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Hey sci what the strongest nonnuclear explosive I'm curious
Like whatever amount of tons of TNT you can think of +1
>>7762974
The sound from your mom's thighs clapping together
>>7762974
TNT I guess
"The challenge is not to act automatically. It's to find an action that is not automatic. From painting, to breathing, to talking, to fucking. To falling in love..."
What do you guys think he meant by that?
>>7762950
It's pretty self explanatory isn't it? If there was an "automatic" algorithm for the behaviors we consider human intelligence, emotions, and creativity, AI would already exist.
>>7762950
The writer?
He was insulting the audience's intelligence. It's very subtle, no?
>>7762950
Complete nonsense, because all of those are automatic.
I don't quite understand how vaccines work, how is it that they inject you with dead virus cells? Virus cells are neither living nor dead so how can they inject you with something that cannot die. Are viruses like the undead?
Also why do vaccines cause pain in the injection site and sleepingess?
>>7762883
I've always wondered does drinking alcohol after a vaccine mess up the vaccine and like kill the things in it?
>>7762883
Viruses have two parts:
1) An outer shell that delivers the payload. This is the part the immune system detects.
2) A DNA payload that instructs the infected cell to make more viruses
Non-working or missing payload = can't replicate = virus is dead.
Living and dead are arbitrary terms when it comes down to it as seen by things considered borderline like viruses. You could say they are inactive if you want but it's just semantics. Though as far as I know most vaccines do not contain inactive viruses so much as weakened viruses that can not reproduce as easily or cause nearly as much damage as a normal virus. Either way, the body easily eliminates the weakened viruses after which the body can then through the use of memory cells, which were formed from B and T cells used to fight the virus, can later be used by the body...
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Is it normal to have this abnormally big (especially the left one) frontal sinuses?
Is it normal to have painful frontal headaches day in day out?
Is it normal to often have continuous rhinorrhea and sneezing lasting up to 10 hours?
Is it normal to have horrendous stabbing headaches that make me discharge mucus with blood from my nasal cavities for a whole week after being on a plane?
Is all that normal? Because that's all I'm getting from the doctors. Everything seems to be normal.
What do you want them to do, empty-head? For them to fill you with their thick cum?
>>7762775
is that even a pic of a human
lmao and no its not normal
>is it normal to have abnormalities
is this nigger serious?
Can someone else how the physics behind the water cyclone in this pic. what causes that tornado to form and why is the water being sucked inwards in the hole at the bottom
>>7762756
pressure
Can someone please explain how using this mixer causes the water to spin in a way where >>7762762
Care to elaborate?
eletrcomagnetic force produced by the crust of the Earth interacts with the ions in undistilled water and creates potential energy that is released when an exit is created at the bottom. That is why if you fill your bath with distilled water and let it drain, it won't create a cyclone.
Hey /sci/, Say I want to start breeding cockroaches for size. How soon will there be noticeable results?
you could expect noticeable results in a dozen generations, which would be three or four years
>>7762688
Insects cannot grow larger than 10 cm diameter. Because Malpighi.
>>7762729
bullshit
Let's try having a nice biology thread:
Post your biology-related thoughts, questions, problems and have people discuss them with you.
No college advice.
Pic unrelated
>>7762654
Umm biology yeah the thing is that we are intelligently created by god.
Biology is spelled b i o l o g y
>>7762654
What's the best way to learn biology/physiology for someone who is NOT math phobic but doesn't give one shit for typical stamp collecting in biology like memorizing 10000 different enzymes in the body?
Can someone tell me if these odds are worth playing? I have a friend who says, theoretically, I can always do this with him.
Pay him 25 cents to play.
Then I get to roll 3 dice.
If I get a 3, he gives me $10. There is a 1/216 or .5% chance of getting this.
If I get a 7, I get my quarter back. There is a 15/216 or 7% chance of getting this.
I get a 13, I get $2. There is a 9.7% chance of getting this.
I get an 18, I get $5. There is 1/216 or a .5% chance of getting this.
Wouldn't the dealer end up losing with these odds? Especially...
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I'm a girl btw ;)
>>7762678
Simple probability,
[math] expected winnings ($) = \Sigma (probabilities \times winnings) - $0.25[/math]
So your expected winnings is
[math] $10 \times \frac {1}{216} + $0.25 \times \frac {15}{216} + $2 \times \frac {21}{216} + $5 \times \frac{1}{216} - $0.25 [/math]
or $0.03125.
So technically you win 3 cents per round.
What does /sci/ think about brain training?
>>7762628
Never been interested, it just seems like silly mini games to me.
I used it for a period of time consistently. Hell, I've even bought the subscription for it and I also got 2 other similar apps and did "games" on them as well. I noticed no tangible benefits after weeks of using them. Though my scores did increase over time.
Fake and gay
The conjoined twins were born in Tondo of Miya in Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State, Nigeria over the weekend. According to Aminu Bombiyo who shared the photos, the twins were delivered at home before being brought to ATBU Teaching Hospital Bauchi. Their mother, a poor Fulani nomad named Adama Sani is seeking for assistance. See more photos...
http://www.newseveryhour.com/2016/01/photos-conjoined-twins-born-in-ganjuwa.html
They should probably just kill it desu.
>>7762552
that'll happen by itself
>>7762536
ayy lmao
but seriously, i hope that in 100 years these kind of occurrences are a thing of the past.
>browse /sci/ everyday
>understand nothing about maths, physics, chemistry or engineering
anyone with me? I just wanna smoke weed and think about black holes and shit
>>7762530
clearly it's not just you because this board is full of idiotic popsci that belongs on /b/
>>7762530
OP, so what does .9999=?
>>7762534
419.9999...
how the fuck do you decide what you will study for the next 4-5 years? this is insane. what if you lose interest?
i'm interested in superconductors, CPU architecture, heat exchangers, propulsion systems, chemical explosives, protein synthesis, nonlinear PDEs, energy storage, machine learning/cryptography, lithography/crystallography, electroactive polymers, josephson junctions, multijunction solar arrays, all both in theory and in application. am i fucked? some anon here said do material science, electrical engineering, or physics. pic related.
>>7762445
if you can't even decide what to study at uni then what hope is there for you?
also why are you asking on /sci/ rather than /adv/ and why did you choose a meme picture that makes me hate you?
How do you get to undergrad level and not know what topics you're interested in?
>>7762454
Get help. Seriously
It's easy, don't worry.
>>7762385
Take Epp's textbook, it's easy and enjoyable as fuck.
Recommend me a good intermediate level discrete math textbook, please.
This might sound like a retarded question.
But how does one gather as much knowledge as possible within like 4 years.
I've got the time, I've got the motivation. But I don't have a plan where to start.
Reading textbooks all day? Watching educational videos on youtube all day?
With knowledge I mean actual knowledge like math, physics, chemestry, biology, history, geography, languages etc., not stuff like "Who is married to Angelina Jolie?"
>>7762134
>only book smarts, not street smarts
You're in for a huge disappointment.
You figure out what you're most interested in. Then you start reading.
>>7762143
That's the problem, I'm interessted in almost anything that is relevant.
>atoms and molecules are discrete "particles" made of...uh, stuff
What a fucking quack. In 126 years he is going to be remembered as an example of extreme stupidity in academia.
>go to rocklab
>smash 2 rocks together
>get smaller rock
>smash smaller rock with smaller rock
>get pebble
>smash pebble together
>pebble no break
Ooga booga! pebble am elementary particle!
>>7762120
I, too, read SMBC :^)
>>7762113
>muh aether clouds!
STFU Kelvin. I bet you didn't even understand the H-theorem. Faggot.
