Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Tangents

I think it's kind of fun sometimes to just go off on tangents.

The word tangents kind of sounds like tangerines, which are a kind of interesting fruit.  They're kind of like oranges, but their not.

Speaking of oranges I think I read somewhere that they didn't actually exist in nature until humans artificially created them by merging them with some other fruit.  I could be thinking about something else though.

The whole idea of artificiality is kind of strange to me.  Since humans are part of nature isn't everything we create, in a sense, natural?  It's like when you read a list of ingredients and they say artificial flavors or colors. Where exactly are these flavors and colors coming from?  Yeah, I know it's a lab, but they still must on some level be created from natural things.

Speaking of labs, how do you suppose mad scientists get a hold of their labs?  Are those things just for sale and you can go out and buy one so you can build a monster?

When you're young you learn that monsters aren't real, but if you were being attacked by a snarling grizzly bear with its fangs dripping and its claws extended, I think you'd believe in monsters.  Same with sharks.  If they're not sea monsters, I don't know what is.  Monsters are real.

Speaking of real I think it's kind of crazy how in math there are real numbers and imaginary numbers.  In a sense imaginary numbers are real, too, because mathematicians really use them.

You know what else mathematicians use sometimes?  Tangents.