What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?

[Rev. Rye]

Orange as a color existed before the fruit arrived to the Old World. It was called tawny, but more brown than the fruit.

The colour was named after the fruit. The fruit name has a Sanskrit origin, if memory serves.

Boru

It does, though the Arabic and Persian nāranj and nārang are a bit more immediate than the Sanskrit nāraṅga.

[Rev. Rye]

Orange as a color existed before the fruit arrived to the Old World. It was called tawny, but more brown than the fruit.

Like I said earlier, the discussion in question is less about whether a colour actually existed and more about whether a given culture understood the concept of said colour.

Case in point: the two most ubiquitous blue things on the planet are the sky and the sea. The Ancient Greeks would definitely be familiar with both, but if you look at Homer’s poems, the best he can come up with is “wine-dark.” He’s good at describing whether or not things are light or dark, but beyond that, things get… weird. Odds are, with Homer, we caught the Greeks in a very early stage of understanding colours.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Orange as a color existed before the fruit arrived to the Old World. It was called tawny, but more brown than the fruit.

Like I said earlier, the discussion in question is less about whether a colour actually existed and more about whether a given culture understood the concept of said colour.

Case in point: the two most ubiquitous blue things on the planet are the sky and the sea. The Ancient Greeks would definitely be familiar with both, but if you look at Homer’s poems, the best he can come up with is “wine-dark.” He’s good at describing whether or not things are light or dark, but beyond that, things get… weird. Odds are, with Homer, we caught the Greeks in a very early stage of understanding colours.

Of course the colour existed. It’s a wavelength, so it’s as old as the Universe.

It’s like the old chestnut, ‘What was the largest island in the world before Greenland was discovered?’

Boru

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

There’s been a lot of talk that your Congresspersons shouldn’t be paid during that shutdown, since furloughed federal works and military personnel aren’t getting paid.

I took it upon myself to do a little research. It turns out that members have Congress have to be paid, per the US Constitution. They can ask the Treasury to simply withhold their pay until the end of the shutdown, at which point they’ll receive it as back pay. Or they can accept their pay and donate it to back to the Treasury or to a charity. But they can’t simply decline or refuse to accept the money.
 
Boru

[Alex K]

The new drummer for legendary Canadian prog rock band Rush, joining them for their first live tour in over 10 years (after Neil Peart's death), comes from like 20 minutes by bike from where I live, and she's a woman, and obviously a fantastic drummer. I didn't have her on my radar I guess because she was mostly working in genres I'm not following super closely.

https://youtu.be/CtpUil0S1Ws

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

The new drummer for legendary Canadian prog rock band Rush, joining them for their first live tour in over 10 years (after Neil Peart's death), comes from like 20 minutes by bike from where I live, and she's a woman, and obviously a fantastic drummer. I didn't have her on my radar I guess because she was mostly working in genres I'm not following super closely.

https://youtu.be/CtpUil0S1Ws

A girl drummer? A GIRL drummer? Clearly a DEI hire.*

Boru

*note: The above is intended as sarcasm. She's amazing.

[Gwaithmir]

A Beluga is a type of whale. Beluga whale - Wikipedia

[Alex K]

The new drummer for legendary Canadian prog rock band Rush, joining them for their first live tour in over 10 years (after Neil Peart's death), comes from like 20 minutes by bike from where I live, and she's a woman, and obviously a fantastic drummer. I didn't have her on my radar I guess because she was mostly working in genres I'm not following super closely.

https://youtu.be/CtpUil0S1Ws

A girl drummer? A GIRL drummer? Clearly a DEI hire.*

Boru

*note: The above is intended as sarcasm. She's amazing.

Yes, she even has to use drum FILLS and GHOST notes to compensate for her lack of drumming.. Sad.