Jones Beene
Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:23:06 -0700
Michael Foster wrote:
Yet there it is. The damn metals smell anyway. Even though I have no familiarity with smell of platinum-iridium alloy, I wouldn't be surprisedif that alloy as well has a distinctive odor.
This reminds me of the insight of my favorite detective - Hieronymus Bosch... not the painter, the tunnel rat.
Every time he must go to the LA morgue, he remembers that the cororner repeatedly warns the rookies that almost all odor there is *paticulate* based, and not vapor.
Vapor - presumably is highly preferable to small bits of rapidly decaying flesh - and certain in a morgue something gaseous would be somewhat less ... how shall we say ... revolting?
This may be a bit too graphic for a contemplative audience of experimenters, but it does reinforce the point you are making...
Jones