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>>8261766
>If this thing with no realistic basis existed, how would it affect this thing humanity doesn't understand?

McFuckingKillYourself

>>8261766
If you need this for science fiction, then you can handwave the philosophical problem away with the quantum no-cloning theorem. Otherwise, >>8261770

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>>8261770

If i wanted a REALISTIC answer I wouldn't have asked you, why so aggresive?

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OP here, so this is how the orbit would look.. I'll upload more when I can.

>>8261760
EXTREME SEASONAL VARIATION

day=year?

Go through it with someone who also know the field and try to anticipate questions they would ask

>>8261711
Just practice like a bazillion times. For my comps I recorded audio of myself giving my presentation and then listened to it all day while doing my lab work. It also helps to anticipate questions and just include the answers as part of your explanation to nip them in the bud. This will lead to the committee members asking fewer questions.

>>8261804
Interesting... so you had it mostly scripted out? I was largely planning on winging it, as I understand the material quite well, but this makes a lot more sense.

Also... How does one deal with a question to which they don't know the answer? Are you pretty much fucked if that happens? Anyone got any foolproof contingency plans?

not smoking

>>8261456
Avoidance of excessive fructose intake.

Leaving 4chan forever.

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>>8261303

because we are the only ones with an empirical method of establishing a logical hierarchy

Because we're better than you.

>>8261303
<50% replicability

Allah

My D.

Pinochet

>>8261161
how much?

>>8261161
no but plutonium feels a bit warm

No. Even with heavy exposure (eg roof of the Chernobyl reactor shoveling radioactive graphite) it would take a number of hours before you found yourself curled up into a ball puking up blood and convulsing somewhere.

I guess thats a no then.

>>8261069
Courses for???
Elaborate OP, and perhaps others may also elaborate in their answers.

https://www.coursera.org/
https://www.edx.org/

I am very fond of a friend, an historian, who independently discovered the algorithm to do multiplications by hand. Really, he had forgotten the trick after years of computers, calculators and first-digit approximations, and when at age 30 he found it, he urgently called me to ask if the method of decomposing 26354*336=((26354*3)*100)+((26354*3)*10)+(26354*6)*1 was known.

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>>8261011
>an historian

>>8261013
w-what?

Room? Sure. Resources? Less sure.

I thought developed countries all seemed to have declining populations and only 3rd world shitholes contribute largely to overpopulation

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>>8260786
>Are we crowded?
>Do we have room?
Those are the wrong questions. Here are some thoughts:

It makes no sense to talk about the world population as "we", because it has no coherent political agency. It is splintered into different nations, tribes, cultures, ideologies, down to the level of individuals, who don't get along very well. If we were the Borg, we'd be underpopulated. Since we're aggressive tribal humans, fewer may well be better.

The second question is how many resources you think everybody should have. I think it's ethically better if everyone has access to electricity, a fridge, warm water, enough food, transportation, even the occasional plane flight. I don't believe increasing the number of people is intrinsically a good thing. I don't even believe most lives are worth living. But there's a huge literature on population ethics, and it's quite complicated.

From a resource perspective, the key question is how labor and ideas can substitute for any specific resource running out, e.g. by inventing more efficient technologies, or by accessing previously unaccessable resources, or by inventing new uses for previously useless resources. And then there's the empirical questions how well these factors of labor and ideas scale with population. Do more people bring more to the table than they subtract? This is a function of their abilities as well as their behavior and interactions, so indirectly it's a function of culture and politics as well.

My personal conclusion is that any reduction of the world population is ethically good, and the ideal long-term goal should be something like 100 million hunter-gatherers spread over the planet with some remnants of modern technology of course. But this is rather radical and people obviously won't agree.

>>8260777
If a test concludes that a little cuckboi who decided to spend his time doing physics at a fast rate instead of enjoying life and taking it easy is smarter than me then that test is wrong.

Maybe we should measure NIQ. Where your NIQ is 300 mius your IQ and that way it would make a lot more sense.

>>8260800
Very insightful anon.

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>>8260777
>What do you guys think of IQ tests?
lol
> I found one online, designed by Mensa
>Mensa
AHAHAHAHAHAHA, MENSA is literally Scientology for "smart" people. Go ahead and take it to qualify for their paid membership.

Fuck off

>water disappears when you drink it
trippy

>>8260566
desalination is already cost effective, israel has the most effective disalination plant in the world I still dont know if they have a net gain from it tho its very hard to find it out if they broken even imo

also i dont think they share their construction plans any time soon which could also lead to a water crisis or tho technology is there already

>astronomy
>>>/x/

>>8260512

Actually, it's cosmology, but I'll give you a pass since you never completed the 9th grade.

>>8260498
maybe this:
https://in-the-sky.org/ngc3d.php?

I also wholeheartedly recommend SpaceEngine. It is free and serves as a speculative map. Known systems are in there as accurate as possible. Other stuff is procedurally generated using known parameters. looks great and at least fun to play around with.

I dont quite get your question, tho. What has the expanding of the universe to do with event horizons?

>>8260512
what?

>>8260489
Physics in what capacity?

Do you want to do PhD level research, be a technician, be a scientific writer?

For a physics degree you'll need at least Calculus 1 to even begin taking introductory classes. Math can be learned by anyone, hard work is the element that matters most.

You can do it!!

>>8260492
OP here. In my ideal world, I'd like to be an astronomy researcher. I love reading about stuff like exoplanets and such. I'm aware there isn't that much of a need for such people, though, so probably I would more practically look for a university job teaching. In truth, I could teach English right now, but i have no desire to teach low level English courses to just-out-of-high school students.

I guess I'm mostly concerned because my friend said I'm too old (28) to learn a complicated science and I went back anyway, and this class, which isn't even as hard as physics will be, is borderline stumping me.

>>8260502

It almost sounds like you would enjoy being a scientific writer. You are certainly not too old to learn a complicated science, but it will be tough and require a lot of hard work. Luckily most astronomy is not overwhelming complicated in the math department, but there is still a lot for you to learn between trig and what is needed for astro.

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>>8260443
>It is focused on java

Drop the course.

>>8260443
Just pirate it.

>>8260460
I tried, only found the 5th edition, need the 6th. You thinkt hey are the same??