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Does this revolutionize science?
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>>7854718
>Does this revolutionize science?
Not it just increases the millions of STEM wannabes fighting each other just for 1 job opening
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>>7854718
STEM wannabe: the website
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>>7854718
Researchers always have access to the articles they need, if your institution doesn't subscribe to the journal your library's collaborators can get it for you legally, this is no time or effort on your part, there is literally dedicated staff who's job it is to get it for you, a quick email and you have it a few minutes later.
The people who use the term "paywall" are generally not researchers, but people who want to read an article for personal interest.
>Russian scientists want to modify existing intercontinental ballistic missiles to deliver a nuclear warhead that will supposedly obliterate near-earth asteroids that measure up to 50 meters across. They want to test this capability against Apophis, a well known near-earth asteroid that will pass close to Earth in 2036.
>Sabit Saitgarayev of the Kakeyev Rocket Design Bureau’s is the leading researcher on this, and recently told TASS News why an ICBM is their asteroid plinking platform of choice:
>“Most rockets work on boiling fuel. Their fueling begins 10 days before the launch and, therefore, they are unfit for destroying meteorites similar to the Chelyabinsk meteorite in diameter, which are detected several hours before coming close to the Earth. For this purpose, intercontinental ballistic missiles can be used, which requires their upgrade,” the scientist said.
>The improved missiles could be used as the killers of the Apophis asteroid, “which will come dangerously close to the Earth in 2036,” he added.
/o/ here. Is this feasible or just more crazy Russian bolstering?
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>>7854700
I hope the nuclear disarmamnent faggots step up their game a bit faster.
The sooner humans are extinct the better
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I saw armageddon, they need to spend a space oil miner driller along
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aren't asteroids usually the size of countries? i don't think we even made enough nukes in human history to destroy that much mass.
How would the job market for physicists be in the next 6 years?
>mfw taking Physics degree, >mfw engineers around me can more easily get jobs
>mfw I might end up being a finance slave
Would I be able to work in the industry just as any engineer can, albeit in a different way? Please tell me everything's gonna be ok, I want to continue Physics, No Tears only dreams pls.
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>>7854680
Forgot to mention,
Planning to get into grad school
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>>7854685
>/adv/'s full of virgins and high schoolers(and they're ok with high schoolers).
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Look how cute this is!
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it's stupid nigga
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>>7854662
where do you see a problem?
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>>7854666
You are retarded if can't find it.
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is this comic true?
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No. Aliens use base SKLEEZAKSNAR.
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>>7854643
Learn Finger Binary, OP. It will change your fucking life.
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>>7854689
>not using finger triplets
Pleb tier.
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science AND math, kek, mad diss 2016-02-12 15:25:50 Post No.7854604
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science AND math, kek, mad diss
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Newsflash for all the happy-go-bingbazinga nerds who are in your community.
Nobody cares whether light, gravity or my farts come out in waves or particles.
You might have got upset when you found out that santa claus was arrested on child molesting charges and it may remind you of the same feeling, but you shouldn't connect it to sadness, you should connect it to finding out the truth. Isn't that the reason you went to university (those of /sci/ who actually are or went to one and aren't just here to feel "sciency" and "nerdy")?
And the truth is, nobody cares whether Einstein was correct or not. What they care about is whether Einstein can put food in their tables. Can they live better with what Einstein said?
Oh and another thing: science can only explain things to a certain degree and in a given way.
The only thing that makes you guys think you are superior: money. It's who gets paid better and for what. As far as the status of the rest of you is concerned, it makes no difference to the world whether you have degrees or not, since you are unemployed (especially if you are in debt).
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>>7854604
I went to university to make money, faggot.
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>>7854613
but I bet you bitch when you hear of "women studies", correct?
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the sad thing is that somebody thought this would be the height of humour
just embarassing.
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What level of degree do you have?
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bachelors in anime
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>>7854559
I have 3 undergrad degrees in physics, math and philosophy. (yes, still couldn't find a job)
Currently working on my PhD in physics, but I'm looking towards philosophy as an academic career. As soon as I get a PhD candidate offer at a good phil. school I'm getting the fuck out of the miserable STEM grind.
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MeD concentration in Elementary Education
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Fucking Gravity Waves! 2016-02-12 15:05:10 Post No.7854538
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Now that we have discovered Black Holes (pretty excited about that btw) What do you think we can discover next /sci/? How far can LIGO take us?
Views and opinions thread.
>Also, a bit of sci-fi will make it interesting
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Please stop posting.
