The human body uses food as an energy source, in the form of sugars and stuff.
Will it ever be possible to replace the human digestive system with electricity as a power-generating system? Energy is energy, after all.
>>8507630
Not unless you completely replace all human biological machinery to run off of electricity
Energy is not energy. Sugar is broken down in order to provide the energy to produce ATP. Pretty much everything your body actively does uses ATP as to power it, and it works by chemically reacting with whatever needs it
Only your nervous system is based on electricity and even then its controlled by ATP dependant gates
>>8507640
could we use electricity to provide the energy to create ATP then?
What other requirements does ATP production have?
>>8507630
>Will it ever be possible to replace the human digestive system with electricity as a power-generating system?
No, because the body needs actual matter in the food to function and rebuild itself. You are what you eat.
Energy alone is not enough.
Post angry science!
>>8507557
What anime is that
>>8507568
shit one
also the author is dead
>>8507569
Oh damn.
My friend gave me this problem to solve cause why the fuck not. I'm stumped but I want to see if anyone here can solve it.
How fast would a housefly need to be traveling in order to puncture a 1.5in (3.81cm) thick steel plate?
Here's some constants for ya
Mass of fly: 21.4mg
Density of fly: 100kg/m^3
Density of steel: 8050kg/m^3
>so how about it anons?
>>8507374
At least over 100 mph, but probably not higher than 175mph.
>>8507374
potential hint: at high enough speeds anything is a fluid
I'd have to say faster than a speeding bullet, faster than Earth escape velocity even. The best solution is simply to test this by launching flies at steel plates at ever increasing velocities.
Alternatively, you could pussy out and do this in simulation using a code like uintah:
http://uintah.utah.edu/
>>8507374
pretty fast lmao
I'm going to a lecture by this guy tomorrow, the ESA Project Scientist on the Rosetta and Philae missions.
What should I ask?
>>8506970
"Why are you a misogynist?"
>>8506982
Well meme'd my friend!
>>8506970
Is this the dude with the shirt? Ask him if he still has the shirt.
Hey, /sci/, stupid person here.
I have a question that's been bothering me for few days and I can't find an answer anywhere. How does centrifugal force affect a body in 0G environments? Mainly, I'm thinking about a scenario where a body is suspended inside a ring shaped object that rotates around it's own axis. Would the body be pulled to the outside wall by the centrifugal force alone as shown by the green arrow, or would there need to be some external force acting on the body first and move it towards the wall (blue arrow) for the effect to kick in? Or maybe something different entirely. Also would the result be different if it was a in a vacuum or not? Graph to follow
>>8506398
Centrifugal force works exactly the same in zero-g as it does on Earth.
>Would the body be pulled to the outside wall by the centrifugal force alone as shown by the green arrow, or would there need to be some external force acting on the body first and move it towards the wall (blue arrow) for the effect to kick in?
Assuming the body is travelling at roughly the same speed as the ring, it would accelerate towards the outer wall on its own.
>Also would the result be different if it was a in a vacuum or not?
A vacuum would make no difference.
>>8506474
I see. Thanks a lot, anon.
I'm going back to college because I want to do cutting-edge science for a living.
What field should I major in if I want to develop enhancements of human bodies with mechanical attachments and/or bioengineering to make organisms better? Biology? Engineering? Neurology?
pic unrelated
CS with specialization in machine learning. Take all the data points and cuck the other majors out of jobs.
Like Deus Ex augmentations or just the standard cancer-free cells?
>>8505712
genetic engineering combined with stem cell research would be some noble breaking ground for science. Neurology is pretty much done, it's about time we've figured out how to code regenerative neurons into stem cells and sell them for surgical applications.
Have any of you actually, unironically, read entire textbooks?
How do you do it? Whenever I try to read through some 500-page textbook (and doing the exercises, of course), I make it to about page 100 before giving up. By that point it's already taken me a month or so, and I realize just how much fucking time it's going to take me to read the entire thing, and my interests have already moved on to something else. So I pick up another textbook, telling myself I'll get back to the other one, and repeat the process. I have a backlog of unfinished textbooks and it's discouraging that I haven't been able to commit to and finish a single one.
>>8505598
i just dont read them back to back desu
read most important chapters, and skip stuff im not interested in
>>8505606
I would do that, but I don't like the feeling that I'll miss out on something and have gaps in my knowledge. I'm a bit autistically obsessive.
>>8505598
philosophy textbooks if those count
I don't get why you'd read a math text through and through though
>theory about the properties of the fabric of our universe.
>call it string theory.
