for all the thinkers
 

For all the wonderers out there. I figured I'd start this and see where it'll go. I was reading for one of my classes and found the writer asking questions like when you're 5 and you have to know everything, whether it has an answer or not. So here's everyone's chance to write down the questions or thoughts you wanna ask or say. Just to give people something to think about.

I have so many I don't know where to start but we'll go with this for now:
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly?

Ever wondered how the wind gets started or how the clouds stay together in those weird shapes.

Why is it that girls expect guys to do or say things but when they do it's not good enough?

I'll think of more later I'm sure. Have a great night everyone! :)

Why do they call it a "TV Set" when you only get one?

Why do women wear a "Pair" of panties but just ONE bra?

Why do you drive in a parkway and park in a driveway?

Why does 711 have locks on their doors when they're open 24/7?

Are you allowed to chew gum during a fast?

Why do they call it a fast when it goes so damn slow?

Why do they call a women's prison a PENAL colony?

I will try my hardest to make sense.....
 

I have wondered if what I recognize as the color blue, you may recognize as the color orange. For example, my shirt is orange and we both recognize the color of my shirt as orange, but is the orange you see actually red and the orange I see see actually blue? We both call the color of my shirt orange, but we each see it as a different color, but don't know b/c to both of us, this is orange. Get me? Hope I made sense.

My brain hurts from all of this thinking. :p

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The answer is rooted in physical chemistry. Your blue shirt absorbs every wavelength of color besides blue, and thus the blue light is reflected back to you. Your eyes have special cells that recognize this wavelength of color (and other colors too-- the receptors will observe paris of color) and cause neurons to fire "blue!" to your brain. So the color you see is really just a particular wavelength of light. Does that make sense?

The reason the shirt is blue and not any other color has to do with it's chemical makeup (what kind of electron configuration the molecule has). So, as long as we have functioning color photoreceptors in our eyes (colorblind people don't have functioning color receptors), and our brains are wired to pass on those neuronal signals from photoreceptors, we will all see blue as blue.

There's much more detail to it than that, but I can't really remember. Hope this helps.
-M

My boyfriend is blue/green colorblind. I wonder what it would be like to see those colors like he does?

Check this site out, it might help you....

http://webexhibits.org/causesofcolors/2.html

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I have *always* wondered this, too! Color is subjective, people that study this stuff will tell you that no 2 people see colors EXACTLY the same. So I always wonder how different it can be.

::bangs head against desk:: NO NO make it stop!!!! :eek:

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The wind is started due to the movement of air from high pressure to low pressure. you see, the sun's rays will heat the air, causing air pressure to rise and the air to heat. as the air rises, air pressure will fall. when the sun goes down there is less wind because air pressure equalizes.

:) thanks for the info.
those specific questions came from my reading. which had absolutely nothing to do what the book is really about i've come to find out

I always wondered how "FOOD" got its name. It's funny, it's such a weird sounding name to describe something you eat. "FOOD"....

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That was kind of part of my thesis for Child Developmental Theories- I proposed something along the lines that if a child was taught that the color orange was called "blue" then that is how they would know it. Nothing stopped your parents from teaching you that the creature commonly known as a dog was called a "shmegeggie," but they didn't. Scientifically speaking, we know that everyone sees things (such as color) differently, how then DO parents TRULY teach children things like the recognition of color? ....etc.

great thread by the way :)

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Wow, thanks for that explanation. I am hugely into science, so I know the whole deal, but I still think, "How do they really know?!" You can't see how I see things because that's just impossible. It's the "what if" part of me that makes me wonder. :) Thank you for trying to explain though.

Do we call an orange an orange because it is orange, or is orange orange because of the orange?

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Ahh, I didn't read the rest of the thread before my other post. Your post is right on! Are the colors we see drastically different from each other or different shades of the same color?

how come girls want to know what's on your mind or what your thinking and you tell them truthfully they get mad? even though when you ask them if they want you to tell them the truth they say yes.

"The Dumbest Question is One That You Never Ask".

Mrs Cortright, 4 th Grade Mt. Washington Grade School.

Seek and You may find!:)

Is not North up, South down, East In there, West out there?:confused: :D

How come on any given weeknight, the closer I get to my apartment bulding, the harder it is to find a parking space

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How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

UFPike, chill your stuff! Get it!

I always wondered how (THEY) know that animals are color blind?

When was the last time Fido could tell you he saw in anything other than Black and White!

Me, well I a can tell the colors of the crayola sets, but this new S--T hell have No Idea. What is mauve, puce, etc!

It sounds like something that after a Large Nite I would pray to the porcelon pony in the Wea hours!:(

I deleted it Mister Earp....

New and Improved?

Good as new?

a birthday party and no gifts?

*When did time really begin?
*When will time end?
*How will it end?
*Will everything be discovered in the future?
*Where does the universe "end"?
*What color Jesus really was?
*Why do some women put their feet on the dashboard? That's gross. :mad:
*Why can't we remember our days in the "womb"?
*Why do men have nipples?

Its because of the fruit. I think it used to be called tawney.

This thread is why pot should be legal.

See a pattern here?

When I was in:

kindergarten I was 5
grade 1 I was 6
grade 2 I was 7
grade 3 I was 8
grad 4 I was 9
grade 5 I was 10
grade 6 I was 11
grade 7 I was 12
grade 8 I was 13
grade 9 I was 14
grade 10 I was 15
grade 11 I was 16
grade 12 I was 17
year 13 in school I was 18
year 14 I was 19
year 15 I was 20
year 16 I am 21

Yeah, you were 5 years older than the grade you were in (kindergarten being grade 0). What do I win? :D

That's true too, but there's another pattern relating to that. Partial credit. :D

Partial credit?!?! I demand a re-evaluation!! :p

Who the hell is "They"???!

My BIGGEST question of ALL TIME since I was little is ths:

So where is the end of the Universe? Like are you flying along in a space ship and then BOOM you hit a wall and you're like all startled and stumped and is that it? Is that the end of the Universe? I can't imagine infinity. Infinity has to end sometime...everything else does afterall.

How many licks DOES it takes to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop??? The owl said that the world may never know, but I am sure someone must have tried it (and no, not three!):)

Yeah it goes like this.

Every five years have the same two numbers

1st grade, 6 years
6th grade, 11 years
11th grade, 16 years
16th year in school, 21 years
Every 5 years the numbers 1 and 6 switch around, and starting w/ 2nd grade, the numbers 2 and 7 switch around every 5 years, and so on.

This should be true for anyone who has a summer birthday.

I know, I'm a dork for thinking of something like that. :p

Now that's just silly! :p

DigitalAngel-Who the hell is "They"???! They are the eggmen, but who really is the walrus???

I always wondered how (THEY) know that animals are color blind? TOM- I swear, I've wondered the same thing!!

Is the pet psychic for real???

No answer to this, but when I was little, I always wondered what it would be like if I wasn't "born" me. Would I still be me?

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I have wondered the exact same thing! Glad to know I'm not the only one. :D :D :D

lol. i have tried it and it takes somewhere between 5 or 6 hundred. i can't really remember because it was way back in my freshman year of high school.

so here's my newest question: why is it called the news if somethings in the news happened a while ago? shouldn't they be called the olds in those cases?

Of course, you'd have to be all scientific about it. Did you lick bottom to top? Half way? All around? If you licked from the very bottom to the very top, then it should take about 1000 half licks, right? :D

It's "new" to the people hearing it. And if you've already heard it, then don't listen -- it wasn't intended for you. :p

When we get upset what makes us use BIBLICAL CHARACTERS? :confused: It's the DEVIL, I'll tell ya'.