According to scientists at the ESA, if you could smell a comet, it would be like sharing a barn with drunk and a dozen rotten eggs. Or, in other words, like a typical frat house.
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According to scientists at the ESA, if you could smell a comet, it would be like sharing a barn with drunk and a dozen rotten eggs. Or, in other words, like a typical frat house.
More info here.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
I think a comet hit our laundry basket.
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
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I thought this was a discussion on the Mercury Comet..... and yes they really do stink!
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
They don't usually run long enough to stink all that much.Originally Posted by VE7DCW
I thought this was a discussion on the Mercury Comet..... and yes they really do stink!
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
My mother used to own a 5th generation 1973 Mercury Comet....... it was a POS that stank really badly......it ran long enough!
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
It's got a high percentage of H2S (Aitch Tu Ess) on board so its certainly not going to smell like a rose. More like a swamp.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
And (Et Tu Brute) to you fiddleman
A clear conscience is usually a sign of a bad memory
RIP ALBI-W3MIV RIP RUSS-W5RB RIP BOB-VK3ZL
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
When I was working in the Chemistry lab we sometimes needed to generate H2S gas for experiments. We used to buy these vials called "Aitch Tu Ess" generators. They were basically glass vials with cork stoppers containing a mixture of sulphur, carbon, and parrafin. You would gently heat the mixture in a stoppered test tube with a vent tube to release the gas into whatever vessel you were reacting with the gas. One day I brought one of the cartridges home and I removed a very small amount of the powder and heated it over a cigarette lighter. It generated such a stink that we had to open all the windows and clear the house for at least an hour. Hydrogen sulphide really stinks even in tiny concentrations.
For you antique electronics buffs, did you ever have a selenium rectifier overheat ?? The stench is Selenium Sulphide gas, and IMHO stinks even worst than H2S. Smells like something dead and rotting.
BTW I should mention, both gases are extremely toxic.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
When I was in Fort St.John (the more or less center for the Natural gas drilling industry of British Columbia) for a couple of months in 1986,I met a guy who was a driller who by accident was hit by H2S when they hit a sour gas well.He was fortunate not to be killed by the Hydrogen Sulphide gas,but it did leave him with some brain damage.......H2S is serious stuff in the Natural gas business! :shock:
Why,driving into a brick wall at 60 miles per hour, would I expect it not to hurt!
Walk and Talk like a Canajun!!
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