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[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I have first hand experience of the smell, I was told this by a scientist on our way to Antarctica.

Here's the research paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.00926

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just to put the smell in perspective….

Is it worse than a sack of spoiling potatoes?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've never smelled bad potatoes, but penguins eat mostly krill so just imagine tons of fishy poop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

It’s not a smell I can really recommend, let’s just say it’s the most, uh, memorable smell I’ve smelled.

(Specifically cleaning dormitories over summer. Someone left a sack. Ac was turned off.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

im fascinated by the fact that some people actually go to Antarctica

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

you don't have to shout, we hear you well enough