Re: Dry "wet" roads

[John Mallinckrodt <ajm@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

> I appreciated John Denker pointing me in the right direction (and not just
> to go look in Google!)

I apologize if my short post seemed flip; I didn't intend it to be.
I really do think that Google is a vastly underappreciated resource.
For instance, even if one does not realize that the underlying
phenomenon is a mirage, one can simply go to Google and try something
like

"why does the road look wet"

(with the parens to preserve the integrity of the question)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22why+does+the+road+look+wet%22

or

road wet "hot day"

(to get at the essence of the question without limiting your results
to those pages that phrase it in such an exact way)

<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22road+looks+wet%22+%22hot+day%22>

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John Mallinckrodt        mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm