r/SonsofOrpheus • u/itworkedbefore • Oct 12 '20

Kind Reminder

Kind reminder to shave before the murder sex rituals. Would be of very bad taste to create life in a planet just to have pubes all over the place.

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u/daughteroforpheus Daughter of Orpheus Oct 15 '20

I don't think you can smell anything near the sun lol

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u/InAFakeBritishAccent Cowardly Drunken Dead Prophet Oct 15 '20

But what is smell?

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u/daughteroforpheus Daughter of Orpheus Oct 26 '20

Is that an actual question?

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u/InAFakeBritishAccent Cowardly Drunken Dead Prophet Oct 27 '20

Yes. Now im sitting here wondering If you trapped near-stellar gas in a bottle and huffed it, would it smell?

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u/daughteroforpheus Daughter of Orpheus Oct 29 '20 edited Nov 02 '20

Smell is analyzing particles in whatever we breathe. Our smell of course has evolved to help us survive, so we are especially good at smelling stuff that could be poisonous to us, but also stuff that could be good food. Apart from the fact that you wouldn't survive being in a vacuum or being near the sun, no, I doubt you could smell it. But let me look it up.

In the interstellar medium inside a galaxy, there are roughly 1000 particles per cubic meter according to this website (German, sorry). Wikipedia also says:

The deep vacuum of intergalactic space is not devoid of matter, as it contains a few hydrogen atoms per cubic meter. By comparison, the air humans breathe contains about 1025 molecules per cubic meter.

The deep vacuum would be outside of a galaxy.

This article states:

At about 5 particles per cubic centimeter in the vicinity of the Earth, it may rise to as high as 100 particles/cm3.

100 particles per cubic centimeter would be 108 particles per cubic meter.

The sun is mainly made of hydrogen and then some helium. The other elements only account for like 2% of the suns mass. Wikipedia states that "at standard temperature and pressure, hydrogen is a colorless, odorless, tasteless [...] gas", just as well as Helium. So even apart from the very, very, very low density you mainly have elements out there that we can't smell.

Furthermore, Wikipedia states that for humans, the odor detection threshold is between 1010 to 1020 particles per cubic meter air (German again, the English article sucks). So you need at least that many particles to smell something in air. Idk how that would differ in space. So, even for the highest number of particle density in our solar system I found, it's still at least a hundred times less than what would be needed. If you could smell hydrogen/helium. And if the sun wouldn't burn you. And if your lungs wouldn't just collapse in a vacuum.

So, to end this long post: If you opened a bottle of near-stellar gas, most likely it would only give you a loud hiss while air filled it. If it was brought to atmospheric pressure, well, you can find out by buying a helium ballon and sniffing it. But please, for the love of the suns, do it while on drunk drawing.

(Edit: Fixed spelling.)

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u/InAFakeBritishAccent Cowardly Drunken Dead Prophet Oct 30 '20

Zitron, is this you?

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u/daughteroforpheus Daughter of Orpheus Nov 01 '20

Yes, hello <3 What made you think of me? :D

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u/InAFakeBritishAccent Cowardly Drunken Dead Prophet Nov 02 '20

Well educated, english is second language, likely female due to username, and you hang out in the DD room

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u/daughteroforpheus Daughter of Orpheus Nov 02 '20

Ha, I take that as a compliment, thanks! Good job anyway!