>already completed my magnum opus on quantum cosmology with unprecedented erudition
https://www.wattpad.com/325418292-cosmological-interpretation-analysis-quantum
But continue with your otiose iq threads of delusion, please.
Typical cowardice
>>8857098
>>8857138
Or you can put more effort in your bait.
>>8854696
Like this guy
>>8857171
Did you even read it?
When civilization on Mars finally gets established what political ideology will the government rule with?
Will essential parts of democracy exist, like free-speech and fair elections? Should we strive for a democratic life on Mars?
Will nations erupt or will the entire planet be one "nation", i.e a unified community, no borders. If so, who would enforce these borders?
I think colonization of planets, for example Mars, will be very similar to the colonization of the U.S. Even though the people who arrive on Earth are originally earth-people (similar to the Englishmen) but will later declare themself as a new nationallity (just like the Americans).
>>8857075
Until the discussin perks up you might enjoy these two articles
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150619-how-to-overthrow-a-martian-dictatorship
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20151215-why-mars-should-be-independent-from-earth
>>8857075
Without an economy or currency to speak of, it'll likely start out like a technocratic communist society with democracy. Once an industry is established and exports start, a currency will emerge and capitalism will take root.
As per the outer space treaty, there won't be any Earth nations drawing borders, but colonists might disregard the treaty once they are self sufficient and establish nations without Earth governments to enforce the treaty.
>>8857075
>civilization on Mars
Imagine a future in which every home has an appliance that pulls all the water the household needs out of the air, even in dry or desert climates, using only the power of the sun.
That future may be around the corner, with the demonstration this week of a water harvester that uses only ambient sunlight to pull liters of water out of the air each day in conditions as low as 20 percent humidity, a level common in arid areas.
The solar-powered harvester, reported in the journal Science, was constructed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology using a special material - a metal-organic framework, or MOF - produced at the University of California, Berkeley.
"This is a major breakthrough in the long-standing challenge of harvesting water from the air at low humidity," said Omar Yaghi, one of two senior authors of the paper, who holds the James and Neeltje Tretter chair in chemistry at UC Berkeley and is a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. "There is no other way to do that right now, except by using extra energy. Your electric dehumidifier at home 'produces' very expensive water."
The prototype, under conditions of 20-30 percent humidity, was able to pull 2.8 liters (3 quarts) of water from the air over a 12-hour period, using one kilogram (2.2 pounds) of MOF. Rooftop tests at MIT confirmed that the device works in real-world conditions.
"One vision for the future is to have water off-grid, where you have a device at home running on ambient solar for delivering water that satisfies the needs of a household," said Yaghi, who is the founding director of the Berkeley Global Science Institute, a co-director of the Kavli Energy NanoSciences Institute and the California Research Alliance by BASF. "To me, that will be made possible because of this experiment. I call it personalized water."
Yaghi invented metal-organic frameworks more than 20 years ago, combining metals like magnesium or aluminum with organic molecules in a tinker-toy arrangement to create rigid, porous structures ideal for storing gases and liquids. Since then, more than 20,000 different MOFs have been created by researchers worldwide. Some hold chemicals such as hydrogen or methane: the chemical company BASF is testing one of Yaghi's MOFs in natural gas-fueled trucks, since MOF-filled tanks hold three times the methane that can be pumped under pressure into an empty tank.
Other MOFs are able to capture carbon dioxide from flue gases, catalyze the reaction of adsorbed chemicals or separate petrochemicals in processing plants.
In 2014, Yaghi and his UC Berkeley team synthesized a MOF - a combination of zirconium metal and adipic acid - that binds water vapor, and he suggested to Evelyn Wang, a mechanical engineer at MIT, that they join forces to turn the MOF into a water-collecting system.
The system Wang and her students designed consisted of more than two pounds of dust-sized MOF crystals compressed between a solar absorber and a condenser plate, placed inside a chamber open to the air. As ambient air diffuses through the porous MOF, water molecules preferentially attach to the interior surfaces. X-ray diffraction studies have shown that the water vapor molecules often gather in groups of eight to form cubes.
Sunlight entering through a window heats up the MOF and drives the bound water toward the condenser, which is at the temperature of the outside air. The vapor condenses as liquid water and drips into a collector.
"This work offers a new way to harvest water from air that does not require high relative humidity conditions and is much more energy efficient than other existing technologies," Wang said.
This proof of concept harvester leaves much room for improvement, Yaghi said. The current MOF can absorb only 20 percent of its weight in water, but other MOF materials could possibly absorb 40 percent or more. The material can also be tweaked to be more effective at higher or lower humidity levels.
"It's not just that we made a passive device that sits there collecting water; we have now laid both the experimental and theoretical foundations so that we can screen other MOFs, thousands of which could be made, to find even better materials," he said. "There is a lot of potential for scaling up the amount of water that is being harvested. It is just a matter of further engineering now."
Yaghi and his team are at work improving their MOFs, while Wang continues to improve the harvesting system to produce more water.
"To have water running all the time, you could design a system that absorbs the humidity during the night and evolves it during the day," he said. "Or design the solar collector to allow for this at a much faster rate, where more air is pushed in. We wanted to demonstrate that if you are cut off somewhere in the desert, you could survive because of this device. A person needs about a Coke can of water per day. That is something one could collect in less than an hour with this system."
