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Outer Space has a Smell

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the anosmia-sucks-in-space-too dept.

repapetilto writes "ISS Science Officer Don Pettit reports in his journal that outer space gives off a smell best described as "a rather pleasant sweet metallic sensation." Kind of odd considering smell is supposed to be due to volatilized chemical compounds."

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  1. Take a big wiff by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad the vacuum of space will suck that smell right out of your nose.

    1. Re:Take a big wiff by suso · · Score: 3, Funny

      I guess the right thing to say here is "That's one smell that will make your head explode".

  2. Good news, everyone! by El+Yanqui · · Score: 5, Funny

    Professor Farnsworth already proved it with the Smell-O-Scope.

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    1. Re:Good news, everyone! by PinkyDead · · Score: 4, Funny

      And in a damning indictment of the US patent office, prior art will be established in 1000 years.

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  3. Oblig Futurama by dkleinsc · · Score: 3, Funny

    Don Pettit: The guy from whom Prof Farnsworth stole the plans to the smelloscope.

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  4. smelloscope by GreatRedShark · · Score: 3, Funny

    So does this mean the Professor's smelloscope could one day be a reality? Gee, I'd hate to small Uranus.

    1. Re:smelloscope by andphi · · Score: 3, Funny

      Until, of course, the planet's name is changed to do away with the joke.

    2. Re:smelloscope by Bob-taro · · Score: 4, Funny

      Until, of course, the planet's name is changed to do away with the joke.

      Maybe in the future, Uranus and Pluto will just be referred to by the phrase, "and the rest", like the professor and Mary Anne from Gilligan's Island.

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  5. local sources... by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 4, Funny

    Professor Hubert Farnsworth: I'm afraid the Smelloscope can't locate Bender. His fragrance is too mild. It's being overwhelmed by local sources.
    [Everyone looks at Zoidberg]
    Dr. Zoidberg: Hooray! Now I'm the center of attention.

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  6. don't worry by Joe+the+Lesser · · Score: 3, Funny

    It will soon be renamed Urectum.

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  7. Re:Sounds Like Ozone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    If there's tiny molecules of ozone floating around in orbit of the earth, I'm certain that would be scientifically interesting.

    Indeed. I'm sure scientists would be astounded to discover that there is a "layer" around the Earth comprised of "ozone".

  8. Re:Sounds Like Ozone by Kamineko · · Score: 4, Funny

    If there's tiny molecules of ozone floating around in orbit of the earth, I'm certain that would be scientifically interesting.

    Ozone... around the Earth?

    You mean like some kind of... layer?

    (Yes, I know, I know. Couldn't help it. :P)
  9. Re:Sounds Like Ozone by servognome · · Score: 4, Funny

    Indeed. I'm sure scientists would be astounded to discover that there is a "layer" around the Earth comprised of "ozone".
    *Gasp* This greenhouse gas layer must be destroyed to prevent global warming!
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  10. Re:Huh? by edittard · · Score: 3, Funny

    Experience with evacuating radio and TV tubes says you can get up to 500 cm^3 of gas out of every few square inches of metal.
    Bravo! Not only mixing imperial and metric but areas and volume to boot!

    Sir, I take my hat off to you.
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  11. Re:Implied Lisa? by somersault · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps he was implying that the OP's brain was more empty than the vastness of space

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  12. Obligatory Star Trek Reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kirk: "How close will we come to the closest Klingon outpost if we continue on our present course."

    Chekov: "One parsec sir. Close enough to smell them."

    Spock: "That is illogical, ensign. Oders cannot travel through the vacuum of space."

    http://www.badmovies.org/tvshows/startrek/tribbles/tribbles1.wav (135 KB)

  13. Re:Sounds Like Ozone by servognome · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wow a geek using deodorant!
    For science, not hygiene... so it's not that surprising.
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  14. Re:doez it haz a flavor??? by Rob+T+Firefly · · Score: 3, Funny

    om nom nom nom

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