Scripture:
Job 22:12
Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!We went to see the movie, Hidden Figures tonight. It was a very good movie. Several times they mentioned touching the stars. It was part of the calculations to see how high they would go.
It also had a lot of math in the movie. Many times I have students ask, "when will I ever use this?" My answer is "I don't know." You see even in their lifetime things have been invented like the iPad. When I was the same age as them I didn't have a clue what an iPad was in fact we barely used computers and even then each user had to program the computer themselves. Now there are engineers of the technology using math and science in ways you never dreamed of. One part of the movie they needed to be able to do calculations for something that had never been done before. They kept thinking they needed new math to do it then they realized they needed old numbers not new math. The movie character had to go find a book that had the old math. It was in a book that they thought they would not have to use and yet here it was useful again.
Several characters studied FORTRAN programming language. I remember that language and had dabbled in it a little. But that is so "old school" now. In fact my mom worked on the same type of computer used in the movie. She was a pioneer of sorts for the army using that computer. It took cards to make it work. I remember she figured out how to make a Christmas wreath using those cards. They would throw them away when they were done and she recycled them.
I think we still must behold the height of the stars and continue to reach them. Because we never know what the future might bring.
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