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If the sun disappeared in an instant, would the earth leave the sun's orbit and continue off in a straight-line path before the last of the sunlight reached us?
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>>8758952
It would take about 8 minutes until the earth flew off on a tangent.
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>>8758961
so, a disturbance in gravity will move out at the same rate as the speed of light? Would this be the same as the gravity waves they detected recently?
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>>8758969
Yes and yes.
tell me everything I need to know about trigonometry
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>>8758804
sen^2x+cos^2x=1
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>>8758804
cosx+sinx=sqrt2
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>>8758817
My high school math teacher called it the idiot equation, because even an idiot could remember it.
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Medicine is not a science.
Prove me wrong.
Protip: You can't
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>>8758718
It's applied science you dip.
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>>8758718
Dumb bitch should've made a thread about CT scanners causing cancer.
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>>8758721
Yea like engineering? I don't see engineers having artificially restricted seats and artificially raised pay.
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Chemistry or Wildlife Biology 2017-03-18 06:21:05 Post No.8758585
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Chemistry or Wildlife Biology
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Sup /sci/,
I plan on going back to college in a year to get a science degree (I'm currently teaching high school English). I'm just not satisfied with language studies and feel that I need some sort of intellectual challenge in my life beyond critical analysis of texts and grading essays. I want to use my degree to eventually teach at the college level as a professor someday; I have narrowed my options down to either Chem or Bio.
Do you guys have any thoughts? Bio sound more fun since I've had an interest in animals and wildlife as long as I can remember (I was that weird kid with the insect collection in grade school).
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>>8758585
Definitely biology. I'm just like you, I still have collections of insects and lots of other biodiversty. I'm a field biologist/ empirical ecologist working on wildlife and agroecology.
Field biology is the fun science and has the best peer group. Also you will make a real impact on the world teaching field biology. ecology is the most important science pragmatically speaking, it and wildlife biology are interdependent.
Just prepare for the pervasive grief that comes with experiencing the anthropocene.
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>>8758585
And you will need to get into a good Ph.D. Program and do some good research to be a professor.
Ethology and Behavioral ecology seem like the hotspots for the empirical side of biology
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Speculative Evolution Thread:
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>>8758479
if it lives in space why does it have wings faggot
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>>8759477
Liftoff and reentry, duh.
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>>8759485
> all future spacecraft will be torpedoes that ram into the planet's surface
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I'm convinced algebra is a scam.
Come laugh at me and prove me wrong.
I'm skipping imaginary numbers(i.e. shit people just made up), division and all the rest but the same argument applies to all of that I just don't have all day to write an essay.
Humans naturally understand stuff like if I have 9 apples and you give me another apple I have 10 apples. 1+1 = 2.
But then someone comes along and says instead of writing [math] 2+2+2+2+2=10 [/math] lets write [math] 2*5 = 10 [/math] and most get it, but some people don't and get confused.
But then someone says hey what if we replace numbers with letters, so you get
[math] 10 = x + y [/math].
And you fool some people, but most get wise to it and learn how variables work so someone else says what if we rewrite multiplications as [math] 10 = 5^2 [/math].
And again you fool some people, but most figure out that it's still the exact same thing written differently.
Then they start combining the stuff and end up with [math] f(5)=x^2 [/math] and you usually lose most people here, even though it's still just [math] 2+2+2+2+2=10 [/math] only rewritten in an extremely over complicated way. And don't even get me started on order of operations / p.e.m.d.a.s.shit.
But it just keeps going [math] f:5 &\X\longrightarrow x^2 [/math] and going and going and going.
What i'm saying is addition is the only real idea in algebra and everything else and I do mean everything else, from subtraction, to multiplication, to order of operations, to functions, is just another way of rewriting addition.
Tell me why i'm wrong.
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You aren't wrong.
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Even if everything could be expressed as additions, people wouldn't use it like that. From multiplying instead of adding the number n times to einstein's notation, everyone will use the simplest way to write an expression. We are lazy, and we create conventions to be able to write less while understanding what we do.
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>>8758470
Does this argument hold true for calculus and the rest of math?
I was only ever taught algebra in school.
If we're able to breed animals of different species but closely related to each other and create F1 hybrids, why can't we do the same with humans and Chimpanzees? What's stopping us from creating another intelligent species?
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>>8758340
It would be a very lengthy experiment because of the time it takes for the offspring to reach adulthood. Secondly, there's the problem with availability of volunteers. If we need to pick a human that's closest to an ape, we'll need black people but they might not be willing to participate in such an experiment.
