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What is the likelihood that if extraterrestrials invade that they'd be massive smartasses who fuck with us while they attack?
>>7670513
Approximately: 0.6751470753146790852
probably more like 0.9999. maybe not in an organized way, but individuals tend to get bored/creative. im sure people always fucked with their slaves for entertainment through history too.
>>7670513
It might not be unlikely at all, considering the premise. There's not really any practical reasons for a ground invasion that make sense so you're left with them being ultra sadistic, ultra compassionate, ultra something.
Does being a good scientist mean, giving up everything else?
Einstein smoked pipes, so no.
>>7670441
>>7670441
You don't need to sacrifice your humanity to become a good scientist, OP. You just need a lot of heart, dedication, and focus.
Whats the physics/science behind karate men being able to break multiple blocks of wood or cinderblocks with one strike of their palm? Like seriously wtf, why arent we weaponizing this?
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>why arent we weaponizing this
Go learn karate and charge headfirst into a group of armed bloodthirsty ISIS members, see how far it gets you
It's way simpler than you are thinking. As far as breaking wood. It is mostly a trick. You hit it along the grain and it breaks pretty easy. Try hitting it across the grain one time and break your hand.
Some karate experts do have a tremendous amount of strength and this is due to how they use their body as a whip. Their hand or foot is then travelling with great force. I believe Bruce Lee was recorded as having a 5,000 pound force punch.
>>7670560
Interesting. What about cinde blocks
How do you make one of your extremeties a whip?
>inb4penis
What am I doing? Someone tell me if this is something that exists already because I am just screwing around here wasting my time and this interests me for fuck knows why and if some math dude already has a name for this shit I would just like to go simply look at it instead of writing all this junk down for fun.
>>7670289
whats a prime number and why are they important?
100% serious question. im a chem major
>>7670294
regardless of being a chem major, you should know what a prime number is unless you didn't listen at all through grades 1-12 in math class.
>>7670294
but to answer your question, a whole number greater than 1 that is only divisible by 1 and itself. Has no other factors.
Google is a beautiful thing, I'm sure you know that as a chem major.
what are your thoughts on the golden record? Will it ever reach anything/anyone? Should we have changed what we put on it?
>>7670284
i'd've put my dick on it you pop-sci faggot
We certainly shouldn't have put a map back to our solar system. Seriously, why would anyone leave their address and directions to their house out for anyone to find?
At least it will lose its accuracy over time.
>>7670320
>We certainly shouldn't have put a map back to our solar system
This means absolutely nothing. The chances of an intelligent alien race accidentally stumbling upon the probe in interstellar space is impossible.
And if by some miraculous means they did capture it, they most likely already have the ability to detect our system so it makes it pointless anyway.
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What are your thoughts on saturated fat /sci/? Is it harmful?
Yes, in excess.
But everything is bad in excess. The dose makes the poison
>>7670230
almost forgot, excess is a very small amount. Eating just one twinkie a day is very much in excess fatass.
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http://news.mit.edu/2015/ahaan-rungta-mit-opencourseware-mitx-1116
This guy got into MIT at 15 just by taking online courses. What's your excuse?
I'm white so i really can't get into MIT
>>7670182
this
Ocw didn't exist, nor was as popularized back when I was 15 yo.
Is now the time to get into fields which will play a role in advancing commercial space exploration and colonization?
Will the industry be starting to advance rapidly in a few decades from now if not taking off (excuse the pun)?
My interest is in planetary geology, and I can see this being one of the crucial fields. But if the industry doesn't start to take off then going into planetary geology could be a major dead end.
No. 50-60 years from now, yes.
Asteroid mining is a thing right now.
Commercial space exploration means dick right now. The only area where private industry can capitalize is low earth orbit.
Is there a scientific reason for why goat eyes have weird rectangular pupils?
>>7670119
Yes, I posted a link to some discussion on that matter in one of your earlier threads.
Given that, and the rampant goat-posting, I doubt the sincerity of your query; you're an obvious shit-poster.
>>7670119
No, that's just how God created them.
I roll two dice n times and sum all of them together. What is the probability that the sum is divisible by 7?
What is the limit of the probability as n approaches infinity?
2hard4sci?
If youre rolling TWO dice n number of times youre always going to get at least 2 as the sum. The further you roll and the more n times you roll these numbers will become greater and the probability increases that the sum will be divisible by 7. In other words using probability, the probability will be n*pi/(2n^2)*7 that its divisible by 7. As the limit of the probability as n approaches infinity also approaches infinity. Do your homework pleb.
