Your farts might smell but natural gas doesn't
Silent but deadly.
Just like how the deadly methanol[1] has no taste, the equally deadly natural gas has no smell. After a few high profile leaks[2] odourants were added to allow humans to detect leaks naturally.[3]
https://blog.leodong.me/the-cure-for-methanol-is-in-the-name/ ↩︎
And subsequent explosions, like the one that happened in a school in Texas which killed more than 300 students and teachers; https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_London_School_explosion. ↩︎
