Alright, dickheads! Everyone constantly whines about how there's all this fucking space debris around the planet.
How do we fucking clean it? I propose a giant fucking electromagnet. Lets see you come up with something better.
>>8730723
>I propose a giant fucking electromagnet.
Yes and kill every computer database worth more than your future lifes if you don't go to hell after you die.
Good job senpai.
The only way we can fix this shit is worldwide cooperation, but some countries just want to watch the world burn (see the chinks and their contamination).
BIG
FUCKIN
LASERS
and satellites designed to detect debris so the lasers can fire from ground bases and zap the garbage
immolate that shit
Try something similar to spider webs
Like large sricky webs orbiting arround
So why doesn't anyone talk about the ozone layer any more?
because the montreal protocol was a success in limiting the damage
>>8730480
wrong
>>8730655
you seem to be smugly waiting for your chance to post some article about ozone levels from 1970 onward, dick in hand. Let's have it then, no need to keep people waiting.
have ozone levels returned to pre-1950 levels? or not?
a 500 pound anvil is traveling at 5 million miles per hour, or about 1/120th the speed of light.
How much kj of energy would be released if it hit the Earth. translate this power in terms of tsar-bombas
>>8730444
2.36 tsar bombas or 5.7x10^14 KJ
>>8731387
I did this quickly during lecture so check me
>>8731391
Checked myself. It's actually .00236 tsar bombas or 5.7x10^11 KJ
What do you wish you knew before starting your undergrad degree that would have really helped?
>>8730327
all of math and physics.
more math and physics. so many of my peers got fucked in the ass by calculus and engineering physics so they dropped STEM within like two quarters, lol.
>What do you wish you knew before starting your undergrad degree that would have really helped?
the worthlessness of outdated 21st century university education
>*freshly sharpened pencil breaks*
>>8730105
>*pencil keeps breaking while I'm sharpening it*
>pencil
Underage b&
>>8730124
>go to use pen
>shake the pen vigorously
>still leaves a scratch mark from where ink doesnt come out when begin writing with it
Could it actually be harmful to have extremely strong immune system? I for one haven't been properly sick in four years, not even the normal influenza / flu during winter time. The example case I've read about was that those people who get the H5N1 influenza die because of their extremely strong immune response to the disease (cytokine storm). Any expert on the matter who could chip in?
>>8729934
I never used to get ill with flu or anything but then got lung cancer at 25 so I'm not sure if that means anything.
>>8729946
Are you the same brit who posted this to /pol/ a while back? Cancer is a different case though, cancer at young age is almost always due to genetic defects. Your immune system doesn't play a huge part in fighting cancer
>>8729934
It is EXTREMELY harmful.
To other beings. Bahahahahaha.
Also it could be that you never go out or even vaccinate yourself. In which case when you do actually get infected by a real disease you will get super sick.
Humans will achieve eternal youth just in time to watch the climate ruin earth
do climate fearmongers not believe in natural selection? why do they not understand that our children will just evolve to survive in higher co2 environments?
i thought darwininism was commonplace at this point
>>8729895
i believe there will come a time when most means of production will be automated then nearly all workforce (entirety of blue collars and white collars to some extent) and and it will be at that time that the ruling elite will mass murder the world population and reduce it to a ridiculously small fraction, then the singularity will come and scientific breakthroughs will follow a geometric series. telomerase inhibition will be perfected gradually slowing down human aging combined with a very advanced medical field. space colonization will be the next step by the descendants of the few hundreds of selected families allowed to live after the mass extiction event.
we'll all be already dead by then though.
>>8729895
That's okay. Musk will ship us to Mars, where the planet is already totally fucked, so we can live there in domes and underground. So, we don't need to do that on Earth.
Question to aspiring mathematicians. Since this guy was at 18 probably more knowledgeable in math than you will ever be, knowing this, how do you motivate yourselves? Go into some niche branch of math, since no one can know everything?
>>8729568
It's not a competition for some people. It's just fun for them. They could be better or worse than they are now and they would still do the same thing.
if i'm jelly about how good he is i'll do the same thing he did and remain humble while doing my maths
>>8729585
This, not sure why everyone sees this life as one big competition.
