used to catch beared dragons when I was a kid. They didn't have bad breath (that I can remember) but if they bit you the bacteria on their teeth could be nasty.
I'm just waiting for the horrid day where you are able to smell the programs on TV. Or sure, sounds great for the cooking shows, but what the "secret doorway" in Desperado? (FYI, it was a bathroom stall with shit spread all over the walls)
Yes, they do have the fart smell. It's listed as "Flatulence #9668" in their catalog.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/06/27/britain .smells.reut/index.html
Had to come from somewhere...
I wonder if small opportunist creatures cleaned the T-Rex, like Egyptian Plovers clean crocodile teeth and various fish eat the parasites on sharks.
I recently saw a very interesting program on Discovery that hinted at T-Rex actually being a scavenger, not a hunter.
They had several interesting theories to back this up. For example, T-Rex had a very bad center of gravity for one thing. This coupled with the fact that it's arms were so small meant that it would not pick itself back up if it fell. This meant that T-Rex probably didn't run because it didn't want to fall. It probably walked everywhere and in walking, the only food it would be able to catch would be already dead food.
Other reasons that pointed out it's "scavengaristic" diet where things like it's olfactory senses. Porportionally it is the same size as a vulture.
So, the theory that it ate already rotting flesh would greatly contribute to it's problems with halitosis!
That "smell" device mentioned in the article that's supposed to hook up to a computer has been done. I recall hearing about devices like it more than once over the past few years. Here is one example and here is another. It's a lame idea.
I believe they also have the porno-themed aroma.
It's listed as "Fish Market A123511"
The chemical warfare connoisseur will be pleased to know they also offer phosgene gas aroma.
His breath would be affected by the diet of the animals he ate, as well - how do they know the exact content of a herbiverous dinosaur's diet?
The firm is testing an aroma dispenser which plugs into a computer and is controlled from the keyboard.
"Say you've got help desk staff who are getting tense and frustrated -- they can press a button to get an aroma to help calm them down," Knight said.
A case mod with a built-in bong would work much better.
Sounds like it from the description of his breath. Maybe they should rename him Stallmanosaurus
T-Rex breath...
I guess people need a reference point so you can find out if your T-Rex has been out all night drinking.
It would be cool if it didn't suck.
Somehow I don't think you'd _wake up_ from that smell though.
Coming soon from Glade, T-Rex breath. Created by nature, captured by Dale Air.
When do we get CmdrTaco scented air fresheners?
T-Rex breath turned out so accurate and so revolting, the curators instead opted for a milder swamp smell to evoke the creature's natural habitat.
Revolting is beleivable, but accurate? Do we really know enough about T-Rex's to say that the synthetic breath that was created was accurate? What bacteria lived in the mouth? Did the saliva have antibodies to protect open wounds around the mouth from bacteria and infection? What was the pH of the saliva? These all affect breath . . .
There are lots of unknowns that make me think that the journalist's use of the word accurate is more than a little presumptuous. . .
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According to the article, it utilizes Cavity Ring-Down Spectroscopy (CRDS) to detect concentration levels of acetone in a person's breath gas.
I don't think I would be particularly interested.
If you are really curious, leave a kilo of raw hamburger sitting on the kitchen counter for a couple of weeks, while you go on vacation. Your house will be filled with the lovely aroma of T-Rex breath upon your return.
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The degree of conjecture necessary to claim an odor represents the breath scent of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is enormous. To the point that, when all the approximations and educated guesses are accounted for, it is likely you're wrong.
At least demonstrate the scientific process with subject matter that will stand up to modest scrutiny.
You also don't need to be faster than a predator to avoid becoming its next meal, which reminds me of a joke about two people being chased by a bear: "The trick isn't being able to outrun the bear; the trick is being able to outrun the other guy!"
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It was halitosis that drived the dinosaurs to extiction!
"Oooh, does that mean we get to kick some puffy white mad zionist butt?"
Nope! But, to be fair, the T-Rex has never smelled my breath either!
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Assuming that crocodiles and dragon lizards (and probably vultures) have similar bad breath, T-Rex would almost certainly be also quite similar. The major ingredients would have to be chemicals given off by decomposing animal tissue. What T-Rex ate would matter more than anything else. The human nose is quite sensitive to (unacustomed) decomposition byproducts, enough so that Japanese find most westerners to have a very offensive body odor (from rotting hamburgers).
.. the best part of being eaten by a T-Rex is stop smelling its breath?
Not exactly. His parents reminded him every morning, but with those short arms...
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here is a better picture of T-REX
Has anybody figured out a way to download smells?
