spitfaggot asked:
is there a smell comparable to space ? i assume we dont know because we would die if we tried to smell it but thats so cool
hoths-deactivated20220421 Answer:
yeah if humans tried to smell space just like that, we’d die, no doubt about it
but the smell of space lingers on spacewalk suits, and docking hatches when astronauts open them!
apparently, space itself smells like burning hot metal, or a hot barbeque grill with a slight hint of spent gasoline. The moon, apparently, smells like a gun after its been shot!
The coolest thing about it all is that the smell is actually what are left of dying stars- it’s literally the smell of stardust, and the particles smell like that because they’re so rich in hydrocarbons- something so very essential to life, and speculated by a lot of astronomers and astrobiologists and such to be the very thing life on earth started from!
another neat fact is that no two solar systems smell the same- ours smells like that because our solar system in particular is extremely rich in carbon, and other solar systems and places in the universe will have extremely different smells depending on what elements are most abundant in their system!
We are makings of a great forging and in the space between the celestial bodies, the scent of bright embers persists even in the dark.
dear diary . i no longer want to go to space because today i was informed that it smells like the interstate
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