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This is science related I think

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[–] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

How... How do they know what it smells like? 🤨

tricky to kow but a couple ideas...

Astronaut Chuck "Chuckles" McGee flew there, landed and while taking a shit outside wondered why everything smelled like piss and reported back

or

they know the chemical composition based on the JWST and we know the chemical composition of piss, so one thing leads to another and here we are