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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Cowgold]
#8022172 - 02/14/08 12:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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In that case I want to know what nothing smells like. I will never have that chance though.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Cowgold]
#8022175 - 02/14/08 12:11 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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It's possible that light radiation changes scent particles to smell like metal.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Cowgold]
#8022181 - 02/14/08 12:12 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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There are no particles in space though. Right? Or maybe I am just thinking about this wrong.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Tangerines]
#8022191 - 02/14/08 12:15 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Tangerines said: There are no particles in space though. Right? Or maybe I am just thinking about this wrong.
I would say there are, as few and tiny as they may be.. I mean how else do we end up with something like a planet?
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Tangerines]
#8022196 - 02/14/08 12:16 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I already mentioned this, but maybe I need more links in order to nerd this up.
The space station is in low earth orbit:
Space Station
Low Earth Orbit
Also known as the thermosphere:
Thermosphere
I quote:
"The thermosphere is the layer of the earth's atmosphere directly above the mesosphere and directly below the exosphere. Within this layer, ultraviolet radiation causes ionization."
The only ionized particle I can think of is ozone, ionized oxygen, but there might be others too probably depending on the specific height of the craft.
Sorry for ruining it, I drank my coffee this morning.
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Well there are masses of particles solid, gas, or plasma(I do not think liquid can exist in pure space). But for the other 99.999% or whatever is there little particles floating around? I am too lazy/burnt out to look this up. I am interested and am not just arguing for the sake of it.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Tangerines]
#8022207 - 02/14/08 12:18 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Tangerines said: There are no particles in space though. Right? Or maybe I am just thinking about this wrong.
There are DEFINITELY particles in space. In fact, ISM (Inter-stellar matter) makes up something like 5% of all the mass in our galaxy.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: xdzt]
#8022219 - 02/14/08 12:20 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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yea you are right. I forgot light is made op of particles. Duh.
I have been up for 36 hours so forgive me.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Tangerines]
#8022223 - 02/14/08 12:21 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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This will help a little I guess.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Ferris]
#8022226 - 02/14/08 12:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Yea I understand that graph. But that is not what I was wondering. We do not even know what dark energy or matter really is anyways.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Tangerines]
#8022231 - 02/14/08 12:24 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Wrong. The average particle density of the stellar medium in the Milky Way is about a million particles per square meter.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: sam420]
#8022237 - 02/14/08 12:25 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ok I am wrong. Continue with your smell of space discussion.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: sam420]
#8022243 - 02/14/08 12:27 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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There's not only light traveling in space, there's also gamma radiation, x-rays, and all those fun heavy particles. Even at the edge of the universe, scientists estimate the temperature (energy), caused by background radiation from the big bang, to be about 2 point something kelvins, which is pretty high considering. So there is indeed matter "everywhere," at least inside the universe.
You'll have to trip into another dimension to get away from the heat.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Newbie]
#8022247 - 02/14/08 12:28 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Out of all the things it could possibly be he guesses the smell must be 'space.' Oh c'mon...
edit: When I inoculate I smell rubbing alcohol, therefore spores smell like rubbing alcohol
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Tangerines]
#8022248 - 02/14/08 12:28 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Tangerines said: Ok I am wrong. Continue with your smell of space discussion.
I think it smells like waffles.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Ferris]
#8022255 - 02/14/08 12:30 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I always figured it would smell like goatse.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Ferris]
#8022262 - 02/14/08 12:32 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Ferris said: There's not only light traveling in space, there's also gamma radiation, x-rays, and all those fun heavy particles.
Gamma rays and x-rays are light.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Cowgold]
#8022292 - 02/14/08 12:38 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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You got me there.
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Ferris]
#8022299 - 02/14/08 12:40 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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Re: The Smell of Space [Re: Cowgold]
#8022309 - 02/14/08 12:43 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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