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Completely hypothetical idea.
>faster than light travel becomes a reality and we can travel n light years away from earth instantly (and even transfer data back to earth at the same speed)
>we then point an extremely powerful telescope back at earth
Wouldn't we be able to see what was taking place on earth at that time n years ago? You wouldn't be able to change those events but it would then be possible to at the very least observe and record those events.
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>>8372994
i don't see any reason why this wouldn't work, although clouds would fuck up your day
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>>8372994
I don't think it'll ever be possible to see enough detail from lightyears to get any meaningful information (e.g. seeing Hitler or something).
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>>8372994
Well according to relativity, FTL travel is equivalent to time travel, so there would be no need for the telescope.
Teach me math
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You need to go back.
>>>/a/
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>Biology professor firmly believes Viruses are living things
is he right, /sci/?
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If virii aren't alive, is virology still a subfield of biology?
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>>8372925
"Living" is just an arbitrary intangible term anyway, there's really no true scientific definition of life just like there's no scientific definition of "consciousness" or "the soul."
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>>8372925
Define 'biology'
Define 'professor'
Define 'firmly'
Define 'believes'
Define 'virus'
Define 'living'
Define 'things'
Define 'right'
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>Study one of the most difficult and rigorous curriculums at their university
>Work long, low paying hours as lab slave doing repetitive menial work
>Fight way up
>Forced to spend most of their time begging for money for their research
>Live off stipend equivalent to what they'd be making if they had worked at WalMart all this time instead
>Review other scientists papers for free, for journal that charges thousands of dollars per year to every uni in US and EU
>Pays hundreds of dollars to same journal to get their papers published
>Hard work turned over to Engineers who make 4x as much to apply their discoveries
Why do scientists accept cuckoldry? You would think the brightest minds in the world wouldn't put up with being completely used.
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>>8372899
What's your field of study?
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>>8372899
Because scientists like what they do, as well as being recognized for original work, contrary to engineers. They know they're being squeezed, but they were never envisioning themselves as the leaders or the elite or whatever you thought they were roleplaying as. They fill a niche.
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Do mathematicians have to put up with the same crap as scientists?
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Computer Science and Engineering thread
Let's aggregate all of the related subjects discussed on /sci/ in this thread and see how many /sci/entists are interested in this field.
Bothe theoretical and practical Informatics is appropriate here.
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Okay I'll start:
Is Artificial Intelligence at its core anti-human? Or it is the next stage of human development?
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Possible subjects:
- Discrete Mathematics
- Introduction to Programming
- Programming Languages
- Object Oriented Programming
- Automatas and Languages
- Algorithms and Data Structures
- Operating Systems
- Computer Architecture
- Computer Networks
- Data Bases
- Software Engineering
- Database Applications
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>>8372918
It's good to separate AI known from science fiction and philosophy from AI known in Computer Science, where it is about finding algorithms and methods for a computer to imitate "intelligent" behaviour. This is not strong AI in Sci Fi sense.
I wouldn't say it's anti human or transumanism.
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What does /sci/ think of the work 'Industrial Society and Its Future' by mathematician Theodore John Kaczynski?
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>>8372840
i'd say he was fairly redpilled about modern leftism, but he couldn't come up with an effective way to fight back against it like /pol/ did. maybe the harambe memers can succeed where kaczynski failed.
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>>8373429
>but he couldn't come up with an effective way to fight back against it
you dont think his bombs worked very well?
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>>8373429
>connecting jokes about a dead gorilla to a failed mathematician mentally ill terrorist
this is your brain on /pol/
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Do you believe it is possible for our ordered universe to have randomly emerged from this crap?
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Who says it emerged randomly?
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>>8372822
Lawrence Krauss
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>>8372817
Well it's not like randomness is prohibitive of any specific pattern.
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Reminder that there is a bigger gap in mathematical skill and level of abstraction between Mochizuki and you than there is between you and a kindergartener learning to count.
The funniest thing about /sci/ is how everyone thinks they're hot shit for passing Calc III or taking Functional Analysis. That stuff is simpler and more intuitive to Mochizuki and his "peers" than counting to 10 is to you. Think about that.
What would you give for a private tutoring session with Shinichi Mochizuki?
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>>8372805
I am terrible at maths, if i can make an addition it is already a miracle.how do I even come close to you guys?
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>>8372805
Is that actually my nigga Mochizuki?
