Sciencegasm!
 

For posting links that give you a sciencegasm. Obviously.

Turin, my current darling, lecturing on his radical smell-receptor theory:

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/l..._of_scent.html

Did you know if close your eyes and block your smell receptors, you can't taste the difference between an apple and a potato?

If it is based on pure vibrational energy I wonder if I can get light to smell.

It's based on the frequency at which the molecules vibrate. Without a molecule to fit into the receptor that reads the vibrations, no.

All I know about smell science is that thor's feet break all previously conjectured rules, and he's only 7.

Technically, it's the vibration of the links between the atoms that make up the molecule.

would it be possible to block smells with a nose vibrator, then?

like those noise canceling headphones?

oh......check it out

Depending on the receptors it is vibrational energy, so any energy with the right vibration should work.

Oh my god, no. The molecules actually have to fit into the receptor for the...


never mind.


:(

Are you thinking about poop molecules?

poop fart butt :lol:

So, basically, if you shove an unprotected toothbrush up your nose in the bathroom...

So far this week, not only has NASA rejigged the Hubble Space Telescope to keep it going for a few more years, but also the European Space Agency successfully launched the Herschel Space Observatory and Planck satellite on the same Arianne 5 rocket. This was high risk - two VERY expensive eggs in one basket - but they pulled it off.

We have eyes in the sky, pointing outwards from the Earth. This is good.

Well done to all those Whitecoat techno-boffins whose efforts made this possible. I'm sure most of them read the cellar.

Sixth sense - simply incredible.
 

Have y'all seen this? Device which makes your Blackberry look like a stone writing tablet. The device displays an interface in front of you on any flat surface. Query amazon to get a review of a book you're holding, check flight 'on-time' status from your boarding pass, google the name of a person standing in front of you.


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/p...xth_sense.html

SO FREAKING COOL WANT WANT WANT!