If there is no oxygen in space how can sun be a fireball?
God's Will.
>>8956488
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1bcfc8/is_the_sun_really_a_fireball/
>>8956488
It isn't fire. (It would be on fire if there were oxygen.) We just depict it that way because of its association with heat and light.
The sun also isn't orange. Or yellow. NASA artificially colors their photos of the sun to something people expect to see. The sun should appear green, because that's the light wavelength it outputs most strongly, but is so overwhelmingly bright that it's white. If you actually looked at it in space it would look white.
My IQ is 84 lads
What career in science is for me?
Climate science
>>8956341
Pure Mathematics.
>>8956341
Memetics
How high do you think are the IQ of people who work in the CIA/NSA/FBI?
>>8955910
>IQ
What is this, underachievers anonymous?
>>8955910
>CIA
IQ of a nigger
>NSA
Lots of codemonkeys (CS majors) so about 105
>FBI
Ultimate Aryans of America, THE definition of INTELLIGENCE.
Roughly Mochi-suki's IQ, like 170+
>>8955931
>I'm FBI
if you accelerated an object that weighs 3 nanograms from rest to 50% of C what would be the mass
>>8955528
bumping since none of you brainlets seem to be able to solve this question
>>8955528
Still 3 nanograms.
>>8955548
>Sr
>uses grams
>calls other people brainlets
Gtfo
oh wow.. i have single-handedly secured spacex`s budget, solved the flat earthers cult issue, and the lack of a real money maker for Disney world...
dont worry about your legs on hypersonic re-entry.. just wear real shoes, not some flip flops, and keep your arms and legs inside the ride at all times.
Florida is just perfect for this.
But, what about ..wait, this is brilliant
>>8953831
memes aside
this looks fun as hell, i can imagine that with a specific suite and some safty upgrades some ppl would actually do this crazy shit (me including)
how much would a ride cost?
according to my calculations based on a 2 stage launch, each person would have to pay $217520 for a ticket.maybe we can shave off $70000 per ticket , making it $147000 since it is only the first stage being used.
how much are you willing to pay for a ride that takes just 9 minutes?
The US withdrawal from this agreement will not significantly affect the temperature of the globe. Even assuming global warming is caused by human CO2 emissions, the majority of this damage comes from China and India. The overwhelming majority of these nations suffers a terrible living standard. If they keep industrialising and attempting to reach the standard of living USA enjoys, they will cause complete destruction and a heat apocalypse (assuming global warming is man-caused). Again, this is just China and India. Add to that Africa and the Middle East, and you have 70% of the world population living like shit and trying to reach our level. If they do, the consequences will be catastrophic.
What confuses me the most is why do academics not talk about this issue? Richard Muller, a well-known physics professor, outlined the issue with third world CO2 emissions but "scientists" like Bill Nye still keep saying overpopulation in those nations isn’t an issue and the masses buy it. How do we educate brainlets on this issue?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-Richard-Mullers-stance-on-climate-change
“We do expect that the temperature will rise another 1.5°C in the next 50 years, from continued carbon dioxide releases predominantly from China, India, and the developing world. They need more energy to improve the standard of living of their people, so we need to help them produce energy with low carbon emissions. That means nuclear, energy conservation, and natural gas.”
https://youtu.be/8wuga0CzRFI?t=2m20s
Bump. Are you scared of real science brainlets?
Just kill them all and let this planet burn desu. Please do it right this time.
This thread is for questions that don't deserve their own thread.
Tips:
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>show partial work
>use wolframalpha.com and stackexchange.com
Giving calc II a second try starting next week after dropping it last semester. How do I memorize all the derivatives and integrals of all the trig functions, cofunctions, inverses, and hyperbolic variants? Any tricks?
How to study the transition from Fourier series to transforms?
I get Fourier series but not Fourier integrals
I know transforms give a function of frequency instead of time, but I don't understand the role fourier integrals play.
>>8949248
Anki
>twenty hundred
>two thousand
which one is correct /sci/???
>>8957471
2 grand
>>8957471
2 times 1000
Two hundredty
>Get master's degree in literature
>Regret it and want to go back to school for a science
>Have the cash to do it
>First need to finish math classes just to enter physics 101
>Lower level math classes are easy
>Get to calc 1, get my ass kicker, finish with a 78%
How bad am I in for when I take physics 101 and calc 2 at the same time?
