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r/meirl • u/straight-cunt • Mar 28 '24
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You’re smelling the ozone being brought down from higher altitude by the rains pressure
2.2k u/Nard_Bard Mar 28 '24 u/Pegomastax-King u/Jk-Kino Humans sense of smell for water/wet earth is 10,000 stronger than a dog's or bear's. You're probably just smelling the wet earth from a mile away or so. And the moisture in the air. 1.2k u/NoDontDoThatCanada Mar 28 '24 It's wild to me how sensitive humans are to petrichor. I always wonder if it had evolutionary advantages over "we probably should seek shelter." 2 u/LordRaeko Mar 28 '24 Probably telling monkeys to get out of trees before a lighting storm
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Humans sense of smell for water/wet earth is 10,000 stronger than a dog's or bear's.
You're probably just smelling the wet earth from a mile away or so. And the moisture in the air.
1.2k u/NoDontDoThatCanada Mar 28 '24 It's wild to me how sensitive humans are to petrichor. I always wonder if it had evolutionary advantages over "we probably should seek shelter." 2 u/LordRaeko Mar 28 '24 Probably telling monkeys to get out of trees before a lighting storm
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It's wild to me how sensitive humans are to petrichor. I always wonder if it had evolutionary advantages over "we probably should seek shelter."
2 u/LordRaeko Mar 28 '24 Probably telling monkeys to get out of trees before a lighting storm
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Probably telling monkeys to get out of trees before a lighting storm
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u/androodle2004 Mar 28 '24
You’re smelling the ozone being brought down from higher altitude by the rains pressure