[TheForge][OT] Re: The Smell of Space - sorta OT

[Washington, Aubrey O.]

Interestingly, yesterday (or the day before) I heard part of an interview on NPR with a doctor who was talking about the use of smell in medical diagnosis.  He said he can tell when he walks in the room if a patient has poorly controlled diabetes, or renal, or liver failure just from the smell.  I've also heard an OB-GYN talk about diagnosing certain STDs from the smell.  (I make no claims as to how this applies to the smell of space.)

Aubrey

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Subject: Re: [TheForge][OT] Re: The Smell of Space - sorta OT

The human nose can be trained to very high levels of discrimination.
Examples of such are  chefs, coffee roasters, people that mix and developed
perfumes.  There are probably many other jobs where the human nose is
trained to detect minute variations in odor.  The capability is there, it
just needs to be developed through use and training.

D-ski
Westminster, MD
"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne"