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We had a question on b about the possibility of Luke and Leia birthing Rey to account for her extreme force sensitivity.
Since luke and leia both have the force gene from anakin, rey should be doubly strong.
People complained thoug because incest, and its dumb because its a galaxy far far away so why should they have human taboos.
But people said that luke and leia would not have had a child because incest deteriorates the human genome.
I asked that how do you know they are "human" and that their genomes might not deterorate from incesty.
Its...
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>>7744738
According to classical genetic reproduction theory she would still only have 25% chance of having two alleles, 50% of being the same as Luke or Leia and 25% of being normalfag. Alleles can dominantly expressive in the phenotype, have shared expression (think the baby of cuckhold porn who is half black half white) or be suppressed by the other allele. In all cases she would have the same or less power than Luke or Leia, not more.
>>7744738
It doesn't matter if they're human. They're diploid sexually-reproducing organisms. Inbreeding is a thing in mice, fish, monkeys, etc.
>>7744754
Maybe midichlorians are all from the mom like mitochondria. Also, concentration of diseased mitochondria can increase or decrease in daughter cells based on which cell gets what part of the cytoplasm by chance, so maybe she got an even higher 'good midichlorian' count than Leia. Maybe kylo ren got unlucky and got diseased dark side midichlorians.
Planet Earth,
I'm NASA
>>7744431
You have pretty big goals.
>>7744431
I always hear about how astronauts are trained to the limits of human potential and they're supposed to be super fit and shit. However whenever I see them they just look like middle aged normal guys. What gives?
>>7744463
try to beat an astronaut next time you see one
What is the most interesting topic within chemistry?
>>7744086
DRUGS&EXPLOSIVES, FEGIT
>>7744097
Pretty much this
Drugs are always on everyone's mind because
1) chemists like to make shit
2) drugs are have a wide variety of structures to play with + there are multiple ways to produce it better/faster/cheaper. It's a fun competition
Explosives for 2 reasons
1) we've been drilled in the lab from day 1 that an explosion is something you never want to happen (now you get to make them)
2) explosions are fucking awesome
pH
Undergrad here,
Is it a fuckin suicidal idea to study for MCAT, and cross my fingers and land myself into medical school as an undergrad of physics(i never did bio before)
>stupid self
>after seeing what med school learns and what they do, starting had this inclination towards it
>do engineering they said, you won't regret it they said
P.S. I heard it's possible with examkrackers, not sure how true.
>>7743831
No, in fact the most common major to be accepted with is pure math, and physics is the portion of the MCAT most people have trouble with, youre honestly more set than bio majors, but you have to start studying today, 1 hour every day for like 9 months and youll be good, if you cram later youll fail.
>>7743856
My physics is top tier at least, thanks for the feedback my good man, appreciate it, you saved a brothers life.
>>7743856
>No, in fact the most common major to be accepted with is pure math,
What color is the sky on your planet?
I want to pursue research mathematics as a hobby, a supplement to a career (science, engineering, art), or even a career in and of itself. What particularly excites me about mathematics is how seemingly disparite formal concepts can be linked though a newly discovered theory or generalization.
In mathematics there is a lot to memorize if you intend on keeping up with the latest discoveries. Even if you are specializing in a particular branch, as most mathematicians do, the amount of theorems you must be able to recite and have available to you at any instant easily goes into...
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It is almost impossible to compete at a high level academically in mathematics as just a hobby. You would need to be a fucking genius or that one guy who lived with his mom and solved that millennium problem. Most people pursue an undergraduate degree in mathematics, then branch to a masters degree and then go to graduate school while doing a PhD. The academic path is never for the faint of heart who give up easily. Its going to be torture at times. But the more satisfying it is when you finally get it, when I finally clicks. However don't fool yourself: you will have to...
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Thanks for your comment. I recognize the math video your image comes from.
There has been a fair bit of excitement recently over the efforts of a group of startups in the world of Fusion energy, such as tri alpha energy, Helion energy, and efforts from Lockheed Martin, to develop reactors on a time scale of perhaps a mere decade from now or less. Im fascinated by this, but still harbor doubts, given the long, frustrating history of fusion power generation over the last 60 years.
Will the extreme difficulty of sustained fusion once again humble mankind, or are we finally ready to tell the saudis to get fucked forever?
Oh, i forgot to mention general fusion, although i think the approach they are taking might be a dead end
>he thinks we won't need saudi oil even after fusion
You think we're gonna be driving fusion powered cars very soon?
