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Honestly, the Christian God makes more sense than most "researchable" sciences.

>>8714468
>So you're just picking and choosing now?
Don't all of us have only "opinions"?
Rather arrogant of anyone to deny any god rather than merely doubt it, based on their experiences. Especially when their god mostly screws people who are disbelievers: But they don't say anything about doubters. Besides, they sing of their wretchedness, so how bad can a doubter be?

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>>8714468
>he believes that current ageing is the slowest rate of entrophy possible
>he can't comprehend that while entrophy will always occur, it can potentially occur slowly enough that a human will outlive a sun
>he can't comprehend that with biological replication of human organs entrophy can be reversed by substitution

Where is your data for these claims that we can't achieve functional immortality?

because synthesis is incredibly expensive, tedious, and unnecessary (to make an organism from scratch)

also it's really complicated... it would be cool though...

>>8714248
Wouldn't it completely confirm a major theory as to how life evolved?

Wouldn't it disprove a god of any sort?

If we had a complete and accurate genome of an extinct animal would we be able to recreate it ?

>>8713892
Birth rates have been declining since the 60s. Population is growth is a problem that will largely solve itself.

Should I report this to the police right away?

the best way to lower population growth is time; the only reason there is such a big population growth is that medicine, hygenic practice, education and the cultural revolution caused by growing global access to the internet allow for third-world countries to have much lower infant mortality rates. More people are surviving after being born in impoverished areas, which means that people in said areas do not need to have as many children, and will eventually reach the same average children per household as the West, and population growth will begin to slow down again.

>Bangladesh and Lagos would be ideal targets due to their relative lack of medical access and low hygiene
You seem to be misguided, the life expectancy in Bangladesh has increased dramatically in the past decade
https://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/bangladesh_bangladesh_statistics.html

>>8713838
(cont)

Supposedly, while working a full time job, without the aid of university colleagues, a staff of graduate students, a laboratory, or any of the things normally associated with an academic setting, Einstein in his spare time wrote four ground-breaking essays in the field of theoretical physics and quantum mechanics that were published in 1905.

Many people have recognized the impossibility of such a feat, including Einstein himself, and therefore Einstein has led people to believe that many of these ideas came to him in his sleep, out of the blue, because indeed that is the only logical explanation of how an admittedly inept moron could have written such documents at the age of 26 without any real education.

HOWEVER, THE TRUTH IS: HE STOLE THE IDEAS AND PLAGIARIZED THE PAPERS.

Therefore, we will look at each of these ideas and discover the source of each. It should be remembered that these ideas are presented by Einstein's worshipers as totally new and completely different, each of which would change the landscape of science. These four papers dealt with the following four ideas, respectively:

1) The foundation of the photon theory of light;

2) The equivalence of energy and mass;

3) The explanation of Brownian motion in liquids;

4) The special theory of relativity.

Let us look at the last of these theories, the theory of relativity. This is perhaps the most famous idea falsely attributed to Einstein. Specifically, this 1905 paper dealt with what Einstein called the Special Theory of Relativity (the General Theory would come in 1915).
This theory contradicted the traditional Newtonian mechanics and was based upon two premises:

1) in the absence of acceleration, the laws of nature are the same for all observers; and

>>8713840
(cont)

2) since the speed of light is independent of the motion of its source, then the time interval between two events is longer for an observer in whose frame of reference the events occur at different places than for an observer in whose frame of reference the events occur in the same place. This is basically the idea that time passes more slowly as one's velocity approaches the speed of light, relative to slower velocities where time would pass faster. This theory has been validated by modern experiments and is the basis for modern physics. But these two premises are far from being originally Einstein's. FIRST OF ALL, THE IDEA THAT THE SPEED OF LIGHT WAS A CONSTANT AND WAS INDEPENDENT OF THE MOTION OF ITS SOURCE WAS NOT EINSTEIN'S AT ALL, BUT WAS PROPOSED BY THE SCOTTISH SCIENTIST JAMES MAXWELL in 1878.

Maxwell studied the phenomenon of light extensively and first proposed that it was electromagnetic in nature. James Maxwell wrote an article to this effect for the 1878 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. His ideas prompted much debate, and by 1887, as a result of his work and the ensuing debate, the scientific community, particularly Lorentz, Michelson, and Morley reached the conclusion that the velocity of light was independent of the velocity of the observer.

Thus, this piece of the Special Theory of Relativity was known 27 years before Einstein wrote his paper. This debate over the nature of light also led Michelson and Morley to conduct an important experiment, the results of which could not be explained by Newtonian mechanics. They observed a phenomenon caused by relativity but they did not understand relativity. They had attempted to detect the motion of the earth through ether, which was a medium thought to be necessary for the propagation of light.

