Interesting! And sorry for asking (I think) all the questions on the FAQ at some time or other. Although I think the reason people find it surprising is that there's no outward sign of it as there (probably) would be if you were blind/deaf -- I think the default position is to assume that somebody has all 5 senses intact unless there's reason to believe otherwise.
I do have two other Qs, but I don't know if they're FA or not so I don't know if you'd want to add them...
1. Have you ever consulted a doctor or other medical wossname to see if there's any way it could be cured? (To come back to the deafness analogy, is there any such thing as a smelling aid?)
2. Would you want to have the chance to smell if you could?
The only other point I wanted to make was about your nervousness about gas leaks -- have you got one of those gas-leak-detector colour-changing thingies? Dunno if that would assuage your worries any.
The university of warwick are, as far as I know, world leaders in robotic noses. They've chips with thousands of silicon receptors shaped like different molecules connected to a computer. This was in the mid-nineties, I'm not sure how it's progressed since then.
And sorry for asking (I think) all the questions on the FAQ
Don't worry about it :-) Nobody who asked these questions is at fault for having done so; it's perfectly reasonable that they might want to know the answers! It's only people who ask questions when a FAQ is conveniently available who are culpable, and in this particular case that probably won't be true even now I've written it...
Anyway, your questions:
1. No; it's never bothered me enough to go to the effort.
2. If it were easy I'd probably give it a try out of curiosity, and I suppose the experience might conceivably change my answer to 1 :-)
When I watched "Strange Days", one of the people I saw it with made reference to the scene where the guy with no legs gets given a sensory recording of an athlete running along a beach, and suggested that if I lived in that world I could try a sensory recording from a smell-rich environment of some sort. It hadn't so much as occurred to me while actually watching the film, though, so I'm clearly not that desperately curious to know :-)
I haven't got a gas leak detector, no, but it might be a good idea now you mention it...
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I do have two other Qs, but I don't know if they're FA or not so I don't know if you'd want to add them...
1. Have you ever consulted a doctor or other medical wossname to see if there's any way it could be cured? (To come back to the deafness analogy, is there any such thing as a smelling aid?)
2. Would you want to have the chance to smell if you could?
The only other point I wanted to make was about your nervousness about gas leaks -- have you got one of those gas-leak-detector colour-changing thingies? Dunno if that would assuage your worries any.
Don't worry about it :-) Nobody who asked these questions is at fault for having done so; it's perfectly reasonable that they might want to know the answers! It's only people who ask questions when a FAQ is conveniently available who are culpable, and in this particular case that probably won't be true even now I've written it...
Anyway, your questions:
1. No; it's never bothered me enough to go to the effort.
2. If it were easy I'd probably give it a try out of curiosity, and I suppose the experience might conceivably change my answer to 1 :-)
When I watched "Strange Days", one of the people I saw it with made reference to the scene where the guy with no legs gets given a sensory recording of an athlete running along a beach, and suggested that if I lived in that world I could try a sensory recording from a smell-rich environment of some sort. It hadn't so much as occurred to me while actually watching the film, though, so I'm clearly not that desperately curious to know :-)
I haven't got a gas leak detector, no, but it might be a good idea now you mention it...