Let 'em rip - List any observations you want answers to.. maybe someone here has answers

[Inchworm]

It all started when I heard this quote earlier today. "There will always be good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. When evil things are done by good people -- that requires religion.

That opened my mind and I got to wondering...

1. Where do flies come from? Spores? Is there a fleet of flies constantly everywhere scanning for dead bodies? Do mammals have flies already that spawn when we die?

2. I'm having a very difficult time using paramount in a sentence without it being the very last word in the sentence. What's up with that?

3. Time seems like it pretty constant. Why does Greenwich get to be first and why did it take us so long to somewhat figure it out? I saw/heard a piece the other day stating the first passenger trains traveling 100 miles often experienced 5+ time zones.

4. Why isn't communication the top thing taught in schools? Doesn't it all begin there?

Do you have any wonderings?

:think:

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

1. we have a weekly radio show called 'Everything you Ever Wanted to Know"

in which the audience calls in questions

and the audience calls in answers.

It started as a time filler when a guest didn't show up for the noon talk/interview show on the local NPR station and it got so popular it became a monthly, then twice a month and now weekly event.

KERA 90.1 is the station and you can stream the show. Noon Fridays

I love it

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear Inchworm!

It is of paramount importance that we always wonder about things!

How's that?

:hi:

[RandomThoughts]

3. I had a few I had to figure out.

What do you do about people that think they are doing good when they do bad?

If a person acquires power by doing bad, does he have claim to that power in a just world?

If a person believes they know what is good and bad, and are wrong who is to blame?

[alarimer]

4. Well flies come from maggots.

Flies lay their eggs in rotting meat (including dead people on occasion). The larvae (maggots) feed and they metamorphose into flies.

Actually some flies lay their eggs in fruit as well (fruit flies). Kind of gross and probably more information than you actually wanted.

I wonder why I always spell occasion wrong the first time. I want to give it one c and two s (esses?).

[BarenakedLady]

5. But let's say...

A person dies in a sealed room...how do the flies get to the body to lay the eggs in only a few hours?

[Inchworm]

6. Zactly!

Or out in the desert...

A secret fly scouting brigade?

:)

[SteppingRazor]

8. They're actually attracted by the scent.

And different species of fly are attracted by different scents, which is why you get fruit flies on an overripe peach and blow flies on a pile of poop.

[SteppingRazor]

7. Answers:

1. Flies come from maggots, of course.
2. I'd avoid using paramount in any sentence. Try utmost instead.
3. Greenwich is first because the creation of a centralized time zone dates to the age when the British Empire was the most powerful seagoing force in the world (and at the time, differences in time zones were really only relevant to maritime travel). As a result, longitude -- and thus time zones -- were calculated beginning with a prime meridian that ran through Greenwich, England, which is the site of the Royal Observatory.
4. I would argue that critical thinking should be the top thing taught in schools. You shouldn't bother communicating until you have something useful to say. :)

[Inchworm]

9. And the reason for the train bit

Was just USA stubbornness? I'm guessing the train thing was due to boundary issues and chosen times. I think daylight savings had something to do with it because that was 1915ish.

I just found it interesting.

Thanks for the answers

:)