Teach me something new today, or random trivia......

[george graves]

He just poorly worded it(for dramatic effect perhaps? People like to do that...It's like when people talk about how the earth has a "frequency" non-sense. Drives me bonkers)

Warning - this is overly simplified...but...for reflective objects...

When white light(containing all the colors of the rainbow) hits, lets say, a "red" flower, all the colors of the rainbow are adsorbed except red. So green's and blue's, etc, are adsorbed, and the red is reflected back to us. So we see the flower as red. Is it really red? Well....That's is more of a philosophical question.

[TwoJ's]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

I believe this to be fabricated nonsense. Where did you hear/read this little piece of info?




By the way, great idea for a thread Buddy.

[TwoJ's]

The photon doesn't "Know" it's being watched.
The very fact that it's being recorded or viewed alters the universe, and the photon's outcome. It changes it from being a wave and a particle at the same time and in many places, back to a particle in a single plane of the universal existence..

Very, very interesting stuff. I usually go to bed watching stuff like that. The very fact that it's being viewed changes it's properties.
Put's a WHOLE new meaning to "If a tree falls in the woods"..

Of course it doesn't know anything... that's not what I meant. And since the detectors they are using don't interfere with the photon at all, then the fact that it is being "watched" doesn't change its behavior, but rather it changes what we think are the laws of physics. Either that, or there is some type of force that exists that we do not know of (i.e. not electromagnetic, gravitational or nuclear... all of the forces that we know of are based on those three) or that is too complex for our brains to comprehend.

That latter point is another interesting topic. It is entirely possible that there are things going on in the universe (possibly a fourth or nth dimension) that should be very apparent to anyone on Earth, yet we cannot comprehend or even observe them because of the limitations of our brains.

I forget the example used, but there are animals on Earth that cannot observe or know of three dimensions. So what makes us think that we would be able to know of a fourth dimension if it were right in front of our faces?

[george graves]

A polar bear's skin is actually black. It's black so it can soak up as much of the sun's rays as possible. Polar bears have almost transparent fur over black skin. Reflection of the sunlight from the densely packed transparent hairs makes polar bears seem to be white. The bears' black skin absorbs heat from the sun. The seemingly-transparent fur is made up of hollow hairs called guard hairs. These air-filled guard hairs help transmit heat from the sunlight to the polar bear's black skin as a solar heat collector.

[blackhawkimpact]

Learn this a few days ago from Animal Planet.

"The pressure of the crocodile's bite is more than 5,000 pounds per square inch"

[Butler]

Fear of spiders is called arachnophobia,

fear of Chuck Norris is called logic.

[Mike325]

its red because its not red.

Right, thats what I said.

[blackhawkimpact]

The hippopotamus’s skin is protected by its own pink oily secretion known as ‘Pink sweat’.

[mrsleeve]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

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Live Lobsters are maroon to red in day light, because red wave lengths penetrate water the deepest as the light passes though it. So their shells are that color to absorb the red wave lengths thus appear to be black on on the bottom of the ocean and reflect little to NO light, making it harder for predators to see them.

[devon.818]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

its red because its not red.

[Mike325]

The color that you see on an object is because that object is every color except the color that you see.

For example, if you see a red car, that car is red because that car is every color except red.

[e34john]

The combined weight of all the ants in the world weighs more than all the elephants in the world.

[Dj Buttchug]

the real name for freeze plugs is actually core plugs

[phreshkid]

When I was born, the doctor had to crack my baby skull open and releive pressure that was trapped in my brain cavity. I had a scar until I was about 10 years old. Don't know if it did any brain damage.


Also while my dad was young and lived in old school Romania, one of his cows had a 2 headed baby cow. It only lived for an hour. Two heads isn't always better than one.

[Kershaw]

in response to the qwerty keyboard

http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/