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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.

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

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

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    Well, thanks to the Internet, I'm now bored with sex.
  3. 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".

  4. 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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    which is totally what she said
  5. 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)