Space ‘smells like steak and metal

[kskiska]

Source: Times Online

Outer space smells like hot metal, fried steak and the welding of a motorbike, scientists suggest. A chemist is recreating the smell to help Nasa to train its astronauts.

Nasa asked Steven Pearce, the managing director of Omega Ingredients, which makes fragrances, to recreate the scent after hearing of his work creating smells for an art exhibition in July, one of which was of the inside of the Mir space station. Mr Pearce is interviewing astronauts to help him with his task. “We have already produced the smell of fried steak, but hot metal is proving more difficult,” he said. “We think it’s a high-energy vibration in the molecule.”

Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4958670.ece

[billyoc]

1. We also think that if you can smell the outer space, you're doing it wrong.

:rofl:

[meegbear]

28. ...

:spray:

[donco6]

36. I've read the headline twice and still can't figure it out.

Who knew an airless vacuum could be so SMELLY?

[JeffR]

2. Wow. If they can tackle this, they can move on to the McCain campaign

which, near as I can tell, smells like mothballs, mooseburgers and old white cheese.

[NanceGreggs]

3. "Old White Cheese" ...

... responsible for probably THE BEST blues LP of the mid 'sixties (produced at Electric Ladyland, if I'm not mistaken).

I never thought he'd come out for McCain, though.

Go figure ...

[JeffR]

4. He was always a maverick...

:)

[Patriought]

5. I'm confused-nothing new, but...

How can one smell anything in a vacuum?

[Cobalt-60]

13. Right

Unless that's what it smells like in the station.
Although I suspect the tight confines of a space station might have rather a different aroma.

[alfredo]

30. The space station smells like sweat and butt.

[RoccoR5955]

14. It has to be a very big vacuum...

Sometimes, I can smell that outside of my vacuum.

[Ikonoklast]

6. I wonder who they got to collect that data

Ground Control: "Yah, Bob, we need you take your hat off after you get outside dere and give 'er a good sniff."

[Algorem]

7. fried steak? somebody's fried.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. In space, no one can hear you smell

No, wait, it's "In space, no one can hear you scream."

MY BAD.

:rofl:

[sofa king]

19. No one can smell you scream.

[Eurobabe]

9. New cologne coming soon from Calvin Klein, watch. nm

[ohio2007]

33. make that "Kelvin" Klein seeing that 'Fahrenheit' is taken

Emission in this spectral line shows the upper chromosphere at a temperature of about 60,000 degrees K (over 100,000 degrees F).

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html

[tomreedtoon]

10. Space smells just like Hell!

Hot metal, human bodies roasting, Hell's Angels on bikes...We were wrong about the direction of Hell. It's not down, it's up.

[DeSwiss]

11. Space ‘smells like steak and metal?

So I'm guessing god barbeques a lot. And he definitely ain't no Vegan.....

[melody]

12. Reminds me of the story of the toddler found feeding Fruit Loops to a king cobra

The mystery is not in that it happened at all but how the hell it happened in the first place.

Don't you need to inhale something to smell it? How do you inhale without ... oh, never mind it's one
of those damned "what color is an orange in the dark" questions that ends up in science and makes my
brain barf.

[shadowknows69]

15. Alien 10: In space no one can hear you scream, but they can still tell you farted

[LiberalEsto]

16. That's just the Moronosphere

The rest of it smells like Cheese Whiz

[Uben]

17. The smell of repub prez hopes burning

If they would like to recreate the smell of republican presidential chances burning, just go outside and take a sniff!

[cobalt1999]

18. They just need to suck up some of the air during Daytona Bike Week

Fried steak, check.
Motorcycles, check.
Hot metal, check.

Just put those astronauts on a Harley and send them up the road to Daytona.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

20. Steak and Metal

I sense a franchising opportunity here.

[xchrom]

21. god eats meat. nt

[MrsBrady]

22. i remember hearing some astronauts

talking about that after a space walk. they said when they get inside and take their suits off, the suits have this odd smell.

I think I saw it on TV in some kind of NASA or science channel show, some time back.

[cobalt1999]

23. The moon dust smells like burnt gunpowder apparently

According to the guys who walked on it.

[AngryAmish]

24. In space, no one can hear you fart.

[Solly Mack]

25. Space smells like Daytona Beach during Bike Week? Who knew?

[cobalt1999]

26. But it's a lot quieter and far fewer women showing off their boobs. n/t

[tylerdee]

27. I can see it now... Hot Metal Cologne

[callous taoboy]

29. The restaurant at the end of the universe?

Adams: Way ahead of his time...

[daleo]

31. Futurama

The Professor invented a smelloscope. Life imitates art.

[ThoughtCriminal]

38. Great News Everybody!

Professor Farnsworth had already invented the Smelloscope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Big_Piece_of_Garbage

[ohio2007]

32. What's cooking in the center of the solar system would explain a little

Outer space smells like hot metal, fried steak and the welding of a motorbike...

The image shows the corona for a moderately active Sun, with some (red) hot active regions in both hemispheres, surrounded by the (blue/green) cooler plasma of the quiet-Sun corona. Notice also the north polar-crown filament, the trans-equatorial loops, and the coronal hole in the south-east (lower-right) corner of the image and the smaller one over the north pole. This image shows the solar corona in a false-color, 3-layer composite: the blue, green, and red channels show the 171Å, 195Å, and 284Å wavelengths, respectively (most sensitive to emission from 1, 1.5, and 2 million degree gases). (TRACE Project, Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research, NASA) #11






On September 30, 2001, TRACE observed an M1.0 flare in an active region very near to the solar limb. Fragments of a prominence hovered above the regions, with filamentary dark (relatively cool) material moving along the field lines, which then spread to form this dragon-like bright outline. (NASA/TRACE) #21



http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/10/the_sun.html

[undeterred]

34. So aliens are really just stopping here looking for dinner.

:scared:

[IDemo]

35. or a motorcycle shop

[CreekDog]

37. Space smells like New Jersey?

:think:

[TankLV]

39. Did someone FART in their spacesuit AGAIN?!?!