Gas began to spout out of a well in another village on July 12 and then increased on July 25 and July 26.

Although observers could not necessarily read out numbers or spout math formulas, from observing a moving weather chart they might be able to predict events (and see that rain was headed their way ) much faster than by scanning tables of rain cloud coordinates.

The cube can swivel, or flip on its side, and we just throw 1,000 of these cubes into a soup this is in simulation and don't reward them for anything, we just let them flip. We pump energy into this and see what happens in a couple of mutations.