Doesn't outer space smell like burning metal and popcorn?
Personally vanilla would be a pretty good one.
If you could smell like anything in the world, what would it be?
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Personally vanilla would be a pretty good one.
That's supposedly what astronauts smell in the airlock and on their stuff after a spacewalk, yes. But you could argue that's not smelling actual space, but stuff that's been in space. Not space enough in my book. Now maybe that's all too vague, but I don't mind. Only all of space all at once is enough.
I heard it smelled of burnt steak. If I were up there, I'd just open the window, take a deep whiff, and get a definitive answer. Of course, that'd result in a violent expulsion effectively turning me inside out, but it'd be worth knowing what space smells like for a second before shedding this mortal coil forever. #LifeGoals
If you're going to go out, might as well let the perfume industry know was space smells like. There's an entire untapped market for that.
I'll try, but my transmission back to earth might be cut short for certain, lethal reasons. That said, I'll confidently assume space does not smell like frozen human remains despite the results of my "research."
Oh just bring a few others with you and have them in space suits, with radios, so in your last agonizing moments before you kinda implode in a cloud of blood crystals and flash frozen organs, you can comment on what type of burning metal and how much butter on the popcorn space smells like.
Unlikely, you'd be going from 1 atmosphere to zero, not much of a pressure difference. You could probably do it very quickly and live to tell the tale.
I like how neither of you are worried about my lack of good judgement or my personal well-being. This was a cry for help, people; my blood is on YOUR hands. Goodbye, cruel world!
You sure? Cuz for about 10-15 seconds you'd also get to experience the sensation of the saliva on your tongue boiling.
My imminent death isn't meant be a learning experience, y'know, given the imminent death n'all. 15 seconds of knowing something at the end isn't worth the 42 years that have brought me here even IF there's an afterlife during which I can appreciate the learnings.
Oh no, it's 10-15 seconds of vacuum exposure before you pass out. The imminent death part only comes about a minute after.
I'll just stay alive then; you all are [ironically] killing my suicide-by-exposure-to-the-vacuum-of-space vibes with facts and reason. You'll have to endure my posts a while longer. Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got some shit to fling in Current Events...
You could always do a chemical analysis of areas of space with something other than your nose. People have been doing that for years.
Science isn't real unless you've personally experienced it.
A temporal rainforest after a good rain. If we’re going the food route, probably freshly baked cinnamon rolls.
