You need to remember that prior to the modern toilet, we used to squat to shit like most other animals.

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No, like other whole grains we digest corn very efficiently with little to no trace of the grain left once it passes through our system. The shell around the kernel - called the pericarp - is much harder to digest though, so we just pass it whole.

Yup, they're fast and can run long distances, well, fast. Humans aren't as fast but can run for longer. This is the point; we're not the fastest species, but we can run for longer than any other. An ostrich will get tired before a human.

Now we're not talking about a you-an-me human. We're talking hunter-gatherer humans.

Oh wait,.does this explain corn?

This has a pretty interesting answer I think!

It is because of our brains and language.

You see, colors do not actually exist. What we perceive as colors are just different wavelengths of light.

We don't have to go into what wavelengths are, just see them as a quality light has that can differ.

Eyes evolved to see a certain spectrum of light. That means a certain slice of all wavelengths light can have, the rest is invisible to us; like radio waves or x-rays!

The human brain evolved to divide this visible light so we can make out subtle differences, most likely like seeing a tiger in the grass, this is the sensation of color.

So actually, rainbows are just a gradient of wavelengths, but we perceive that as individual colors.

But the weird thing is, just how individual they are perceived to be seems to be closely linked to language.

Some languages only have three words for all colors: red, black and white. What seems like blue to you, a native speaker of that language might say is black. What you say is purple they might say is red.

Some languages have four colors and so on.

English, not counting hues, generally has 6 main colors. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, (indigo), violet. Does that ring a bell?

That's the colors the rainbow is said to have in English (and many other languages). Isn't it strange and kind of awesome?

Would you please translate the image of the invisible by thrice? The first 15 seconds or so are Morse. I want to use this as a template to break down exactly what you're explaining for a litany of other Morse amongst. Thanks in advance.

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Because it would take to long. Let's say you have a gobstopper and you want to disolve it in acid. You could put it in acid but the acid is only contacting the out side layer. Once the outside layer is dissolved then it can start on the next one, then the next one. But if I smash the gobstopper into dust then put it into acid now the acid is in contact with all of it at the same time. Chewing also mixes saliva through the food which aids in digestion.the stomach also churns the food to help mechanically break it up but it isn't very good compared to chewing so if you didn't chew anything you are making more work for your stomach.

QRS to slow down, QRQ to speed up.

Used in IR signal flashes in my personal experience, very useful low tech IFF.

Also, as a pilot in East UK where there are (were?) Lots of airfields, a flashing ident beacon you could see from 10k out made it easier not to land at the wrong runway...

>what is the point of chewing food thoroughly if your stomach will digest everything anyway?

Your food having been chewed thoroughly is a requirement for it to be digested properly. Otherwise all the enzymes and carrier fluids involved in the digestion process have no surface area to attack. In that case the food will be excreted undigested.

I was in the last course in the British army to learn morse code. As a signaller, I had to pass a test at 8wpm (nothing by cold war standards, but pretty hard work for a beginner).

I spent 6 months listening to cassettes and practicing (and eventually passing the test) in the certain knowledge that I would never ever use Morse anywhere as the army had stopped using it. My own little Yossarian moment.

The technician licence hasn't required morse since 1990. There was an option to get limited HF access with a morse test, but if you just wanted 50 MHz and up, you could skip it.

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If you think of Morse that way, the you can call a 'dash' two 'dots' in a row and make it binary again.

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The Belgian HAM license now has a an extra symbol on the license when you passed the morse-exam. But it's not it doesn't change the callsign...

That and to create more surface on the food so that the acid in your stomach has an easier time breaking it down

Also, a good safety mechanism. If you can't chew it, you probably can't swallow/digest it.

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aren't you gonna watch them..? they could get away!?

Because if you don't chew your food you could block your airwave and die because you're not getting enough oxygen and you're sitting there getting all blue because your food won't go down your throat because our bodies aren't made to swallow things whole.