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October 16th, 2008

[info]darth_acheron in [info]astronomy

NASA asks British Chemist to re-create the smell of Outer Space

(I hope this is allowed.)

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081016/tuk-what-does-outer-space-smell-like-dba1618.html

 

NASA has asked a British chemist, a “Mr. Steven Pearce”, to recreate the smell of space. Apparently it is a cross between fried steak, hot metal and possibly the welding of a motorbike.

 

So, Mr. Pearce is creating the odour of space as a ‘perfume’. I’m not joking.

 

Proof that life is stranger than fiction.