Hey /sci/, how many of you are interesed/studying Botany or any other plant or ecology based degrees?
I just finished my first year anyone else have much experience?
>>7786817
It's fucking gay
>>7786829
>Increases understanding of food, fibers and drugs
>Growing populations will require more food and medicine
Sure kid.
>>7786835
On the frontier of genetic engineering, botany is slowly becoming more useless.
Will science find a cure for the micro-penis?
>>7786696
Just go invert your penis and be a girl.
>>7786696
Probably, if enough demand/money is available for it, seems like it could be solved one day.
>>7786696
Right after we get these jetpacks working :^)
Set theory will become obsolete in our lifetime.
>>7786661
Categories suck
Types suck
Sets rock
>>7786661
gravity (the theory we know of now)
string theaory
Is there anything (small or big) that CAN'T be explained?
And i don't mean that it can't be explained by the lack of information.
I have adapted the belief that everything has an explanation, but i'd like to know if there's a thing that can't be explained.
I prefer something small.
Anyone?
>>7786611
We STILL can't explain why kids love Cinnamon Toast Crunch.
>>7786611
No one has a clue why the moon appears huge from time to time.
Do drugs like modafanil and adderal boost exam performance? Any of you fags have any experience?
>>7786584
>Do drugs like modafanil and adderal boost exam performance
No.
>>7786584
This .gif is just mesmerizing.
>>7786584
>Do drugs like modafanil and adderal boost exam performance
Yes.
neat.
OH MUH GOD
proving that the earth is flat :^)
>>7786548
inb4 roundist scum flood the thread with
>muh time zones
>muh seasons
>muh Magellan
>a man is sitting in a boat, which is floating in a swimming pool filled with water. There is an anchor in the boat. He marks the level of the water in the pool.
>The anchor is then removed from the boat and dropped into the pool.
Does the water level drop or increase?
stays the same faggot
>>7786477
Wouldn't that not be true if the pool was shallow enough that the anchor couldn't reach its equilibrium depth?
>>7786943
doesnt matter
as long as its deep enough to put the entire anchor and chain in the pool without any part poking out
So since we can see distant stars and the CMB and hence see into the past, that is proof the universe existed before our consciousness, which you means you don't have to exist for the universe to exist, which means objective reality is real.
Of course objective reality is real, you faggot.
lol
I didn't know Japanese game shows had adopted common core.
order of operations is SUCH a big deal to me
>>7786618
They're Korean and thus retarded.
Are we the first civilization to reach this level? Not judging by the observation, cause light is too slow
>>7786432
I remember from the KIC threads that we were possibly one of the earlier civilizations that came into existence that we can see in our observable universe. Otherwise we could have detected the EM signals from their energy usage coming from other planets
>>7786432
Not necessarily the first, maybe one of the first.
https://planetologist.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/cirkovicvukotic_20081.pdf
Dr. John Brandenburg: Of all the pictures I've seen from the moon that show possible structures, the most impressive is a picture of a miles wide rectilinear structure. This looked unmistakably artificial, and it shouldn't be there. As somebody in the space defence community, I look on any such structure on the moon with great concern because it isn't ours, there's no way we could have built such a thing. It means someone else is up there.
www.collective-evolution.com/category/alternative-news/exopolitics/
I am taking an environmental biology class. As part of the course I am required to read a non-fiction book that is "kind of related" to environmental biology like bugs, animals etc.
Please suggest a good book.
>>7786420
I don't have a suggestion, but what could possibly be the point of the professor requiring this?
>>7786420
QED
>>7786420
Rachel Carson's Silent spring. Like all environmental biology books. It is preachy and takes an unnecessarily aggressive and dismissive approach to making a point.
How would /sci/ arrange what maths should be taught starting from elementary school through high school (senior year)?
If possible, supplement what text books you feel are the most thorough in explaining the concepts behind each subject.
>>7786415
I didn't include college/advanced level math because that's already explained within 2 clicks of the sticky, btw.
>>7786415
Start with Inter Universal Teichmuller theory. Use it to weed out the retards, everyone who scores less than a perfect grade in the first examination is immediately executed.
I'm just having fun with this breadboard but for some reason, I can't figure out why the middle LED (b/w e and f) blew out when I used my 9V battery. It lit up and quickly shut down. I smelled fumes so I assumed it blew.
Note that there used to be another LED at the bottom lined up with the others in the row. I used resistors >1k ohms for all the LEDs except the one in the middle that blew. I don't understand much about Ohm's law, but is the fact that I didn't add a resistor to the middle LED the reason it blew? If so, why? I already had other resistors so I thought there would be enough resistance.
>>7786371
>but is the fact that I didn't add a resistor to the middle LED the reason it blew?
Yes, you fucking clown. I cannot think of a better example of someone finding a simple example of "This does that, but if I change this one variable, this other thing happens." Do you really need someone to tell you that? The other resistors have no effect on the total current flowing through the LED that blew out.
>>7786371
Yeah, a resistor is always needed for LEDs.
>>7786386
Sperg harder.
>>7786371
>I already had other resistors so I thought there would be enough resistance.
The other resistors don't really do anything to limit the current through that burnt led, because they are in parallel.
Is autism an advantage in mathematics?
>>7786356
The only thing that matters in math is IQ.
seems so
Dont autism commonly follwed by low intelligency?
Hey /sci. Greetings from /lit. Have any of you guys ever read pic related? If so, how advanced/thorough/complex was the physics/math/chemistry/other science related shit in the book? As a STEM noob, I found that I could recognize some references, but not much. I guess I mostly wanted to see if more science-y people are as impressed by Pynchon's knowledge of science as regular literary English grads who just read novels.
>>7786303
Yes I've read it. The thing is, while it does certainly touch on several scientific topics, it's usually in service of some poetic metaphor and as such is not as deeply technical as it seems.
>>7786334
>is not as deeply technical as it seems.
This.
I found that having a mathematics background let me appreciate certain puns like Gregory Hilbert-Spaese or shit like that. Not much else. He doesn't have deep scientific insights to offer, he just draws on technical imagery for metaphors and whatnot.
>>7786303
I love this book and have read it many times. but it's literature. no complicated math. if you know Pynchon, the math is in there usually to make a pun. I remember a sex scene where slothrop is kissing katje on her osculating curves or something like that. same with chemistry.
it's a very funny book and just good conspiracy style sci fi. very clever and original fantastical characters with strange skills and it takes lots of turns. occasionally has some inspired metaphysical moments.
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