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>tell myself that today is the day I man up and stop drinking so much coffee, stop eating so much junk food, have a regular schedule, all to achieve greatness
>look at the wikipedia page of kary mullis, the guy who won the most important nobel prize in chemistry of the modern era
>"Mullis has been described as an "impatient and impulsive researcher" who avoids lab work and instead thinks about research topics while driving and surfing.[28]"
>""What...
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>>7776043
Oh yeah, and this:
>Mullis reported an encounter with a glowing green raccoon at his cabin in the woods of northern California around midnight one night in 1985. He denies the involvement of LSD in this encounter.[
>>7776043
sure is hard being a special snowflake
would it be possible for two earth-like planets in a binary orbit to sustain life? would it basically just be like having a larger moon or would there be more visible gravitational effects than just the tide? obviously the range in distance that would make the effects lesser or greater, so just assume they would be as close as possible
pic wildly unrelated but good to know
>>7776034
I'd say it's possible but from my own research (was writing a short story for it) there are several issues.
1) Tidal locking might make both planets unable to rotate (depending on how old this system is) though this can be alleviated by their revolution around their gravitational center.
2) Tidal forces would be monstrous. If for some reason both planets are still rotating, they would have a noticeable bulge in the crust that always faces its twin and tides would be tens to hundreds of meters....
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If "binary orbit" can be interpreted widely then pic related. Basically the habitable planets are locked in the lagrange points of the gas giant.
It sure would be a spectacular view from these planets.
>>7776475
Don't forget the weirdo planet over at L3
>physics mock
>revise for two days
>test next day
>find it hard
>MFW didn't know what the gradient determines
>MFW the gradient is given as a formulae
>MFW the answer was right in front of me
>MFW the topic I didn't cover came up
I have determined I have some for of autism.
Anyone else make...
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>>7776010
>literally dumb frogposter, the thread.
>he didnt know what the gradient is
>>7776010
>physics mock
Physics mock for what, nursery?
What's the easiest course to get into R&D? I'm curious. Like i mean in high demand in R&D sector
>R&D sector
That doesn't mean anything
>>7775994
nope. it means research and destruction
>>7775980
Are you retarded?
how and why does this work /sci/ ?
Well concealed set of mirrors.
hidden strings. even a 1 year old can figure it out
Hand of God
it isnt viable these days on a moment that we can even create/ manipulate blackholes on labs and send bots to mars?
why dont you create that lazy faggot
>>7775904
The ozone layer is fine now that CFC's are banned
>>7775996
>CFCs
What's this?
Can I use pic related as background for my presentation?
My final bachelor exam is in a few days, about the development of a piece of software for a district heating company. Like to have a simple background for my power point and the quatom of solace boba fett seemed cool.
Or am I retarded? Other ideas?
>>7775860
I have to leave right now so I won't have time to justify my comment but please take it as if this was god's answer:
*DON'T*
Sidenote: You are 'supposedly' a professional now, not a 15 year old kid.
>>7775860
Use something more simple, that shit drags the attention when it shouldn't
>>7775874
Welp, I'll find something different then, you're right.
What does /sci/ uses for drawing block diagrams?
I'm polishing a paper and I don't like doing them with powerpoint (I run linux on my personal device and libre office is even worse)
I witness some dude doing them directly in latex but it's too time inefficient.
i also heard inkscape can do the job but i never tried and i'm afraid of the learning curve .
I used Tgif. It is easy, is still being developed but has a lot of quirks.
>>7775856I
Inkscape is a bit difficult, but you can easily get used to it in 20 minutes or so if you're only drawing blocks. Don't bother with the freetard tutorials, just play around with the tools.
IPE is a bit easier and works well for including equations/texts.
It does need to be vector graphics though, journals need to rescale your figures so you can't really use raster shit.
Anyone can help me with dice?
So basically I want a dice-rolling program to give me the odds of rolling a particular number for any amount of any-sided dice
Obviously then I need to be able to calculate the number of possible permutations the dice can use to get any number, but I'm fucking stumped. I googled the problem and got this, but I simply don't understand the equation
I get that this is a "generating" equation, but how do I use it? What is the x variable used for? Do I set this equation equal to x^k, do I set it equal to anything?
