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>>7808308
Fermi Paradox.

My guess is that civilized, industrialized, evolved species burn out with the span of a few centuries. Nuclear war, resource depletion, ect. They burn bright like a spark and die out quick like a spark.

Given the geological age of the universe, it'd be like winning the lottery to find another intelligent alien race.

Also, the gold standard for detecting alien civilizations is RADIO broadcasts. Why the fuck would advanced aliens still use plaintext, uncompressed radio signals?

>>7808308
>everything you said
and then you realize how complex the universe is.

/thread.

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>>7808308
We are one star in hundreds of billions.
We have only had the tech to listen to radio signals barely more than a century.
We have only put radio dishes up to point at the sky less than a century ago.
Either the pings hit us at a time where we were unable to recieve them, we misinterpreted them, or they just haven't gotten to us yet.
Keep in mind that the nearest star is also a bit more than 4 light years away.
there's also a language barrier, even in the way our computers would interpret the signals.
We're just not there yet, we could even be the first. It may take beyond the remainder of your lifetime, but just give it time.

>>7817607
I'm a maths major, so don't take this as how long it should take your daughter or you, obviously. It took me about 5 minutes laying in bed, doing it in my had. I checked afterward to make sure my answers were correct as well. With a code, I could do this in a minute flat. It's definitely easier to do as a brute force problem, because any other way requires a level a critical thinking that is outside of most people's comfort zones.

It's a good problem in my opinion, and it encourages a very nice level of critical thinking, but it's definitely not for an 8 year old to do alone. This is something to would expect to see early on in a high school/undergrad level maths logic class as a solo homework question.

>>7817607
7 minutes. this is a nice problem.

Thanks guys.

> Finally discover Planet X
> It's 10 times larger
> It's the tenth time someone's found a planet
> But because some cucks downgraded the last one...
> OMG GUYS WE FOUND A -NINTH- PLANET THIS HAS TOTALLY NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE

I'm getting a strong Blindsight vibe from this...

>>7801954
Don't worry, Uranus was supposed to be named George in honor of King George III, by its discoverer Herschel. And Neptune was supposed to be named Le Verrier. We all know how that turned out

>>7816816
fuck off im not going to a copyshop to print out 3 pages

>>7816816
It takes forever to put shit in LaTeX though. I'd go through the effort for something more professional like a dissertation but for a homework? Fuck that.

Sounds like you're a shitty professor.

>>7816816
You're probably a high school teacher if anything, so I highly doubt any high school kid would bother using latex

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>>7815444
>t-trips for truth!

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>>7815378

What does chess have to do with math and science?

>>7815346
Did you know that the Fuks™ match making system uses the same algorithm as christianmingle.com

lichess or chess.com?

> What next? Skynet?
you wish it was that easy. some AI beating some dumb guy means shit.

>>7815212
AI takeover is the best thing that could happen to us. Political corruption squanders so much money that we'd all be millionaires by now if the system weren't so inefficient.

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Well, go is pretty difficult

>>7815105
Not a chance an Ariane 5 ever blows up.

Not worth watching.

>>7815149
This. I only ever watch rocket launches for two reasons; if it is launching something or someone interesting or if I think that it may blow up.

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>>7815156
>>7815149
>plebs

Where my space bros?

>>7814715
Women are attracted to 3 things:
1. height
2. anti-intellectual alpha behaviour
3. facial aesthetics

A clinically retarded male who is 6'3 and always acts loud will have a sexual market value a thousand times higher than a manlet who also happens to be intelligent.

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>>7814720
4. Wealth.

>>7814720
What if I'm a tall, attractive intellectual?

>>7813535
It turns out the internet has the ability to show you all the idiots together at once. It really lets you know just how much of a big pile of steaming shit humanity really is.

>most of modern science is a lie and the rest is a global conspiracy to do [insert devious act here] to the rest of the population

Literally a meme.

I use this stuff to calibrate my bullshit detector. I don't dismiss anything without evidence.

>>7812166
They have. Stop wearing shoes for a few years and your feet will build up the massive callus that they're supposed to have. The only reason that shoes are so necessary is because it's not the elements we need protection from, it's all this broken glass and shit just lying around from people being assholes.

>>7812166
Your feet will adapt to your environment. There are people in Africa and South America that go their entire lives without wearing shoes.

But if you grow up in a civilized nation, chances are you'll have pussyfeet because you'll have been wrapping them in cotton and rubber since you were born.

>>7812166
>post a nice piece of tail
>guaranteed replies

probably pi. Every useful use of pi is 2pi.

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That quest will probably fail, either due to semantics of "useless" or due to

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

7811791

Its a conversation piece, nothing more.

just like any test where you answer obvious questions
>are you introverted?
>yes
>You are introverted!
>oh wow thanks test!

>>7811653
It's pretty good in categorizing people. Ignore the autists.

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>>7811368
>Bill Gates
>Stephen hawking (he doesn't deserve an upper case H)
>Christopher Langan
>Neil deGrasse Tyson
>Gabe Newell
:^)

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>>7811368
>no grothendieck

wow, americans are top plebs, a day after day...
the best part is that you are proud of your own stupidity.

>>7811368
Man FUCK Robert Christgau.

That cunt can't wrap his feeble mind around any music weirder than Sgt. Pepper

Fuck him and all of his shitty reviews of Zappa albums.

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>>7810653
>no separate introductory analysis (or algebra, for that matter) stream for math majors
>get stuck in calculus with the physics students until year two

this school is such a fucking meme but sadly I'm stuck here

>>7810662
nigga ur in windsor what do you expect

if you're going to stay in shit ontario at least go somewhere half-relevant

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I hate this place so much. Kill me.