What should be NASA`s work?
NASA should be woried in produce capsules to ferry people to de ISS?
And the whole Journey to Mars™.It will work?
The SLS seems just a way to keep the shuttle beneffits roling again and not some real next step.What would be the best stuff NASA could do now,dump the SLS and start something new?
IMO:NASA should only make R&D and low profit investiments such as a Moon L2 space station or a moon outpost.The ferry and the vessels should be done by private companies like ULA,SpaceX and others.
your thoughts,anons.
>>7986979
>NASA should be woried in produce capsules to ferry people to de ISS?
No. Plenty of other people are already further ahead there, and NASA isn't going to be able to compete with them on price.
>And the whole Journey to Mars™.It will work?
No. From what I understand, nothing NASA currently has in the pipeline is going to be capable of that. And NASA doesn't have nearly the budget to start developing anything else as well.
>What would be the best stuff NASA could do now,dump the SLS and start something new?
I don't think so.
The SLS clearly wasn't NASA's call, and if it DOES get canceled it's just going to be replaced with something equally stupid. So stopping it now would just set everyone back even further.
>The SLS seems just a way to keep the shuttle beneffits roling again and not some real next step.
Maybe.
Right now SLS & Orion look pretty useless, but if NASA could make enough promises to actually get them built they might be able to get some use out of them. If they waited until the pointless validation flights they "promised" are over, then stripped out a bunch of the pointless shit a replaced some of the dumber parts then then they might actually be good enough. They'd still cost fucktonnes too much, but they'd fly and they could be the start of an actually decent Moon Base program.
There's plenty of really cool stuff we could do on the Moon, if we had a base there and a super-heavy to throw stuff at it.
I'd write more but I'm out of time.
>>7987286
OP BTFO.
>>7986979
>What should be NASA`s work?
Lunar colonies (step 1 and the only thing they should be doing right now)
Martian colonies
Colonies on all other celestial bodies
Asteroid and planet mining
Generation ships
Is this the life story of every one on /sci/
>Top of class in high school
>Peers, teachers and parents hail you as a genius
>Chose the hardest most advanced STEM course at the best university in the country
>You will be the greatest, the next Feynmann
>This will make up for your poor social skills and virginity
>Once you're there you're #452 in ability
>Classes are dull formalizations of the same old classical mechanics and calculus you did in high school
>You aren't even able to keep up with this
>You are now a virgin AND dumb
>All your childhood ideas for warp drives and space elevators get dismissed as impossible
>Realize you will barely pass your course
>Realize you will likely never contribute anything
>Realize if you did it would be a 0.001% more efficient rocket engine or something equally mundane
>Realize you're now bald, fat, on a low wage with all your dreams crushed.
>An hero
>>7986004
>>Realize you're now bald, fat, on a low wage with all your dreams crushed.
everything was accurate up till here
I have a full head of hair and am actually getting skinnier because I do not eat anything at uni, I starve until I am so hungry I am forced to leave my room and get food
but yeah im probably lower than #452 in ability, i am probably in the bottom quartile of my class
That's why I took up to drawing furry porn
Our Prof pretty much told us to expect to feel like that the very first day
>"You're not geniuses, you're not going to change the world, you're not innovators or you wouldn't be here, you're just here to get a job and be another cog in the machine, and that's fine."
Let's get an unpopular opinion thread going.
/sci/ edition.
>>7984254
Complex analysis is more eye opening and fundamental than Real analysis.
Most human beings are not sentient.
>>7984262
>Most human beings are not sentient.
I like you.
Here's mine:
We don't have enough to do to keep everybody busy doing something useful.
The whole "he fell for the STEM meme" meme is caused by everybody seeking out the "good" jobs creating a flood in the STEM job market.
But it's true in nearly all fields.
Before 1980, Murrica had a trade surplus.
We exported far more than we imported.
Today we import more than we export, but we have about the same level of employment.
Clearly, we're creating busy work.
well? it's clearly 50 % right?
2/3
33%
DAILY REMINDER THAT DAVID HILBERT HAS SET BACK MATHEMATICS A CENTURY WITH HIS QUEST FOR CHILDISH RIGOUR.
20TH CENTURY MATHEMATICS IS MOOT AND WE ARE ONLY NOW GETTING BACK ON THE RIGHT TRACK
IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE BASED GODEL WAS FOLLOWED INSTEAD OF FUCKING KEKKRAUT SHILLBERT. THIS IS THE WORLD I WOULD RATHER BE ON.
