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Why the fuck does spinning send things upwards?
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haha this is simple
entropy
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>>8335988
I am goung to kull yu
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Seriously why
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What are you doing to change the horribly unfair gender disparity in science?
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lowering points of the male students in my ochem course and giving females extra credit, making sure there's a bimodal distribution of grades where the upper quartile is only females and lower males
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>>8335918
He did reduce the proportion of sane-to-insane people in physics, that's for sure.
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>>8335918
There's nothing to do, females have the same access and the same treatment.
Just go to r9k or something.
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I just wanted to remind you all today that before you start calling other posters dumb that you are ALL brainlets.
My mind is like a hive with thousands and thousands of bees. Each bee has a brain just like yours.
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>>8335888
>claims to be smart
>can't spell his own name correctly
good job buddy
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>>8335888
>dat shave
just
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>>8335888
And without all the brainlets to support you, you'd be nothing.
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How many of you autists ARE NOT positivists? And why not? I bet some of you have been espousing positivism without actually being aware of it as a philosophical position or of the many arguments against it.
>Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. Thus, information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge.[1] Positivism holds that valid knowledge (certitude or truth) is found only in this derived knowledge.[2]
>Verified data (positive facts) received from the senses are known as empirical evidence; thus positivism is based on empiricism.[1]
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>>8335844
Then where do you go when you want to find out how the world actually is? Metaphysics?
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>>8335844
It's well-known since the fucking Kant that one should not only account for what is perceived, but also for what (or who) is perceiving.
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>>8335851
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipositivism
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can your science explain this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXRZRu96JHI
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The trick is to hide an engine in your bicycle.
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>>8335738
he's changing the direction of farting to gain speed
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>>8335738
I can't imagine what his penis is going through
What should you do?
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>>8335675
You should leave the situation because you'd get charged with murder if you pulled the lever.
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>>8335735
Probably this, but perhaps this is the most complex one, because you have to wonder what is real.
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>>8335815
5 people get killed if you leave the lever, but there's a 2/3 chance that those people won't even be in our universe. So it's obviously for the best to not touch the lever. People in other universes don't affect us.
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>if you put something in a box, it will exist and not exist at the same time
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>>8335643
that is why i can't take science seriously anymore.
fuck quantum mechanics.
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>>8335748
idiotic misunderstandings and wrong attempts by laymen at explaining things they don't understand is not science, and certainly not quantum mechanics
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Is it possible to recover from brain death? If yes, would the brain get "reseted"?
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>>8335541
No. Simply not possible.
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Poor Dick, years haven't been kind to him.
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>>8335544
not yet :^)
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Tie a rope around the Earth's equator. Now untie it, and add one meter of rope. Tie again. How loose will it be? In other words: what will be the distance between the ground and this rope going around the Earth? Most people will either answer "close to 0" or (a few) "one meter". Do the math, and the answer may surprise you.
^mind was blown
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>>8335536
I think you stated the problem backwards, because the actual answer is 1/2pi meters which is pretty close to 0 compared to 1 meter. My mind was not blown.
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>>8335536
D=C/pi
D2-D1 = C2/pi - C1/pi = (C2-C1)/pi = (C1+1+C2)/pi) = 1/pi = ~0.24
so about 12cm?
Not sure what the point of this was, unless it's your homework.
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less than 1mm
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1234,56x10^7 or 1234.56x10^7 or 1234,56E7 or 1234.56E7?
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>>8335470
>starting an argument about notations and punctuations
>/sci/ - Science & Math
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>>8335470
[math]1234.56\cdot10^{7}[/math]
back to plebbit my man
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>>8335470
the E stands for "Engineering is really all about sucking dicks"
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Hey fellas. I was walking home with some friends and we argued about probability.
If an attack has a 10% of landing, and you attack 5 times, what percent chance do you have of landing once?
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>>8335435
0.5%
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I don't understand. Why would it be 5 out of 10 chance if each attack is independent of each other?
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>>8335435
1-0,9^5=0,40951; -> ~41%
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Why are the insides of hands lighter than the upper sides?
And wtf is going on this this ad, I've never seen such hands.
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>>8335370
I have no idea, but it's really fucking creepy. Real hands aren't that black or shiny. Photoshop was almost certainly involved
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Sooooo how are the earbuds charged?
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>>8335370
>Why are the insides of hands lighter than the upper sides?
Because they're not exposed to the sun as much as the outside, so less melanin is needed to protect them from UV radiation
>And wtf is going on this this ad, I've never seen such hands.
This is probably shopped, for aesthetic reasons.
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This easily testable nonsense, the tongue map, long since debunked, is still being taught in academia as scientific fact, simply because the guy who wrote the book 60 years ago said it was true.
Why do you have so much faith in science?
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>>8335367
Because biology isn't a real science anyway.
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taste is truly the most patrician of the senses
pathetic AI senselets will never truly experience it
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>he typed into a machine that transmitted this information to screens 1000s of miles away
Why do we get bored?
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>>8335255
we get bored so we start looking for things to do.
if we didn't get bored, we would never do anything.
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I made your mother bored, last night.
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>>8335255
Fuck you and fuck that fat cat
Suppose a planet managed to develop an intelligent life form before sufficient coal or petroleum accumulated. What is the course of its technological progress?
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Biomass/water/wind/solar/nuclear for electricity.
Biomass for cars or electric cars or compressed air or syngas.
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Plant-based intelligences develop non-material, mental technologies and communicate using thought transfer.
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>>8335225
Most likely extensive use of hydroelectricity, no industrial revolution until they can make rudimentary electric motors.