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Hey /sci/, for fun name tour favorite fictional element, mineral, alloy or material, and what properties make it special. Not talking devices or inventions, talking about substances that appear in movies, books, etc. that would be great if they were real.
My vote -- Cavorite. It is "opaque to gravity," gravitational effect from an object on one side of a sheet of cavorite are not felt on the other side.
Pour a puddle of molten cavorite on the ground, and when it hardens, the air above it is no longer held down by gravity and goes fountaining off into space until the wind gets under the edge and it gets blown away into the cosmos (being impervious to gravity, it des not take much pressure to blow a sheet of it away.).
A sphere covered in cavorite shutters is not impacted by gravity at all -- until you open a shutter on one side and let the gravity of whatever is in that direction pull you along. Great for traveling to the moon, if you don't have a giant cannon in Florida.
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>>8843161
Damn..
>"Tour" is "your"
>"Under the edge," add "of the cavorite sheet"
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dark matter
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>>8843161
Fuckoffium
it makes popsci newfags fuck off
oops I found some right now, tough luck buddy!!
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Daily remember that IQ is not an accurate measure to intelligence or how """smart""" you are, but is a measure on how good you are at solving IQ tests, nothing else.
>inb4 Someone scored less than 140.
Yes, I actually scored 131, and? Having more than 140 doesn't mean anything either.
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>>8843059
Haha brainlet
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Nnnnnnnope.
IQ tests have shown to correlate .9 to .95 with g.
They are a VERY good measure of intelligence.
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>>8843059
t. Brainlet
ITT: Post things your undergraduate STEM textbooks/ worksheets/ instructors say or do that trigger you.
>brainlets and geniuses alike, welcome welcome
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>>8842970
the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell
also math is useless in biology
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>>8842980
>biology
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When the instructor or textbook arbitrarily introduces a new variable without defining it, especially if you are new to a subject.
Post a business card
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>>8842838
He's pretty handsome tho, no homo.
But it's interesting to see an indian that isn't into IT, he looks smart too.
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>>8842881
I'm jelly
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is x-ray good for lung cancer?
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>>8842621
Yes. And you know it is you fucking worthless hypochondriac.
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>>8842621
good for treating lung cancer?
good for causing lung cancer?
good for maintaining the well-being of the lung cancer cells?
good for maintaining the cells of the nigger attached to the cancer cells?
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>is x-ray good for lung cancer?
Yes it will help you get lung cancer
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Greg Carr makes a great point...science is only symboloic abstraction 2017-04-20 05:29:04 Post No.8842190
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Greg Carr makes a great point...science is only symboloic abstraction
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>Greg Carr
Literally who?
Sage'd
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>>8842196
read it before you criticize
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This is a direct clone of a post on /k/, but it ended up hilarious, so I'll post it here-
Lets play a game:
I'm your average joe who doesn't know much about science or math in general. It's not that I'm stupid, but rather I just never was into learning more about STEM-related topics after highschool. Your goal is to come up with the dumbest, most brain-dead retarded lie you can think of that would sound believable to someone like me that simply doesn't know better.
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[math]0.999 ... = 1[/math]
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If you don't let me tax you more the world is going to burn up
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>>8842121
Man Made Climate Change
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Are dinosaurs pretty much just giant kangaroos?
How related are they?
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>>8842105
Yeah.
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they are muscle chickens
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Aren't they avians? Kangaroos are marsupials, I didn't think they were closely related at all
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If a tree falls in a forest and no one was there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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I too remember philosophy 101.
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>>8841656
Define sound.
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>>8841656
does anything happen if no one is there to witness it?
What would be an admissible heuristic to perform a search through all the moves to the solution of a Sokoban game?
asking for a friend.
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A* search
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>>8841145
no I mean the heuristic for the A* search.
distance from box to goal doesn't work because it'll prioritise getting the boxes close to the goal, where in this example in the OP, the boxes need to be in the left room before we can start putting them on goals ( ie: move them further from the goal )
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You can start by assuming you should be farther away than some box from the goal before you start pushing. There are a limited amount of starting positions. (around boxes.) For each find the shortest route to that position (behind a box). For each, push closer to the goal, if any push results in a locked state (you need to test for this (box in corner, or two boxes near wall and near each other) Reject any route that locks boxes in. For each new state (when the box being pushed can move in any new direction) you need to define all new starting positions near boxes.
After excluding all locked up games you should have one or more results. Pick the one with least moves, or use this to show there are only one solution, if this is your goal.
Going for a math minor, so I'm gonna be taking what is essentially an intro analysis/proofs class.
I hear from people that it's writing intensive, but I can't find any good information for some reason. Are proofs classes always "writing intensive"? What am I in for with a "writing intensive" math class?
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Actual math basically, where if you are writing more notation than words you are doing it wrong.
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>>8841026
so not like, literally writing research papers on math topics? because the syllabus mentions nothing about that
can proofs really be that verbose that the course can be called writing intensive?
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>>8841035
Look at this, for example.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proofs_of_Fermat%27s_little_theorem
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What is the next big thing in Maths, /sci? Is there anything that is close to a breakthrough?
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>Maths
>s
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>>8840996
>Math
>h
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>>8840996
brits are just awful, aren't they?
Prove me wrong.
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>>8840958
The [math]sum(-1^x)[/math] series. Just fucking google it.
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>>8840958
Fuck off, shitposting faggot.
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>>8840958
What do the dots mean?
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What are some 'fun' things one can do with their free time that flex the autism muscles? Games, apps, audio lectures, etc..
Personally, I'm looking for a game/app that is basically a rolling IQ test pop quiz to improve my pattern recognition
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chess
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>>8840957
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-US/Warhammer-40-000
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>>8840957
there's a phone game called Euclidea
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Do you need to be autistic to start a rocket company? I can't think of any other explaination for someone to get married 5 times.
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>>8840139
How about "being an asshole" for a reason?
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Remember if eugenics were encouraged every woman would look like Amber Heard.
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>>8840180
And be a gold digging slut, like her?