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How does smell work?

submitted by GreenSaint to whatever 1 weekApr 22, 2025 19:44:14 ago (+2/-0)     (whatever)

How come you can cook on the grill. Or set a cat on fire or whatever. And the wind is blowing very clearly to let’s say the north. You can stand 100 feet to the south. Yet you can still smell it. How’s that work?I always thought smell was like micro particles of whatever you’re smelling.


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[ - ] Her0n 1 point 1 weekApr 23, 2025 21:07:36 ago (+1/-0)

The wind isn't strong enough in one direction to create an upwind/downwind scenario.

If you can smell it, that means the particles have physically reached that area.

[ - ] Steelerfish 3 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 19:57:07 ago (+3/-0)

I can smell the curry impregnated shit from Conspirojeet through my monitor.

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 22:30:05 ago (+1/-0)

That's a spicy take.

[ - ] Clubberlang 2 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 22:27:57 ago (+2/-0)

I guess the same way you can walk into an isle in a shopping center that has absolutely nobody in it drop a low key butt nugget hurricane and magically people will appear out of nowhere.

[ - ] puremadness 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 23:37:20 ago (+1/-0)

Is it crazy to assume that there are more "particles" then we infer from cartoons?

[ - ] MeyerLansky 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 23:30:40 ago (+1/-0)

How many cats have you set on fire?

[ - ] namefagsrgay 2 points 1 weekApr 23, 2025 07:51:13 ago (+2/-0)

Not enough

[ - ] GreenSaint [op] 0 points 1 weekApr 23, 2025 10:15:21 ago (+0/-0)

Best answer

[ - ] RollinDaGrassTyson 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 22:13:45 ago (+1/-0)

The flaming cat and your brain negotiate a connection and establish a link speed which the smell saturates to the width that the connection will accommodate. Direct fire cat to brain communication.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 21:18:36 ago (+1/-0)

If you can smell a fart, you are ingesting poo particles 💩

[ - ] Clubberlang 2 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 22:29:14 ago (+2/-0)

No dumb fuck. You dealt it. Is the saying. No wonder you're not invited to the cool kids parties.

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 23:34:58 ago (+1/-0)

Hay, fuck you. You know I’m right.

[ - ] Clubberlang 1 point 3 daysApr 27, 2025 20:58:13 ago (+1/-0)

You smelt it you dealt it.

[ - ] HelenHighwater 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 20:00:59 ago (+1/-0)

You have learned to interpret brain response signatures as 'smells'. The pattern has been syntaptically liked to the source through observation. Your brain automatically looks up the file when you recognize the (pattern) smell.

Easy as.

[ - ] Spaceman84 1 point 1 weekApr 22, 2025 19:51:03 ago (+1/-0)

Air doesn’t move in just one direction. Particles are spread in all directions.

[ - ] Cantaloupe 0 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 22:54:38 ago (+0/-0)

Wind shift, turbulence, thermals - it's returning somehow

[ - ] TheOriginal1Icemonkey 0 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 21:24:19 ago (+0/-0)

[ - ] dirtywhiteboy 0 points 1 weekApr 22, 2025 19:46:27 ago (+1/-1)

How come you're alive posting dumb ass shit here? How does that work?