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Dear QLers,I want to hear your comment on these vastly different two pieces of news I found on AOL website today
News 1:
Outer space 'smells like hot metal'
Last Updated: Friday, 17 October 2008, 00:35 GMT
Outer space smells like fried steak, hot metal and welding a motorbike, according to scientists.
Nasa has commissioned Steven Pearce, a chemist and managing director of fragrance manufacturing company Omega Ingredients, to recreate the smell of space in a laboratory.His research will be used to help astronauts prepare for the conditions they will encounter in space.
News 2
Donkey jailed for stealing corn
Last Updated: Friday, 17 October 2008, 00:35 GMT
An Egyptian donkey has been jailed for stealing corn on the cob from a field belonging to an agricultural research institute in the Nile Delta.
The ass and its owner were held at a police checkpoint that had been set up after the institute's director complained that someone was stealing his crops.
The donkey was found in possession of the institute's corn and a local judge sentenced him to 24 hours in prison. His owner got off with a fine of 50 Egyptian pounds (£5).
Hehehe I will take any convert I can get :)
BTW adey ... I'm male ... it's shamirI ;-)
everyone knows IPU loves astronaughts.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
Convert!
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
just the faith in FSM - it will provide; science? PAH!!
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
Like we need another worthless discovery in the field of science!
NASA invented the Fischer Space pen. It writes under water, in vacuum, upside down etc etc. Cost a couple of million $ to do. Russians use pencils ;-)
Having said that, the space program gave us:
Velcro,
Shape memory metal,
artificial heart technology
smoke detectors
electronic thermometers
advances in ceramics, metallurgy, clothing materials, crash helmets,plastics, semi conductors, sports training
joystick controllers
edible toothpaste (wont catch ME using it though)
water purification systems
solar energy conversion
magnetic liquids
and on and on and on. almost every area of modern life has been "improved" through research done by NASA.
1. Like we need another worthless discovery in the field of science!
2. If the donkey would've been Hugh Hefner, I'll be interested to see the courtroom drama unfold.
"Everything in this book may be wrong." Illusions: The Adventures of The Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach
It happend in Egypt,no,,,,,,, THen no comments
I see we were at cross purposes. Being a moron myself that is something I would choose to overlook.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
"'Kurt Vonneguts' definition of a moron", adey.
? If I know what? I am confused by what you mean.
:)
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
MD. Because I think the people who came up with this BS are morons, and are equating the experience of biting their own bathtub fart bubbles (or in this case analysing the remnants of farts entrapped in used space suits), to the nonexistent odours of outer space.
adey, if you know it, you should help me. Isn't QL a "social community"?
more research is needed. Simple
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
no, overlook. I only know that a moron is a bacteriophage and a description for a person's mental state in psychology. Why?
MD, that would seem to be a more reasonable explanation of 'outer space smells'.
Are you familiar with 'Kurt Vonneguts' definition of a moron?
Someone who bites the bubbles of his own farts in the bathtub...
adey, in space there are approximately one or two protons per cubic meter. And further, the chance that molecules form is so ridiciously slim that I have serious doubts that any chemical compound or even element except for hydrogen exists out there. So, they are really talking about their farts which they released into their spacesuits during their EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity).
please read above statement. Reactions from astronaughts, describing the smell of their suits after retuning from space walks.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
Just HTF can anybody know what 'outer space' smells like?
Take a whiff in 'outer space' and all your innards will be instantly 'vacuumed' out of your body.
Did the astronauts bottle a sample of the vacuum of space during a spacewalk and bring it back to be sniffed?!
Perhaps they just got a distant whiff of the Martians barbecuing the Venusians?
Please, there is enough BS in our own world, let's not export it to 'outer space'!
Talking of BS, when you have experienced the sight of an Egyptian policeman in Cairo attempting to direct traffic at a roundabout, and you see lots of drivers who ignore him and insist on going around the roundabout in the wrong direction, then you will realise that a donkey being placed under arrest in Egypt is not an issue worthy of comment...
a smell/molecules can cling - ask anyone the next day who has been in a smokey environment. We know now that 'space' is not a 'pure' vacuum, so what is it that produces this smell?
I find it rather interesting.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
"when they had been outside and then returned to the space station and were de-suiting and taking off their helmets, they all reported quite particular odours". Since they were not "breathing" the outside "air", they probably produced the "smell" within their space suits, depending on what they had eaten for breakfast.
I am sure that the donkey was very happy with it's sentence. 24hrs rest and a good meal! Not everybody would be so lucky.
Aisha-Taweela
"We have a few clues as to what space smells like. First of all, there were interviews with astronauts that we were given, when they had been outside and then returned to the space station and were de-suiting and taking off their helmets, they all reported quite particular odours.
"For them, what comes across is a smell of fried steak, hot metal and even welding a motorbike, one of them said.
"The suggestion to us has been that it's about creating realism for their training, so they train the astronauts in their suits by putting them in big water tanks to simulate the loss of gravity and so it's just about making sure the whole thing is a realistic training exercise.
"We have already produced the smell of fried steak, but hot metal is proving more difficult. We think it's a high energy vibration in the molecule and that's what we're trying to add to it now."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/3210415/Space-smells-like-fried-steak-and-hot-metal-say-Nasa-scientists.html
The next question will be how/why does it have this 'smell' -and what can we learn from this? Will this knowledge help us understand any other aspects of knowledge that is uncertain.....and so on.
Never useless.
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
I think the word you are looking for is 'inquisitive'.
Heaven forbid an enquiring mind might find knowledge (for it's own sake) and it's attendant practical applications useful!
much better to be content with the status quo......now where can I find two sticks to rub together to make that bright and warm stuff?
"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
That's right....it's all tax payers money going to waste...i am not against science and research but research into nonsensical stuff, it's....well got no word for it...help me.
oh dear that's true...i didn't think of this...anyway, you're the expert in Physics, you know better...thanks for sharing that piece of valuable info...
and Scarlett that's what i thought initially? they would be wearing their mask and brathing from their oxygen cans, I wondered too....
This idiotic NASA stuff reminds me of the UB40 song, I forgot the name, but it starts with: "Multi million dollars exploration in to space...while in the name of progress this planet is laid to waste, nations take on nations...." good song.
What seems "funny" to me is that at an average temperature of - 270 degrees Celsius (3 degrees Kelvin) they talk about "hot" metal?
incident 1...since you can't BREATHE in outer space, WHY would you want to know what it smells like?
Incident 2...Umm...wouldn't the evidence be in a rather unpleasant state when they recovered it and just HOW could they tell it was from their corn field?
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.