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  • How do you write "film" in Korean?

    film:

    - (verb) to direct, produce, or otherwise engage in the production of motion pictures.

    - (noun) the industry or discipline concerned with the production of motion pictures.

    My brother is studying cinematography in Korea right now, and I'd like to make him a gift with this word on it in Korean. The trouble is that I have no idea how to say it in Korean, much less how to spell it.

    I'd look it up online, but a) I don't speak a word of Korean, so using a Korean-to-English dictionary is iffy at best; and b) I don't trust Google Translate not to give me a word essentially synonymous with "cling wrap" or "silent movie" or something.

    Can any Korean speakers please help me out?

    3 AnswersLanguages1 decade ago
  • What species of fungus is used to produce Edam cheese?

    The block of Edam in the fridge went off -- badly -- and out of curiosity, I took one of the resultant blue spots and put it under the microscope. The phialide-perched chains of conidia are unmistakably Penicillium, but I have no idea what species it is. Can someone please tell me what fungus I could expect to find in cheap, commercial Edam cheese in the first place? That'll be a useful clue.

    I'd greatly appreciate a reference as well. Cheese fungi are interesting -- I'd like to follow this up!

    1 AnswerBiology1 decade ago
  • What wind speed is necessary to fly my kite?

    I have a stunt kite that weighs X grams and has surface area Y square centimeters. What does the wind speed need to be in order to keep it in the air?

    Apologies for the variables. I haven't gotten round to weighing the kite yet; I was hoping someone could give me a general answer, something I could plug future kites' weight and surface area into.

    (A little bit of background: I own a stunt kite that I quite enjoy flying. Unfortunately, the thing takes a pretty stiff breeze to get off the ground, and it's hard to estimate the difference between a breezy enough day and a day too windy for flying. I'd like to be able to just measure wind speed and know when I can take it out.)

    1 AnswerPhysics1 decade ago