tom_lonely
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GO. A Japanese board game about claiming territory. Played with black and white stones. The fascinating thing for me is:
-Almost endless permutations. No two games are ever the same.
-Unlike Chess, no computer program has been written yet that can compete with an experienced human player. The reason for this is that the game is not just about the next best move. It is about the "feel" of the game. It is about influence. Computers do very poorly with these nuances.
I am fascinated by the power of very tiny things.
-Sickness. The common cold. Cancer. Caused by organisms so tiny you cannot see them with the naked eye.
-Atoms. Again, so tiny you cannot see them without a microscope. A bomb the size of a suitcase can wipe out an entire city. Splitting the atom.
I am fascinated by very large things.
-Lightyears. The distance light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year. I looked it up. It is 6 trillion miles. The nearest star to our own is Proxima Centauri which is 4.22 light years, or over 24 trillion miles. It would take our fastest propulsion methods 19,000 years to reach it. In theory a nuclear based drive system could reach the star in 85 years, requiring a ship with multiple generations.
-It would be 8 minutes before we realized our own sun had exploded, since the light and warmth we feel and see are 8 minutes old.
-When you look at the night sky, you are looking at what the stars USED TO look like, not what they currently look like. Some of that light belongs to stars that no longer exist.
People fascinate me.
-No two people have the same fingerprint pattern. Not even identical twins. ( I did no fact checking on this )
-Studies have been done on facial patterns. You can tell when someone is lying from these "micro" expressions that give away feelings of contempt or knowing deception.
Words fascinate me. Questions fascinate me. Jesus taught using parables and questions. Parables can be unraveled to have deeper meaning. Questions allow the responders to interrogate their inner motives, even if they choose not to answer.
-Almost endless permutations. No two games are ever the same.
-Unlike Chess, no computer program has been written yet that can compete with an experienced human player. The reason for this is that the game is not just about the next best move. It is about the "feel" of the game. It is about influence. Computers do very poorly with these nuances.
I am fascinated by the power of very tiny things.
-Sickness. The common cold. Cancer. Caused by organisms so tiny you cannot see them with the naked eye.
-Atoms. Again, so tiny you cannot see them without a microscope. A bomb the size of a suitcase can wipe out an entire city. Splitting the atom.
I am fascinated by very large things.
-Lightyears. The distance light travels in a vacuum in one Julian year. I looked it up. It is 6 trillion miles. The nearest star to our own is Proxima Centauri which is 4.22 light years, or over 24 trillion miles. It would take our fastest propulsion methods 19,000 years to reach it. In theory a nuclear based drive system could reach the star in 85 years, requiring a ship with multiple generations.
-It would be 8 minutes before we realized our own sun had exploded, since the light and warmth we feel and see are 8 minutes old.
-When you look at the night sky, you are looking at what the stars USED TO look like, not what they currently look like. Some of that light belongs to stars that no longer exist.
People fascinate me.
-No two people have the same fingerprint pattern. Not even identical twins. ( I did no fact checking on this )
-Studies have been done on facial patterns. You can tell when someone is lying from these "micro" expressions that give away feelings of contempt or knowing deception.
Words fascinate me. Questions fascinate me. Jesus taught using parables and questions. Parables can be unraveled to have deeper meaning. Questions allow the responders to interrogate their inner motives, even if they choose not to answer.
