What's the probability that a random alien fruit, provided it is carbon based, would be edible for us?
Obviously there's no practical way to even ballpark this, but even if alien fruit evolved simple sugars that we could digest, chances seem high that the other junk it's made out of would be toxic or at the very least indigestible to us, causing diarrhea, defeating the purpose of eating it.
>>7678735
there are plants on our own planet that evolved in the same environments as we did that will poison and kill you. This is why when hunter/gatherer tribes move into new areas, the safest food sources are fish and game, meat is edible as long as you cook it.
It is incredibly unlikely plants on another planet would be edible to people.
>>7678763
This, basically. Life on earth evolved, as far as we can tell, in a closed ecosystem. If life evolved elsewhere, in a similarly closed ecosystem, chances are low that the two would be compatible. Unless life as we know it on earth is actually the only form of life possible, but that still doesn't guarantee that we could safely eat, digest, and extract nutrients from it.
Hey /sci/entists, what do you use for scientific programming? And why?
>>7678531
Python. It's simple, open source (so we don't have to pay for a Matlab license), and flexible. Also, it's easy to teach to undergrads.
>>7678560
That being said, it isn't powerful enough to do certain simulations, so it isn't the only thing we use.
>>7678560
I use matlab... i have a cracked version :)
But you're right, I need stop being a dinosaur and switch to python... It's where everything is going... Any good resources to learn python for someone with a matlab background?
What do you think about this, /sci/?
/pol/ was right, as usual.
That's too much to ask for.
A written apology with a few million will be enough.
I expected your reactions to be a bit more extreme. Come on guys.
hey /sci/ what are you currently researching?
I'll start:
>Applications of simulated-annealing global optimization to develop rock mechanics models
>pic related
>Induction heaters
>Higgs Boson
go to google see this
search "lucy"
most recent scientific articles bring up flaws in portraying lucy as some missing link
yet it's still celebrated as fact
WTF, /sci/?
>>7678276
>using google
>not understanding your searches are tailored to be things you want to see rather than being unbiased.
At least learn to use proper tools if you're going to research something.
evolution has been debunked thoroughly!
why do you all keep insisting, beyond all scientific reason that it's science or fact of any kind?
more deceit from the evolutionists
if i were a darwinist, i'd have to hang my head in shame
yet, even the askdarwinist website admits to the frauds and still hold to their belief in evolution.
You guys do know the antibiotic apocalypse is approaching? I'd say we've got another 20 years max of effective medicine. Cancer will be deadly again, no more operations, millions will die. There hasn't been a new class of antibiotics for DECADES. Indians and Chinese are mostly to blame for improper use and poor regulation.
How are we going to deal with this?
>>7678233
>an apple a day...
>>7678233
Synthetic monoclonal antibodies.
>>7678233
Nukes.
lots of magical wonderful nukes.
any third world fucker who doesn't get their shots gets blasted from orbit.
Why do you hate the humanities?
>>7678064
I don't hate humanities in the same way I don't hate a flies, but I'll swot it when it gets annoying.
>>7678064
>implying /his/ and /int/ aren't my other main boards
>>7678070
But do you think the humanities is worthless because it doesn't supply something marketable, or do you think it is intrinsically worthless as a discipline?
Wouldn't the easiest way to fracture something be to use a double-toothed tool (Notched pickaxe, heehee) to create an interference pattern that will cause parts of the rock to vibrate out of phase with each other?
I was never terribly good at chemisty, but apparently fractures occur when something's structure slides against itself, and I don't think that a radial shockwave is terribly good for doing that.
Alternatively as a way to improve a pickaxe/pneumatic-drill if the vibration is more linear than radial would be to have two impacts, one occurring a tiny fraction of a second later.
>>7678063
>Alternatively as a way to improve a pickaxe/pneumatic-drill if the vibration is more linear than radial would be to have two impacts, one occurring a tiny fraction of a second later.
you're a fucking genius, anon
>>7678101
This sounds like sarcasm, but if it is, it's very subtle.
Bump I guess
hey /sci/ I'm an auxiliary professor from a Biology in a molecular biology career in South America (Argentina precisely), and wanted ideas and opinions on what kind of lab activities could be implemented for encouraging students to learn or get their attention.
Ive tried looking in US colleges websites for any kind of virtual board or something directed at students to see if I can find any info on what kind of practical activities were carried out, but no luck. I mean you enter my college web and in four clicks you are accessing all the info of the assignature, maybe cause public education here dunno.
An idea of mine was to obtain hometic mutants of Drosophila since we have a constant supply of flies (we grow them through all the year), but I dont know if there is a simple and economic way of achieving this. Well any other ideas or suggestions come in handy, we really are trying to adapt to this new kinds of students and modernize a little
>>7677808
>argentina
Develop a test to check if your students are white or not.
>>7677811
last bastion of european genes, enjoy your refugees and niggers
>FACT: Harvard rejects literally hundreds of candidates with 1400-plus SAT scores and 4.0 GPA’s in favor of students with lesser academic achievements. The truly brilliant students are almost always admitted, but the other 90% of each class is comprised of students who meet a combination of factors, including intellectual ability, unusual attractiveness of personality, outstanding capacity for leadership, creative ability, athletic ability, maturity and motivation for a liberal arts education and geographic distribution.
