When you drive by a dead skunk in the road, why does it take about 10 seconds before you smell it?
98114
becuse skunk is like a fart. it takes a wile to accelarate to its full stinky power
774965
The absolutely MOST rancid thing I've ever smelled came about when we left a trash can uncovered outside during the rain.  The trash can had about 1 foot of dirt and dead plants at the bottom, then a little bit of food/kitchen trash.   \nSo it rained and the water went in the trash can, then it SAT.  Still for like 7 days.  The small became absolutely PUTRID and RANCID. It felt as though the smell was "louder" and you could smell it from 20 feet away!
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It has been well-documented that most people like the smell of skunk- if it is diluted enough. Skunk scent and our own 'gas' are made up of a lot of the same chemicals.\n\nOf course, it is socially inappropriate to suggest you like certain smells, skunk and gas being high on the list. \n\nAnd, on the other hand, most people's gas is either pretty strong, very sulphury, or otherwise somewhat more unpleasant- due to diet, metabolism, personal chemistry, etc.
635959
Don't do it!! It might be a dead skunk!
545220
No worries, 30 seconds is a looooong time for anything flying, you know?  The moment you closed the door those bugs couldn't see/smell you anymore, so either they found something else to chase or went home.  Remember they don't understand the concept of doors or houses & wouldn't hang around until you came back like they do in movies.  For them you basically disappeared.
365334
I worked at a lake resort where this was a constant problem...skunks!  People were buying toothpaste to wash with and they said it worked great..3 or more tubes of it should do it.
564701
hahaha rofl well i think the fart/scent particles move with it.  Like a stink trail on a skunk's a** in these cartoons.  So it will smell where you are coming from and where you are going
687523
I am from Alaska. Close to Fairbanks. Back in '79, I was bringing my date home from the movies and as we pulled into her driveway, we smelled something that smelled like a garbage truck smells. As I was walking around to open her door, I heard a "WUFF" kind of sound from the porch,  (alaskan porches are enclosed. We call them Arctic entrances)where the trash can was. I got back in the truck and honked the horn and a fairly young Griz came bolting off the porch(he'd been rooting around in the trashcan) and took off for the trees. We both laughed about it and she thought it was pretty funny. \n\nAbout 2 years later  we were picking blueberries in a field not far from our house and a Griz put his head up, not 30 yards from us. He was all into the berries and couldn't be bothered with us. We made our way slowly back to my truck and made do with what we had picked. She thought that was funny, too.\n\nI married that girl after that and we've been married 25 years now.
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Probably pollution caused by motor vehicles.
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There must be some reason why their going slow, just honk your horn or flash your lights to get their attention. \nSafety first.
1009414
piss in a bottle and set it in the sun for few days and should be worse than any skunk spray on earth. glad im not on your list to get even with. ps. put lid on jar.
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Because it's loud and it stinks.
274693
they smell it, blood gives of a metalic scent and some other scents too, how do scents travel through that much water the water that quickly?\nThat's the real question
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If a bear chits in the woods, and theres no one there to smell it does it still smell?
946140
Sometimes, poltergeists make weird smells.  Not that I've ever smelled a poltergeist.  I guess it would be hard to smell a ghost if it weren't corporeal--it would be hard for it to carry around a smell since it left its rotting flesh somewhere else.  But if it can create a sensation you can see, maybe it could create a smell sensation, too.
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both creatures have anal glands that produce a strong smelling liquid. the difference is that skunks can spray from those sacks at will, while dogs generally have some come out every time they defecate, leaving a territorial marker for other animals to find. Dogs can often have problems (especially if they are on an all soft-food diet) emptying the glands in this way, which can lead to infection or worse.
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Five feet per second.\n\nSeriously, it depends on a lot of different conditions.  Smells travel in the air by what's called diffusion. Molecules are always moving, bumping and jostling each other, so they mix. The rate of natural mixing or diffusion depends on how often molecules encounter one another. The same with how long it takes a smell to dissipate. If the wind is blowing, there will be more mixing. That can either make the smell reach you sooner, or it can spread the smell out so that you don't notice it at all. \n\nThe speed with which a smell travels depends on how fast the molecules are going, how massive they are, the relative temperature of the molecules making the smell, and how many molecules there are in a given volume, their density. We express all this mathematically as a gas's temperature and pressure. By the way, our brains are quite used to air, so for the most part, we don't smell oxygen, nitrogen, or carbon dioxide; we smell the other molecules instead.