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Weird question, I know :P
But it stems from the bit about cats not being able to taste sweet things, because their evolution went a certain route over another. Other animals can taste more flavors, and we're one of them. But are there more flavors we're unable to taste? What would they be?
This is also similar to vision, where some animals see less colors than we do, but birds can see more than us, even UV light. It's fascinating to think about, but kind of hard to imagine, when we're unable to see or taste something it makes it almost intrinsically unimaginable to us. (Can you imagine a color outside the ones you know?)
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2015-06-10, 02:57 PM #1The Patient
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What Can We Not Taste?
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2015-06-10, 03:06 PM #2The Undying
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Air, like if you breath through your mouth.
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2015-06-10, 03:14 PM #3Titan
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Pure distilled H2O with no additives.
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2015-06-10, 04:00 PM #4The Patient
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But does pure water and air actually HAVE a taste, and we're not able to taste it? Or are they naturally bland?
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2015-06-10, 04:03 PM #5Titan
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Our elbows.
While you live, shine / Have no grief at all / Life exists only for a short while / And time demands its toll.
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2015-06-10, 04:06 PM #6Stealthed Defender
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What you do not smell is called iocane powder. It is odorless, tasteless, dissolves instantly in liquid, and is among the more deadlier poisons known to man.
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2015-06-10, 04:09 PM #7Deleted
I can't taste purple.
Yellow as well but red is possible If I try reeeal hard.
On a serious note we probably cant taste the majority of things.
Since we can only taste 5 things in the firstplace and everything else is smell.
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2015-06-10, 04:09 PM #8The Insane
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Our tongue?
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2015-06-10, 04:16 PM #9Titan
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Irony.
At least on a technicality."My successes are my own, but my failures are due to extremist leftist liberals" - Party of Personal Responsibility
Prediction for the future
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2015-06-10, 04:19 PM #10Legendary!
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how would we know what we cant taste? we...cant...taste...it...
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2015-06-10, 04:22 PM #11Fluffy Kitten
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You could look into the science of why things have taste, science on our senses has to be objective after all.
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2015-06-10, 04:23 PM #12Warchief
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molten lead.
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2015-06-10, 04:47 PM #13DeletedYes, you can. Very, very briefly. Originally Posted by GeraltsBeard
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2015-06-10, 04:48 PM #14Titan
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Tastes like burning.
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2015-06-10, 04:49 PM #15Legendary!
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that just shows things we know, not the things we will never know...like, things we cant taste? Originally Posted by Ryme
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2015-06-10, 04:50 PM #16I am Murloc!
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For not being able to taste sweets, my cat sure does love her some peppermint candy
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2015-06-10, 04:52 PM #17DeletedNow I have to resist the urge to try it again. Originally Posted by Rukh
Maybe things changed.
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2015-06-10, 04:54 PM #18The Patient
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There is a small chance that you can't taste rat-poison.
Seriously, I learned that in biology class along with other fun-facts like that there is
a small percentage of people who can't roll their tongue.
What I forgot though was which rat-poison this was exactly and I won't try some. :-)
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2015-06-10, 04:56 PM #19Epic!
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Good man Originally Posted by unbound
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2015-06-10, 04:56 PM #20Over 9000!
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