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some people hate it, some people despise it and some prefer to study Laws or Psychology before having to take another Math class but even those faggots can appreciate a cool drawing!
Show your math related images/gifs!!
>>8165041
>>8165043
/Sci/, what supplements actually have health benefits and which are nothing more than snake oil, this includes, but is not limited to, nootropic substances?
There be great benifits- if you eat death you become it
>>8178815
Xanax heals inside wounds
>>8178821
What about omega oils?
What are /sci/'s opinions on climate change?
I want /x/ memes to stop leaking into /sci/
>>>/x/
>>8176530
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're a Trumpcuck
>>8176534
I'm not. But I hate /x/ endtimes memes with zero evidence to stay in /x/
Is space colonization possible this century?
>>8170053
next century
Yes
Just think of the difference between 1900 and 1999
The advancement of technology only gets faster
We'll have regular space travel by the end of the century, IF it's in our interests that is, we might just enter a VR world instead
>>8170053
I'll make sure we have 'practical' interstellar travel, before I die. It is my ambition to die on the surface of an alien planet, that is an Earth analogue.
What are you doing this summer?
Projects, internships, resits, waste your parents' money -- anything goes
>summer internship
>cambridge university
>cancer research
Flying to some other country to go bang a girl in her parents' house for two weeks.
studying for quals
started bitcoin trading
working on thesis
preparing for next year's classes
working on various textbooks
>be me
>first week at university
>first physics quiz
>dimensional analysis
>asked to derive an equation for blood pressure
>can't
>get 40% not curved
>Asian QT 3.1415 sitting next to me get 100%
>she probably thinks I'm a brainlet
>tfw will never...
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>>8174947
>dimensional analysis
>fail
You just meme around with the units of what you're given until they match what you're trying to derive.
>>8174947
Why are you being such a beta? You failed to derive an equation ( a simple one,but never mind ) in your intro babby course,BIG FUCKING DEAL. Learn to cope with failure and grow out of it ( my nigga Nietzche had the right kind of idea ).
>dimensional analysis
Such a fancy term for essentially nothing.
Also,that Asian qt is probably a brainlet, like 90 % of the people you are sharing the classroom with. My parents always told me that the percentage of idiots is always the...
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>>8174947
Try to remember how shit you are everyday, OP... Every hour, every minute...
Quick,
>what is your profession/major
>what is the most useful program on your computer
mathematics
my web browser
runner up: my text editor
>>8167311
>>what is your profession/major
physics
>>what is the most useful program on your computer
porn
>>8167311
dmd
3dsmax
>>> Less than one kilogram of Plutonium-239 is required for a implosion nuclear device.
How come no terroristfags haven't yet succeeded in figuring out how to build the ultimate terror device. Is it because people like ISIS adhere only to Aryan physics and shit?
>>8165373
Pu 239 dosen't grow up on trees.
And you still need to build the motherfucking bomb properly, it's not just about putting a spoonful of plutonium in a suicide vest and doing the allahu akbar.
>>8165373
>less than 1kg
Nuclear engineer here, not true. Even weapons grade plutonium (~90% 239Pu) has a critical mass around 10kg
and the main safeguard against nuclear proliferation is how difficult to acquire/construct and expensive all the infrastructure to build a weapon is. With this is mind, it's more or less impossible to acquire a nuclear weapon through espionage unless you're a state actor, and typically one with outside support with the exception of Russia
>>8165378
Yeah building the bomb is pretty much placing the explosives correctly once you've stolen the plutonium from drunk russians. Then you can go allahu snakbar.
It's also possible to build a successful bomb (not just making it fizzle) out of pure reactor grade uranium. Then it'd be bigger though.
I actually believe that once we can replicate consciousness with a computer we will be much closer to understanding consciousness, but I don't think that there's really a consensus about consciousness, I've , heard Daniel Dennett say in a video that there's no consensus on it, and I sort of already figured that before. I think that we can pretty much surmise from just deductive reasoning that consciousness is a byproduct of physiology, there's literally no other logical explanation besides that. And when you think about the laws of physics and how basically...
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>>8173678
Everything related to consciousness can be ascribed to brain processes. Consciousness will of course be kept alive by philosophers with their silly thought experiments. I see the whole concept of consciousness dying a slow and painful death like vitalism.
>>8173728
>Everything related to consciousness can be ascribed to brain processes
So, do you think that once we have artificial intelligence that we can prove has consciousness that it will make it easier for people to be anti religious openly? I mean, I think that magical thinking can infiltrate basically any area that human beings don't understand, but I think that generally once there's a generally accepted view on some things then science wins out over superstition. Isn't one...
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>>8173781
No, philosophers will tell you it may look the same, acts the same, but has no consciousness; they will simply tell you it is a zombie. Surely you have heard of this philosopher's zombie?
Is there a rational argument against suicide?
>>8173177
not being a pussy
Is there a rational argument to favor suicide?
>>8173194
incurable intolerable problems
What are the best science books? All I know is that a brief history of time is supposed to be good. I was also going to get free will by Sam Harris because it's a topic that's been fascinating for me to think about lately.
>>8171437
What are the best pop science books?*
>>8171463
Yeah, sure dude, whatever you wanna call it. I am looking for books I can actually read, and you know what I mean by that, please go back under your bridge.
>>8171463
Autistic elitist.
Virology thread.
>>8170460
Alright, since OP didn't really put any possible topics up, I'll help.
Does anyone here care about retroviruses and their applications in genetic design?
when will Herpes be cured?
what happens when we die?
>>8166308
microbes consume your flesh
>>8166315
cute
any neurofags have an idea on what happens to the brain?
>>8166308
You die in one timeline, keep living in another, of course:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_suicide_and_immortality
If you're lucky enough to exist in a timeline where technological immortality is within reach, you're effectively immortal. Which we already are:
http://www.brainpreservation.org/
Is INTP the best MBTI of all?
>>8160210
Depends for what
>>8160314
Generally, even considering the lack of socialization
>>8160210
Anything that doesn't have E or F in it is good-tier.
/sci/ humor thread. Does anybody have more like this?
>>8155663
>bullshit meme quotes are funny
kill yourself
>>8155685
>>8155663
>quantum skeletons
Every time.
