Archived threads in /sci/ - Science & Math - 225. page

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What is the possibility that a creature like Godzilla could exist?

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I'm shit, you're shit, we're all shit
but if you can get in the top 5% you're slightly less shit

cmon fgt you can beat me

https://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english

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Why didn't you idiots tell me about this earlier? I knew there was no correlation with arithmetic and abstract thinking. Fuckin morons on this board I swear. Shout out the one anon who showed me this, much respect.

http://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/dyscalculia-in-an-award-winning-mathematician/

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Does anyone on here know what I can do to the function in the image above (graphed in orange) to make it look more like the function graphed in black, or in an extreme case, graphed as blue?
I just want to model the graph from the bottom of the picture, and I'm close, the only thing I need is to make it "steeper".

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Will we achieve immortality soon? Stopping aging, that is.

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What are /sci/'s thoughts on this? Basically the argument is that mutation and natural selection can't account for a lot of the things we see in biology and uses sources to argue that organism self gene regulation is just as important.

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Any advice on the upcoming world robot wars?

Is there any way to protect oneself against the silicon based life forms?

I'm learning computer architecture and coding right now.

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Are video games and virtual reality going to be the downfall of our society? I suspect all young men are going to become defensive of the technology and immerse themselves in it in a way that we haven't seen before

Imagine if you can just put on the VR headset and immerse yourself in the virtual world in a way that is far more believable than a 2D computer monitor. It will be way more addictive. Imagine if they get skin attachments that make you feel blows coming from behind. Imagine if they get brain implants

We WILL enter "the matrix" which is in other words just a virtual reality world, soon, and it is going to be the biggest philosophical issue to have ever plagued our society, and NOBODY seems to be talking about it. They think "lol they're just a dumb stoner who watched that matrix movie and that's what they talking about" yes that IS what I am fucking talking about, it doesn't matter if it was just a movie.

They think it's all a joke and they think it's not a big deal. I think it's a big deal, I'm profoundly scared for the future, especially when you take into account the general disenfranchisement of men in particular from the traditional life of getting married then raising a family

People are already glued to their television sets sitting on the couch all day. Imagine what will happen when we get cheap immersive VR. They will become glued to their VR because it's so superior to television

I think this is an issue, a REALLY big one.

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I have been learning about some astrophysics from my dad like how we can detect what the surface of the sun is made of by looking at the black spots between the colors when you split them in a prism. we had a convo last night talking about what gravity was (im not completely retarded i know we dont know what gravity is) and we ended on the topic of what the universe is made of and relativity between space and time like when a supernova occurs a small ripple in the fabric of space time occurs. But yeah i just wanted more insight on what science thinks gravity is and the shape of the universe.

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How does one become emotionally strong/resilient to the point of absurdity?

That is, you would feel completely fine and not suffer despite being put through the worst physical pain and tragedy.

Like not being in mental anguish from pain of having both of your legs broken.

Or still being happy, despite being in an accident that killed your entire family and turned you into a quadriplegic.

How does one get to this level, or at least near it?

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What do you think of this picture generated purely out of primes?

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>This methane pool is subsequently consumed by aerobic, bacterial methane oxidation at the SLW sediment–water interface. Bacterial oxidation consumes >99% of the methane and represents a significant methane sink, and source of biomass carbon and metabolic energy to the surficial SLW sediments
http://www.newsweek.com/methane-eating-bacteria-antarctic-ice-645570
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v10/n8/full/ngeo2992.html?foxtrotcallback=true

Can i now eat beef without worry?

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Issues:
1) In the attached image you have two distinct beam paths: l1 and l2. If you have variable aether modifier k you end up with the travel times t = (l*k)+(l*(1/k)). In each case the scalar k cancels itself out precisely by having the beam inverted for each moment of time. This is to say: whether there is aether motion relative to an observer or not, this experiment CANNOT possibly detect it.

2) The issue is that it presume relative aether motion from the viewpoint of an observer. This, while not necessarily wrong, is fucking dumb to assume for two reasons.
2.a) We're traveling at about 30km/s through the solar system, which is moving about 230km/s through the galaxy, which is moving at about 600km/s through the universe. This adds up to an expected ~860km/s we're moving through the universe, at variable rates in different directions. If there were ANY kind of aether drag (i.e. anything capable of influencing matter) it would have to be undetectably small (even by the difference in momentum light would impart on surrounding matter.)
2.b) If there were any detectable aether drag we've been flying through the universe for some 13.8 billion years. The photon has an incredibly small amount of inertia it imparts when emitted or absorbed, but it is nowhere near small enough that we would not have come to a stop by now.

3) If we're floating in an aether which carries with it inertia in any degree (i.e. capable of AT LEAST impacting the speed of light to a detectable level) then we would have developed a pressure bubble of aether by this point (remember the whole idea is based on waves traveling in water - waves by nature have pressure associated and there is no reason to suspect that giant waves don't exist just as tiny photon-sized waves would.) There would be no relative motion on Earth, or even in the solar system at a detectable level because we would be effectively sitting inside an aether pressure bubble of uniform motion.

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So what's your sleep schedule like anons? You see all those meme articles about how intelligent people stay up late and have messy rooms, but from what I have actually seen, night people are fucking losers and lazy.

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Give it to me straight, will humans ever go interstellar?