if every pound we send to space costs tens of thousands of dollars, why don't we send emaciated astronauts instead of strong, muscular ones?
at least put some effort into trolling
>>7936470
no, it's an honest question.
>>7936466
Every time we fire a rocket into space atleast one bird will die.
Is scientific progress worth the cost in life ?
0^0=1 prove me wrong
also
0/0 = 1
>>7936417
0^n=1
n=1
0^1 != n
qed
>>7936430
>winrar
So, /sci/. what are your unpopular opinions? Also, please post your reasoning behind the belief.
One of mine is related to psychiatry (inb4 not a science). Being logical people of science, if you disagree with something, you gotta PROVE it. You can't just go around making ridiculous claims. That is what religious bigots do.
I believe transvestism is a psychiatric illness, or at least a clinical manifestation of one.
My argument:
1. Delusions are idiosyncratic beliefs or impressions that are firmly maintained, despite being contradicted by what is generally accepted as physical reality.
2. Delusions are a clinical manifestation, and a symptom of underlying psychiatric illness.
3. An individual holding firm beliefs that they are in fact the opposite biological sex, contradicts physical reality.
4. Therefore, individuals who believe they are the opposite biological sex are delusional.
5, Furthermore, individuals who believe the they are the opposite biological sex have an underlying psychiatric disorder.
If a 21 year old man had extreme delusions that they were actually a reincarnation of a wolf, and willfully acted as one, there is no doubt people would deem him delusional, and mentally unbalanced. If the logic follows, then I see no reason to believe that a man actually believes that he is a woman, is not equally delusional. All of a sudden though, as soon as you introduce sexual identity all of the fucking SJWs in the world come raining down on you. As it is beliefs like this, if made public, can ruin your career, and that makes my fucking blood boil. People also attempt to conclude that I think gays are delusional too. I argue against this, because they KNOW, and are FULLY AWARE, that they are the sex they are, and are simply attracted to the same sex. I see no problem here.
But the argument isn't whether it is a delusion, but whether it affects their ability to function in society or harm themselves. Of course your wolf-kin furry loving self is a complete delusion, no one is going to rewrite you into a different genome because you say so; but if your a productive, social, employed wolf-kin furry loving tax payer, why would anyone consider it an illness?
>>7936400
>00 get
What I mean is that they this individual is actually trying to be a wolf. He wants to go out into the wild, run around on all fours and attempt to hunt deer with his bare hands and mouth.
You've made your point about functioning in society, but that doesn't address the illness for being what it is. Regardless of they can function in society or not doesn't change the fact they have this illness.
See John Nash for example. Sure it took him time to cope, but he was functioning in society and he most definitely had schizophrenia.
>>7936384
Transvestites don't actually believe they are a different biological sex, retard. They believe their biological sex is the "wrong" one. Whether or not you believe it's a sign of mental illness to believe your biological sex is incorrect is a different story, but there's no way to prove whether such a belief is delusional because it's inherently subjective.
It's not like they think "I'm a biological female" when they have a penis, they think "Even though I was born a biological male, I feel like I should be female". Like I said, you can still make the argument that this is a sign of mental illness but the logic your provided falls apart from the very beginning
This article is just fucking great.
"Many laboratory researchers perceive this, I fear, to be someone else’s problem. But it isn’t. If the West is really in its decline-and-fall stage, its Caligula stage, its Donald Trump stage, then this isn’t just an issue for political and financial elites. It’s also a problem for the ‘experts’ who crawl around after these elites, massaging their egos and defending their interests."
" And too many ordinary scientists hold politicians in utter intellectual contempt — even though it is the scientists who have chosen a career that allows them to pursue relatively simple problems (such as building a machine to detect gravitational waves) rather than genuinely difficult ones (such as running a social-care programme in a small town)."
http://www.nature.com/news/the-elephant-in-the-room-we-can-t-ignore-1.19561
>>7936260
>even though it is the scientists who have chosen a career that allows them to pursue relatively simple problems (such as building a machine to detect gravitational waves) rather than genuinely difficult ones (such as running a social-care programme in a small town)
That's such a conceited statement it's unreal.
>>7936270
Take it as it is, slightly ironically, but still. I'm a Phycisist, I'm doing my Ph. D. in High Energy Physics phenomenology, I have a slight impression of what the author means.
>>7936260
Good article and partly true. Indeed the scientists choose to pursue simpler problems that directly interest them more like scientific mysteries, a theory of everything, the origin of life.
The reason we don't have more scientists or would-be scientists in politics is because a lot of scientists are autistic, and don't care for the public image or boring social contract that needs to be followed in politics. Politicians don't succeed because they are autistically smart. Most politicians succeed because they are great con artists. Look at Trump, so much evidence that he has been scamming people, coverage of him insulting everyone rather than addressing actual problems, and he gets the nomination from a good part of the U.S. population.
