Hey /sci, what's the best book on astronomy that you could recommend to me? Nothing too advanced, I just want to know more about our solar system, possibly even Milky way as well.
All I know about astrology is the names of the planets in our solar system and their rotations and orbits and nothing else. All submissions are thanked in advance.
>>9094057
http://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Astronomy_Textbook_Recommendations#High_School
bumping again, just waiting for a reply.
Anyone have any recommendation?
>>9094006
Do you remember a guy walking up to you years ago and just suddenly smacking you?
If not, then no.
>>9094006
Yes. I'm travelling through time right now.
/shit thread
>>9094006
Yes, now go away.
Why are males overwhelmingly afflicted by autism?
>>9093917
Compared to females*
Sorry
>>9093917
because it's caused by an "overmasculanization" in-utero development. High placental testosterone levels cause it.
Higher autism levels are expressed in the phenotype Ashkenazi women crave.
why is weed illegal?
>>9093892
because of a huge lobbying effort by the lumber industry back in the day, also a disinfo campaign spread by reagan
>>9093892
https://youtu.be/oFFnbXEUO4Y?t=9
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uJpQ-sFTeo
Pick your poison.
>>9093892
Is it?
https://youtu.be/kmvlFtM_sMA?t=14m48s
Simply cold fusion setup and they have transmutation and neutron radiation. It's real all of it.
bullshit
>>9093888
Haven't watched the video, is this the Rossi artefact?
Dragon has 100 heads. A knight can cut 15, 17, 20 or 5 new heads, but in doing so, the dragon grows 24, 2, 14 and 17 new heads respectively. Can the gentleman leave the dragon without heads?
>>9093613
If there are 16 heads left is the knight fucked and unable to do anything?
>>9093619
4 heads rather
You literally cut 17 heads each time, giving you a net average loss of 15 heads. When 10 heads remain, you cut them all (that counts as 17), and the dragon can't grow shit back according to its rules.
I just read a youtube comment that gave me stage twenty cancer: "The law of conservation of energy cannot be used as an argument against the existence of perpetual motion machines."
>nigga what
What makes people believe in things like perpetual motion machines and flat earth to the point where their head is so far up their own ass that they somehow come up with endless counters to any logic?
He is right.
conservation of energy is not the law that precludes perpetual motion machines.
Its only when you bring the 2nd law into play that perpetual motion becomes impossible
>>9092846
Elaborate.
>>9092854
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-QgGXbDyR0&user=TEDEducation
/sci/, what's the point of protecting local ecosystems from invasive species?
Why don't we just let, say, Australia be overrun by whatever? Sure all of the native species would be driven to extinction (frankly, improving Australia). And sure, there will be periods of suck as certain invaders have population explosions. But it would stabilize over time, right? Explosion of foreign rabbits is followed by an explosion of foreign foxes is followed by equilibrium. Right?
If we stopped trying to preserve exotic or endangered species and just let natural selection do its thing, could we, ultimately, "standardize" the global ecosystem?
>>9092622
it's really only a problem when it's a problem, like when a local crop or resource is threatened. But by their definition, invasive species do threaten other species, so they overall reduce local diversity, which is in general a net negative (high localized ecological diversity is the best indicator of a healthy environmental area, as ecosystems go).
>>9092622
you are fucking retarded.
Humans are part of the ecosystem too. What happens when the species driven to extinction is cows or corn?
Are there any commercial or pharmaceutical applications for intracellular bacteria?
>>9092588
not that i know of, but you should look up viral capsid drug delivery systems, they are pretty neat
yes, but virus are easier to code
This thread fascinates me, can someone give me a rundown? This isn't my area of expertise.
>intracellular bacteria
>capsid drug delivery systems
>what these can possibly do
Inb4, "Use Google retard." I can and probably will right after posting this, but I want to hear it from you guys, what you guys know, and what you think about the overall idea.
I want to try this DNA testing kit to see my ancestry lineage but I feel uneasy giving my DNA out. I guess I'm concerned of having some mad scientists centuries from now re-create my body and and consciousness with my DNA and my mind is stuck in an infinite long science experiment.
Do you guys think that's possible with just DNA? Or am I overreacting?
>>9092495
>re-create consciousness with my DNA
That's not how cloning or consciousness works you dumb doofus
>>9092495
You're way overestimating your importance.
>>9092495
Hello there, this is a mad scientist from the FBI. You are exactly right about everything. Pls delet dis thread so nobody no wat we do k?
Imagine if you will, if a group of almighty aliens gave humanity near limitless power, sci-fi replicators, and intelligent robots that could do any sort of menial or taxing job.
The experiment is to see what humanity would do in truly post scarcity, high automated life.
How would this work in the small scale such as a town? Or a whole planet? It stands to reason people like researchers, artists, and politicians would still exist but what would the layman do?
>>9092419
Powerful people would seize control of the devices and tightly control them. They would live like Kings and the rest of humanity would starve.
>>9092419
Humans, being humans, would destroy themselves almost overnight.
People actually get paid taxpayer money to write this gibberish? How does that make any economic sense?
Because even though you can't be, paper-pushing bureaucrats can be convinced of the long-term benefits of mathematical research
>>9092335
>How does that make any economic sense?
You must understand academia economics. The first thing that you need to accept is that someone produces no value to a business then that person gets fired. So the question is, what value do mathematicians produce? The first one is obvious: teaching. Every year many students of mathematics sign up to be taught mathematics and if you do not teach them then they will go away to another place, losing the university money. And usually, math professors teach all over the place, not only in the math department but to scientists, economists, etc.
That said, there is other way in which mathematicians are able to produce value: research. If your university does not produce research then people will hardly consider you a university and you will quickly dip in the rankings and every time a prodigy student to be looks up your university's credentials they will see that your university is shit and therefore their time would be better spent somewhere else. So universities need researchers to keep reputation and to attract the good types of student. Good students pick schools mostly based on who they will be able to do research under. But that is just baseline produce any research type of value. There is another incentive that ties this up: the value of good research. If one of your researchers becomes famous then your university immediately gets a spot in the map. People will want to go to the conferences of your school, and other universities will want to invite your mathematicians to their conferences. This will in turn inspire the new generation of prodigies to get into your university for the possibility of researching under your famous researchers.
And that is the economic value of research mathematics. You are welcome.
>>9092335
>proof
>omited
every fucker who do this should kill himself
Industrial Revolution
Atomic Age
Jet Age
Space Age
Digital Revolution
Information Age
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?
Well /sci/, what's going to be the next age?
Age of Empires III
>>9092111
Nuclear Fallout Age
then
Stone Age 2.0
>>9092111
Not sure on the actual name but something akin to "bioage" and or "2nd space age"
Is having your cell phone in your pocket damaging to male fertility? I keep seeing studies about this but they look somewhat sketchy. What's sci's opinion?
Is your cellphone radium powered by any chance?
Do you normally make calls with it still in your pocket? I wouldnt be worried about the radiation, the lithium cells next to your dick seem more alarming.
>>9091954
What do you mean about the lithium cells?
Is multiverse actually a thing? Any proofs at all? I'm asking because it looks more like a religion tier bullshit. Making up some shit to explain something.
basically theoretician fap stains
Its theory blown way out of proportion. Like all science.
it's theoretical physics that's become so commonplace that many people think of it as actual physics