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If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? It depends on your definition of the word "sound". In physics, sound is a vibration that propagates as an acoustic wave, through a transmission medium such as a gas, liquid or solid. But it is also defined as vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's or animal's ear. There are also sound waves that are not audible to humans (ultrasound and infrasound).

If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, is the tree trunk and branches brown? That's more difficult to answer. You need 3 things in order to see colour: light, an object, and an observer.

Colour in not in the object. Colour only exists with (observed) light. Without light there is no colour (if you're in an enclosed room with no lamp or windows a red ball is black, along with everything else in that room). An object absorbs all other colours of the spectrum other than what it reflects back (white reflects almost all the light it falls on it, black absorbs almost all the light that falls on it). But these colours are not seen unless there is an observer with eyes to recognize it as colour.

Light goes into the eye through the optic nerve to the visual cortex which is located all the way back to the rear of the brain (you would think it's located behind or near the eyes but it's not).

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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
The former capital city of Japan was Kyoto but it was later changed to Tokyo.

Japan is the only country in the world where the names of the former and present capital are anagrams of each other.
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In Japanese, the signs used for Tokyo and Kyoto are different, though, and both Os in Tokyo are long, whereas only the first O is long in Kyoto.
Tokyo means "Eastern Capital" while Kyoto means "Capital City".
Before being called Kyoto, the city was called Heian-Kyo (Capital Of Peace) and there was quite a number of different cities that were used as capitals before it was set up in Kyoto, these cities include Nara and Kamakura. Capitals were moved away to break foreign influence over the imperial court (by religious sects or powerful families).

why yes, I am a massive weeb.
 
Timmy Turner was originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman during the "season 0" of the fairly odd parents produced for oh yeah cartoons. Bergman was also the original voice of Wendy testaburger on South Park and sadly committed suicide on November 11th 1999.
 
Mister Qwerty said:
Colour in not in the object. Colour only exists with (observed) light. Without light there is no colour (if you're in an enclosed room with no lamp or windows a red ball is black, along with everything else in that room). An object absorbs all other colours of the spectrum other than what it reflects back (white reflects almost all the light it falls on it, black absorbs almost all the light that falls on it). But these colours are not seen unless there is an observer with eyes to recognize it as colour.
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Remember when you were in kindergarten and painting with watercolors? Mixing all those colors together created a darkish grey/brown color. That is called subtractive color mixing. If instead of watercolors you had colored lights shining at the same spot the mixing of those colors would result in white, that is additive color mixing.

Notice the colors where only the green-blue, blue-red and red-green intersects. Those colors are called cyan, magenta and, obviously, yellow.
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Those are better known as CMY. Using subtractive color is the basis of printing because print uses ink/pigments and paper is not a light emitter, it is a light receiver. CMYK intersect like this and the colors, including the black, might also be recognizable as the color markings on the ink cartridges for printers.
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The Panspermia Society was founded by research physical chemist Michael N. Mautner in 1995, with the explicit goal of seeding other potentially inhabitable planets with terrestrial lifeforms. Mautner's reasoning is that promoting life is a moral good, and an inhabited planet is inherently more valuable than an uninhabited planet. Hence he thinks human beings have a moral duty to spread life afar.
 
I'm sure some of you have seen that utterly bizarre theatrical King of the Hill clip that's been floating around, the one where Hank saves the world from aliens and has Shabu the Genie.

The clip is bizarre mostly because there's no real proper context for it and because the clip most people are familiar with cuts out before anything can be explained, but last year the Will Rogers Institute released the whole clip. The short was basically a PSA to donate to Will Rogers for research in pulmonary disease.

 
Babe Ruth, born George Herman Ruth was born in 1895 Baltimore Maryland and played for 22 seasons. Including his home town team the Baltimore Orioles and the New York Yankees.


The only bio pic made in his lifetime (the very end of it) was directed by Roy del Ruth (no relation) who also directed the original 1931 version of the Maltese falcon
 
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Jasonfan89 said:
Timmy Turner was originally voiced by Mary Kay Bergman during the "season 0" of the fairly odd parents produced for oh yeah cartoons. Bergman was also the original voice of Wendy testaburger on South Park and sadly committed suicide on November 11th 1999.
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She also voiced several characters in the CD-ROM version of Leisure Suit Larry 6.
 
AprilRains said:
Aww, go to hell. Now that theme is going through my head.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aA55WlZRkx4
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Did I mention I'm just awful?

Fun fact about Leisure Suit Larry: There's no LSL4 because after 3, Al Lowe thought he was done, and said there's never going to be a LSL4. Then Sierra Online offered him a big sack of money to make more, but he didn't want to be thought a liar, so he skipped four and went straight to 5.
 
DrJonesHat said:
Did I mention I'm just awful?

Fun fact about Leisure Suit Larry: There's no LSL4 because after 3, Al Lowe thought he was done, and said there's never going to be a LSL4. Then Sierra Online offered him a big sack of money to make more, but he didn't want to be thought a liar, so he skipped four and went straight to 5.
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I'd give in to the Autism that is being a backer on Kickstarter or go fund and be a backer for a LSL 2 reloaded oh well at least we got that one from ole Al at least.



George R .R. Martin writes and stores all his work on a long outdated D.o.s operating system.
 
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