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Thinking about the Fermi Paradox 2017-05-02 01:30:36 Post No.8876936
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Thinking about the Fermi Paradox
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Okay, what if the reason we don't see anything in our galaxy that could be deemed intelligent life is because any civilisation that grows advanced enough to break the bonds of their solar system quickly comes to the realisation that by living in the high-mass and therefore highly timespace dilated area of a galaxy, they are essentially being fast-forwarded through time unnecessarily.
What if all highly developed alien civilisations that have ever evolved in any galaxy all invariably make the deliberate decision to use their technology to jettison a few red dwarves out of the galaxy, into empty, relatively unbent dark space to avoid the end of the universe for as long as possible?
Building a few Dyson spheres and only ever returning to local galaxies for resources they need
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>>8876936
Space is fucking big and attenuation is a bitch.
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>>8876936
>We've totally searched the whole galaxy!
No we haven't, we haven't even searched 1% of it.
It's just faggots like you are too impatient and there isn't enough funding going into it.
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>What's pilot wave theory?
>You may be familiar with the copenhagen interpretation of QM, wherein we have all of these paradoxes like light being both particles and waves, the weirdness that comes out of it such as multiverse theory and quantum immortality - because of experiments like the double slit.
>However, there is another completely logical, completely rational interpretation of QM that gives all of the same 'answers' as the Copenhagen interpretation, without any of the paradoxical weirdness - and it's called Pilot Wave.
>Pilot Wave postulates that what we are seeing with particle/wave duality is simply a particle that makes waves in space. Sounds too simple, doesn't it?
>Here is a video of someone re-creating all of the weirdness of the double slit experiment using oil drops on top of a vibrating bath
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE
any physicists care to comment?
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So the droplet creates the pilot wave which then takes over and moves the droplet?
Is the droplet essentially constantly falling into the recessed area created by the wave?
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Publish a paper and we'll talk.
But given the uncertainty princliple is *built into* quantum mechanics and not just an effect of something we don't understand, I'm not going to hold my breath.
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>>8876773
get real anon, as if anyone would accept it. given two resolutions to Bell's inequalities
>the universe is deterministic, and humans are a part of it just like anything else
>the universe is uncertain, and we get to pretend that humans have magical ghosts inside them
who in the sane mind would choose the first?
Is there something you're good at that not very many other people are good at?
If so, what is it?
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>>8876434
Flinging crude insults and shitposting
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>>8876434
Hating myself
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>>8876734
fuck off you retarded mongoloid faggot.
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in science what do you call something you know is wrong because its against all common sense but you cant prove it
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>>8875286
Miscegenation.
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>>8875291
i laughed
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>>8875286
Chomsky Hierarchy
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Mirror:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__rTqCcY44o
Official webcast starting soon:
http://www.spacex.com/webcast
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inb4 scrub
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WAKE ME UP INSIDE
(HOLD HOLD HOLD)
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Have any of you ever applied to become an astronaut?
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Why haven't you stopped eating the sugary jew? Sugar lowers your IQ, so you will be a good goy. How will you solve those proofs with a low IQ and die-abeetus?
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>>8873865
I stopped about 3 weeks ago and I don't miss it (much)
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>>8873865
>Five years without eating simple sugars
>Exercise 3 days a week
>Meditate
>Shiton of nootropics
>Still a fucking 120IQ brainlet
At least when I was under the sugary jew, I could fool myself into thinking I was a brainlet because of my shitty diet and be somewhat happy. Now? Now it's just pain.
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>>8874388
you'll live longer
What scientific discovery would it take to make you believe in God?
Barring the bs like angels coming down from heavens and personally sucking your dick
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That gender is a spectrum
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that numbers are real
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>>8872598
>What scientific discovery would it take to make you believe in God?
That chiristians experiance luck to an extent higher than that dictated by chance.
Without that, there is no reaon to belive in a god. Even if there was a god, it sure as hell isnt what the christians belive because he doesnt help anyone.
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Space General
>Under 24 hours til launch of Falcon 9 w/ NROL-76 payload.
>"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a classified spacecraft payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office. This will be SpaceX’s first launch for the NRO. Delayed from April 16."
>https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
Also, looks like the launch schedule of SLS is sadly starting to slip again
>It's looking likely that the first flight of NASA's new heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System, will slip beyond its November 2018 launch date
>http://www.planetary.org/blogs/jason-davis/2017/20170424-first-sls-flight-delayed.html
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SLS will probably never fly
Whats the point
They are spending billions a year, doing what? who knows
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>>8869540
This thread will probably turn in to a shitfest, but thats still a million times better than the 15 Bill "muh gender "threads up here now
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>>8869608
This.
