When I first met my wonderful husband, he floored me with some amazing simple, direct statements and occasionally questions that are very hard to answer. He still says them, and so I preserve them here.
1. Do snakes know their mothers?
2. Do fish know they are breathing?
3. Did you know that a circle is a polygon with infinite sides? (he loves math)
4. Why don't clouds fall down?
Hopefully I'll figure out how to categorize things but for now we will just have to have recurring entries.
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These questions have answers-but the answers leed to harder ones...
1. Do snakes know their mothers?
The live birth snakes I feel would have some knowledge of their mothers, but mostly as a snake to runaway from due to their apitite for eating their young.
2. Do fish know they are breathing?
Sure they do, why else would their brain know how to do it, just like us. We often forget to breath and end up gasping.
3. Did you know that a circle is a polygon with infinite sides? (he loves math)
The question I feel has been mis-stated...infinite number of sides...
4. Why don't clouds fall down?
Clouds form when moist air is cooled. This can occur in a number of ways. Often, cooling is due to convection, whereby unequal heating of the ground surface creats rising air currents. Asit ascends, the air expands and cools. Eventually ti reaches its dew point, or the temperature at which the invisible water vapor containted in the air condenses into a collection of tiny water droplets. We see these water droplets from the ground as a cloud. If the droplets continue to acquire mosture and grow large enough (to heavy for the uplift of the air) , they fall from the cloud as rain.
The answers don't make the world any more or less fun...
Such a complex system, which we know so little about, really. And as you say - just because we know why something happens doesn't make it any less amazing.
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