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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Sun Nov 12, 2017, 02:55 PM Nov 2017

Neil deGrasse Tyson: "I love the smell of the universe in the morning"

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Thought this was cool.

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Neil deGrasse Tyson: "I love the smell of the universe in the morning" (Original Post) steve2470 Nov 2017 OP

I hear that most of the universe smells like burnt metal Cirque du So-What Nov 2017 #1

Cirque du So-What

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1. I hear that most of the universe smells like burnt metal

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Sun Nov 12, 2017, 03:10 PM

Nov 2017

Space, that is. Astronauts reported that smell from compartments that had been exposed to the vacuum of space. Some theorize that it's a leftover aroma from the big bang itself.

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