My, My, Such Colorful Language

                So apparently chameleons have abilities that are extremely similar to what humans experience before they fight. These chameleons, as summarized here, use a series of color patterns on their skins to try and intimidate the others, so it seems like a kind of chess game to me, but except this is only the pre-fight, and if neither backs down, then it becomes an actual fight. I found that this kind of related to humans, or at least the fights that threaten to break out that I witness. It usually starts with a large round of colorful language, and on what they are able to do. Usually one either will back down or “restrained” by their friends as they scream, “HOLD ME BACK! HOLD ME BACK!” Admittedly, I may or not do this, but if neither backs down, it becomes a full scale fight. At school, this usually does not happen because most of the time, unless the person is mentally disabled, would like to avoid a fight.

                Of course, physical fights are not the only thing that happens in schools, as all high school students are able to confirm, unless they lived under a rock or was homeschooled, not that there is anything wrong with either of those. Well this study apparently wants to record chameleons and figure out what they are going to do before they actually do it. The only way I can think of that this relates to humans or the significance of this would be that we could eventually predict what humans were to do much before they could actually perform the action. This may or may not prevent a lot of fights, because many people have pride, but could you imagine if one could quickly analyze a person’s movements and determine exactly what they were going to do.

                Yes, I do know that this happens like 99% of the time in all of those secret agent books and movies, but unless you were an unstoppable killing machine or at least an assassin, I do not think it would be possible to determine it. In accordance with this, assassins are killed all the time, so obviously the concept is not too accurate. Either way, the idea that this is going on, and that scientists can actually analyze what happens or link it with real actions is pretty exciting, but makes me wonder if humans are trying to play at god again. As every literate person knows, that does not ever end well.