>>7670095
1/6 obviously
I had seen a thread on here recently about what will civilization (or the lack thereof) be like in 25 years, it was a pretty good read so lets get some IQ's in here and tell me (normal QI) what will we become in 50 years? (Moore's Law, colonizing Mars vs. Venus, extinction level events)
This will happen in every thread
>>7670035
heyyy lol
>>7670033
>What happens in 50 years
Literally everything will be the same but smaller and more expensive.
>colonizing Mars vs. Venus
I dont think anyone who has half a brain would consider colonizing Venus over Mars. Get fucking real.
>extinction level events
I doubt a giant impact will happen or a nuclear winter in the next 50 years. Climate change isn't an extinction event, we just won't live on the surface anymore.
OK anons, revving this bad boy up in a new form. I've been influenced into the opinion lately that you shouldn't draw the whole organic/inorganic line across chemistry, and so I think instead of having /ogen/, we should have /syngen/ . So here we go.
First, I'm getting the textbook recommendations out of the way:
>organic
Clayden, Wade, Klein, Bruice. Fleming's "Frontier Orbitals" is great, and Silverstein's "spectrometric identification of organic compounds" is the dankest
>inorganic
Definitely...
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Here's something to start us off -- propose a mechanism.
On a side note, does anyone have tips for columning tiny samples? I'm talking like 60mg here. I've walked past labs and saw people doing columns in glass pipettes. What's up with that? Are those columns or just plugs?
>>7670003
Oh yeah and I'm hoping people recommend some inorganic books, and also maybe give me a place to pull some problems like the organic mechanism ones.
>>7670007
I think I've seen this problem before.
>>7670003
IMO 60 mg is too much for a pipette column but it depends on how much garbage there is to remove and the differences in Rfs.
I used to routinely put ~25 mg of product on a column 1 cm wide and 5 cm tall and didn't have problems finding or collecting it.
discuss.
>>7669945
Shut up.
Right answer is true. Are you retarded OP?
>>7669945
Two are red. (2 == 1) = false.
Is anyone here an experienced organic chemist? Has anyone here synthesized any psychadelics? Also general chemistry thread
>>7669920
>>>/420chan/
>>7669929
oy fucker im talkin about chemistry here, im not lookin for some cosmonot to tell me about his trip. I want to talk about synthysis of psychs fucker
DUDE
So what does /sci/ know about the world and its current progress on realistic stem cell research? Im no professor or university student, and unfortunately I broke my spine this year damaging my spinal cord, so you can imagine stem cells are of great importance to me. first off, what do I know? bare with me, its a lengthy post for you Bio-majors and Neuroscience Genuises.
Im going to list the various approaches Ive found in MY OWN personal studying, to be the most beneficial therapies for injuries such as mine; not acute injuries, but chronic ones to include every situation....
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>continued
>Invivo Therepautics
This is a company that is looking to use what they call a "Neural Spinal Scaffold" to bioengineer neural tissue via Neural Stem Cells that would be inlaid into the spinal scaffold. A 3D bandaid if you will, go in, cut the damage out, apply the 'bandaid' with stem cells giving the nerves framework to cling to. It is compromised of what they call 90% air so as to allow it to be absorbed by the body naturally once the nerves have regenerated. Clinical tests have been done on acute and chronic with some improvement WITHOUT the preloaded Neural Stem Cells this company has in their hands.
>Stemcells Inc.
This is a company that is looking to transplant CNS-derived stem cells to create multi-potent, tissue-derived “adult” stem cells that are directly transplantable into the brain, spinal cord or eye without the need for immunnosuppresive drugs as the cells are created from your own system. From what I can understand the cells are injected into the spinal cord where your injury is and accompanied by peptides to allow the axons to grow through the glial scar that blocks chemical signals.
>continued
>Olfactory ensheathing Bulb
This is more a less an approach that has been barely broached but shows huge promise, by using cells cultured from the olafactory ensheathing bulb within your brain as they are the only cell able to continuously regrow throughout your lifetime. They are also perfect for recoating the axons in myelin a fatty substance that gets damaged during SCI, which allows electrical signals to be transmitted swifty.
I could go on with more things ive read about, but the end point...
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>continued
>Olfactory ensheathing Bulb
This is more a less an approach that has been barely broached but shows huge promise, by using cells cultured from the olafactory ensheathing bulb within your brain as they are the only cell able to continuously regrow throughout your lifetime. They are also perfect for recoating the axons in myelin a fatty substance that gets damaged during SCI, which allows electrical signals to be transmitted swifty....
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