User:Taco325i/questions

Unanswered questions

Taco325i has asked several questions in article talk pages that were never fully answered. Correct answers to the following questions will be rewarded with high-fives.

• Machines (10 high-fives) - In today's high-tech society, we depend on machines for production, because of course, machines are far more precise than human hands. Ok, so tell me this. The really precise machines used today, I assume, were created by other machines, which were created by other machines, which were created by other machines... you get the idea. So can somebody either tell me, or point me to an academic journal that can explain the origin of super-precise instruments?
• Colors (10 high-fives) - For those of us who have good vision, we can distinguish colors. How can one be certain that what I see as the color blue is the same color as what somebody else sees as blue?
• Mozart and Freud (9 high-fives) - All over the city of Vienna, Austria in 2006, there were posters of Mozart's portrait depicting him with his eyes rolled up into his head as if he was having a seizure. There were posters of Freud that depicted him in a similar manner. These weren't Banksy stunts, they were official promotions of some festival I think. What's the deal, wiener-schnitzels?

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• Moss (7 high-fives) - The article on moss says moss tends to grow on the north face of trees and rocks (in northern latitudes), but does not say why. I observed this moss thing myself, and another learned wikipedian was kind enough to his rational explanation of this apparent phenomenon, (and I quote verbatim): "(1) people tend to sit preferentially on one side of the rocks, preventing moss from growing, (2) the rocks had moss on them when they were placed there and the moss was placed in that direction". Ok, so let's just say, hypothetically, that a gang of pervs with a moss fetish didn't go scampering through forests and private gardens rubbing their ass on rocks and trees, and that some german conceptual artist didn't travel the world rotating every rock and tree so that the moss faced north. What is the next likeliest explanation of moss growing on the north side of rocks and trees?

Answer: I'm not sure if I am addressing this question in the right way, but moss, which finds damp locations hospitable, apparently grows away from the sun, which in the northern hemisphere means the northern side of objects.[1] Cka3n 17:42, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Other Answer: Moss grows north because their religion commands them to pray every evening facing towards North, where they belive their god The Big Moss lives. Rjgodoy 02:10, 13 July 2007 (UTC)

• Tugboats (5 high-fives) - I observed in Baltimore harbor and in pictures such as this, tugboats have a large white letter painted on the side and on the smokestack. I've seen the letters V, K, L, and M. What do these letters stand for?

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• Gondolas (2 high-fives) - On the ends of Venetian gondolas are a design that looks like this. I once heard that this design is symbolism for something. What is this something. Please tell me.

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