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Why are electric vehicles not a thing yet? Is it the batteries?
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>>8146758
Oil is extremely cheap now.
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Because Muh Ecology :^)
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>>8146758
Because most people won't be able to charge them, and installing tons of charging stations in parking lots isn't something businesses are going to spend money on.

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Biological breeding thread

This is a pretty interesting topic in my opinion as well.

I am a crossbred guy and I did my research. My father was a blonde man with blue green eyes and my mother was a turkish asian person (she is tanned a little bit but she is the only one of my aunts and uncles) I want to know if I can get children since the asian race is very close to the white one (survival possibilites for an example, hokkaido and kyoto in Japan are two very hot and very cold places so the asian body can adapt there easily. My mother's side of the family is from the coldest place of Turkey (Kayseri, the place with the ice mountain in the middle of the country). Again the question: can I get children from the white race if my race is 50% different while my body has adapted to this climate while staying healthly?
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>>8146755
That was a mishmash of words that meant pretty much nothing. You care way to much about race when choosing your children, if you actually cared about potential fitness you'd attempt to find an outlier to donate an egg.
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>>8146765
The thing is that race matters, A black person needs 10 times more vitamin D than a white one. The bone structure is different as well for an example.
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>>8146755
Are you feeling well anon?

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thoughts /sci/ ?
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>>8146742
>majoring in history
Pleb. Think about future, instead of dwelling in the past
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los memes hermanos
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>>8146742
i majored in history
now i'm a lawyer

there's still time for you anon

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How did the ocean get there? I have always wondered such things. Did it rain for many days, was the Earth formed with it, or did it melt off a meteor?
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>>8146733
40 days, actually
40 nights too
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One day it got a lot more cloudy than it used to be. The atmosphere was thick and rich, like the cum you swallowed last night.

Then it rained for a shit ton of years. Like thousands.
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I think the Earth's surface started as 100% ocean, then underwater volcanoes jizzed out a load of molten rock which piled up above the surface, cooled down and made land.

It still happens to this day, so we actually have pictures of it. Pic related.

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What pre-requisites are required to understand algebraic geometry, I was planning on buying the two books from the /sci/ wiki, and I only have a mathematical understanding up to calculus 2.
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>>8146657
Topology and Commutative Algebra.
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k
try learning real analysis, abstract algebra to a graduate's understanding, algebraic topology, and commutative algebra first
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>>8146659
fuck

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Can someone explain what is physically going on in a CPU in a desktop? Is it literally just a lot of transistors on a Si die?
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>>8146473
>Can someone explain what is physically going on in a CPU in a desktop
Electrons move around.
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>>8146473
Look up logic gates, FSMs, FullAdders and memory. In that order.
It's still just a shitload of transistors, but the theory behind it is really interesting
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on/off switches connected to other on/off switches grouped in logic gates connected to other logic gates grouped in larger logic units connected to other larger logic units etc.

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Wow, /sci/. Really makes you think, huh...
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It's a pretty interesting question though.
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>>8146465
That's why we build shit that can detect it.
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>>8146463
really doesn't make you think, it's pretty obvious and straightforward.

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http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip/journal/adva/6/6/10.1063/1.4953807

Just interested to hear what other physicists think of this paper. I just found it while looking for something else about EM waves, and it looked interesting.

I'll give you the tl;dr of the paper: EM Drives produce exhaust, thus not violating physical laws.

Also, I understand the skepticism. I was and still am doubtful that the EM Drive is anything more than /pop/sci hopes and dreams, but please read the paper before you /sage/
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>>8146257
According to the researchers, the exhaust being blasted out is actually light, photons that have become paired up with another out-of-phase photon in order to shoot out of the metal cavity and produce thrust.

>the two photons in those pairs are out of phase and have no net electromagnetic field.

>the exhaust photons become invisible from an electromagnetic point of view because they're being masked by their out-of-sync partner.

SO it shoots photons out the back.

How is this different from just having a source of light pointing out the back of your spaceship? Is the meme drive more efficient at creating photons than leds?
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>>8146257
Do pairs of out-of-phase photons have less energy than the 2 would have separately?

you would need 100 000 times more energy than this thing is using to create enough photons for the measured thrust.
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>>8146356
That's what I was thinking too. OH BOY THERE'S THE SAME AMOUNT OF THRUST AS THERE WOULD BE IF YOU OPENED UP A MICROWAVE OVEN!