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>>8758340
We do already. If you in on it, you know. If you don't know, probably you are a test subject
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>>8758340
They would need to evolve into humans to reach our level of intelligence. Humans already exist so there would be no point of doing this.
I have created a game. This is a game of great knowledge. If you solve the puzzle, comment what it tells you to, and you will gain a point. The individual with the most points at the end will win.
The first puzzle is such:
The key is somewhere unexpected.
Darkness won't help too much.
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Not Science, not mathematics.
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>>8758317
this
'decode this' threads are perhaps even worse than 'what school should i go to?' threads
take this nonsense to /x/ or something
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I don't dislike this kind of games, but maybe there are better places to post it
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This is a maths test for 11 year olds from 1932.
What went wrong?
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>>8758278
>halfpenny
>qrs
>this much shitty pointless unit conversion
What went right more like
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Other than not knowing the meanings of those "units", that's the math I was doing when I was 9.
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>>8758278
lower education standards for women and minorities
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I want to start smoking, but I want to find scientific evidence to justify it. What do?
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Become a Republican
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Demonstrate impulse control and keep your doasge at a statistically insignificant level, from what I've seen this is less than 5/day.
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>>8758236
>controlled smoking
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What to do with a Automatic Control and Sys engineering degree? 2017-03-18 02:46:25 Post No.8758191
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What to do with a Automatic Control and Sys engineering degree?
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Hi /sci/...i dont know what to do with my degree.
>I realize after 4 years of study and currently in my Master that my degree is pretty much useless.
>I learned a bit of electronics ,some programming (C/C++),
>learned some C# and SQL from a school project...(Windows Forms nothing complicated)
>but mostly and mostly i did System Engineering-..Laplace,closed loop modelling ,system stability issues,automatic control...all in fucking Matlab (which i cant stand) and Simulink etc yada yada yada..which is mostly useless.There aren't any jobs where you can apply the theory learned in my country.There are only some jobs for programming PLC's, and HMI-s but all require 3-5 years experience .
>What to do ? Downgrade to programming PLC's/do maintainance job in a factory(modify lines of LADDER logic)...
>OR...... FUCK IT and learn a good high level programming language and go full CS job?..mediocre i'd say..i understand concepts(e.g OOP) but not how to implement them in a real app.Just know to do dummy programs.
(I am not really that good in programming-hate myself for not doing a CS job internship to see how things work there-i am afriad ill be too slow for a programmer.)
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>>8758191
Get doctorate in your field and teach.
After getting said doctorate take classes that you enjoy for free (because you're a professor)
After taking enough classes get a new degree
Rinse and repeat.
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>I spent 4 years studying something I don't like which has zero job prospects
Lmaoing @ your life. Study something else from the beginning or become a code monkey.
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>>8758191
Isn't it great?
All your life you've been on tracks and now you're driving offroad and there's dead ends and ditches everywhere.
Strap in, its gonna be a bumpy ride
t. 5 years out of school, no idea where I'm going
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>4th year of uni
>havnt once opened a textbook, stopped buying them altogether at start of 3rd year
>only have a basic fundamental understanding of major though math is decent
>not sure if I will get fucked once I get an actual job
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>buying textbooks ever
>especially when you never even use them
Anyway I'm in the same boat OP, what's your major?
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I'm in the same boat too
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>>8758132
your uni must be really shit if you can get through the exams without hardcore learning 24/7
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Who wants to discuss the book that ended the scientific-method? 2017-03-18 01:52:25 Post No.8758106
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Who wants to discuss the book that ended the scientific-method?
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"Nobody" -Charles Manson
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>>8758106
You overstate the importance of this book. Kuhn is a much more influential figure in contemporary philosophy of science.
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>Newton: In an inertial reference frame, an object either remains at rest or continues to move at a constant velocity, unless acted upon by a force.
>Sees object accelerate without any force acting on it
>Newton: bruh there must be a force, otherwise it wouldn't move! You see my law can't be falsificated by observations; you must change the surrounding universe to fit my law. Just call it "dark force" bruh.
What is this fallacy called?
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>>8758102
>What is this fallacy called?
Science
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>>8758103
>>/x/
Sorry, this is /sci/. We only accept scientific arguments here.
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>>8758102
>Sees object accelerate without any force acting on it
That either:
>a.) doesn't happen
>b.)Happens in a non-inertial frame
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https://futurism.com/new-form-of-atomic-nuclei-just-confirmed-and-it-suggests-time-travel-is-impossible/
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH /sci/ eternally and utterly *B*T*F*O*
i laugh in your face, virgin faggots
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>time-travel-is-impossible
Then explain the Bogdanovs..
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>>8758079
I don't believe it
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>>8758079
>durr what is time dilation