Like anything government funded the point of the SLS is not to go anywhere.
SLS is funded because congressional representatives and senators from districts employing the aerospace workers fund it as a jobs for reelection votes program.
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Okay, you have ONE CHANCE to explain to me WHAT THE FUCK a square root ACTUALLY IS, and by extension an N-th root. The way I see it, it's computational hog wash and DOESN'T HOLD IT'S LIGHT TO MUH RIGOUR WHEN YOU CANT EVEN DEFINE IT IN BASIC TERMS.
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What are you talking about? A square root is just dividing something by itself.
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even wildburger doesn't have problem with there existing irrational n-th roots
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>>8878118
Wrong
Humble painter here.
Explain to me:
1. What you are studying.
2. How you will make money in the real world once you get whatever it is you are studying for.
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>>8877789
>Theoretical physics
>Something to do with banking
That's if I pass. [math] SPOILER %outlook is bleak [/math]
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>>8877789
1. Electrical engineering
2. By doing electrical engineering jobs.
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1.mechanical or mechatronic engineering
2. I have little idea beyond applying for jobs that list my proficiencies. I really only went into engineering because I love math and building things.
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Let’s be clear about what Stephens actually said. Here’s his summary of the current state of climate science:
>While the modest (0.85 degrees Celsius, or about 1.5 degrees Fahrenheit) warming of the Northern Hemisphere since 1880 is indisputable, as is the human influence on that warming, much else that passes as accepted fact is really a matter of probabilities. That’s especially true of the sophisticated but fallible models and simulations by which scientists attempt to peer into the climate future.
Here’s the translation: Science teaches us that humans have helped cause global warming, but when we try to forecast the extent of the warming and its effects on our lives, the certainty starts to recede. In addition, the activism has gotten ahead of the science. Indeed, Stephens even quotes the New York Times’ own environmental reporter, Andrew Revkin, who has observed that he “saw a widening gap between what scientists had been learning about global warming and what advocates were claiming as they pushed ever harder to pass climate legislation.”
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>>8877759
Hahaha that fucking picture
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>>8877759
That's pretty much correct. You hear shit like "the refugee crises is bc of global warming" or people who believe Earth will become like Venus.
At best we can use simple physics principles to conclude that if the global temperature rises that dry areas will become dryer and wetter areas wetter.
Saying that "problem X is because of global warming" is just silly.
But the weather or rising sea levels is the least of my worries. The fucking ecosystem is.
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>>8877759
Appeal to authority all up in this post. Anybody can say anything without scrutiny, doesn't make any of it trustworthy. Instead of wasting time waching biased, unchecked and easily manipulated media you should be reading peer reviewed trusted scientific journals.
>tfw you publish complete fucking garbage in a top journal and realize that science is basically trash
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what's so bad about your publication?
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The stamp-collecting variety might be, yeah. But that is being automated away and thank fuck for that.
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I know that feel, OP. It's one of the reasons I left academia for the private sector. The amount of bullshit floating around will make seriously question whether we know anything about anything or if the whole damn scientific enterprise isn't a fucking circus.
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What is the integral of position? I know the integral of Acceleration is Velocity, and the integral of Velocity is position, but what is the integral of position?
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>>8877145
cal 1 brainlet here btw
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Source on that gif?
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>>8877145
absition
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Charles Darwin was a brainlet. He was shit at math and openly admitted it. You have to be good at math if you want to be considered smart. Thus, Darwin was a brainlet. Biologist are brainlets.
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He was actually a brainlet, but since there are vastly more brainlets than smart people in the world, probability dictates that at least a few brainlets will make important discoveries some of the time.
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>>8877136
>You have to be good at math if you want to be considered smart
sounds a lot like something a stupid person would say
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You don't have to not be a brainlet to influence the world. Take George Bush for example.
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Matlab is required for solving real probl- 2017-05-02 02:59:13 Post No.8877131
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Matlab is required for solving real probl-
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>>8877131
yeah no shit. any junior level engineering student has realized that MATLab is really only good for a handful of specific applications, most of them being control analysis.
Visual Basic is legit the best language to learn for industry because its what every nigga has.
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>>8877155
>Visual Basic is legit the best language to learn for industry
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>>8877173
its not bait at all if you are an engineer. every scrub motherfucker is going to have this shit on their 10 year old thinkpad.