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why don't chimps just get a hold of knives?
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>>7838393
Moonwatcher did. His competition did not.
We are the children of Moonwatcher. And your picture shows the children of his ancient competition.
:^)
(IB4 someone demonstrates tool-usage by chimps)
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>>7838393
Because they'd be unstoppable.
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I know they're big fans of sticks, but I don't mean this to be silly as it sounds. I saw a documentary on chimps tribal warfare and the fuckers used flanking and ambush tactics. It surprises me they aren't at least bashing each other with big sticks or rocks.
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>tfw two inventions under my belt
Get on my level nigs.
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>>7838381
Who did you steal them from?
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>>7838389
If by steal you mean inspiration then Felix Wankel and Gerolamo Cardano.
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Yeah, well, know what I have under my belt? A 12 inch dick. Your wife is riding it every night while you're begging somebody to buy your patents ;)
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Hey /sci/ I need some help
I haven't really studied math for around 9 years and I'm a littly rusty
I need to learn math from scratch until basic calculus in around 10 months
Can it be done?
I can invest around 5-6 hours a day
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>>7838250
Khanacademy.org
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>>7838250
Damn me too
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>>7838250
it can be done in a week.
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if there were parallel universes, how come our universe is so normal?
surely most universes have some weird things happening in them that even their inhabitants can figure it's weird
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>>7838234
our unoverse is normal because we are used to it you idiot
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Maybe our weird thing is that we evolved intelligence, since no animal comes near us.
Sure, dolphins or crows are "smart" but they lack the bodies to do the shit we do.
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Normal, for you
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Original Sin and Human Origins
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On another board I was discussing the possibility of Original Sin with a Catholic tripfag. I promise this is /sci/-related so hear me out.
For some context, the RCC affirms that Original Sin entered the world through a transgression made by two humans at some point in early history (Adam and Eve), which was then passed on to their descendants to cover the whole of humanity. It is helpful to think of original sin as a super dominant but invisible 'gene' present in anyone who can trace their lineage back to Adam or Eve.
Now the traditional interpretation of how this played out is strict monogenism, i.e. Adam and Eve were the first ever humans. There is no evidence for this and isn't worth entertaining.
The new, competing interpretation is that Adam and Eve were the first humans to be given a 'rational' soul (and original sin along with it), and that they were NOT the only anatomically modern humans around at the time.
The new interpretation states that Adam and Eve acquired original sin, then through their descendants spread it to the rest of the 'pool' of early humans over the course of following generations. One such descendant could have been one of humanity's Universal Common Ancestors, or the MRCA before humanity branched out and spread all over the world. If I'm not mistaken, in order to cover the entire human race this MRCA would need to have existed about 65,000 years ago; any earlier would imply that, to this day, there are isolated pockets of people on earth who don't have rational souls.
Now this is not a parsimonious explanation nor is it intended to 'prove' Adam and Eve but it is a decent attempt at clearing away the contradiction between Catholic doctrine and human evolutionary origins. I'd be interested to hear what /sci/ thinks.
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My biggest objection is related to the emergence of the 'rational soul'. I cannot find any reason why only two humans out of a pool of thousands of anatomically identical contemporaries would somehow qualify for this. Furthermore, behaviours associated with rational thought and a 'soul', e.g. art and religious practices, developed 500,000 years ago and were even commonplace amongst neanderthals, which implies that Adam/Eve may not have been human.
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>>7838204
>This is /sci/ related
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>>7838204
The Catholic Church officially believes in evolution through mutation and natural selection.
Sage on this shitty brainstorming.
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How do you tell the difference between dense regular connective tissue and elastic CT? It's easy when the stain makes the elastic fibers pop, but some slides are giving me conniptions.
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>>7838177
>Bill Nye after his debate with a creationist
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On a side note: why the fuck is the OP so much bigger than the other posts?
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If Earth is still the same planet of the dinosaurs, then if we fastforward time, dinosaurs will be back?
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>>7838164
Dinosaurs still rule the Earth, though.
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>>7838174
Rate my dinosaur
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>>7838174
Wtf they really eat rabbitses?
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Do you think the reason we prefer female companionship over male companionship is that females offer a unique perspective on things most of the time and don't just say what we're probably already thinking?
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And because penis in vagina
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>>7838136
Do you think there is only one reason that makes up our preferences ?
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I don't prefer female companionship, nor does anyone on /sci/
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Is Westermarck effect a meme, /sci/? Is there some genuine reason for me not to be attracted to my sister, or is it all cultural brainwashing?
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What you find attractive in the first place is largely defined by your culture. It's little surprise that the opposite is true.
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>>7838132
I'm asking if there is some proven biological reason, if any, for lack of attraction between siblings, never mind the effect of culture and upbringing.
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Social interaction is a product of highly developed brain functionality, both of which are poorly understood. So your question should be instead directed to psychology and social science majors and not actual science
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So what you do, is assuming this converges.
Like so: x = 1-1+1-1...
1 - x = x
x = 1/2.
This works in a similar way to how imaginary numbers allow us to find true answers.
so whats the problem?
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>>7838110
the problem is that it doesn't converge
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> assume OP is not a faggot
> OP being a faggot, there must be a god somewhere to allow two different realities at the same time
> checkmate atheists
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>>7838165
this tbqh familia
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What's the nail in the coffin of the flat earth model?
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Satellites
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Evidence.
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inexistent edges of the earth
day-night cycle
inexistent source of gravity
improbable layers of earth
so who's The Thief?
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Well Carly is admitting her guilt and there is supportive evidence from Dave that Carly is guilty. So that's two corroborative reports of guilt for Carly, more than any of the other suspects.
Also, more information needed
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>>7838014
Alice
She's the blackest
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>>7838029
Alice, Bob, Carly, Dave, and Evelyn are taken to the police station for questioning. Detectives know that one of them is the thief and that only one of them tells the truth.
Is it impossible to make a general theory of nonlinear partial differential equations? Isee them everywhere, from plasma confinement tonjosephson junctions, and im curious if you can derive those named equations from a Universal theory. I see most of the millenium prize probelems dealing with them too, so im curious if there is a profound nature behind understanding what a solution is in a general way.
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>>7837924
Not many differential equations are explicitly solvable, OP. Often times you have to settle for a description of qualitative behavior as opposed to an explicit solution. Any "general theory of nonlinear partial differential equations" would have to be so general that it is in practice virtually unusable.
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I'm on to you OP
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/15292/why-cant-there-be-a-general-theory-of-nonlinear-pde
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>>7838400
>Not many differential equations are explicitly solvable, OP
Literally prove it faggit.
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>he thinks number theory is very interesting and wants to dedicate his life to it
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>>7837899
stupid clarksonposter
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Give me one reason why number theory isnt interesting. Ill wait while you try to use brain cells for the forst time.
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Aren't you supposed to be drifting a jag around laguna seca rn or smth
Everyone knows you found your degree in a cereal box
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If you answer this question by random,
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what are you're chances to get it right?
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Depends on the probability distribution.
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>>7837823
50%
the actual chance of getting the question right is 25%, however 25% appears as an answer twice. therefore if i pick a choice at random, there is a 50% chance i will make the correct choice