Hello /sci/ I recently quit smoking cigarettes by moving to a Vaporizer.
I tried to find some actual medical studies via google, but I guess I just don't know what to look for, because I can't find any articles that are just hard facts without shit-loads of bias.
Do any of you happen to have links to real medical study results or any insights into the effects of the standard Vaporizer chemicals(Vegetable Glycerin, Propylene glycol, Nicotine, and food-grade flavoring) on the lungs?
The reason you can't find anything is because it's barely been studied so far. Personally I wouldn't risk putting that shit in my body until there's solid science confirming it's harmless. (And also I don't want to be chemically dependent on an expensive habit that makes me look like a tool, but that's neither here nor there.)
>inhaling anything other than 78% N2 + 21% O2 + 1% others
>good for you
pick one
Really, anything you inhale that isnt what your lungs were designed to process is going to have some adverse (not necessarily bad, but normally bad) effect.
>>7735463
>appeal to nature
How can I make relatively pure (>70%) nitric acid?
>>7735019
Yeah.
>>7735019
>using an apple device
>>7735019
this is actually very easy. you'll need an automotive battery (contains sulphuric acid), about two pounds of bitter almonds(preferably finely ground although coarse will work too), a cooking-pot and a stove. now just put the ground almonds in a cooking-pot, add about 350 ml of sulphuric acid and 150 ml of water(always add the acid first, then the water), and apply medium heat. stir vigorously for 5 minutes, remove the pot from the stove and let it cool. finally filter the mixture through a cheesecloth and you'll...
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Old age is cancer.
Is this true?
Please don't post images from an iphone.
>>7734526
Kind of.
Aging is related to genetic entropy.
Could I light Jupiter and other gas giants on fire with a match?
>>7734059
you could light anything on fire with a large enough match
>>7734060
A normal match
>>7734063
no
a large meteor couldnt ignite it
What type of research is everyone conducting?
I'm currently synthesizing anti tumor drugs and studying the effects it has on DNA.
>>7732654
AI psychotherapy (it seems to be working)
Masturbation rate per hour on /gif/
>>7732654
Molecular dynamics
Sorta interesting
Growing field
Wouldn't want to do any more than undergrad research in it though.
How can I know for certain if I am intelligent or not? I thought I was smart in high school but I just got a D in first year chemistry. Does this mean I'm unintelligent?
Yes.
Uni let's you know there are thousands of individuals around you who are smarter, more disciplines and better looking who still won't be successful, because there are tens of thousands even better than them in the state, hundreds of thousands better than them in the country, millions better than them in the world.
You are slime.
Dumb, ugly slime.
>>7730893
Not necessarily. Hell, most people I know fuck up at least one class as a freshman. A lot of people are good at hiding the fact and it may seem like you're the only one who's not getting it, but trust me, MOST if not all get a slap in the face as freshmen. Personally I got a D in programming 101 and I felt like an idiot because, like you, I had always been good in high school
But, just this last semester I had calc 4, object-oriented programming, fluid mechanics and thermophysics and I aced all 4....
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>>7730896
This basically.
>>7730893
Unless you went to a private high-school you are pretty much expected to be top of your class academically unless you are an utter retard.
Everyone in my ChemE freshman class was either top of their class or came from a top 20 high-school and only 60% of those people graduated. That's graduated, the average time to graduate was 5 years.
Can we all agree now that this movie was good and the science was a 9 out of 10.
>>7728795
it wasn't just good, it was great
still science fiction though
Yes, 'twas a great film.
Didn't watch it, on account of it being a movie.
So the Falcon9 scheduled to launch later today (16~ hours) will be landing on solid ground instead of a platform in the water approx 10 min after takeoff.
http://www.americaspace.com/?p=89910
Place your bets kids. Will he succeed or will it go boom?
well...considering the history of SpaceX...
>>7732639
Pretty much this
Is it launching from Vandenberg?
>"M-maybe once I get a N-Nobel prize then I'll become alpha and outbanter Chad in front of Stacey...!"
Hmmmmm, is that so, nerds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUOFTPbxuWA
>people think about this kind of stuff
what are you doing with your life?
>>7738372
O'reilley is being a bit mean here, trying to bait him to get mad with that artful rhetoric. Academics, if they're good, shouldn't be good at rhetoric. Actually they should actively suck at rhetoric, because their habitual use of facts should be so strongly ingrained it gets in the way.
