10 sats \ 4 replies \ @Roll 21 Jun \ on: Fun Fact Friday - Best Fun Fact Gets Zaps on This Post meta
Space has a distinct smell. It smells like a bouquet of diesel fumes, gunpowder, and barbecue. The aroma is mostly produced by dying stars.
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101 sats \ 0 replies \ @k00b 21 Jun
Space smells like Texas?
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @oliverweiss OP 21 Jun
I have a hard time to believe this.
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @Roll 21 Jun
https://www.space.com/what-does-space-smell-like
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @oliverweiss OP 21 Jun
Fair enough. This immediately came to my mind:
Space is an airless vacuum, so technically, you can't smell anything in space — if you tried, you'd be dead.
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