Can you guys simply explain what "Common Core" is and why a lot of people are against that?
>>6668744
Cause it's the next evolution of deathcore, which is the more awful successor of metalcore. They each become more awful than their predecessors
>>6668752
If we're talking about music, it depends what you are calling deathcore. Bands like Emmure and I Declare War is shit, but bands like All Shall Perish and Whitechapel are really worth listening to. But still, what the fuck "Common Core" is?
of all the things you could ask a science board..
Time is not an actual object-every time we use 'time' to describe something, it is reducible to some physical phenomenon.
"The solution was heated for one hour"
"The solution was heated until the Earth completed 1/24 of a rotation about its axis"
Are equivalent statements.
The concepts of past, present, and simultaneous can be defined in terms of causality.
1. "Charlemagne consolidated the German Empire before my present experience"
2. "Charlemagne's consolidating the German Empire is a cause of my present experience"
Are equally valid, and 1 is reducible to 2. It requires a loose, impractical definition of 'cause', but it's legitimate.
So, since 'time' is just a convenient concoction we use to make communication easier, how do things like space-time make any sense?
>>6667943
>So, since 'time' is just a convenient concoction we use to make communication easier, how do things like space-time make any sense?
Well that means either you aren't making sense or people much smarter than you like Albert Einstein aren't making sense. I wonder which one it is?
>>6667951
I just see no evidence that 'time' has any meaning.
>>6667960
Care to explain how relativity is observable if time is only a concept or idea?
Why are men the most unhappy of the genders?
Suicide rates are mostly men. Depression rates are mostly men. Loneliness rates are mostly men. It just goes on and on.
I don't think I've seen women face as much suffering as men do. Not even close. And they say girls have it hard.
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>Citations:
- https://www.afsp.org/understanding-suicide/facts-and-figures
- http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/pdf/suicide_datasheet-a.pdf
- http://www.nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=major_depression&template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=79265
- http://www.bjceap.com/?id=33129&sid=34
- http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/opinion/sunday/douthat-loneliness-and-suicide.html
Most women have an ingrained emotional support structure and talk about their feelings, most men don't. Bottle that for 20 years and Bob blows his brains out over the same stuff Alice let go a decade ago.
Standards.
Less privileged.
Men are more likely to be lonely than women.
![Quotation-Stephen-Hawking-philosophy-Meetville-Quotes-11812[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/hb3KVYi.jpg "Quotation-Stephen-Hawking-philosophy-Meetville-Quotes-11812[1]")
Is philosophy dead? Has science killed it?
>>6664342
Analytical philosophy?
Yes.
Basically what remains of philosophy as a field is just article writing and political idealism.
I'd say mathematics killed the most of philosophy with it's contributions to logic.
My philosopher father keeps trying to convince me that science will never come close to addressing any of the hard questions. But I maintain that it is dangerously close to addressing some of the ones the answers to which will be of most use to us. There's no sense in turning around now.
>>6664342
repost
> cf. nietzsche circa 1882
I know this probably gets posted a lot, but why does the 2/3 probability get shifted onto the one door, instead of becoming a 50/50 probability?
Because your original guess had a 1/3 chance of being correct.
>>6658253
but the fact there's 3 doors initially is a non-factor, because one of the empty ones gets removed.
the goat is still either in your door or the other door whether you switch or not, which is 50/50
Two out of three doors get chosen. Why wouldn't the probability be 2/3?
Your focus shouldn't be on the door you initially choose; it's a red herring.
So, we get UFO recordings since forever. But why would an advanced race spent so much time on Earth? If they can travel to our planet, they have most likely already figured everything about us and our planet out.
I don't see why any alien would come back.
Maybe the resources in earth.
>>6665487
What's so special about the resources of our planet? There are asteroids and other planets with far more resources.
>>6665487
what resources are there on earth that are not available on an uninhabited world?
Neuroscience general.
Good discussion, Q&A, papers, what you're working on, news, chitchat, anything neuroscience related. Bring it in here.
Why can't neuroscientists make the perfect drug? You feel bliss, no negative side effects, no dopamine downregulation or anything of the sort.
You take one pill it lasts for 30 minutes maybe. When the time has passed you can go on with your day or take another pill and go for another just as good 30 minutes.
>>6662679
That's not really a job for neuroscientists
bump for potentially good thread
Will the rapid speed at which we are increasing in technological advancement compromise the long-term stability of the world?
Depends what you mean by "stability of the world."
>>6656688
"The long-term stability of the environment", in regards to humans living in it.
>>6656685
>rapid speed at which we are increasing in technological advancement
you mean moores law? its gonna end in 10 years, and no it wont do shit
>tfw tyche doesn't exist
>tfw the bloop doesn't exist
Fuck.
What cool things might still actually exist?
>>6666009
god
>>6666013
OK besides that
>>6666009
Super-Earths?
Earths the size of Jupiter.
What will we have first?
Fusion power or a space elevator?
Fusion power
Space elevator.
We have the engineering capabilities, and materials science to pull it off currently. We just don't have the mass production capabilities or quality control for the materials nor the massive amount of infrastructure and and capital needed to actually do it.
Fusion power is an endless pipe dream and R&D money pit that likely will never come to fruition in a meaningful or reliable positive output way. We don't have the technical knowledge nor the materials science necessary.
>>6661556
>We don't have the technical knowledge nor the materials science necessary.
I doubt materials of sufficient durability for reliable output are even possible with fusion power.
Some friends and I are discussing this. What's the best way to reliably harvest sustainable energy after most of society has collapsed?
>>6666439
dams
>>6666439
Burning trees
Well, I'd guess society will just start over and do the same thing we did to get to harvesting sustainable energy..
What does /sci/ think of youtube "science" channels, like vsauce or veritasium?
>>6658067
It's hilarious when they set themselves on fire.
>vsauce
>>6658067
vsauce is good, veritasium disappointed me once when they tried an experiment with a bullet and a piece of wood, so i'm more careful with their statements
pic related
>Buy Walmart brand ice cream sandwiches.
>Leave ice cream in the sun in the middle of summer. (80+ Fahrenheit)
>Ice cream doesn't melt.
>Still solid, but shows signs of condensation.
>Does_not_compute.exe
>>6665542
>Fahrenheit
I'd like to remind you that you are on the scientific board, so please refer to scientific measurements.
To answer your question, the error lies most probably here
>ice cream
it most probably isn't ice cream (and most probably it is unhealthier than ordinary ice cream).
Please carry your murrican issues somewhere else next time. Thanks.
>>6665542
>Fahrenheit
This is a science and math dedicated board, you use celsius or kelvin here.
>>6665542
>Walmart brand ice cream sandwiches
i bet its just ice cream flavoring and some sort of gelatin shit.
What's the key to being good at math/intelligent in general, there has to be something you did that made everything "click"?
It's called studying.
>>6668118
I really should have put >inb4 just studying in the OP, because I realize that is the most important part. What I'm asking I suppose is if there's anything that made everything clearer, like a fog was lifted and you suddenly understood everything a bit more intricately?
How exactly can we make a Light Shield/ Plasma Window in real life?
Constant nuclear fusion...
Fire is a form of plasma, so if you cover something in say rubbing alcohol and light it on fire, you have created a plasma shield. But this form of plasma won't do shit for stopping things, what you want is plasma at a few million or billion degrees, that way it will destroy damn near anything that is launched at it.
I don't know much about plasma physics though
>>6667361
Density is just as important as temperature.
How will you prevent the surface covered in plasma from being destroyed itself though?
I say its impossible due to insanely high temperatures of the "shield"
![plasmashield[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/bMhCgGf.jpg "plasmashield[1]")