This is what scientists can't, or don't want to become. Maybe if the public cared more for honesty and good arguments rather than public image, or stumping your opponents, or insulting others to feel superior, maybe then scientists would succeed.
>you can't prove that the past ever existed or the future ever will
>you can't prove that we're all frozen in the present moment with fake memories
Prove me wrong, /sci/
black science kid strikes again
>>7936132
You're a dick. Ergo, QED.
>>7936132
>gorillas
>bears
>jaden
are we gonna switch animals every three days?
My teacher says time is the tears of Allah. He says, though we can measure it with clocks, only a Muslim can understand it.
Give me a /sci/ explanation of time.
>>7936076
Time is planck-scale tears shed literally by everything in the universe. God wills time to be
>>7936076
Why don't you ask your teacher instead?
>>7936076
muslim here:
your teacher is full of shit.
What is time? We can measure time with a clock but not explain it. Please explain it for me /sci/
>>7935985
>We can measure time with a clock but not explain it
We can use time to measure speed,acceleration,velocity,gravity etc (i ran out of ideas), and we can also measure time based from the given above. why did you tell that anon?
>>7936065
Measured time is useful. But what is time?
Was time created? Was there a time when time didn't exist, as in before time was created, but how could there be a before if there's no time?
You can't explain that.
How to survive a nuclear strike? Please explain the science behind surviving it as well.
As we all know, the threat of a possible nuclear attack is likely to rise, considering that Russia is likely to disintegrate (according to the recent intelligence reports) and the vast amounts of ICBMS will be left at different autonomous regions' disposal who could use them erratically.
You can call me a moron all you want, but I'd rather be a moron than dead, should things play out this way.
Any serious proposals on surviving a nuclear strike or helping others to do so are welcome. I'm also interested in the science behind this, and this is why I'm posting this here.
>>7935139
OP here.
Wanted to mention that I'm not implying that Russia will disintegrate now - but it is likely to do so in the coming decades. (See Stratfor Global Intelligence decade forecast)
>>7935139
Bomb them first.
>>7935139
There is pretty much no way to survive a nuclear strike IRL.
Do you guys have any tips for mathematical proofs?
[pic obviously nrelated]
>>7934617
When in doubt, go for contradiction.
>>7934632
this
Doing nothing but referring to the definitions religiously will get you through your first proof course and probably most of Real Analysis
If we are herbivores by nature. What made our ancestors decide to eat meat?
Knowing this today. What do human still eat meat?
>>7934446
It's tastier and when you don't know how to farm it's easier to find than scavenging
>>7934450
But we were not made to catch food. Our legs can't keep up with animals try to catch a deer with your bear hands.
>>7934455
It's not about speed it's about endurance, how do you think our ancestors managed to survive before they developed more effective weapons?
I am a talentless dumbass, is there a documented way to improve intelligence? It's becoming frustrating
>>7933951
>Can someone become smarter?
No, deal with it asap.
Practice, practice and more practice is the key to everything. Practice at math and you will get more used to thinking of the solutions in problems the more you solve. No secret techniques. If you don't want to do that, take up a trade and live a comfortable life.
>>7933956
I am not interested in math particularly, but general analytical skills that are correlated to math as well. So there is no hope to improve that?
>>7933951
i would go to coursera edx and khan academy and start learning the engineering courses. It would take maybe 2 years but you can prlly prove to someone you arent a dumbass even with no certificate.
thoughts about this, /sci/?
also, happy Pi Day!
>>7931410
It's 14/3/2016 though, ameridumb
>>7931410
>>/9gag/
>>7931410
posted at pi'o'clock. grats op
is this board mostly students or working professionals?
>>7929388
Neither
>>7929388
see >>7928975
>>7929388
mostly fags
I want to teach myself physics. How would I go about doing this?
>>7935589
This is a really bad place to ask, everyone will give you some really autistic graduate-level reading list. If you're in UK buy CGP.
>>7935592
I'm in the US.
>>7935593
HS/intro college physics
Halliday, Resnick, Walker
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=A1F255962D377ABE7BB5D37A191ECB38
Classical Mechanics
Taylor
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=C69A7A99A150E064FF2FCFCE3F1CC3A4
Electrodynamics
Griffiths
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=635B96707ABD947654A466A3F6D9EDFD
QM
Griffiths
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=81B63E9586AF74981C89047E7206E323
General Relativity
http://libgen.io/book/index.php?md5=22E1CE772E77713506F166E017C0F4BC
All of the above is undergrad level shit.
What's the slowest growing divergent infinite sum, if there even is one at all?
The slowest I can think of is 1/x.
>>7935382
... 1/(2x)?
nice pic
>>7935394
That grows at the same rate
1/(2X) = O(1/x)
I want a function f(x) that has a diverging infinite sum but f(x)=o(1/x)