hey /sci/ I'm trying to see if I could make a proof of concept exo skeleton inspired by Fallout 4's power armor frame, should I use hydraulic cylinders or pneumatic air muscles?
>>8101858
hydraulics would be much heavier, right?
I'd go with pneumatic
then again, I'm not an engineer
>>8101872
That's exactly what I thought, but they could take more weight overall, my main concern is the power supply
>>8101877
>my main concern is the power supply
fusion cores
I've been considering becoming an Organ Donor but have been watching videos on the matter and am scared.
I see that they keep your body alive and it responds as if it was in pain.
Can you feel pain when donating organs?
They keep your body "alive" for a long time and the surgery alone takes hours.
>Can you feel pain when donating organs?
If you can feel pain after death you can surely feel the smug sense of self-satisfaction when donating the organ, so I say it evens out.
/n/ here, want to know this too, my organs might be useful when a truck crashes my bike on the road
Being an organ donator is allowing the doctor to murder you prematurely so they don't have to wait around for you to slowly die
>be undergraduate student
>email professor I really want to work with asking if he has a research position available for me
>he says he would love to talk to me, and for me to email times that i am available to speak with him
>do exactly that
>no response
>wait a week
>reply again just in case he didn't see it
>no response
>4 internships don't bother emailing me after interviews even to tell me if I DIDNT get the damn job, so I'm left guessing if they are still making decisions or not and thus stuck with no summer job
>on top of all this my GPA dropped to a 3.5 last semester
I'm going to FUCKING LOSE IT
>took Chemistry 101 final yesterday at a community college
>professor keeps going near me and tries to look at what I am doing
>See him look at my test
>doesn't do it to anyone else
>sits right in front near me
Is it because I'm Latino or the fact that I never gave a shit about this fucking class and he knew it?
>>8096767
lmao same exact shit happened to me
What are some great scientists who were ruined by politics?
Pic related.
>pioneer of our understanding of DNA and molecular biology
>he sold off his nobel because he dared to tell the truth and retards got triggered
>>8097457
Matt Taylor, Tim Hunt, Einstein, Oppenheimer, Boltzmann, Galileo, etc come to mind.
>>8097470
I guess Einstein wasn't ruined but he did flee a witch hunt. Today though the witchhunt doesn't kill outright but it ruins lives, not sure how long it'll last.
Hey /sci/
I love math, geochemistry, biochemistry, condensed matter physics, astronomy, and ciphers, encryption algorithms, machine learning and all that.
I know these are way too many interests and I need to narrow what I enjoy, but I just can't pick what to study and ultimately make a career out of it. I want to innovate and create something new in this world and leave my mark on it.
Suggestions on what to pursue? How should I narrow down my interests.
Thanks fellow /sci/entists
Physics. /thread
>>8083800
Nice dubs, where do I go from there as a career? Why is it better than a Math major?
>>8083788
Narrow down your interests by inquiring after the type of work the people in these fields do. If you really can't narrow it down, do something like EE which covers a lot of subjects. Do not do this >>8083800 under any circumstances, cause you'll end up a CS monkey if you don't have a vested interest strong enough to get you to academia. Same for Chem and Bio.
>physicists can't even reverse calculate the diffusion of a drop of ink in a glass of water but they think they know what happened right after the big bang
>>8091506
>>8091507
>cmb
doesn't go 'all the way back' to the putative bg though, right?
>>8091514
no it doesn't.
It might also help to know that physicists don't think they know what happened right after the big bang. They hypothesize.
> I do
> I want to be part of scientific history
>>8099260
I wish I was smart enough to be part of this. I'm too poor and White trash.
>>8099260
What happened to /sci/s hyperloop team?
>>8099278
Who knows
When is it too late to start trying in life?
Is there any point trying if you won't be the best there is at something?
If you come from a shit, poor background are you doomed to waste the rest of your days in that same shitty poor background?
what's the point of trying to be the best if you're not already?
I mean what's the point of being the best anyway?
>>8096948
When you die
Being written down in some book means nothing to you after you die, live to experience
No, but you need to try really hard or be really lucky to break free
>>8096948
You're probably like 24 or some shit.
Can we agree that, generally speaking, scientists who respect philosophy are better than those who don't?
no.
and quote mining shit doesn't help your point.
>m-muh fallacious positivism
>>8095213
>comparing real scientists vs popsci shills
if you're going to cherry pick quotes, at least choose working scientists, not talking heads who spout their nonsense (but package it as if they represent all scientists) all over the media
>Friend has a master's degree in mathematics
>We get to talking, I call philosophy useless
>He insists that mathematics and philosophy have a lot in common and eventually become the same thing at a high enough level and that he has total respect for it as a discipline
>I can't contradict him because I don't have a master's in math
Was he right?
>>8094262
>eventually become the same thing at a high enough level
I don't think "high enough level" would be a correct way to put it. I think "fundamental level" would be better. i.e. When you are talking about Axiomatic systems, Logic, etc.
>>8094262
I have a master degree in math and I can tell your friend is a reddit tier pseudo-intellectual. Math doesn't need and doesn't involve philosophy. Of course you can jerk off over philosophy, but that's just your own decision to waste your time.
>>8094262
all academic disciplines are subsets of philosophy dumbass
How is category theory useful in programming?
>>8096874
it's not. computers deal with finite objects from countable families. they're all sets under even very strict definitions.
>>8096875
categories are used in haskell.
>>8096874
It's not. It's a meme from Haskell programmers because they wanted to feel smug.
Do you cube? I heard smart guys cube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5xjsvRBpI
>mfw waterman with gans
>mfw 13 average over 3 solves
What cubes does everybody use? I lost a corner of my Guhong a while ago and it's been bugging me since, so I've ordered a Zhanchi last week. It's due tomorrow hopefully.
>>8094130
Just buy a fucking YJ guanlong.
>$3 on amazon
>>8094133
What's the difference?
If we dropped a Neanderthal into modern society, would it adapt, and if so to what extent?
Where does this Neanderthal come from? WormHole Quantum Mechanical Time Manipulator Engine Drive or is it cloned?
yes, president
Don't you mean TRUMP? Hahaha!
What are some non-science books every scientist and engineer should read? Pic related.
>>8089400
Bump for internet
>>8089400
I smell a good bread
48 Laws of Power, Mastery, 33 Strategies of War, The Art of Seduction, 50th Law, The Prince, The Art of War, Telling Lies, Emotions Revealed
inb4: insecure cucks sperging out fedora meme
Let's talk about the Flat Earth. Don't send me to /x/.
I want to talk about the flaws with the theory and how to counter-argument them. Also for people who actually believe this theory that are now present on /sci/, tell me why you believe in this theory.
1 ) Where are the edges of the earth and why has nobody documented them with photos and videos ?
2 ) How do you explain the day/night cycle if the earth isn't a globe ? (and no circuar hovering sun doesn't explain it)
3 ) Where is the source of gravity and how does it effect everyone as if it's a spherical force ?
I know flat earthers are just satire but these 3 questions are never ever answered. You gotta step your game up if you wanna adapt to modern day tinfoiling
>>8072950
forget about that
assuming the earth is in fact flat how come south america, south africa and australia have the same constellations yet diferent from the ones that can be viewed from the "center"
>>8072941
>Let's talk about the Flat Earth.
Let's not.