Googleologist Project: What's your question?

Prehistoric pink elephants in space with a gravity-swallowing bird... What?! Haha, these are all bits and pieces of different questions my peers have asked me over the past couple of weeks. In which, I will answer these five:

  1. "How many bones do elephants have?" Though it depends on which type of elephant (and which stage of life it's at), the average elephant only has about 282-351 bones and about 62 vertebrae.

2. "What are NASA's five new missions for 2014?" There are, as said, five new missions that NASA is planning on pursuing: Global Precipitation Measurement Core Observation, starting on February 27, then the Orbiting Carbon Observation-2, starting in July. Later in the year, on September 12, begins the mission called the Cloud-Aerosol Transport System, and finally, in November, is the Soil Moisture Active Passive. The details of these missions I cannot simplify, but maybe you know someone who can.

3. "What animals have been around the longest?" We'll, the answer to this can be based on where you stand scientifically and religiously. Christians and Jews believe. Based on words of the Bible and the Torah, the first animals were "cattle and creeping things of the ground". However, scientists have their best guess as the horseshoe crab or cyanobacteria.

4. A very interesting question occurred when a dear friend of mine asked, "Why can't birds swallow in space?" The reason being is because they are pro-regurgitators, and rely on gravity to swallow.

5. The last one is very simple: "What is color?" Well, color is obviously what makes the world around us so vibrant and lively. But, scientifically, it's the perception of the human visual system and based on the mind of each human.

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