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Re:Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years by ehsankia on Thursday April 15, 2021 @01:52PM (#26823872)
Right, obviously as scale goes up, much more complexity is needed to maintain the same level of behavior. A bit like how unicellular organisms can replicate simply, but humans need to go through a whole process to make an offspring.

This Game of Life video shows what I mean perfectly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP5-iIeKXE8

Yes, there's a ton of complexity in there, but when you zoom out enough, it looks and acts very similar to the lower level.

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Re:Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years by amelius on Thursday April 15, 2021 @06:35PM (#26827033)
Very nice, but of course this was designed/engineered to act like this. It's basically a computer implemented in the game of life, which runs the game of life.
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Re:Time flies in Google Earth’s biggest update in years by fooker on Thursday April 15, 2021 @02:04PM (#26824051)
Wow this is awesome! Thanks.
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