Outer Space has a Smell

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."

Take a big wiff

[suso]

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

Good news, everyone!

[El Yanqui]

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

Oblig Futurama

[dkleinsc]

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

smelloscope

[GreatRedShark]

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

local sources...

[Joe the Lesser]

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.

Re:Good news, everyone!

[PinkyDead]

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

That's nothing compared to...

[unbug]

...the inner space. Now that smells really weird!

don't worry

[Joe the Lesser]

It will soon be renamed Urectum.

Re:smelloscope

[andphi]

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

I hear

[pedropolis]

The outer rim of Uranus also has a smell. It's described variously as a musky, pungent, zesty enterprise, with a splash of sulfur, that causes dizziness and nausea.

And now... ladies and gentlemen... Carrot Top!!!

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[Anonymous Coward]

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".

doez it haz a flavor???

[advocate_one]

n/t

Re:Take a big wiff

[suso]

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

Re:Take a big wiff

[RackinFrackin]

Yeah. Shouldn't it smell like blood?

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Re:I hear

[Linker3000]

Nah, that's Austrian wine.

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[Kamineko]

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)

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[servognome]

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!

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[Anonymous Coward]

Lucky not to have permanent lung damage; that shit's like a suntan for your lungs. Have you gotten a lung capacity test?

Yeah, I heard he got one from his boss right before his last promotion. It's ok though, his boss told him that his lung capacity was 'euphorically good.'

Re:smelloscope

[Bob-taro]

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.

Re:don't worry

[sm62704]

Wrecked him? It damned near killed him!

obligatory 2001

[Mister Whirly]

"Oh my God, it smells like stars!"

Re:Huh?

[edittard]

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.

Re:Take a big wiff

[Ilan Volow]

The smell of outer space is "Silent but Deadly".

Re:Implied Lisa?

[somersault]

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

Obligatory Star Trek Reference

[Anonymous Coward]

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 [badmovies.org] (135 KB)

Re:Take a big wiff

[somersault]

You just gave me a stellar idea for a highly expensive cure for chronic constipation *plot*

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[thegermanpolice]

Don't worry, I'm already working on it. ::sprays on deodorant::

Wow a geek using deodorant!

Re:Implied Lisa?

[somersault]

Perhaps you meant to reply to my cure for constipation below - Method of curing constipation by exposure of bodily cavities to a powerful vacuum. Now that's gonna cause an asplosion.

Re:Implied Lisa?

[Anonymous Coward]

That would suck ass.

Re:Implied Lisa?

[doombringerltx]

Don't get so butt hurt over it. Oh yeah, I went there

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[servognome]

Wow a geek using deodorant!

For science, not hygiene... so it's not that surprising.

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[davidsyes]

Proto-Captain Garrovic(k) will impressed... as long as you don't have an "Obsession" that wastes hemoglobin

Re:Sounds Like Ozone

[Digi-John]

Thanks for the advice. I'll pick up a can of compressed air next time I'm out (and help get rid of that pesky atmospheric ozone in the process!).

Re:doez it haz a flavor???

[Rob T Firefly]

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