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2017-04-device-air-powered-sun.html
inb4 >where the fuck is the greentext
no
>>8856853
I can do this with a tarp
pushes the tides. it's been hypothesized by some that life on earth may not exist without it.
>>8856813
Would the lakes and oceans be completely still without the moon?
What about water that's underground?
>>8856839
Wind and currents would still move the earth's waters around, but the moon has a big effect as well so its hard to know exactly what would change.
Also the moon is like our secret service guy taking asteroids for us and shit.
So everybody's talking about terraforming Mars, but how's our terraforming technology anyway? Why don't we try and tackle more immediately available and easier problems like terraforming Sahara first?
>>8856701
Sahara plays an important part in the ecosystem. Terraforming it would do more harm than good.
>>8856701
Do you want more Africans?
If you had used Google you'd know we can and have done things like this. it's just that nobody cares.
What are some good books to study stock trading/finance for someone with a good foundation in pure mathematics and advanced knowledge on probability theory + differential equations (ODEs and PDEs)?
>>8856474
Read "The Misbehaviour of Markets" by Mandelbrot.
>>8856497
That seems interesting. Thanks!
Have you read it?
>>8856474
>implying you can predict the stock market
Redpill me on TREE(3). I read it's so much bigger than Graham's number that Graham's number might as well be zero. It's keeping me awake.
>>8856247
some numbers are just too big anon, like yo mamma
Very interesting.
I am also interested in applying these concepts with parallel infinities.
>>8856247
>finite cardinal
>big
lmao fucking really nigga yea ok come back when your cardinals start getting [math]\mathcal{LARGE}[/math]
>Hurr durr, muricans can't into metric"
Imperial system is obviously easier for the everyday man to use.
>Can visualize diffferent lengths
>More precise because of fractions
>It was designed to be easier
>Fahrenheit is more useful in day to day use
Yes, metric makes sense in science, but for everyday use imperial is clearly easier. I don't have a problem with Europeans using metric. What I have a problem with is Europeans pestering us Americans because we don't conform to their standards, when there is next to no benefit in switching to Metric, and any benefit that would be had barely exists in comparison to the vast cost it would take to switch.
>>8856203
>burger education
>>8856203
>obviously easier
perfect for the short bus kids
What's the bare minimum range of operations an AI should be able to perform?
I'm exploring all sorts of different ways an evolving AI could work, but I'm not sure which ones are even possible to compute with.
>>8856202
Pleasing my dick
Pain is nature's teachings.
>>8856202
That's one cute snake.
I'm just going to jerk off into a diamond mine until it happens
>>8855860
Never happening. Particle "physicists" waste all our grant money.
>>8855860
>I'm just going to jerk off into a diamond mine until it happens
You think that could work?
The bottom line however is this car is still 90% powered by coal on average. How is this better for the "environment" exactly?
I dunno, anyone have an energy cannon to plug into this?
>>8855793
An off road electric vehicle? That's kind of self defeating, no?
Wow... go Chevrolet! It does look cool.
b-b-but it doesnt use gas
Can /sci/ tell me what lies beyond the event horizon? Or are you a bunch of brainlets?
a point of compressed matter.
>>8855615
Be more specific
>>8855616
there isn't anything else there.
>It has taken nearly four years, but mathematicians are finally starting to comprehend a mammoth proof that could revolutionise our understanding of the deep nature of numbers.
>The 500-page proof was published online by Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University, Japan in 2012 and offers a solution to a longstanding problem known as the ABC conjecture, which explores the fundamental relationships between numbers, addition and multiplication beginning with the simple equation a + b = c.
>Mathematicians were excited by the proof but struggled to get to grips with Mochizuki's "Inter-universal Teichmuller Theory" (IUT), an entirely new realm of mathematics he had developed over decades in order to solve the problem.
This guy basically invented his own realm of mathematics to solve a seemingly unsolvable problem. How does one become a genius like him?
I don't get how come some people can just work for hours on end without procrastinating or burning out.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2099534-mathematicians-finally-starting-to-understand-epic-abc-proof/
>>8855590
Some kids sell Adderall at the library, I mean, I heard about it
>>8855596
Other people smoke meth and make porn, so, you know, it's up to you
>>8855590
>I don't get how come some people can just work for hours on end without procrastinating or burning out.
1) He got paid good money for every second he was working on it
2) He didn't do it in one go. He wrote it as he felt it come to him
That said, I appreciate his work but I would consider him more of a genius if he could take the relevant bits of his theory that prove ABC and turned them into elementary number theory arguments. My biggest problem with him is that I doubt we need all that fucking bullshit symbol soup to describe ABC. And sure, maybe his larger theory has more to it than just proving ABC but the least he can do is condense the proof of ABC for us little brainlets over here.
Do cell phones cause cancer? Is there any plausible way for micro waves, radio waves, or infrared waves to cause cancer in any amount or location?
>>8855571
yeah, I plan to move to Zimbabwe where there is no infrastructure to create radio radiation
No serious replies?
What will happen once science runs out of American and Greek alphabets?
we already have
>>8855556
>American alphabet
>what is Hebrew