red750 Posted November 1 Author Posted November 1 Correct. Sorry it took so long, wasn't bold on my What's New so I thought I'd opened it.
red750 Posted November 2 Author Posted November 2 Marty is right. Their initials spell out the colours of the rainbow - Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. So the seventh childs name starts with V.
onetrack Posted November 3 Posted November 3 Apparently ROYGBIV is dead, and the experts have decided that Indigo doesn't actually exist. It seems that Isaac Newton settled on 7 colours for the spectrum, because he was a great believer in Pythagoreanism, and Pythagoras believed the number 7 was crucial to every scientific, mathematical and physics discovery. https://www.scientificminds.com/blog/whatever-happened-to-roy-g-biv-kathy-reeves-115.aspx#:~:text=Indigo is omitted because few,it as a separate color.
facthunter Posted November 3 Posted November 3 There was a long term weather forecaster named Indigo Jones when I was a wee chappie. Nev
red750 Posted November 3 Author Posted November 3 It seems the going thing is fact checking, so sorry Nev, the guys name was Inigo Jones, no 'd'. He wa named after English architect Inigo Jones (1573 -1682).
onetrack Posted November 3 Posted November 3 Nev, his name was actually Inigo Jones. My father followed his long-range weather forecasts with something approaching obsessiveness. 1
facthunter Posted November 3 Posted November 3 (edited) To err is human to forgive divine. . Much of my 'stuff' is from memory and that will continue to be. . That is not an exam question, is it. "Inigo" is an unusual name . Nev Edited November 3 by facthunter 1
onetrack Posted November 3 Posted November 3 One of the interesting parts of Jone's forecasting was forecasting repeated cycles in the weather extremes. Droughts and heatwaves feature large in the weather cycles, and the 80 year cycle is the most pronounced. We endured the worst drought in living memory in W.A. in 1980, and it coincided with the Federation drought, with the worst drought year during the Federation drought, being in 1900, in W.A. There was another bad drought in 1944-1945, that struck both W.A. and the Eastern States, and the current drought in W.A. earlier this season, and in S.A. and Victoria this year, coincides with the 80 year cycle.
Marty_d Posted November 3 Posted November 3 (edited) Our neighbour's son is Inigo. They also have an Oscar and a Felix, and coincidentally, 2 other families in our street also have an Oscar and a Felix, in that age order. Edited November 3 by Marty_d 1
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