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is there someone like me who writes very badly, in particular math formulas? how did you improve your writing skill?
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try
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>>8146192
this was supposed to be a board for relatively smart people
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>>8146187
>implicando

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what's the point of the so-called 'law of everything', the ultimate physical theory? the unifying theory of the universe?

Imho it's just a delusion; from a philosophical viewpoint, wouldn't it be inferred from a set of axioms given for granted? how can that be 'the end'?
Physics is an open field per se. How can it become a closed theory i.e. how can every physical truth be derived from the axioms?

Am I missing something?
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>>8146118
>Am I missing something?
Yes, at least 12 years of physics education, for your opinion to even matter.
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It's just a theory that can unify all the theories we have about physics into one shindig, ie. Unifying relativity and qm
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>>8146118
two theories that work for different situations..
doesn't that bother you, instead of having on theory that works for ALL situations?
that's the point of physics.
If you want axioms, go do math.

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How would you define the term 'explosion'? Could the rapid expansion and fragmentation of a bullet inside of soft tissue be considered an explosion?
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>show the crimescene photos

Somehow I don't see that happening and I'm surprised Michael Moore of all people doesn't realize it.
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Rapid expansion via sudden chemical reaction

t, W.W
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Explosions are defined by detonation and combustion. Combustion being the process by which energy is transferred through a chemical transmission (conflagration), and detonation is by physical propagation (shock, as in pressure waves).

Fragmentation is probably the best word for a bullet separating in the body. It devolves into multiple pieces. Dissassembles might also hold true, but that's usually a purposeful or otherwise orchestrated deconstruction, not an uncontrolled breakdown.

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The Nonty Hall Problem

>On a game show, a contestant was offered a choice of three doors. Behind one door was a car, behind the other two were goats.

>After the contestant had selected a door, Nonty opened a different door, revealing a goat. Nonty offered the contestant a chance to change his selected door to the other, unopened, door.

>Would a door switch have improved the contestants chances of selecting the door behind which a car was hidden?

This is not the Monty Hall problem. In the Monty Hall problem, the answer is “Yes, from 1/3rds to 2/3rds.” In the Nonty Hall problem, the answer is “No, there is a 50% chance of receiving a car no matter which of the two un-opened doors that is selected.”

Having already given you the answer to the game show question, the Nonty Hall problem is instead:

Can you recognize where the Nonty Hall problem is different from the Monty Hall problem? Why does it have different probable outcomes?
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>>8145655
sounds like bullshit you just made up
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The problem with all the trolls on 4chan is that I cannot just tell you "trust me" because I might be a troll, but... trust me? There really is a difference. You can find it with either a map of the outcomes or through explicit Bayesian updating.
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>>8145655
did the host know where the car was an always opens a goat door? - 1/3 to 2/3

did the host not know where the car was and opened a goat door by chance? - 1/2 to 1/2

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d = 21.6 (mutational differences found in mtDNA)
r = 0.000996 (mutational rate)
t = ?
so:
21.6 = 2(0.000996) x t
or t = 21.6/0.001992
t = 10,843 years. = The amount of years since mankind's earliest common maternal ancestor (Mitochondrial Eve)

God is real, and evolution is false. Eternal checkmate, atheists.
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>>8145450
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>>8145450
Are there any objections to this? Please, men of /sci/ence, tell me why I am wrong.
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>>8145500
because my textbook says so and my textbook is always right

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/tridymite-mars-1.3634519

More spookyness from Mars baffles the scientists. They found Tridymite, which is a silica-based mineral that only occurs in super hot temperatures. They occur on earth near volcano sites after eruptions.
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>>8145320
>Tridymite, which is a silica-based mineral
>silica-based mineral
it's literally just silica.
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>>8145346
>it's literally just silica
... formed in high-temperature environment.
Lrn2geology fgt pls
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>>8145346
Which tell us that is very likely that there were also volcanoes on Mars.

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Math tutors in education-obsessed South Korea literally making millions desu.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/in-education-crazy-south-korea-top-teachers-become-multimillionaires/2014/12/29/1bf7e7ae-849b-11e4-abcf-5a3d7b3b20b8_story.html?utm_content=buffer9b821&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
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Guilt free bump
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>>8145176
Good for the teachers to become millionaires. Bad for the students to have no life as anyone on 4chan should know something about.
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>>8145176

How come they barely outperform Japan and yet the Korean studies seem to much more hardcore?

I watched an entire documentary on the guy in Op's pic and then looked up their performance on global tests and they barely surpass Japan and Singapore. I view both Japan and Singapore students to be very lax in their studying.

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