Pac-Man's Law

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The Cassini orbiting probe transmitted to Earth a heat map of Saturn’s satellite, Mimas. In the image, areas with a higher temperature are indicated by warmer colors. After examining the image, NASA scientists were surprised to find that the thermal map of the celestial body is strikingly similar to the photograph of Pac-Man, the character of a computer game of the 80s.

Interested in this discovery, Yandex analysts conducted their own research and came to even more surprising conclusions. It turns out that the ratio of joyful and sad emoticons on the Internet is subject to the same Pac-Man’s law. See for yourself.

You can learn more about the emoticon phenomenon on the Internet in the full version of our study. Here, I just want to note that on the Internet we found at least 1.5 million button accordions.

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