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HOLY SHIT

Can you imagine the implications of this were it true.


It would literally not matter at all :o

>>8713192
>USEFUL
Whatif I told you "useful" is a subjective concept, as in not all humans agree on what is useful and how much, and that there is no physical law giving purpose to any human endeavour?

I've been saying this for a quite a while. Molyneux is one the greatest minds of our time possibly ever.

>>8713192
>Go do something useful...go get a real job
>He said on his youtube webseries.
>With his MA in History

Fucking lol. Looks like this cuck has a serious case of physics envy.

Manned or unmanned?

>>8713248
Manned of course! It would be impolite to send a robot to represent Earth, when meeting a new form of life.

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>>8713272
I like how you think. Don't send a robot to do a man's job.

Heated drilling? Chemical might work. Both require a lot of resources and mechanical-only requires a lot of power. Unless guys get out and use picks.
Might be to unstable to have a shaft open.

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>>8708816
Flat earthers are retarded

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>>8708816
it doesnt really make a difference to us whether the earth is flat or not
theres still nothing of real use out there

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I think people are retarded. There is a southern celestial pole.

Pic related: No Polaris.

People finally accept nuclear power

as we are speaking right now "fossils" are being slowly produced. they won't ever run out,

>>8705957
It doesn't matter, because we will all be dead by then, and your children will have way more important matters to worry about, like the impending AI doom.

It is a waste of time.

Better you realise this now.

OP being a mathematician is about learning how to solve problems people and computers don't know how to do yet.

We develop the mathematical tools for the other scientists to use. I'm working right now on better ways of modeling historical tsunamis to give bounds on tsunami risk for costal areas.

After your first year or so, your classes will focus on how you know a thing is true or how to use something you know to solve a problem you don't know the answer to yet.

Until AI comes along, you're only competing with people.

>>8716152
Keep telling yourself that.

P.S. AI is already here.

What if you haven't defined what life is well enough to even consider your question?

>>8714759
Extinction events happen only once every few hundred million years.

The most likely explanation to the Fermi paradox is that the speed of light is hard limit on traveling matter. That combined with the fact that intelligent might not equate to the ability to travel in space or transmit messages to us. Maybe dolphins evolved on another planet that are extremely smart, but they have no arms and must live in water.

Bump for interest.

>>8714608
This applies to me. I'm very gifted but have ADHD, OCD and anxiety disorder. I usually underachieve on any standardized test, despite being very capable. I have to receive accommodations.

I am very good at abstract thinking, but have low processing speed (I'm deep but slow). I get distracted easily and can hardly ever focus.

I can spend 8-10+ hours studying math/cs without a problem though. I impress my professors quite a bit with my gifts and other people. People know immediately I am very intelligent and in areas of interest of mine it shows.

My gifts cover my LD and my LD covers my gifts in school. Odd to be gifted and have an LD.

>>8714616
OCD and anxiety aren't learning disorders. They might keep you from learning something, but that's secondary.

are you american? do you have insurance?

>>8714523
Keep getting second opinions until someone budges. Be stern but respectful with your doctor. They appreciate people doing educated research.

>>8714526
no british

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The real redpill is to realize that in the nature there are no...

- Negative amounts of stuff ("There were -5 persons in the room")
- Zero amount of something (The room either has no people or has >=1 persons. There can't exist 0 persons because 0 implies nonexistence.)
- Fractions ("There were 3.25 persons in the room")
- Infinity ("There were infinite number of people in the room")

Thus, we should do math strictly with natural numbers. And not only that, but we should forget about the silly concept of "infinity" and just decide that there are no more numbers after Graham's number.

>>8712968
And if all math were about numbers of "things" you might have a point. But that's not the case.

>>8712968
but you CAN have a negative amount of money and math was made for money

Why is Nozomi so fucking UGLY

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explain this

motion is an illusion only we can see. it has to do with how our brain can divide and count experiences in the present. a rock for example understands all and all understands it theres no motion it's just everything everywhere all the time.

>>8715843
https://web.archive.org/web/20101214090439/http://2010.igem.org/files/presentation/Hong_Kong-CUHK.pdf

OP: Thanks, I've read and bookmarked that link looks interesting. What the pdf is describing does sounds promising

>>8715843
Our number system is purely historic, good luck convincing others to change it.
Also, binary is king
Your atcg can be broken down
At=0
Ta=1
Cg=1
Gc=0

Therefore atcg is really 01, tacg=11

I probably gave you too much credit though, and you assumed each nucleic acid could be represented in base 4, while you can it's twice as inefficient