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HalfMooner
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Posted - 01/21/2009 :  05:45:57  Show Profile Send HalfMooner a Private Message  Reply with Quote
My brother showed me this fascinating diversion, for which I give thanks. "Acrobots" might be described as doing organic chemistry using spider monkeys. Or maybe not. Maybe it's best you try it yourselves. (You'll need Flash installed.)


Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive.

Simon
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Posted - 01/21/2009 :  08:52:17   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send Simon a Private Message  Reply with Quote
They would need four feet for maximum carboness...
But, it's really fun, I tried to make a benzene ring out of them and struggled a bit.


I can imagine a similar software being adapted for actual organic chemistry playfulness, by adding several types of elements with a different numbers of feet (valence electrons) and a code for the strength of the relationship between any given elements...

Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996
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