Comments on: Gonna Use My Senses http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/ Scattered values and the chance of philosophy. May contain funny. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:18:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-588 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 22:03:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-588 Ah well. I'll volunteer as a guine pig. I'm not all that physically perfect anyway. Ah well. I’ll volunteer as a guine pig. I’m not all that physically perfect anyway.

]]> by: Cliff http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-587 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 17:55:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-587 Ah - one nasal cavity. I didn't think about that. Too late, the project has already kicked off. Ah - one nasal cavity. I didn’t think about that.

Too late, the project has already kicked off.

]]> by: Pete http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-586 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:50:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-586 Though you have two nostrils, they actually join up again at the top, and there is only one sensor at the top there. If your nostrils led to two separate sensors then you'd be able to detect smell in stereo (albeit not very well, as the nostrils are only a few millimetres apart). However, it would play havoc with breathing, as you'd either have to breathe through one nostril only, or the two separate cavities would still have to join up at some point. Unless, of course, you breathed in through one nostril and out through the other. But then one of them would get really cold and the other would get really warm. It's a conundrum. Though you have two nostrils, they actually join up again at the top, and there is only one sensor at the top there. If your nostrils led to two separate sensors then you’d be able to detect smell in stereo (albeit not very well, as the nostrils are only a few millimetres apart). However, it would play havoc with breathing, as you’d either have to breathe through one nostril only, or the two separate cavities would still have to join up at some point.

Unless, of course, you breathed in through one nostril and out through the other. But then one of them would get really cold and the other would get really warm.

It’s a conundrum.

]]> by: Ed R http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-585 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:59:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-585 Smell's not directional because , though you do have two nostrils, they are on the same nose. Directional smelling would require having two noses. And having two noses would spoil your physical perfection. Do you REALLY wnt to know which side of the road is the smelliest , or exactly WHERE the tacos ( tacoey? Oh boy! ) are, at the expense of being gaped at and gawked at and made fun of? No, I didn't think so. Oh, and I'm more of a Nick Frost kinda guy. sorry. No, I mean, Sorry. Smell’s not directional because , though you do have two nostrils, they are on the same nose. Directional smelling would require having two noses.
And having two noses would spoil your physical perfection.
Do you REALLY wnt to know which side of the road is the smelliest , or exactly WHERE the tacos ( tacoey? Oh boy! ) are, at the expense of being gaped at and gawked at and made fun of?

No, I didn’t think so.

Oh, and I’m more of a Nick Frost kinda guy.

sorry.
No, I mean, Sorry.

]]> by: Leemer http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-584 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 08:58:00 +0000 http://www.thisisthis.org/2006/02/15/gonna-use-my-senses/#comment-584 <I>"Millions of years of evolution behind us and I could float an air biscuit at that moment, sitting right next to someone and they would have no idea it was me."</I> Dammit, I wish I had that talent. They always seem to know it was me... “Millions of years of evolution behind us and I could float an air biscuit at that moment, sitting right next to someone and they would have no idea it was me.”

Dammit, I wish I had that talent. They always seem to know it was me…

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