Monday, September 10, 2007

Olfactory thoughts

I was walking down a smelly subway when i remembered the thing about smell in Sir Isaac asimov's foundation novels. He says that for humans, it takes a while to adjust in another planet because of it's smell.

so , i believe our second problem after oxygen and nitrogen content on another planet has to be their smell.

If it's that tough for us to adjust to different smells, then i am glad and elated that i'm not a canine because canines have around 220 million olfactory receptors, whereas we humans luckily have much lesser.

So, the next time you wish you weren't born, think of a dogs smell senses [:D].

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