>>8957326
Work hard you'll be fine, calc 1 can be tough depending on your professor
>>8957326
>amost 4/5
>ass kicked
>>8957326
>get a master's degree in literature
>struggle with calc 1
This shit is why I can't take lib arts fags seriously
>Be 30
>Know nothing
>Watch Micheal
>Think how many women he has slept with
>Be happy
>Think how many women i have slept with
>Be unhappy again
I am a mechanical engineer. I think i know nothing when i watch vsauce's videos. Do i have to be machine nerd or geek to be succesful. I learned this words in this year. Really. In Turkey we hadn't used this words till Youtubers appear. We use "inek" instead of this. "İnek" is not same Nerd. But similar. We don't have similar word for Geek. Whatever, I am curious how i become a good mechanical engineer. I want to do my own science like Micheal do.
>>8954642
if you think of all the men you slept with, now that'll make you happy, OP
>>8954642
Micheal has a wife though. That's pretty much all you need to consistent sex.
So he is a nerd, but a nerd who gets consistent sex.
>>8954758
>wife
>consistent sex
Hi /sci/
I'm wondering what i will need to do to get a degree in calculus?
What courses will i need to take?
How hard will it be?
I've found calculus to be really easy and intuitive in highschool so i want to persue it in university.
I think i want to specialize in 4D calculus because it sounds pretty cool, figuring out solids and stuff.
Anyone else do this?
Ha! Nice meme
>>8954364
meme?
As a calculus major, I can tell you that the road is hard but worth it. I have been doing differentiation and integration practice 4hrs a day every day for the last 3 quarters at university. It's hard work but I am able to rise above my peers and be the top of the class in CALC 409. Soon I think ill be able to have a basic grasp of the theory involved in computing triple integrals, which is my ultimate goal in getting this degree.
(This thread is not for discussion about global warming being real or not. If you think it's fake, pretend it's real for the sake of argument.)
There's one thing I've never understood about advocates and efforts for more environmentally friendly energy usage. Why is reduction of energy consumption necessary when green energy exists, hell, they tell me energy consumption should go down even if it IS 100% green energy? As far as I understand, green energy is renewable and thus comes in a theoretically limitless supply, limited only to how fast we generate it. As more green energy is used, more money is paid to the companies generating it, providing both the funds and commercial incentive to generate more. Basic economics dictates that, unless it somehow generates a net loss (in which case I wonder how there's an entire industry for it), supply will naturally increase to meet demand. Theoretically (assuming fossil fuels do not outcompete green energy) this should lead to a market situation where slightly more green is produced than consumed, and all should have enough energy to waste as they please with negligible environmental impact.
So why should consumers of 100% green energy conserve energy or otherwise reduce energy consumption, rather than actually INCREASE their energy consumption to provide economic benefits to parties pushing green energy?
(I know '100% green' energy is a scam in the US (like any other offers from US companies), and even outside the US many companies try to 'greenwash' their provided energy. I'm talking about non-scam 100% green energy incentives verified by independent parties like consumer organizations.)
Anyone? Surely there's got to be a flaw in my reasoning. It can't be that everyone is wrong.
>>8953936
Inside the Green movement, it's a pretty common position that industrialization is bad, and the only real solution is to massively deindustrialize, and "get back to nature". It's Gaia worship. Also factoring into their reasoning is the faulty assumption that Malthus was right, and that increasing energy supply means increasing human populations. Also, the wrong assumption that increasing energy supply means humans will be more capable of damaging the environment. It's just wrong on every count. This particular sect doesn't want cheap energy. They want expensive energy. And I suspect that they're the true idealogues that are largely running the movement.
>>8953936
>why should we also reduce our energy consumption if we move to 100% green energy?
>shouldn't we try to consume as much of it as possible to help that industry?
you mention basic economics but i think there's a more basic principle of economics to consider when answering this question. If we consumed 17 TW of power and replaced it with 100% green energy, it would cost $xx.xx per kWh. For every unit of power increase we want to consume, the consumers would have to spend $xx.xx + (some amount). The idea behind market economics is that the producers will find the most economical way to produce things so as to provide them the cheapest. If this were represented by wind farms, you could imagine that all the really great windy areas of the planet are already being used for wind power to generate our 17 TW, but when we decided we want another TW, we have to build those turbines in a non-optimal wind harvesting area. The turbine still costs the same as the turbines in the good spots, but is now generating less electricity - which means the producer has to have a premium per kWh to cover the investment costs and receive a decent ROI.