Ships powered by on-board reactors? Aeroplanes?
>>7743803
I would hope a majority of cars are made to use electricity within 40 years, or that we can make fuel with genetically engineered plants or something.
I hate those Saudi fucks, I want to see the local people eat them alive
I've been trying to get through apostol's calculus, but I find it to be a bit hard. I'm at the first chapter. Should I just man up and go through with it or get a new book. Any recommendations ?
>>7741638
Man up, faggot.
You'll eventually get through it, just put more effort.
>>7741638
"Elementary Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach" by Jerome Keisler
"A First Course in Calculus" by Lang
"Calculus With Analytic Geometry" by Simmons
"Calculus: An Intuitive and Physical Approach" by Kline
>>7741638
Volume 1 or 2? If 2, just power through it, OP.
If 1, Spivak's calculus is much more readable.
This is the education in the USA today.
Could some Murrifat kindly explain to me how this equals 16?
The did division before multiplication. I don't understand the reasoning behind it though.
>>7748799
That picture is fake. Look at the right border of the projection. The 1 vs 16 thing was shopped in.
>>7748799
>not posting the original
How did your semester go, /sci/?
>Study for literally days before a Calc III final
>Go to final and freeze up, forget everything
>Bomb miserably and end up getting a flat C in the class
>Ended the semester with As and an A- in 4 other courses and a fucking C in math.
Fuck me, honestly.
>>7734735
Consider the following: you just aren't cut out for this.
>>7734735
4.0, feel pretty happy about it.
Why did you think a few days was sufficient?
>The continuum hypothesis (that is, there is no set whose cardinality is strictly between that of the integers and that of the real numbers)
>proven to be impossible to prove or disprove within the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with or without the Axiom of Choice (provided the Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with or without the Axiom of Choice is consistent, i.e., contains no two theorems such that one is a negation of the other).
Can you explain this plz for someone who doesnt know wtf this means? More...
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>>7747248
It's a really easy concept dude just read it more. Basically there is no set with a cardinality, k , such that aleph0<k<aleph1, this is abuse of notation though.
who wants to know
pay attention in class don't come to /sci/ to do your homework
I've started learning C++ as my first programming language three months ago. I didn't have any programming experience before that, and until now it is still all kind of blurry.
My question is: how do you start thinking in programming language, so you can solve problems?
I could say that I kinda understand the overall look of how programming looks and works like, but I just can't start thinking in the way so I could solve problems. If someone else told me the solution, I would be like: "oooh, yeah that's totally easy!" But I can't seem...
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>>7745870
If you have to ask. You're not cut out for this. Perhaps a mcjob is more your speed?
>>7745874
thanks fag i just want to talk about it
>>7745870
Start of by solving trivial problems and move from there. Make a random name generator that just puts together names from a list of first and last names then move onto something slightly more difficult like making a minesweeper that works in your terminal by taking the coordinates of the place you picked. Its all practice, no matter how simple the problem may seem. You'll eventually see patterns and how to solve some primitive issues as they arrive.
What are the false positive rates for mental illness diagnoses like?
100%
mental illness doesn't exist
psychiatry and psychology are pseudosciences
>>7744945
Nah seriously though
>>7744945
Retard detected
Well?
>>7738110
IF the earth was flat
then why can we sail in the opposite direction.
Why does astrology prove it's not.
Ayy. Lmao.
Then the earth would have edges which someone would have documented over the years, and the distance to travel between USA and Russia wouldn't take such a short time
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Will it ever be possible or not?
In what timeline? And how will we prevent it from destroying our economy?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_the_Sky
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
>Will it ever be possible or not?
It's already possible.
>And how will we prevent it from destroying our economy?
Easy. It will never be economically feasible so we don't have to do jack shit.
Sage for space cadet.
>>7745413
>>It's already possible.
No.
The rest is not worth an answer. Have a sage.
No
Illuminati aliens are keeping us quarantined on our own planet till we either learn to live in peace or kill ourselves. That's why we're not allowed back on the Moon.
Explain why Electrical Engineering & Mechanical Engineering are not the top majors in terms of challenge, usability in society, and monetary concern.
> challenge
kek
where are all the hard classes in these majors? you really think these compare to legitimately difficult courses that scientists take?
>>7744144
>Oompa Loompa'ing is top tier in anything
>>7744150
>legitimately difficult courses that scientists take?
Or chemE, or nukeE, or civil for that matter.
