What role do fingerprints play in our lives?
Yes, detective movies give a clear answer to this question.
But besides that, could fingerprints determine your character?
I’ll get into that a bit later.
First, let's imagine that one day you woke up without them.
–How about Gadgets?
So, you wake up in your bed and immediately pick up your phone.
You notice that it somehow feels strange.
You try to unlock it, but it doesn't respond to your finger.
Ok, enter the password code.
You scroll through the news feed, but you do it ineptly, as if you're using the touch
screen for the first time.
You’re trying to reply to a message, but the text is poorly typed and constantly gets
messed up.
This isn’t exactly an emergency, but the feeling is rather strange.
You get out of bed and open your laptop, which also won’t unlock without a fingerprint.
You've been using a computer for many years and have learned to type quickly; but this
time, when you start to write a message, you can’t feel your fingers interacting with
the buttons.
It’s difficult to determine where one key ends and another begins, so you often press
two at once.
Your typing speed drops noticeably.
Scientists have only recently found out that fingerprints serve a person as the main mechanism
of touch.
Without them, it'd be difficult for you to read information and interact with whatever
you're touching or holding in your hands.
-Temperature Next, you come to the kitchen to make breakfast.
You try to break the eggs for an omelet, but do it clumsily and the whole yolk spreads.
Everything is falling out of your hands.
When taking a pinch of salt, you take too much and make your breakfast inedible.
It seems like the burner isn't heated enough, because your fingers don't feel the warmth
above it.
You touch it and burn yourself a bit.
Yep, the day isn't getting off to a great start.
A very sensitive temperature sensor is located on our palms.
Remember that when you're sitting at a campfire in nature, you're constantly stretching out
your hands in its direction.
Also in cold weather, you feel your hands freeze faster than the rest of your body.
-Sensitivity After an unsuccessful breakfast, you go to
the store to buy new shoes.
You've chosen the ones you want, but you can't figure out what they feel like – either
polyester, rubber, or faux leather.
All these materials feel the same.
Without prints, you can't fully enjoy the smoothness of silk, the rustling of wool,
the softness of cotton.
Then, when you try to pay for the sneakers, you can't use PayPal on the phone, because
it doesn't read your fingerprint.
So you decide to pay in cash, but it takes forever to get the money from your wallet,
and you awkwardly count the required amount.
Papillary patterns on the fingers play a very important role in the fine motor skills of
the hands.
Thanks to them, we can easily separate thin pages of paper from each other, type on a
keyboard, get cards and money from our wallets, play the piano, guitar, etc.
Try to do one of these with leather gloves.
You'll notice the difference.
–Identification and uniqueness Let's say you work in a large modern company,
where the pass to the office is carried out using a fingerprint.
Of course, no identification scanner will recognize you and you'll be late for work.
You’ll need to prove to the guard that you really work here, and after that, you’ll
have to listen to a rebuke from the boss for running late.
The fact is that every print of every person is unique.
The probability that you'll meet someone with the same finger pattern as yours is 1 in 64
million.
Even for twins with the same DNA, the prints vary.
In the modern world, without fingerprints, you won't be able to obtain a passport, travel
outside the borders of your country, and in some cases, get to work.
Dactylography, a way of identifying a person by fingerprints, is used in many areas of
life, not just in investigations.
In supermarkets, you can use your finger to pay for purchases.
Fingerprint scanners are installed instead of ordinary locks on houses, cars, and gadgets.
In many secret government organizations, access to sensitive information can only be obtained
through fingerprint scanning.
Interestingly, humanity has known about the uniqueness of fingerprints for a long time:
in Ancient Babylon, about 2000 BCE, people left prints on clay tablets as a signature.
Then, in the 5-7 centuries, they were used in China for the same purpose.
But fingerprinting wasn’t used for police investigations until 1902 in the UK.
Simply put, fingerprints are the ID that nature has given you.
Their pattern is formed in the womb and will never change throughout your life.
Despite this, scientists have recorded rare cases when a person was born with absolutely
smooth fingers, void of prints.
Such cases in medicine are considered a manifestation of a rare genetic tendency.
These people don't experience any health problems, but they have problems with records.
In addition to fingerprints, people also have unique prints on their tongue and feet.
And with cats and dogs, nose prints are unique.
But the most interesting discovery regarding fingerprints has happened recently.
Scientists have found that on objects touched by a specific person, there are special bacteria.
And guess what, they're also unique!
That is, a unique bacterium is born within each fingerprint.
These bacteria live for several weeks, and with the analysis of their DNA, you can determine
the identity of a person.
But, back to the hero of our story.
-Let’s talk about Touch After your bad day, you go to meet a loved
one.
And only now do you understand the full value of your prints.
Without them, you're deprived of a very important connection with other people – a tactile
connection.
People read each other not only through sight, smell and hearing.
Touch plays a big role in building social relationships.
Remember, in early childhood, we held our parents’ hands.
When we get older, we touch the people we meet and love.
And after that, we'll hold the hand of our own children.
Without an effective tangible connection, a person will feel quite lonely.
The patterns on our fingers can also be an additional tool for reading information.
An excellent testimony of this is massage therapists.
Their fingers are like real scanners that can detect the slightest disturbances and
changes in the patient's body.
So, the day is drawing to a close, but the problems don't end there.
You return home and find small calluses on your fingers.
That's because normally, the patterned ribbed structure of the surface of the fingers doesn't
allow fluid to accumulate, and therefore reduces the risk of blisters.
So now you understand how valuable and important your fingerprint is.
But let's go a little deeper into palmistry and try to determine the character of a person
using the patterns on their fingers.
Each fingerprint is unique, but nevertheless, there are only three main types of patterns
for them: an arch, loops, and a whorl.
You can leave fingerprints on a white sheet of paper, or carefully examine each finger.
Usually, there are 2 or 3 types of prints on a person.
It's very rare for all fingers to have only one type.
Count which patterns you have more of.
The first type is the arch.
People with these prints are very responsible, calm and balanced.
They don't get mad easily.
They're excellent strategic and team players.
Hardworking and reliable, they make friends easily and are family-oriented.
The next type is the loop.
People with this pattern on their fingers put self-expression and self-development in
first place, even if it doesn't bring material benefits.
Prone to mental work and risk, they're very energetic and creative people.
And the last type is the whorl.
The predominance of whorls speaks of well-developed logical and analytical thinking.
People with this pattern are better at learning new languages and math.
If all your fingers have whorls, you can consider yourself a genius.
Such prints are mainly found among genius inventors and scientists.
Finally about the person born with no fingerprints, sometimes you can hear them singing hopefully:
“Someday my prints will come…”
No I made that up.
Just can’t help myself.
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