On 5/26/2017 4:14 PM, clipka wrote:
> Am 26.05.2017 um 16:53 schrieb Kenneth:
>
>> It's fascinating to think that Earth's atmosphere would look somewhat similar to
>> Jupiter's swirling gas clouds, if we had a similar opague atmosphere. Good thing
>> we don't have ammonia and hydrogen sulfide here, instead of oxygen/nitrogen; for
>> one thing, it would smell really bad ;-P
>
> Actually no, it wouldn't.
>
> Hydrogen sulfide only stinks at low concentrations.
>

Actually, I like the smell of H2S. It makes me feel hungry. To me it 
smells of boiled eggs not rotten eggs.


> At high concentrations, it literally kills your sense of smell even
> before you notice it.
>

Then it kills you.
Not many people know, because it was hushed up, that three men were 
killed on the Brent Spar by H2S.
One man collapsed in a vessel and when two others went into it to rescue 
him. They too were overcome. (Late 70's or early 80's, I think)

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Regards
     Stephen

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