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everything except for maths

I find that pretty much all English teachers try to impose their political ideas on the students

>>8174402
BODMAS, in the United Kingdom.

I forgot to add that today I feel pretty good saying I drank 5 cups a coffee going on 6

Youre probably going to die if you do that tbqh.

Enjoy seeing your name in a Guinness Book of World Records foor note though lol

No human has actually died by sleep deprivation I aim to be the first. Lol jk but that makes you think if you really can or not

>>8177796
Article or gtfo.

You need the stamp of academia? Stay mad, it's so disruptive it won't get one until it flies satellites

http://emdrive.com/faq.html

https://youtu.be/4hTdSg47h3k

Wikipedia says 1 mN/W

1 N/kW, can lift a sandwich.

A bit better than a party balloon, that's all.

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>>8165037

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>>8165041

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>>8165043

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There be great benifits- if you eat death you become it

>>8178815

Xanax heals inside wounds

>>8178821
What about omega oils?

I want /x/ memes to stop leaking into /sci/
>>>/x/

>>8176530
I'm going to take a wild guess and say you're a Trumpcuck

>>8176534
I'm not. But I hate /x/ endtimes memes with zero evidence to stay in /x/

>>8170053
next century

Yes

Just think of the difference between 1900 and 1999

The advancement of technology only gets faster

We'll have regular space travel by the end of the century, IF it's in our interests that is, we might just enter a VR world instead

>>8170053
I'll make sure we have 'practical' interstellar travel, before I die. It is my ambition to die on the surface of an alien planet, that is an Earth analogue.

>summer internship
>cambridge university
>cancer research

Flying to some other country to go bang a girl in her parents' house for two weeks.

studying for quals
started bitcoin trading
working on thesis
preparing for next year's classes
working on various textbooks

>>8174947
>dimensional analysis
>fail
You just meme around with the units of what you're given until they match what you're trying to derive.

>>8174947
Why are you being such a beta? You failed to derive an equation ( a simple one,but never mind ) in your intro babby course,BIG FUCKING DEAL. Learn to cope with failure and grow out of it ( my nigga Nietzche had the right kind of idea ).

>dimensional analysis
Such a fancy term for essentially nothing.

Also,that Asian qt is probably a brainlet, like 90 % of the people you are sharing the classroom with. My parents always told me that the percentage of idiots is always the same no matter how high up the ladder you go. I learned the hard way,do not repeat my mistake.

Have faith in yourself and apply yourself.Man up.

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>>8174947
Try to remember how shit you are everyday, OP... Every hour, every minute...

mathematics
my web browser
runner up: my text editor

>>8167311
>>what is your profession/major
physics
>>what is the most useful program on your computer
porn

>>8167311
dmd
3dsmax

>>8165373
Pu 239 dosen't grow up on trees.
And you still need to build the motherfucking bomb properly, it's not just about putting a spoonful of plutonium in a suicide vest and doing the allahu akbar.

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>>8165373
>less than 1kg

Nuclear engineer here, not true. Even weapons grade plutonium (~90% 239Pu) has a critical mass around 10kg

and the main safeguard against nuclear proliferation is how difficult to acquire/construct and expensive all the infrastructure to build a weapon is. With this is mind, it's more or less impossible to acquire a nuclear weapon through espionage unless you're a state actor, and typically one with outside support with the exception of Russia

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>>8165378

Yeah building the bomb is pretty much placing the explosives correctly once you've stolen the plutonium from drunk russians. Then you can go allahu snakbar.

It's also possible to build a successful bomb (not just making it fizzle) out of pure reactor grade uranium. Then it'd be bigger though.

>>8173678
Everything related to consciousness can be ascribed to brain processes. Consciousness will of course be kept alive by philosophers with their silly thought experiments. I see the whole concept of consciousness dying a slow and painful death like vitalism.

>>8173728
>Everything related to consciousness can be ascribed to brain processes
So, do you think that once we have artificial intelligence that we can prove has consciousness that it will make it easier for people to be anti religious openly? I mean, I think that magical thinking can infiltrate basically any area that human beings don't understand, but I think that generally once there's a generally accepted view on some things then science wins out over superstition. Isn't one of the biggest parts of religion and spirituality the idea that human beings have a spirit? I think it's something like 80% of people are religious in america, I would like to see that number reduced to 0%. Perhaps it will just take more generations of people growing up who aren't entrenched in old ideas and not willing to open up their mind.

It's so annoying to me, because I love opening up my mind to new ideas. It's like a moment of joy for me when I discover something that I hadn't previously known or discover something that changes my point of view. I think that it probably has something to do with having a more open personality, but I think that it also has to do with intelligence, whether it has to do with a specific type of intelligence because there's obviously different types of intelligence.

Isn't consciousness what basically all religions and philosophies have tried to explain throughout the centuries? Consciousness relates to every aspect of humanity, it relates to our behavior and the thinking behind our behavior. Pretty soon we will not only have computers that exhibit these traits, showing us that we're nothing special at all, but computers will probably also be self aware of their own processes going on inside of their heads, so we will be able to explain scientifically the behavior and thoughts of human beings. I think that we sort of already can explain these things, I know that to an extent we know what areas of the brain are responsible for what.

>>8173781
No, philosophers will tell you it may look the same, acts the same, but has no consciousness; they will simply tell you it is a zombie. Surely you have heard of this philosopher's zombie?

>>8173177
not being a pussy

Is there a rational argument to favor suicide?

>>8173194
incurable intolerable problems

>>8171437

What are the best pop science books?*

>>8171463
Yeah, sure dude, whatever you wanna call it. I am looking for books I can actually read, and you know what I mean by that, please go back under your bridge.

>>8171463
Autistic elitist.

>>8170460
Alright, since OP didn't really put any possible topics up, I'll help.

Does anyone here care about retroviruses and their applications in genetic design?

when will Herpes be cured?