How soon do you guys think humanity will establish a self-sustainable colony on Mars? Here's one interesting, albeit very optimistic scenario that I found.
2016:
The United States, Russian Federation, and China lead the world in space technologies and exploration. Eight
countries (Russia, Ukraine, United States, Japan, China, India, Israel and Iran) and one regional organization (the
European Space Agency, ESA) control over 1,100 active satellites in outer space. Dozens of other countries begin
to invest in the development of space programs and research. The demilitarization of the solar system is a priority
in international legislation, as terrorism and violent social oppression on Earth characterize the latter part of the
decade.
2023:
Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach 450 parts per million (ppm) and push global temperatures to 2 degrees
Celsius above pre-industrial levels. Sea levels rise, and many small island nations are forced to seek refuge on
continental coasts. Global warming is beginning to reveal long term mental and physical health effects on the
inhabitants of Earth.
2025:
Farming practices are discovered and developed that allow crop growth in oxygen-deprived climates. New
technology is designed to support human life in these same climates, but is expensive to manufacture. Developing
countries begin to fear they are being left behind in the race to space, and several ally with surrounding nations to
assist in long term development goals by providing the little natural resources that are left on Earth.
2028:
Unmanned shuttles and rovers travel to Mars to construct the colony that humans will inhabit in the future. The
colony, designed to house 40 people, contains the technology to sustain human life on Mars’ surface. The media
increases coverage on future space colonization. Activist groups arising in Central America, Southeast Asia, and the
United States oppose space settlements on the grounds that it will prompt global conflicts that may eventually
lead to war. However, support outweighs scrutiny, and much of the developed world continues with developments.
2031:
Delayed by five years, the first manned Mars mission departs on its one-way journey to the distant planet. A group
of scientists and their families, representing eight satellite nations, settle on Mars while maintaining contact with
Earth. Research reveals that long term colonization on Mars is feasible in large numbers, prompting several nations
to prepare the launch of settlements within twenty years.
2043:
A second set of colonists, consisting of 8 scientists and agricultural experts, is sent to Mars. After this operation is
deemed successful, a new program is put in place that sends 50 more people every month.
2060:
With approximately 100,000 people now living in space, tensions have reached an all time high. Border and land
disputes plague the planet, and the United States, Russian Federation, and China have been attempting to take
significant control over their respective surrounding areas. Western European countries, weary of the positions of
their settlements, have held covert meetings and rumors are circulating regarding the reincarnation of the
European Union on Mars. Poorer nations are still struggling to send representatives to space due to the high costs
of sustaining human life on Mars.
That's where the scenario ends but I'm interested to hear some thoughts on how feasible it is, and what might come after.
>2060
>100,000 people living in space
PROVE to me that the earth isn't hollow.
I don't mean the whole thing all the way through, I'm talking about massive caverns, in particular one beneath the north pole.
Why did so many ancient authors talk about underground caverns, especially beneath the north pole?
Off the top of my head, Christians, Greeks (Hesiod comes to mind), Hebrews, pre-Columbus American civilizations, ancient Irish, and others believed that a superhuman race or gods or fallen angels were hiding beneath the earth.
Nowadays people say it's the reptilians beneath the earth.
So why do you know better?
Convince me that there isn't something down there.
>>8005006
/x/ is full of teenagers discussing monsters and how to summon succubi. Can't go there.
If indeed this would be the case, the real sun would pull the other side of this hollow earth towards itself, becouse it is closer. After that, the central sun wouldn't lie in the middle and we would see gravitation anomalities.
In theory, does that make sense?
Could it be possible to increase the time it takes for a certain amount of light to travel from one to another, so that there's a camera traveling in front of it and basically reach a point where we would start seeing the past repeat itself?
Imagine we reach 100000x the speed of light and look at the earth while traveling at that distance. Will we catch up to the light that traveled from earth 4 billion years ago and gradually see earth's story rewind?
The picture doesn't capture the second point I'm illustrating but I hope it makes sense.
>>8004353
>Imagine we reach 100000x the speed of light and look at the earth while traveling at that distance.
>>8004359
>In theory
I know it's technically impossible, but let's assume it is for the sake of understanding the idea.
In theory you could travel faster than light, then look back at earth and see the past. Problem is that how far back you see is linear with how far away you are. Which causes your lens to grow larger and larger. Eventually your lens will be several light years across it self.
How well can you brainlets distinguish colours?
http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge
pic related, my result
r.i.p.
Congrats you have a girl brain that is able to distinguish more colors.
At least you have an excuse for sucking so much dick
I got 24, is that good?
>You can't /sci/
MIT is the best university in the world. That's why yuropoors have us so much. We're winning!
>>8002655
Princeton
NYU
Harvard
ITT Tech
UCLA
>it's "shill for uni you'll never get into but wish you could" thread
oh
nah I'm alright with ICL and cosy, well paid job straight out of uni
Would someone please explain to me how we still believe in reincarnation/life after death at this point in time after all we've discovered? Why is the idea not immediately shot down with a logical explanation?
My psychiatrist asked me if I believed in reincarnation and I explained to him that it's a stupid idea, impossible, and irrelevant to me. Surely, anyone who has thought about this for more than a few minutes would come to some of these basic conclusions that disprove, or at least, make the prospect of a conscious experience after death a pointless thing to imagine.