There is also another economic argument to this; using up scarce resources that have alternative uses.
Lets say even if you get to 100% green energy, a sizeable portion of that power will come from nuclear (this is an inescapable reality). Nuclear power requires thermodynamic heat cycles to generate power (usually rankine cycles). Those rankine cycles are, at best, ~40% efficient (generous). That means that for every TW of power we want to consume, we need 2.5 TW of heat from a nuclear reactor, and 1.5 of those TW of heat needs to be rejected from the process, using a cooling tower. This would use at LEAST another 200,000 gallons of water PER SECOND, or roughly 5.2-5.3 BILLION gallons of fresh water per year.
not to mention the concrete, steel, human labor, rare earth magnets, etc etc that would all be sucked up in this endeavor.
>On 28 February 1998, Andrew Wakefield, a British gastroenterologist, and colleagues [1] published a paper in The Lancet that described 8 children whose first symptoms of autism appeared within 1 month after receiving an MMR vaccine. All 8 of these children had gastrointestinal symptoms and signs and lymphoid nodular hyperplasia revealed on endoscopy. From these observations, Wakefield postulated that MMR vaccine caused intestinal inflammation that led to translocation of usually nonpermeable peptides to the bloodstream and, subsequently, to the brain, where they affected development.
>>8952953
>MMR -> intestinal inflammation
so did they find out whether there's a causal link there?
>>8952953
Talk about jumping to conclusions.
Observations:
Children received vaccines
Children showed symptoms of autism within a month
Children displayed gastrointestinal symptoms and lymphoid nodular hyperplasia
Conclusions:
MMR vaccine caused intestinal inflammation. What evidence is there that the vaccine caused the inflammation as opposed to other environmental causes? Were the vaccinated children compared to non-vaccinated children?
Inflammation caused translocation of nonpermeable peptides into the bloodstream. Is there any evidence given for this, or does he jump straight from inflammation to the peptides? Were these peptides quantified or detected in any way?
The peptides affected development. What evidence is there to support this conclusion?
Really seems like he's jumping from A to Z. And going off his hypothesis, the vaccine didn't cause autism, the intestinal inflammation did, so anything that causes intestinal inflammation would cause autism.
And a quick google search shows that several people have tried to replicate these results and have been unsuccessful. Also that the children in the study were recruited by a lawyer preparing a lawsuit against the manufacturers of the MMR vaccine, and they paid Wakefield 400k for the research, which he didn't disclose. And that Wakefield subjected the children involved to colonoscopies and lumbar punctures not approved by the ethics board of the hospital he was at. Now The Lancet has retracted the paper an Wakefield has lost his medical license.
>>8952953
so 8 children had gastrointestinal symptoms and signs of lymphoid nodular hyperplasia, but the MMR is what caused the autism? There are no controls. How about children without GI symptoms that receive the MMR vaccine? How about children with GI symptoms that never received the MMR vaccine? Should MDs be allowed to do research?
Is this shit really the reason people think vaccines cause autism?
Trying to find a magic pill for my procrastination. Will it do the job?
>>8951866
See if you can get your hands on some 50mg gitgudamine you lazy fuck
>>8951866
I take 60mg/day and i just focus on my wandering mind. I recently found out I have schizoid personality disorder, maybe not even ADHD. Putting me on that shit as a 6 year old really fucked me up. That's what they have to do to get a libertarian learner through public school I suppose.
It seems to work for nons
>>8951866
Ye
it's better if you have it prescribed though. Procrastination is not a suitable excuse. If you go to your doctor, he'll send you someplace to have you diagnosed. Once there, you need to fidget the entire time, seem somewhat distracted by your surroundings. He'll ask questions, and make them sound as close to ADHD as possible.
>distracted easily
>can't focus
>devote my attention to something new every five minutes
>fidgeting
>etc.
Then he'll diagnose you, and you can get adderall anytime you want, so long as you eat regularly, and maintain a constant body weight.
Are "computer scientist" scientists or engineers?
Are medics scientists or engineers?
Is bio informatics a science or an engineering field?
What are those?
>>8957059
Computer scientists are basically engineers without the math
>>8957059
What is science and what is engineering?
Are they separated? Or is one a subset of the other?
What is a scientist? What is an engineer?
Can an engineer be a scientist? Can a scientist be an engineer?
Again, what is "science"?
>>8957062
>Computer scientists are basically engineers without the math
Very powerful bait