Please...
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"hurrdurr Im retarded cs101 major"
asking the question "what is the probabilty i will get a 3" rolling 2 dices is equivalent to
chance of me getting
3 and 0
2 and 1
1 and 2
0 and 3
>>7775759
What the fuck are you even saying? Dice don't have a 0 face, or at least none I've ever used.
The total number of possibilities is 6^2 because permutations = variables ^ slots.
An easy way to remember this if it's something you have difficulty with is to imagine a 4 digit combination lock with 0-9 for each slot. You know there are 10,000 combinations because the highest number is 9,999 and the lowest is 0. 4^10 does not give 10,000, 10^4 does.
So you know there are 36 permutations, that acts as a checksum for the next method.
List all the possible results. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12.
Now make a list of all the possible combinations...
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This paper will be published on arxiv tomorrow, for now it can be found here: http://vixra.org/abs/1601.0082.
Abstract:
High-order logic paper demonstrating that, in a metaphysical sense, marketplaces can be structured to achieve a form of artificial intelligence.
Devises a time-space-thought continuum framework and uses high level game theory and set theory to demonstrate that small changes in organizational structure result in transformations on the entire system. Further hypothesizes that this time-space-thought continuum exists in physical reality.
>in a metaphysical sense
>achieve a form of artificial intelligence
>time-space-thought continuum framework
Nice technobabbling m8
Also link is broken.
I'm sure tomorrow it will be up again for everyone who wants to read :^)
This link works for me.
How do you remember chemistry jargon?
Cation - Cat
Anion - Anti
Nitrogen compounds - Azure (They usually start with an A e.g. Azide, Amides, Ammonia, Amines)
-ide - side
>>7775632
OP - fag
because I literally work with them 24/7 for a living
>>7775647
how did you remember them during HS*
Referring to pic, let's say spaceship A and B are travelling at half the speed of light towards each other relative to the House (which is as far as I believe perfectly fine and within the bounds of the laws of physics).
Wouldn't each spaceship be travelling at the full speed of light when the reference is taken as the other spaceship? Which supposedly breaks the laws of physics, could someone please explain why this wouldn't work.
Look up lorentz transformations. even more elementary/immediately applicable, look up relative velocity formula for one dimensional motion.
>>7775510
each spaceship travels at (0.5c+0.5c)/(1+0.5c*0.5c/c^2) = 0.8c in the frame of reference of the other.
I don't understand, anyone mind explaining
Would you consider gas technician a science.
currently taking it and we do a considerable amount of chemistry on paper. The course's actually name is HRAC??
You gonna learn how to restart pilot lights?
>Shig Lord
>>7775482
careers are not science, they are areas where people can apply scientific discoveries.
Hello /sci/!
I'm being curious and I'm struggling hard to find a reliable answer on the internet, so here is my problem. What is the TOTAL margin of error in our current knowledge/measurement of the speed of light?
Wikipedia only partially answers on the following article:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre#Distance_travelled_by_light_in_a_specified_time
Several limiting factors are listed, but only a few of them are given numeric values, and I suspect there may be more limiting factors, non-listed in the article.
I'm...
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>>7775472
Well. Spoiler fail, I guess.
>>7775472
Noone is interested in this question?..
>>7775862
planck length is hypothetical and doesn't exist idiot. ask a question based on reality and not pop-sci next time.
Your brain is using too much power and if you don't do anything about it, you will die. In order to survive, you must choose one of the three brain systems to shut off. Doing this will make the other two work three-hundred percent more efficiently, but, you permanently lose the system you chose to shut down.
Which of the three brain systems do you shut off and why?
>>7775382
I want to not die. And I want to be able to remember things. So goodbye, limbic.
Quite the "delima", but I'd take death over any of those options,
>>7775409
You won't remember much for very long without a limbic system. But yeah, the other options are death and brain death, so goodbye emotions I guess.