As an unrelated note, have you ever noticed how human faces are really small compared to our head size? (look at the area enclosed by the eyebrows and chin as one object, and rest of the head as another object, you'll see)
>>7738372
ITT: Anon tries to project his virginity
Anyone ever catch a person talking about physics/math and call em out cause they dont know what they talkin bout?pic related
>>7737872
I don't "call em out" because usually the person talking shit is unimportant while professionals know to not talk about shit they don't understand.
Usually people who know who I am will always ask my opinion instead of just talking about though, for example if someone in the room is talking shit, any person that knows me would turn to me asking "is she/he/that right" I will gently correct them.
Under any other circumstances I ignore them because whether I correct them or...
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only if they ask me if it's correct or use it to underline a political standpoint.
I don't care about the rest tho, any1 needs to make and discover his own mistakes sometimes, myself included.
because sometimes you know you were wrong the moment you finished your sentence but between knowing for yourself and admitting to others there's a big gap and I respect that.
I just spout blatantly wrong sciency things just to impress people who don't know better just to improve my social standing. I know there's not many people who will know better.
I don't feel guilty in the slightest
Why do people lie on the internet?
I'm looking at my grades and decide to read what other info is at my faculty's page in the university's web site.
After reading other interesting notes I find a short paragraph that details what my degree in Mathematics prepares you, professionally, for.
It first says that the degree focuses on teaching and pure and applied mathematics. I feel like that sums it up. I wouldn't call my degree pure or applied because it is a good mix of what you should know as a mathematician.
Then read this:
'The...
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>>7737432
>Why do people lie on the internet?
You on 4chan m8.
>>7737432
>#1: This is not shitmerica. There is no inflated tuition, no loans and no debt. The entire degree costs less than a thousand dollars and you could even get it for free if you were good in high school.
American degrees are worth more than whatever shit-stained paper you get after graduation. In college education you literally get what you pay for. You get it for free, it probably sucks. It costs you high, it will take you high.
>>7737432
>The graduate in mathematics is legally capable of:
>'Venturing into computation, banking, finance, insurance, etc.
If you actually need a math degree to be -legally- bestowed the capacity to perform those roles you live in a shit country and should kill yourself.
>oh no I typed out this reply without a math degree, guess I'm going to be arrested for illegal computation!11!
Bigger news then landing on the moon for the first time? I would say yes.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/12/21/news/companies/spacex-launch-rocket-landing/index.html
>>7737185
>Bigger news then landing on the moon for the first time?
Neil Armstrong doesn't give a shit and Elon Mud is still crying.
>>7737185
No, but it brings us closer to bigger things.
>>7737185
>Guys! Guys! Instead of giving money to state employees, you know, the ones that got us to the moon? How about we give them to private corporations and billionaires who then can by old soviet rockets for cheap, pocket the profits.
Once the private companies get to space with state money and technology, they'll act like tough shits, and take over the moon, mars, and demand we pay more because "muh free market".
Private enterprise doesn't develop shit.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/628524/Climate-change-shock-Burning-fossil-fuels-COOLs-planet-says-NASA
Where is your science now dumbfags?
Pic related, it is the typical global warming fanatic.
>>7737073
>Major theories about what causes temperatures to rise have been thrown into doubt
>the findings did not dispute the effects of carbon dioxide on global warming
Well that's blatantly contradictory.
Journalists without a hard science major should really be barred from reporting on science topics.
>>7737096
>actually trying this hard to desperately cling to your religious beliefs
LOL let it go m8, you lost.
>>7737100
>But, rather than being good news, NASA has concluded the lack of taking these factors into account means existing climate change models have underestimated at the future impact on global temperatures will be.
You know I've never been as wrong as you are right now. Tell me, is it physically painful?
We did it Reddit!
>>7737035
This practically isn't a joke.
Autismusk's PR has been targeting Reddit heavily, and Reddit has been sucking their dicks non-stop.
It's amazing what some money can do to your company's reputation. People just follow like sheep.
What happened?
Did they shill the event heavily on leddit? Maybe ask for funds?
Serious question- how much did NASA help?
Also someone post that video of Elon almost crying on 60 minutes
If the 1000 smartest pure mathematicians under 35 switched over to physics and the 1000 smartest theoretical physicists under 35 switched over to pure math, what would happen?
what would change in the progress of each field?
>>7736874
both would slow down a LOT while people relearn stuff, then gradually get back to the same
>>7736874
"As science began to rely more and more upon mathematics to produce its physical conclusions, mathematics began to rely more and more upon scientific results to justify its own procedures." --M. Kline
They both have serious influence on each other.
reminder that when general relativity came out barely any phycists understood it but mathematicians understood it right away