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>>8372884
No. That's Go Yamashita. He also works at Kyoto and hosts Mochizuki's events while the Samarai himself Skypes in from his hermit cave.
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Are humans really frugivores?
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>>8372727
No, kill yourself.
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>>8372727
no. all this stuff regarding the differences between different animals' digestive system became completely irrelevant the moment we realised we could eat basically whatever we want with minimal, manageable repercussions.
fucking hell we could survive eating eachother.
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>>8372727
You have to add that the only thing humans consume that no other animal does is semen. That's fucked up.
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Can we consider that antimatter is already discovered?
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>>8372619
Yes of course, since the 50s.
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time is linear, anti-matter can not exist by definition
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>>8372619
>time is linear
How much effort does it take to remain this ignorant?
How is it that 2000 years ago humans ate handfuls of berries and grass for enough energy and nutrients to survive, but today we need an equivalent on the scale of x10000 to survive.
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>>8372602
Meat.
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>>8372602
evolution. as more food became available, people with larger stomachs were at an evolutionary advantage, and thus more likely to reproduce.
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>>8372602
"survive"
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>tfw both parents are simpleton high school dropouts who never read an entire novel cover to cover in their whole lives and they both descend from a long line of illiterate peasant farmers and fishermen
>despite this they still expect me to get straight As at uni at get very mad when I don't
How do I deal with being of brainlet stock /sci/?
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>>8372356
Realize that you've been given a chance they never had.
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>>8372361
yes but how do I compete with kids who come from families that were merchants or lawyers since the middle ages? how do I compete with the kids whose dad was a lawyer and grandfather was a lawyer while my dad did menial labor his whole life and my grandpa was a shitkicking illiterate?
I literally cant compete
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>>8372378
>waah waah
all i hear are stupid excuses, intelligence's genetic factor is small at best, and besides, just because your ancesters werent lawyers or whatever doesnt mean they were fucking stupid, social mobility is a pretty new thing faglord
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>It's a "we have no idea why our rocket exploded so lets quickly change the topic" episode.
https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/780447397121888257
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>>8372307
yes, a bunch of this is just marketing and pop sci.
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>>8372307
That's pretty much it. There's no indication of when the test took place, it could have been a month ago, but they're releasing it now because of muh conference. Memetic magic
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>>8372307
Too bad they won't consider the idea that there's a mole among them that sabotaged it. Probably got hired shortly after the spacecraft was announced to go in and make a small change that would go virtually undetected. Wouldn't even have to work at SpaceX. Could be employed at any number of companies along the production pipeline to getting everything made and set up on that launch pad.
Am I really a tinfoil hatter for thinking this? How improbable is this?
Al reacts with acids to produce Al salts.
Al salts are implicated in Alzheimer's and cognitive dysfunction. 10.1001/archneur.1992.00530340037015. 10.1056/NEJM199705293362203. 10.1126/science.180.4085.511.
Soda contains phosphoric acid as a primary ingredient, listed before even the flavoring or carmel color.
Phosphoric acid is capable of removing the oxide layer on aluminum (http://infohouse.p2ric.org/ref/27/26922.pdf), exposing the Al surface to reactivity with the excess phosphoric acid.
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>>8372267
That's why soda cans are coated with a thin layer of plastic on the inside. Don't believe me? Go dissolve some cans in NaOH
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>>8372280
proof?
I'm seriously considering tossing the rest of my soda cans
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http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=258261
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Are master degrees a meme if you want to work in the industry ? 2016-09-26 18:21:33 Post No.8372226
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Are master degrees a meme if you want to work in the industry ?
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Sure you'll learn some more advanced shit, but if you can find a job in your field right after your bachelor you'll have a 1 to 2 year experience head start over people who go on to pursue a master's degree
Did I get memed for starting a master's degree ?
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>bachelors
>higher ed
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>>8372226
Isn't a masters degree the graduate degree meant to be used in industry? What memes are you talking about?
That said, don't start a masters degree without at least having worked a couple of years. Masters degree of any flavor are meant as a guaranteed way of climbing up the ladder.
Example: You work a couple of years, get in touch with the higherups in your company. Then you get, for example, an MBA and after you get it you are immediately promoted to a senior position in your same field.
Don't tell you just graduated and then went for the masters? Who are you going to use it with?
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>>8372265
>Don't tell you just graduated and then went for the masters?
I might have.