Indigo and Umami

Charlie Bell charlie at culturelist.org
Sun Jul 20 02:23:27 PDT 2008


On 20/07/2008, at 4:13 PM, Max Battcher wrote:

> William T Goodall wrote:
>> There used to be seven colours in a rainbow and four basic flavours
>> (sweet, sour, bitter, salt) and then indigo became a shade of violet
>> and umami became the fifth basic flavour.
>
> Don't forget that we're down to 8 planets and up to 2 plutoids (Pluto,
> Eris).

And Ceres should be a "Plutoid" or a planetoid (as it's collapsed to  
near-spherical under its own gravity), but the rules are stupid and  
subjective.

Charlie.


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