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Why are STEM fags so obsessed with colonizing other planets, in particular Mars?
I mean, we never went back to the Moon since 1972. There was no point in going back once we realized that it really is just a giant white rock filled with dust. Is Mars any different? It's simply a bigger, and red, rock, filled with dust. I cannot see the appeal at all. On the other hand I can understand the appeal of landing on the moon, and I see it as a token of our development as a species that we managed to leave our own planet, walk on the surface of the moon and come back. But...
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>>7804760
Mars has an atmosphere, even though it is extremely thin that is something very useful towards creating a sustainable human presence
There is also a lot of frozen water
If we created a thicker atmosphere on mars the temperature would rise, It could be very habitable within a century
I think it is important for Humans to lean to live off earth, In the long run we will have to spread throughout the Milky Way
Mars will be the first step towards that expansion, mistakes will be made and lessons learned that will serve invaluable in the next thousand years
>>7804795
>In the long run we will have to spread throughout the Milky Way
nah dog, you have NO idea how big the space is.
we will fucking die on/with this planet
>>7804760
>Why are STEM fags so obsessed with colonizing other planets, in particular Mars?
Because, some days, the only way I can motivate myself to go to work is knowing that I'll make mad dosh, and that my work is bringing us one step closer to the time when Akari-chan and her friends can live happily in beautiful Neo-Venezia
Does anyone else have to use this awful site.
no, because we've done our A-Levels already.
Is there money in nuclear engineering?
Not talking about super rich, but like getting a job.
I'm a college dropout, making decent money as a software developer.
(Dropped out because i started development 4 years before i started college, i literally wasn't learning anything /g/ hadnt already taught me or researched myself, i now make an OK 45K )
Every day, more and more, i feel i fucked up and went into the wrong field.
Nuclear science is so much more interesting than what i'm currently doing.
I feel like were currently using...
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>>7809864
>Is there money in nuclear engineering?
Oh yes, tons.
>>7809903
is it "easy" to find a job that doesn't revolve around consumer plants or x-ray technicians?
Space is where it's at, so many variables to consider, would be a lot more challenging than what I currently do for a living.
>couple engineer friends were going to build a cubesat
yay time for me to learn more about space and physics
>they scrapped that idea, and started a "for profit" business instead
fucking...
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>>7809928
>Starting to see why
Is such a bitch. It's all that apathy.
What field of science/ engineering besides compsci is most likely to allow me to keep my glorious beard once I begin my career search?
Literally anything with maybe the exception of finance, which isn't really STEM. Grad students, professors, researchers, engineers, doctors, etc, all have beards.
>>7809753
Any sort of engineering will do. Because these people are, you'll most likely find a job as hustler and for this job your gay beard is just fine.
>>7809753
Physics. No one cares how you look
Biology, everyone is a hippe with beards even the women folk
Why don't I ever see much talk about probability or statistics on here?
I know both of these areas are really employable. Are they just not sexy fields these days? I mean yeah, stat is applied and everyone who takes the intro course is unimpressed with how simple it is, but the upper levels of stat can be pretty damn interesting.
Dunno about anyone else, but stats is the one math course that's not required for my school's engineering program. Bizzarely.
Of course, being a fucking hopeless dweeb, I'll be taking it as an elective. But I wonder how many other STEM kiddies are.
>>7809755
Basic stat is easy, just a bunch of tedious math (think plugging 40 different results into one formula level of tedious, that is if the prof teaches you to do things by hand). The hardest part is remembering the difference between the various flavors of X (X, X hat, X bar, etc.). That said, it's really useful because it teaches you keys to understanding/interpreting statistics (stuff like confidence intervals, the power of a given analysis technique, etc.).
The upper level stuff is more interesting. You...
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>>7809774
>keys to statistics
>confidence intervals
Somebody took the wrong course
science feels good when good : good feel
>>7809677
Making fun of normies isn't cool Anon.
You wouldn't walk into a psych ward to point and laugh at all the literal retards would you?
It's a senseless waste of time and pretty retarded in itself.
>>7809677
Why, honestly, do you come to this board? How did you even find it?
>>7809694
>You wouldn't walk into a psych ward to point and laugh at all the literal retards would you?
we used to pay for that privilege at freak shows, now we can do it for free in the comfort of our own homes
>tfw european
>tfw can't get these as they're considered hazardous gmos
I bet monsanto is behind this.
What does /sci/ think of this project? What do you think about the legislation surrounding things like it? Do you support things like this, do you think that there is any future or significance to the idea of glowing plants?
>>7809666
>666
GMO confirmed for satan
>>7809688
>88
Anti gmo confirmed for hitler
>>7809666
>mfw Satan get
This thread is a parady of the bad luck GMOs had with its image.
It's time to show that ACT/SAT=/= Academic Excellence in College
Post your ACT/SAT score
Your field
Your University(if you want to)(The one that you're studying in as a Grad student)
>36
>math and physics double major
>UMN-TC
>>7809646
35
Computer Science/Applied Mathematics
Columbia (UG) / Columbia (G) (hopefully)
>>7809646
>26 ACT
>Chemistry
>blow me
Does /sci/ believe in Platonic numbers?
>>7809560
I believe they must be quite lonely
>>7809560
>>7809572
I can't help but think that half of this text is language without content in a young Wittgensteinian sense. We created words and have deep discussions, but the words are actually meaningless.
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