I do not care if I am not as 'good' as him, I just want to understand math
Would it have been better if π was defined as 6.28..., meaning circumference in radius instead of diameter?
>>8729185
A constant factor of 2 is meaningless in this case. You can use your own version of pi-slash if you feel like it, but it seems like a massive waste of time.
>>8729185
[math]e^{i\pi}=1[/math]
Don't you touch that
>>8729202
i think you mean minus one
Hurt myself, got a tetanus shot.
First my arm felt a bit sore, like when I did too much workout. I tried to sleep on it, and now I start to develop flu-like symptom. Joint pains, muscle aches, unfocused mind.
>>8729006
Its a weak version of the virus.
You are now in the supposed highest point in your bodies fight against the tetanus.
Unless you have a REALLY weak immune system then you should be fine and this is as bad as it gets....
Vaccines are designed with a weakened "dummy" virus/bacterium so that when the REAL bad guy comes along your body can defend against it.
>>8729006
We are all dying anon.
>>8729019
I meant soon.
Why don't food manufacturers call everything organic? Everything has carbon in it, right?
Because organic is a meme label to attract hipsters and soccer moms and make them feel good while not actually doing anything; it doesn't really mean anything at all.
I argue this with everyone who buys "organic" food
>>8727871
>Repeating OP's implication back to him as an answer
Brainlet detected
>>8727585
I knew there was another oxford physicist on this board.
Lemme guess 2nd year?
>>8728451
There must be more than two.
Yeah, 2nd year. It's a blast... are you a 3rd year or something?
>>8728458
Nah 2nd year as well. Schek was such a memester way better than the other guy.
>younger brother(14)talking about his failing math grade with parents(he made a 61)
>yelling about how he hates math and how its useless and how he'll never use algebra in the real world
>asks my father if he has actually seriously ever used the quadratic formula in the past 2 years
>he says no
>i just stay out of the argument
Who's to blame for this? The school? My brother? Why are kids not appreciative of math? And you know what, he kind of has a point. He doesn't want to go to college for STEM, he says he wants to go be a graphics designer, and he does know how to draw. Would he really benefit from knowing all the stuff they teach him? I'm going to college for a Mathematics major of course, so I appreciate the stuff I learned in school, but still. That's just me.
>>8726866
Oh please. School is not really about getting any life skills. It's about getting a horizontal view of a lot of topics, so you can at least have some minimal knowledge, and to help you decide what you want to do with yourself.
I don't see anyone complaining about literature even though it's "just as useless".
The point is to give you a taste of a wide subject, not to give you actual tools.
Art is mathematics.
>>8726866
your brother is brainlet, OP
People like to assert that trans-humanism will make humans able to compete with machines, but this is a false assumption for several reasons:
>trans-humans would be people born as humans but with added cybernetic augmentation, meaning they have inherent flaws as all humans do
>cyborgs on the other hand are built from the ground up to work as highly optimized machines
>they can look, behave and speak exactly like humans if need be, but would not be limited by anything other than volume
>extreme intelligence that would not be possible in augmented humans due to limitations of the mind (think x100 or x10000 times the computing power of a human brain + quantum computing which is not possible for humans)
>extreme strength (built from the ground up rather than meme nano-fiber enhanced meme muscles in trans-humans)
>could perfectly manipulate any human through coercion or sex (again, their human-mimicking abilities)
>will be able to replicate themselves and evolve themselves faster than anything we can counter with, all while blending in perfectly
>even of they aren't "enemies" of humanity, they would be so perfect in comparison that humans would remain permanent irrelevant monkeys
Anyone else on /sci/ scared shitless of these things?
I'm literally 80-90% certain that I'll meet my end by some cyborg woman in the not too distant future.
If you're scared of smart machines, you're also scared of having talented children. Don't be so vain.
>>8725850
>threat
Don't you mean the greatest evolution?
>>8725850
>they have inherent flaws as all humans do
Ebin meme friendo. Like 99% of "humanity's flaws" arise from game theory and are observed in nature all the time. Which means ayyliums and AIs will be massive cunts just like us.
from Quora who dropped out and began doing his own experimental shit.
Supposedly he had some alternate theories of cold fusion which weren't accepted so he rage quit.
>>8716588
better version
>>8717267
>>8717271
>best student
>gold digger
>gets job
u serious?