Re: The Rant Thread - let it out!
Posted: Mar 15, 2011 11:36 am
Vertical caving has turned into Lockhart's Lament, but caving, not math, for me.
The only fun thing about it is knots. I could go on for hours about how amazing knots are. And rope itself. I spent a good hour dissecting a piece of rope once, the structure is utterly fascinating. But then you can take this rope and tie it into various life supporting forms of knots, now THAT is truly Incredible. I've even made up some knots of my own, wonder if they have been discovered before, have names, or if they would be of any use at all. Sometimes, I'll recognize a knot I tied just in sheer exploration and playing around, such as an alpine butterfly! How Fantastic is that? It is truly beautiful, all these shapes and formations. It's even like protein chemistry...you have your primary structure, how the molecules are that make up the indivdual bits within the rope's outer sheath. The secondary structure are those fibres and strands. Tertiary is how they all come together, the core and outer sheath, to make what we finally call a "rope". And then you can even form quaternary structures with how you fold the rope around and in on itself, or even pair it with others and move them in and around each other.
That, is beauty.
The only fun thing about it is knots. I could go on for hours about how amazing knots are. And rope itself. I spent a good hour dissecting a piece of rope once, the structure is utterly fascinating. But then you can take this rope and tie it into various life supporting forms of knots, now THAT is truly Incredible. I've even made up some knots of my own, wonder if they have been discovered before, have names, or if they would be of any use at all. Sometimes, I'll recognize a knot I tied just in sheer exploration and playing around, such as an alpine butterfly! How Fantastic is that? It is truly beautiful, all these shapes and formations. It's even like protein chemistry...you have your primary structure, how the molecules are that make up the indivdual bits within the rope's outer sheath. The secondary structure are those fibres and strands. Tertiary is how they all come together, the core and outer sheath, to make what we finally call a "rope". And then you can even form quaternary structures with how you fold the rope around and in on itself, or even pair it with others and move them in and around each other.
That, is beauty.