Scientists discover the laws and theories about the natural world through observ

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Scientists discover the laws and theories about the natural world through observations of our surroundings. In your reading, Neil deGrasse Tyson compares this scientific endeavor of gathering evidence from observations and making deductions to the task of determining the rules of a new board game by watching how it is played by two opponents.

Watch this video of two opponents playing a new game. Your task is to use the moves of these players to propose the rules that the players are following to play the game.

Note, you may need to watch the video a few times to begin to recognize a discernable "rule" to the flow that the board moves.

Text version of player moves

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Astronaut Neil De Grasse Tyson is making a video game about space exploration known as Space Odyssey. This game allows players to travel through the cosmos to observe planets, moons and other explanets based on the real physics. The team of the game promises a long list of activities during the gaming experience like colonize worlds, build robots, mine elements, nurture species, develop planets and discover unique life forms.

The players would begin by first exploring Proxima B, the nearest exoplanet to our solar system and is only 4 light years away from it. After exploring the surface of that planet and learning how the science based physics systems work, they would be ready to start a main event. Starting at a space station they would create a home planet and system by taking into account the real aspects of biology and chemistry. The system includes colonies and outpost and you can either solo or with friends. The players are required to protect their systems from environmental disaster, disease, climate change, space objects and other changes brought by evolution that can happen to a planet. The Tyson's voice will guide through all this journey. Players would be able to design a spacecraft created by friends or other prominent scientists.

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