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Answer A: How expressive is a color-based language?
You need to look at sign languages, which have non-linear elements and and have a somewhat tighter relationship between morphemes and phonemes than is found in spoken languages. If you were signing the bus went past me, you would make the sign for bus and then hold your hand in the &ldquo;vehicle cl...
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almost 8 years ago
Answer A: What color is a space elevator?
It's worth noting that even fairly dark objects will reflect some light. Unless the space elevator is completely absorbent (which is possible, as Vantablack is made of carbon nanotubes, but unlikely, as those are specially configured "” vertically aligned, while surely a space elevator cable will be ...
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about 8 years ago
Answer A: Garlic and Silver"‰"”"‰What's the Big Deal?
The tag on this is mythology, not hard science. You need to think mythologically. How could garlic, a spice whose only offense is plain stink, deter an attractive man with a seriously unhealthy diet, as opposed to more potent spices like pepper or azalea? Garlic is cleansing. The flavour is ref...
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about 8 years ago
Answer A: Deadly, Heavier than Air Gas
This is a real story about a lot of people dying. Lake Nyos is in a volcanically active area of Cameroon. It sits over a pool of magma, which leaks carbon dioxide gas into the lake. The gas dissolves in the water, but the lake becomes supersaturated. That means that any sudden disturbance of the wat...
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over 9 years ago