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Sorry, the title just reminded me too much of these lines from Airplane. Anyhow, I'd really hate to smell a real T-Rex's breath, because you'd be the appetizer he's smelling! But I guess the smell of my burning karma might cover the stench...
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*sniff* Aaah. The scent from carnage of pillaged companies.
There were other predators in the LONG history of the dinosaurs. Velociraptors being the more famous. So the other preds would bring down the kill and the T-rex would show up and drive the preds away and eat the dead flesh. Sounds reasonable to me!
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Who needs just dinosaur breath? There's a real world jurassic park coming up in Dubai, UAE as part of their super-theme park project. It will have life size dinosaurs. Here's their website and a movie (10MB) They also have artificial ski-slopes in the middle of the desert!
The T-Rex's breath might not smell like rotting meat. A closer observation of the teeth of the T-rex reveals that the teeth are not rooted very deeply in the skull and jaw. This means that either the T-rex was not a carnivore, or it only ate small animals it could fit in it's mouth, similar to the way a snake eats. To catch and kill a large animal would mean ripping it's own teeth out.
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I'm not familiar with the smell, but I do know the sound of old T-Rex.
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Isn't your breath supposed to be based on what all you've eaten recently? And there's no way to 100% verify that the breath really simulates a T-Rex. Only calculations of anatomy, and diet constituens. Please give me a list of all those really interested in it. All receive free shelter in 3*3 cell.
guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
This is the kind of humor that made us social outcasts in the first place....
really though, on a thousand levels this just isn't funny..
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Shouldn't the t-rex icon be on this story instead of the story above it?
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The stench of that museum or this submission?
- a company who 'nose' its smells
- Seems people made a stink
- guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth.
Ouch. The death of wit, indeed. By the time I got to that last one I was smiling, but only because I realized that we were finally past the puns.
I know that your mom used to tell you how funny you are, but she also told you that you were cuter than a bug's ear. This submission sets a new standard for unfunny humor on slashdot, and in that regard you have achieved the impossible. Please take pity on us. Let this be the swan song of your humor career.
So I don't have just imagine the smell of fresh napalm in the morning, but actually slap on the old MicroSmell game scent enhancer!
[Now, I'm off to lift my le... Um, visit... at another place.]
Live in a dorm, unplugged my refrigerator (2 pounds of raw chicken + left over campbell pork and peas soup + some uncooked ham) day before yesterday to plug in the microwave, forgot all about it until I got back home from a trip today evening. Man...
Stegasaurs evolved the plates on their back as radiators for cooling, not for defense. Are you sure those "armour plates" weren't there for some purpose other than defense from carnivores? How about to protect them from huge trees falling on them?
From the article:
"I've had otter poo on my desk," said Knight, who created the odor for a zoo's nature trail, alongside the smell of jaguar urine and rotting flesh.
Best. Quote. Ever.
...how does Mr. T's breath smell?
To assume that the triceratop "evolved" horns would be to assume that something had knowledge to see that horns would be useful and then create them as a defense. From what I understand is that evolution is just mutations to a species. Those mutations which were useful, or not harmful to its propogation are kept. Example.. giraffes(spelling?) did not stretch their necks to reach the leaves up in trees, and therefore develop long necks. Its just that the short necked animals never lived long enough because they could not compete for food, so they didn't reproduce, while the long necked variants did. So thus long necks were beneficial and passed on. So in theory a triceratops could have horns for no good reason, they might not be defense, maybe they used them to flip over logs and bushes while they rooted around for food, perhaps the chicks just dug the guys with big horns and so they reproduced more, and the horn-less didn't get to pass on their genes. This isn't an argument for or against the t-rex topic, but just a different way to look at "evolution". And in my opinion, yes nature does produce useless things, it produces all kinds of crazy, random things. It is just that we have nothing else to compare it too. Let me know what you think.
Well, I can't think of a better reason... and apparently, you people are having a hard time coming up with jokes as well. bah.
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md5sum: WARNING: 1 of 1 computed checksum did NOT match
It's worth remembering that lions do hunt, as well as just scavenge. Likewise I'm relatively sure that T. Rex did both.
So perhaps what's being argued about is:
1) how long could the meat have been dead and still be appetizing, and
2) how much of the time did it hunt, as opposed to scavenging.
N.B.: Scavenging would be an opportunistic activity, while hunting could be planned. So perhaps the question should be how much of the time was it intending to hunt? (Or did it even adopt different techniques when searching for game vs. leftovers. It might just have gone into "hungry" mode.)
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
Mike Moore's breath. I bet he has a similar diet.
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