mac@uvacs.UUCP (02/17/84)
... 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