Why do we take this shithole seriously lads?
>MYTH: Last year’s valedictorian wasn’t admitted and he/she was smarter than I am, so I don’t stand a chance.
>FACT: Maybe you offer qualities which the other person didn’t have – a superior creativity, leadership ability, motivation, athletic ability, etc. As noted previously, many factors besides intellect are considered. Harvard does not want, or have, a student body of “grinds” who are uncreative, plodding regurgitators of knowledge.
You're not an uncreative plodding regurgitator are you /sci/?
There is literally nothing wrong with that quote.
>>7677384
Grades aren't everything ya Dingus. So what if you got perfect grades/test scores? You don't stand out purely academically unless you ace every AP test even without taking the classes and you ace all your subject tests. Even that won't guarantee admission.
Have any anons found themselves obsessed with a particular area, say maths or science?
I figure it must be pretty fun, or at least interesting:
>mundane worries like money become background noise
>can't wait for every new day to practice and learn more about the area
>more constructive than television or 4chan
>spend vast amounts of time in the bliss of intense concentration
Of course, this state of mind isn't natural to me, or most people.
Do any anons have any experience with it? Does it just happen? Does it happen if you spend 16 hours a day doing something? Can it be cultivated.
I'd love to hear your thoughts, /sci/, although I imagine this thread will slide right down out the catalog.
>>7677381
Spent a number of years that way, on various topic. Ultimately burnt out for mostly unrelated reasons.
I imagine I could go back if I wanted, but that hyperfixation made me half mad at the same time. I definitely lost perspective and became myopic. Then I started lying without knowing it.
>>7677386
How did you get to that state in the first place?
Could you elaborate on going half mad and the lying?
Thanks for the response.
I have it too atm.
But it's more the drive to materialize a vision I have, which keeps me interested in math.
I see it more as a tool to create, so proving stuff when I don't need, but have to, does still annoy me but I know I have to do it in order to improve.
But when I stumple upon my own problems, finding the solution is as funny as playing a video game.
Sadly I now have stumpled upon a problem so complex, it makes me think I'd might not be able to contribute to its solution in my life, as I have imagined. that makes me kinda sad.
So if im not meant to be the one to use math for building machines, I can surely combine it with art to create something beautiful.
Hello all. I'm curious about how a theoretical physicist works. What do they do in a daily basis? I'm not talking about cream of the crop physicists, with worldwide fame. I'm talking about the regular theoretical physicist that you can find in any Physics department.
Another question, what kinds of jobs can a person with a PhD in Physics, with a theoretical emphasis, get in the developed world (USA, Canada, Australia, Europe etc)?
And lastly, why does a PhD in Physics is so much shorter in Australia and in the UK compared to the USA and other western countries?
>>7677297
anyone?
Not many people have a PhD in physics so their aren't many people suited to answer questions like these. Just be patient OP. Also start this thread on /adv/ as well. Someone will at least answer parts of it.
Well a theoretical physicist is someone who get's paid to research, so you're just doing research in academia, and unless you're a big shot, you're also teaching and supervising grad students, i.e. what your professors do.
If you have a phD in Theoretical Physics but aren't doing research, you're just going to be a guy with a PhD in physics that almost certainly ends up doing a job that has nothing to do with physics, e.g. wall-street quant, programmer, bar-tender (lol, yes I know a bar-tender with a physics phd). But chances are you will eventually find some kind of low to mid-level technical job.
What do you think about hydrogeology ?
I don't know
it causes global warmings
>>7677346
c-c-c-combo breaker!
r8 my CS program
>>7676908
>only 123 credits
>>7676908
You do "first year writing" and "chemistry" in your CS major? Can someone explain me what's up with American colleges? In my country you decide what you want to study and the university decides which courses you take at which moments. All courses directly related to the field you're studying. Occasionally you can choose between different courses, for example as a Math major you can pick 2 courses in your second and third year, some things that come to mind that you can choose are Fourier Analysis, Advanced Probability, System Theory, etc.
>>7676954
Our liberal faggotry departments force other departments to take their faggotry classes that nobody wants to take.
>we need more women in stem
>we need more women in leadership roles
arstechnica.com/science/2015/11/former-nasa-official-nasa-must-shed-socialist-approach-to-space-exploration/
>>7676824
Then tell those bitches to take a STEM major instead of "womyn's studies" ffs
>>7676829
Why is this even a thing ? If women wanna go STEM, they can just do it. What is this social pressure on women that try to push them into STEM instead of whatever they wanna study ?
>>7676824
Half the women in my graduating class stopped working after marrying another engineer or doctor.
30% did retarded shit like au pairing minimum wage kekery.
15% actually worked in engineering for while and have since quit to do finance/management type jobs.
There's only 1 girl in my graduating class who got into engineering management.
I'm very grateful for the push of women into engineering because the professional is already oversaturated as is and if they all entered the economy we would be fucked.