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>>7854545
This hype deserves a few weeks to repost
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>>7854545
Am I the only one who is excited about this? damn.
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Im new here, i came to read about the recent discover that we can detectate gravity waves, but there's no thread about it, so i'll start
>gravity waves
>how could we use it
>relativity
thread
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/12150944/Gravitational-waves-Einstein-was-right-and-this-announcement-is-the-scientific-highlight-of-the-decade.html
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>>7851130
Here you go newfag
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>>7854540
aww thanks
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Came across this recent philosophy of math book that appears to ague against a modern logicism
http://bookzz.org/book/2198330/8dbe9d
Also, ITT philosophy of math general, I guess
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>>7854441
Do Lie-Groups REALLY exist?
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>>7854514
I'll give you a Wittgensteinian shut up
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shutup and calculate
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What defines a, "species"? 2016-02-12 13:05:38 Post No.7854364
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What defines a, "species"?
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2016-02-12 13:05:38
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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/11/neanderthal-dna-may-account-for-nicotine-addiction-and-depression
>Interbreeding 50,000 years ago between two species
Wait, I thought that species meant they could not breed together.
So, what is a Neanderthal? Another race that went extinct or another species? I went to wikipedia to double check the meaning of species and holy shit it is like they can't agree on 1 definition.
Case in point,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species_problem
My original school education comes from the 1980s-1990s. In science class we were taught that one species can't breed with another species.
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>>7854364
>In science class we were taught that one species can't breed with another species.
That's the rule of thumb definition, but biology just isn't that neat. Because ofhow evolution works, there is no way to make a clean definition that always applies. We're all cousins.
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>>7854364
It's one of those terms that was defined historically to fit ideas at the time and the definition is probably going to need to be modified.
Not being able to breed and produce viable offspring was the original definition, but we've found interbreeding between species happening again and again.
Biologists will, at some point, need to modify the definition to deal with DNA distance (Percentage of DNA difference), Significant Mutations (Distinct Changes in DNA that allow for adaptation to an environment and become prevalent in a population), and/or Allele Frequency.
The reason it won't happen is Humans. No one wants to make a definition for species that works wonderfully using some criteria listed above, and then find out it makes humans into 20 - 30 different species due to environmental isolation who have been interbreeding for ~200 years once travel became easier.
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>>7854364
I'm a nicotine addict, and I am 2.8% neanderthal and 2.6% denisovan
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This guy says nearly anyone can be a mechanical engineer. Is he right?
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nice link
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>>7854361
nearly anyone can be any type of engineer
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Anyone can CALL themselves an engineer because it's not a protected title like doctor. If that changed, all these faggots could get prosecuted and engineering would be a respected profession again.
why the fuck does this exist?
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>>7854152
to waste childrens time with irrelevant shit
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>>7854152
To dumb down math education. This has been going on for a century now
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>>7854152
to optimize learning methods
data pagan & cyb
eevblog is so close to being good 2016-02-12 08:42:04 Post No.7854122
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eevblog is so close to being good
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Any electrical/electronics engineering-related channels that are cool to follow?
Here's who I have so far:
> mikeselectricstuff: electronics cleric/savant
> Ben Krasnow Applied Science: makes cool chemistry/ee stuff at home
> mathematicalmonk: lectures on math/ee specialties. what khanacademy claims to be
> ElectroBOOM: pooinloo performs ritual self-torture to show you ee safety
> Rulof Maker: a happy i t a l i a n o making cool stuff
EEVblog is so close to being good, but he's just too bombastic and long-winded. His videos are great if you can endure his over-exaggerated mannerisms for 30+ minutes at a time.
The content he presents is great, but his videos are unendurable.
> pls no vsauce, numberphile, minutephysics, veritasium, smartereveryday, asapscience and other youtubosphere reddit cuck mafia channels
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Also eev is a confirmed paranoid conspiratard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sit6zUQKpJc
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>>7854144
>paranoid conspiratard
http://www.eff.org/Privacy/printers/
https://www.eff.org/pages/list-printers-which-do-or-do-not-display-tracking-dots
http://seeingyellow.com/
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Will electromagnetic radiation propagate infinitely through a vacuum?
Thanks
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No. All waves need a medium.
EM waves can't travel through a vacuum. Space is actually filled with a transparent, infinitely rigid/dense but completely non-viscous fluid.
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>>7854014
It's time to go to bed grandpa Kelvin.
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>>7854014
sublime trolling, thank you. it made me think of an obvious answer. stars are very far away.