>>8505163
>looking for evidence that God doesn't exist
>Calls the method of finding said evidence as the "God Particle"
>>8505193
>Lmao!
>looking for evidence of evolution
>called it creation theory
Why the FUCK is this allowed?
Well what does it say
>>8503700
http://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/15-science-backed-tricks-to-instantly-seem-smart/page-3/
It is autistic hipster shit.
Well better to have idiot normalfags trying to act smart than reveling in their stupidity, right?
What are you guys up to?
>>8482942
Cute fingers.
>>8482967
Thanks!
What are you studying? What are you researching? What are you thinking about?
OP is thinking about starting K-theory to see a connection between rings and topology.
Can anyone on /sci/ help me PLEASE with this problem on the top. I have no idea how to do this and I really need help. Please help anons!!!
Bump, please help!!!
Are they two separate questions?
For sin(x-y) use the double angle formula.
sin(x-y) - sin(x)cos(y) - cos(x)sin(y)
>>8508963
oops, I meant
sin(x-y) = sin(x)cos(y) - cos(x)sin(y)
Hey /sci/ and /atheism/,
How can you support a belief system that literally suggests that pic related happened? Why would a dinosaur evolve into a chicken? The argument everyone says is that it's because the comet wiped out every other animal so they had nothing to eat but then why wouldn't they evolve back into a dinosaur once other things came back? You guys must actually be fucking retarted if you think that there is an advantage to being a chicken over a dinosaur.
>>8508771
Mutations over time, not exactly this but the concept is...
>Ones up on a time
>Trex has babby
>Has feathers
>Somehow feathers either make him more desirable, help him in some significant way, or are negligible by potential mates.
>Gene for feathers passes on, now there a bunch of trexes with feathers and a bunch without.
>Continue this for quite some time, old trex species dies out for whatever reason.
Etc, etc, until chickens happen. Simple enough correct?
>>8508771
if niggas was KANGZ then how come they no longer KANGZ?
F
what the heck was he doing in the South Pole???
>make it to the moon and survive
>killed by inclement weather on earth
Pottery.
He's still alive though, as far as I know. But damn. What a dumb idea. He probably got pneumonia 2 hours after arriving.
>>8508770
Working on building a ladder to Mars
Hey dumbasses. I just got finished buying ~2000 gallons of gas. (I have an RV and it didn't take as long as you may think.) Gas prices are pretty low right now and OPEC will be sure to fuck the Donald's new regime. I figure gas prices will probably double and I'll be sitting on a goldmine in a few months. Even if it takes years, I will get my money back and then some. Go ahead and crunch the numbers, nerds; just realize that I am smarter than you. My question to /sci/ is how do I keep this stuff from smelling up my house because it fucking reeks right now. No pics of my setup because what I have described is technically illegal due to fire code violations.
>>8508611
If you're not trolling, then good luck, because you'll need it.
>>8508611
Haha idiot gasoline has An expiration date. https://www.yourmechanic.com/article/does-gasoline-expire.
If you think the oil price Will Go up just buy ETF's.
>typical Donald poster
>>8508611
Have you thought about selling gas from door to door once the prices increase? It might be a good idea.
everything follows logically using the identity
(a)+(1/a) >= 2
For [math] n=2 [/math] you have
[math] a_2 = 2^y [/math]
and [math] g(n) = y^1 = y [/math] so
[math] 2^(g(2)) = 2^y [/math]
So it holds for [math] n=2 [/math] Now suppose it is true up to [math] k [/math]. That means [math] a_k >= 2^{(y^{(k-1)})} [/math] and then consider [math] n=k+1 [/math]
[math] a_{k+1} = (a_k + 1/(a_k))^y [/math]
and [math] g(k+1) = y^k [/math]
so [math] 2^(g(k+1)) = 2^{(y^k)} [/math]
now suppose that instead [math] a_{k+1} < 2^{(y^k)} [/math]
Take the yth root of both sides to get
[math] a_k + 1/(a_k) < 2^{(y^{(k-1)})} [/math]
But that is a contradiction, because we know that [math] a_k [/math] alone is larger than [math] 2^{(y^{(k-1)})} [/math], given our inductive hypothesis. So instead the larger or equal than relation must be true, by contradiction.
Therefore this is true for all [math] n>= 2 [/math], by induction.
>>8508444
What you're trying to say in the most convoluted way possible is that
[eqn]a_{k+1}=(a_k+1/a_k)^\lambda\geq a_k^\lambda\geq (2^{\lambda^{k-1}})^\lambda=2^{\lambda^{k-1}\lambda}=2^{\lambda^k}[/eqn]