   Powerful sense of smell
  Yesterday I read that dogs have a sense of smell forty times better than humans. I remember reading that bears can smell a hundred times better than dogs, and salmon a hundred times better than bears. Salmon can sniff the air and tell if that''s the place they were born. I guess the saying that animals can smell fear on you is true.I have trouble imagining what exactly odors are like at that magnitude. It''s easier to imagine what better hearing is like. I know my dog doesn''t find anything as smelling bad. I wonder if they actually do find things to smell bad but they''re brave enough to keep smelling it. 
  I would imagine they are used to it.  Our sense of smell is actually good... just ask the people who make artificial flavors. ;  What''s a bad smell?  A smell that typically belongs to something bad.  So what we find to be a bad smell isn''t the same as what a dog would.Has your dog ever eaten spoiled meat?  Probably not.  Why? Because it smells bad to the dog.  Your dog just doesn''t care about the same stuff you care about.  He smells unpleasent stuff all the time.Monkees have better smelling than us.  And the first thing anybody using the internet learns is that monkees don''t like the smell of their own butt.CM ;quote:Original post by Conner McCloud  Monkees have better smelling than us.  And the first thing anybody using the internet learns is that monkees don''t like the smell of their own butt.Outstanding.;  my dog has eaten spoiled meat before ;  The really crazy sense of smell comes when you are sick.  You either smell nothing at all or you smell everything within a mile radius all at once.  I don''t know which is worse. ;quote:Original post by mtw  It''s easier to imagine what better hearing is like.Actually, I doubt that anyone would be able to imagine it. On TV and whatnot (Smallville, anyone?), superhuman hearing is just presented as everything being incredibly loud and therefore the ability to hear very quiet sounds. But I doubt that our brains would be able to handle so many more sounds; we''d either have to develop the ability to screen out sounds, or we''d just go crazy from all the noise, and our brain working to figure out where each noise is coming from.(Making things up now.) Plus we''d probably have to develop two eardrums or something, each for detecting a different range of frequencies. ;quote:Original post by psykr  quote:Original post by mtw   It''s easier to imagine what better hearing is like.Actually, I doubt that anyone would be able to imagine it. On TV and whatnot (Smallville, anyone?), superhuman hearing is just presented as everything being incredibly loud and therefore the ability to hear very quiet sounds. But I doubt that our brains would be able to handle so many more sounds; we''d either have to develop the ability to screen out sounds, or we''d just go crazy from all the noise, and our brain working to figure out where each noise is coming from.Wow, our brain does need an extra processing power. I am considering installing dual brain now. ;quote:Original post by Kadesh  The really crazy sense of smell comes when you are sick.  You either smell nothing at all or you smell everything within a mile radius all at once.  I don''t know which is worse.   sorry bob, but that is NOT possible, humans have lost many receptors for smell (in our nose) to gain one extra receptor for color (in our eyes), so the human has actualy rgb+hue(brightness) receptors and each animal with good smell abilitys has 2colors+hue.<--ive seen this in a tv documentation so no clickys T2k ;quote:Original post by T2k  sorry bob, but that is NOT possible, humans have lost many receptors for smell (in our nose) to gain one extra receptor for color (in our eyes), so the human has actualy rgb+hue(brightness) receptors and each animal with good smell abilitys has 2colors+hue.<--ive seen this in a tv documentation so no clickys Interesting...so in order to enhance one''s sense, he/she must sacrifice some functionality of other senses.very interesting...now where did I put that design doc... 