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The military does that. The USS Trayer is a ship disaster simulator. "Suddenly, we're on a pier, the Trayer rising above us. We're indoors, but a gentle breeze carries the distinctive tang of the sea. Gulls caw somewhere overhead, and waves lap between the pier and the hull." It looks and smells like a real ship, but it's indoors in North Chicago, at the Navy's training center.

The army version, a section of a Third World city: "From the control center AFSOC can observe and change everything from lighting to sounds and smells. “They can simulate the smell of a bakery right down to burning cars or rotting meat.” The US military has several facilities like that.




Don’t you actually need something that smells like burning car though? I really wonder how you’d create that artificially.


Burning rubber, oil, plastic, and leather probably do most of it.




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