Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!akgua!mcnc!ncsu!uvacs!mac From: mac@uvacs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: prelim questions Message-ID: <1169@uvacs.UUCP> Date: Fri, 17-Feb-84 11:48:15 EST Article-I.D.: uvacs.1169 Posted: Fri Feb 17 11:48:15 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Feb-84 08:01:54 EST Lines: 18 ... physics exam questions... I don't know why dirt is brown in New Jersey. I suspect that it's partly a convention. The dirt here in (western) Virginia is red. Sometimes it's bright orange, sometimes scarlet. Good soil is black. What's brown anyway? Many languages don't even recognize it as a color. Many years ago Science Digest (not! the Hearst Publication) reported on children's attitudes to Science. They explained that the sky was blue because Scientists made it so. Alex Colvin ARPA: mac.uvacs@csnet-relay CS: mac@virginia USE: ...uvacs!mac