A) Reincarnation; is a stupid idea because what makes me ME is the combo of past experiences and current environmental stimulus interacting at the atomic lvl which govern how I perceive/react to my environment. So if I get reincarnated into a tiger, eagle, wolf whatever I'd be a fucking other animal-no-longer-me-. I wouldn't even be able to know what 'me' is at that point. The perspective, and overall conscious experience would be different. I wouldn't have any memories or anything human related because the neurological structures that grew in my brain as a developing human wouldn't be there. Over all, It would be inaccurate to call it still "me".
cont 1/2
>>8002188
This same logic can be applied to life after death. Where would your memories/dna with all the info on how you as Anon specifically interacts with your environment go? If the system is changed, so are you. This leads to one conclusion thatI think supports the many worlds theory of QM. Basically, you can only be you experiencing this life right here from your perspective/way you are perceived by your environment because the perspective is what makes you - you. Even if another universe existed. Even if an infinite amount of universes existed you would never be able to live through either one but the one you are now because even though the other bunch of atoms that make 'you' in the other QM collapsed universes LOOK like you, act like you, ect. They can't be you and you can't be them because by nature of you existing, there can't be another. Imagine to conscious experiences, experiencing the EXACT same thing...you wouldn't be able to tell if you where 1 "you" or 100000 potential "you's" experiencing the same thing, only to separate when things go different for one system than another.
cont 2/2
>tfw no /sci/entist wants to speak to me...please don't make me go back to r9k
*tips fedora*
kys
What are your favorite paradoxes, /sci/?
Mathematical expressions of the paradoxes and possible solutions to the paradoxes are obviously welcome.
I'll start with a basic one:
>"Everything I say is a lie. I am lying."
Am I a liar or not?
>>8002021
Any paradox that relies on self referencing is baby tier.
>>8002027
Excellent contribution.
Here's another:
>Try to construct this 3 x 3 table filled with the numbers +1 and −1 so that each row has an even number of negative entries and each column an odd number of negative entries
>>8002061
That's not a paradox, it's just not a possible construction
The first condition implies that the number of negatives must be even, while the second condition implies that it must be odd.
What's the science of seduction?
I've seen 9-10/10-10 chicks with many ugly motherfuckers in my life. I met 2 of them and they just told me "be yourself".
I asked them if they got a 3rd leg but they just had a 0.5/-0.3cm bigger dick.
Are psychologists researching about this topic, or I will forever masturbate to chink monkeys?
>>8001162
/r9k/ here. All girls care about is personality.
>>8001162
It's just statistics.
Present yourself confidently, that is approach girls while speaking clearly yet amicably and being pointed about whatever you want, and express interest to as large a number of girls as possible, and one will eventually bite.
You just have to avoid fixating or losing sight of the objective.
Biological indicator of good genes
V shaped body, confidence, intelligence, means etc
RPN's the only way anons.
>>8001062
I have Matlab, Derive, and a good Casio and yet I still want a CAS calculator because they seem to be well made and aesthetic while every other calculator feels disposable.
Anyone know this feel?
>>8001102
Shit nigger, that must have added up to quite an amount, what are you studying?
/sci/ redpill me on this big brain buster
Fuck off, and take your retarded thread with you.
>>8001009
Show your working
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--Nbz6flw5A
He's a narcissist with theories no one takes seriously. Not to say they're wrong, but his work isn't empirical nor is it observable. He's a bit of a joke to people who don't go '200 IQ!! genuoose xd.' Not to say he isn't highly intelligent, he absolutely is, just read his cognitive-theoretic model, but he comes off as completely over-hyping himself with this air of extrapolative self-importance. He skipped several grades and was always hailed as a genius by his teachers. He quit his state university because thought he could teach his teachers more than they could teach him, and also recognized it for the bureaucracy it is. He basically looks down on average IQ people and thinks higher IQ people should rule the world and make decisions, believes in criterion eugenics, disguises it with the euphemism 'dis-genics.' He created the Mega Foundation, which allows people with relatively exceedingly high IQs (150 and up I believe) to create and share their ideas with institutional confirmation. He's not a hack persay, but his work reads like word salad to most people, making him inaccessible. He understands this but proceeds anyways. Leading researchers can't believe in his theories since they're too interpretive. I liked his CTMU a lot but I don't like him as person. Just watch the video.
He does not believe in pi, but does he allow sqrt(2) and 1/3 even though we cannot write them down entirely in decimal form ?
>>8000985
Who is this guy and what does he do?
>>8000985
>doesn't believe in π
>has literally never seen a circle
>>8001089
Norman J "Complains math is not rigorous enough then defines numbers as strokes on a board" Wildberger
how come biologists never find a primitive aboriginal tribe of white people? They're always some sort of black or brown race
>>8000453
>aboriginal
>People who live in land occupied by britbongs.
The Irish are aboriginals.
>>8000464
i mean primitives in loin cloths, spear chuckers
biologists are racist, and it is becoming problematic
>can never break the speed of light
>can never visit distant stars, exoplanets and galaxies
>still spend billions of dollars building telescopes and probes to take pretty pictures of places we'll never go to
What an absolute fucking waste of tax payers money. Astronomy is one giant ponzi scheme that attracts money into black hole of its own, but somehow we're all ok with that because "for science!"
We have nuclear power plants because the orbit of Mercury was unexplainable with Newtonian physics.
>>8000129
>muh cherry picked anecdotes
I'm okay with using MY tax dollars to pay for this equipment. I'm interested in the world.
So I was watching the starshot program announcement and Stephen hawking was answering some questions about the new project and this happened :
Question : what's should we do if we find evidence of intelligent life?
Hawking's answer : we hope they don't find us.
Agree is disagree? Discuss
Watch live (http://livestream.com/breakthroughprize/starshot)
>>7999075
Agree **OR *** disagree
He's been saying that for a while now. Hawkings basically believes it's bad to specifically seek contact with alien races because we have no fucking idea how they might react, which is completely true.
>>7999083
What I never understand is if scientists don't believe in FTL then why are they simultaneously scared that aliens listening in on SETI might come and attack us?
God is great is isn't it ?
>>7998789
looks like a club sandwich lol
>>7998794
Th-thanks god
