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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.
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guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth
;)
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
And what aroma would that be? Luser eaten by a t-rex?
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"-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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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.
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. . .
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.
My rights don't need management.
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.
Nope! But, to be fair, the T-Rex has never smelled my breath either!
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Not exactly. His parents reminded him every morning, but with those short arms...
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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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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.]