Question #6

Question: Could magma superheat the air, increasing its volume, and cause continents and mountains to hydroplane?

Idea #9

Purpose: Sometimes your phone goes off at awkward times, like in the middle of a meeting, usually when you have the volume on high and the ringer set to a crazy song.

Idea: Make a phone ringer that doesn't sound like a phone ringer.  For example, if you have kids, have a ringer that sounds like a crying baby.  Then you can just grab your kid when the phone rings and everyone just thinks you're just going out to quiet your baby.  Or like a muted car alarm, and everyone thinks you're just going out to silence your car.  The volume would have to automatically adjust to the sound to make sense.

Idea #8

Purpose: Mangrove swamps along the coast, which act as important water filters, animal habitat, and coast protection, are being destroyed.

Idea: Create floating islands from mangrove trees, algae, and seaweed that can be pulled from one place to another.  It'd be used like a floating "band-aid" that can suck up oil and excess nutrients, add oxygen to the water, and protect coastline.

Question #5

Root: Many ancient structures-the Stone Henge, the pyramids, regular old palaces and buildings, etc-are oriented East-West/North-South.

Question: Could it be that these ancient structures are so oriented because the architects and overseers arrived in the morning.  As they stood directing the project, they put their backs to the sun to reduce the glare on their paper/papyrus/vellum plans.  

Question #4

Root: When we look at the stars through our telescopes, we see what they looked like many, many, many, many, many ages ago.

Question: If people on a faraway planet had telescopes and looked at our planet, would they see an ancient Earth?  If we could see planets in other galaxies, and see them in details, would we see them as they were anciently and uninhabited, when in fact they are currently inhabited?

Question #3

Root: Animals communicate but don't appear to have conversations.

Question: Are animal languages like the clothes dryer (that machine in your laundry room)?  The sounds a dryer makes are just to share information-it's started, stopped, etc-but doesn't need a vocalized answer, even if some interaction is required.  Maybe animals sounds are like that.  They communicate information, get the needed response, and everyone involved benefits.  But they don't need a grammar, words, or even names of individuals.  Not to say that some animals don't have complex languages, but most don't appear to.

Question: Why does this blog exist?

This blog was founded on the simple principle:

Learn.  Think. Ask. Write Down.  Repeat.