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How come there have never been any subterranean megafauna or put another way underground creatures larger than moles?
Sorry if this is a stupid question /sci/, but I'd really like know.
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food sources.
animals get as big as their diet allows.
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because moles are what happens with subterranean fauna
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>>8300258
wombats
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If methane explosions are the ones causing boats to sink and disappear in this area, how does this explain the airplane disappearances?
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>>8300235
I remember something from the TV about
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>>8300235
> how does this explain the airplane disappearances
> Right next to Cuba
Let me make a wild guess there
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Is there anything interesting beneath Antarctica's ice?
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the penguin of doom
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>>8300157
Trapped pockets of ancient atmosphere that we can analyze
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>>8300157
Sure, there are the ice cores that we drill out to obtain geological data about the ancient past.
We could also find previously hidden meteorite impact sites with potentially interesting data, like the many other meteor sites that have been found all over Antarctica to this day.
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How hard is it to get a 4.0 being a math major while being pretty intelligent but by no means a math Olympiad? I guess this is a pretty stupid question but I guess I'm asking is it even possible for the average person with enough work.
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it would be extremely difficult
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How attractive are you, and how good are you at sucking cock?
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>>8299942
Hard work won't turn you into Terry Tao, but it sure can guarantee a 4.0
Just do a bunch of problems and exercises, and never fall for the meme of giving up and reading the answers.
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OCHEM q.Where's the proof that Nucleophillic Aromatic Substitution is a correct mechanism of a reaction?
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>>8299812
Has she been programmed with [math]playing hard to get[/math] as a positive attribute?
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>>8299812
just be yourself brah
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>>8299852
What are you talking about?
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If everything in the universe is moving rapidly away from everything else, why are our two galaxies (Milky Way and Andromeda) going to collide in a few billion years time?
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because gravitational center of the local group
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astronomy is not science
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>>8299711
nice meme
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Can a mathematician make a living out of statistics and probability? 2016-08-26 21:21:45 Post No.8299621
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Can a mathematician make a living out of statistics and probability?
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What I mean is putting very dedicated effort into exploiting the financial system. I don't necessarily mean getting rich, but I'd work day and night to be independent though this method.
As a NEET, I already study full time graduate Springer textbooks with great success. Why not putting this interest into solving real life problems and make some bucks?
Can this be done? Second point: I lack any knowledge about finance and economics since I've never been exposed to it. Where do I start with some books useful for this purpose?
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>>8299621
"Computational finance in C#" is a pretty nice book.
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>>8299621
>Being this naive and delusional.
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Will my atoms exist forever?
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Ye
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>>8299526
As atoms? Probably not. They'll decay into subatomic particles after ten fucktillion years.
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>>8299526
They're not yours.
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Why Do I See Fractals While Tripping 2016-08-26 18:43:44 Post No.8299305
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Why Do I See Fractals While Tripping
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I just had a 4g mushroom trip. I saw fractals and geometric patterns as I usually do when tripping and wondered, why do I see them? I find Im most likely to see them if the trip is particularly intense. Also, when breaking through on DMT the fractals I saw were far more detailed than the ones I saw on LSD or shrooms by far, so I ask /sci/ why is my brain showing me mathematical porn when Im consuming psychedelics?
Also, are fractals the basis of most of the structures in our universe? Zoom in close enough onto a tooth or far out enough on a mountain range on google earth and youll see shapes that resemble fractals. Im not trying to sound like a crazy hippie that believes in metaphysical semen transfers or anything, I just like drugs and fractals
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>>8299305
Because your brain detects objects and measures distances via edge detection which will get completely distroted (morphin, melting) but also extremly active in other parts, resulting in repetetive patterns above surfaces.
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>>8299332
Not even close. It's because when you ingest psychoactive substances your subconscious gets astrally projected into another dimension, where fractals are normal.
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>>8299340
pfft, shut up not knower
whats really happening is the mushrooms take you out of the simulated reality. the lizard overlords detect this and banish you to the fractal dimension until the effects wear off
t. knower
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why does this not work?
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>>8299074
Newtons third
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>>8299087
what would it do? stay still? rotate?
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>>8299100
It would rock in place a bit.
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Do you type notes in a computer or write them by hand, /sci/?
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I rarely take notes at all. All in my head.
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>>8298911
Writing is faster and more flexible but it's easier to go back, navigate, and add to old notes on a computer, so I try to write on a computer now. For personal notes and research though, not for a course.
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>>8298911
I write them by hand on a computer.
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Does smoking tobacco negatively or positively affect cognitive abilities?
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>>8298900
yes
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>>8298900
bump
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>>8298900
Nicotine is a stimulant. Stimulants, by their nature, improve cognitive abilities while you're on them.
Why is it so easy to define colors like red, blue and green by wavelength, but there's no real definition for "white"?
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There is a definition for white. White is racist.
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Did you think your question is so interesting it had to be cross-posted? >>>/g/56273385
Also, see >>>/g/56274097
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>>8298880
This
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Why are flat earthers so retarded? 2016-08-26 13:58:30 Post No.8298785
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Why are flat earthers so retarded?
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December 21st solstice daylight flat earth map is hilarious
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>the earth is euclidean
>>>/x/
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Do you actually believe those guys believe this? Its pure bait. Low bait quality.
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Angry mathlets and /sci/ 2016-08-26 12:21:53 Post No.8298659
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Before coming to /sci/ I would feel appreciation for quite a few mathematicians. I would obviously mock the "theoretical" math folks (a couple I knew were NEETs, what a surprise) but I thought they were a minority, because most of the math majors I met were real people.
I know a couple of people working on the modeling of biological systems (tumors, blood flow etc), met a few professors working on practical things as well (high performance linear-system-solving algorithms, number theory for cryptography, numerical analysis algorithms for navigation systems etc).
Then I come to this stupid anime website subsection and see all these autistic manchildren arguing about "pure mathematics" and "engineers suck dick lol".
Is this the average math major? Most of the people I meet IRL are highly functional and somewhat successful, and while I always thought they were representative of the average mathfag I now realize that there might be the top 5-10%.
Is there really such a huge number of autistic/mentally deficient mathematicians? Is this the majority or just a bitter minority of failures?
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...is that the University of Waterloo?
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>>8298659
yeah
obviously the unintelligent ones lack social skills and spend their time shitposting on 4chan instead of going out with friends
but its also part of 4chan culture to be snappy
the only pure math friend I have I know from politics. he's a handsome charismatic man but he studied physics at first and also understands what he is doing. so I have yet to see those "engineers suck dick lol" people
I am in engineering myself. obviously there are all kinds of people here. nerds, chads, competent, stupid and so on. but Id say while only a few engineers are truly competent most of them are in the "upper level" of humanity. e.g. among those who graduate there never is a fat person and the people are generally more on the chaddish side of the spectrum
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>>8298659
theoretical mathematics should have a board of its own, It's not science, it's an artform