Fried steak and metal… smell of outer space to be recreated

[undergroundpanther]

NASA has commissioned a specialist to recreate the smell of outer space – which has been described as being similar to fried steak and hot metal.
http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2008/10/17/Fried_steak_and_metal_smell_of_outer_space_to_be_recreated

Finally...proof this universe not only sucks, it STINKS!!

[Historic NY]

1. Recreate...my broiler oven does it every time I use it.

[SoCalDem]

2. Outer Space smells like a Denny's kitchen.. Cool!

[Gold Metal Flake]

3. Outer space smells like the stuff you took there with you.

[soothsayer]

4. How bizarre. Never in a million years would have occurred to me that space smelled like anything.

[ArmedAmerican]

5. jesus fucking christ...it doesn't smell like anything it's a vaccuum

No air, vaccuum, it doesn't smell like anything. You can't smell a vaccuum because there's no gas in it, it's not air for fuck's sake. Anything astronauts smell comes from the breathing apparatus in their suits, or in their ships.

[REP]

6. Now don't go bothering people with with all those sciencey facts

It's more fun to think of a vacuum as having an odor than actually considering that a vacuum might not have an odor.

[ArmedAmerican]

7. yeah it is more fun to think it smells like...hmm...

hot buttered bullshit? Fresh microwaved marketing copy? I can see how it's all romantic or something to have a perfume that smells like space, but what they're talking about is more like the smell of "the space program", what an astronaut smells, which is the inside of spaceships and the inside of spacesuits. Probably smells a lot like the inside of an elevator. "Outer Space" is a more marketable perfume name than "Elevator". Well then again Elevator has its own connotations.