cholerics 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
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hoths answered:
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!
After two weeks in Hawai'i, I feel inspired and refreshed. Such a dramatic landscape and vibrant culture.
Excited to get back to tattooing in Brooklyn, @eastrivertattoo
📧 victorjwebster@gmail.com (at Kalapana Lava Flow)
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This piece of coastal sea cliff is found on Alaska’s North Slope at a location called Drew Point. These blocks are a fascinating combination of changing climate and previously frozen landscape. The soil at this site is held together by Permafrost – it is cold enough that there is a soil layer containing year-round ice just below the surface. However, when that permafrost is exposed to the open ocean, it melts rapidly, allowing the ocean to eat away at the bottommost sediments and removing support for the soil above.
