I was standing outside tonight and, instead of going where I needed to go, looking into the wind seeing snowflakes fall down. It was a windy night, so the flakes (which were considerably larger than average) were going down at a considerably horizontal angle. All I could think about was the intricacy of each of the snowflakes and how much I'd like to capture one and see if they really are six-way symmetrical.
I don't know if it's true that all snowflakes are unique. I would think that, since so many have fallen and they're so small, there would have to be duplicates. Since there obviously aren't giant inch-wide snowflakes crashing down on us, it's likely that there is indeed a finite snowflake space. Perhaps they could be used as a true random number generator? It would be pretty easy to create a hash function for the flakes.
To be honest, I'm not really sure why I wrote this. Things like snowflakes make me ever more amazed at the complexity and beauty of the universe.
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