MOCHIZUKI IS THE ONLY PROFESSIONAL TO HAVE SEEN THIS AND IS WELL BEYOND THE 22ND CENTURY WHILE THE CULT OF HILBERT REMAINS 100 YEARS BEHIND
>>7983869
You're right.
I already laughed about
>SHILLBERT
yesterday
But let me just post this here, Hilbert has the cutest voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbgAu_X2mm4
What role does male pattern baldness play in the evolution tree? How does it help us?
Type M master race
>>7981650
>How does it help us?
How does hair help us?
>>7981656
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuedZ1Y_dU4
Questions that don't deserve their own thread.
How does he do the first line after "And therefore"? I don't understand how he get's the right hand side.
>>7980526
type that shit in wolfram alpha
noone's gonna do that baby shit for you, kid.
Currently at a community college taking an 8 week course on History. It's busy work and complete garbage. It's too late for me since I am already taking the course, but how do we get rid of this requirement for future generations?
>>7980526
Are you a retard?
[math]e^{ix}=e^{ix+0}=e^{ix+i\frac{y}{2}-i\frac{y}{2}}[/math]
Have you for once, welcomed our Chinese overlords?
>>7966481
Obviously. I hope that the East Asian master race can bring peace and prosperity to all the peoples of the Earth :)
How long is the vector (picture related)? How do I find out? I think it is 2,45 but I don't know how to calculate this. I made it over set of Pytagoras and a drawing.
>>7998485
the length of (1, -1, 0) is sqrt(2)
the length of (0, sqrt(2), 2) is sqrt(5)
so it's sqrt5
2,23
unless you're starting at (0,0,0), then all that shit gives you is a direction.
If it's the former, use your trig.
>>7998485
sqrt(6)
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/VectorMagnitude.html
Hey /sigh/, how do you explain that the Sun is placed at the EXACT center of the solar system?
If it was set at ANY other location, the whole system wouldn't be perfectly balanced and we wouldn't even exist.
And that's the undeniable PROOF of Intelligent Design.
>i make le shitpost
>>7996906
this
>>7996900
The center of gravity is at the center of the solar system, and so the sun, as the object with the largest mass, remains in equilibrium there. If a larger star were to enter our solar system, it would move to the center, displacing our sun.
"BIG DATA!"
It will end if and when companies determine they aren't getting a return on their investment in their data scientists. Until such a time, the meme lives on...
>>7996642
>wearing chuck taylor's and a tie
Is this a smear campaign against data science? I don't want to be associated with these nerds.
Look at his smug goddamn face.
What interpretation of QM do you support and why?
who cares, QM is wrong since it doesn't include gravitation
the "it just werks" -interpretation
>>7998800
Bohmian mechanics
Is applied mathematics the biggest meme?
I mean who really would enjoy sitting around all day and doing computation?
>implying Analysis isn't the only thing that brought you to mathematics
>>7998069
>he thinks applied mathematics is solely computations
stick to pure math you fedora
>>7998069
to be quite honest, doing computations all day might actually be pretty fun.
>>7998069
>applied mathematics
>only computations
It is not true, the methods that thy use in real applied mathematics range through all of mathematics. For example: some practical problem boils down to solwing a nonlinear pde. Eangeneers usualy employ numerical methods to approximate the solution of the pde, but te you have a crucial question: is the solution of your equation unique? Then to showthe uniquness they employs really fuced up results from analysis -ranging from Banach fiex poin theorem to theory of borwer degree, morover the proofs of the rsults that they use can somtiems be translated to writing an algorithm that will converge to the solutions. Applied mathematics can be awsome.
I used "I study mathematics, the purest of the sciences" while flirting, which led to me getting laid later on.
You mad?
>>7996918
No, you didn't.
Also, frogposting is cancer. Kys
>>7996925
>No, you didn't.
Yep, I did. I'm good looking and can pretty much say anything and women will still sleep with me.
Was she fat?
Did she have a speech disorder?
Asthmatic?
Allerrgic to everything in existence?
And extremely fat?
Is that a Bingo?
Can you tear apart a black hole with an even more massive black hole? Would it be possible to return things from the event horizon that way?
>>7994422
>Can you tear apart a black hole with an even more massive black hole?
If you assume that the mass really is compressed into a point-shaped singularity then no. At best you could warp the geometry of the event horizon but you can't get a gravitational gradient across a point and therefor can't tear parts off it either.
>>7994567
So what would happen if you put two black holes next to each other? Nothing?
>>7994606
They'd merge into a bigger black hole.
