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How do you increase your medulla oblongata?
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>>7800038
By getting brain stem cancer
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Is it possible for brain cancer to be beneficial and grow more brain?
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>>7800722
*usable brain
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Is it possible for certain humans to evolve into a self-sufficient, socially outcasted and asexual being?
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>>7799743
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schizoid_personality_disorder
I think this gets close to what you want.
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Hermits living in the woods?
Homeless living in the cities?
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As an inividual or small community, yes.
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Fermi-Paradox: AI, Aliens and Altruism 2016-01-20 19:41:50 Post No.7797895
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Fermi-Paradox: AI, Aliens and Altruism
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Hey /sci/,
There are two modes of being: Coexisting and Dominating. Define Coexisting as existing in such a way that the damage done to other beings is minimized. Define Dominating as maximizing the spread of patterns that are similar to one's own patterns.
The majority of history has largely been a history of Dominating. This includes biologic and anthropologic history, as well as modern economics and zeitgeist. A Dominating society requires Balance of Power to sustain Individual Rights (=IR), a Coexisting society does not. Note that a Dominating society with IR will be violents towards beings outside of society (like animals in our case), while a Coexisting society will not.
Now, at one point in the future the Technological Singularity will come. AI built in a Dominating society will be Dominating itself. However, because the power of AI is both variabled and not limited by architecture, there will be no Balance of Power in a society with AI. This means that eventually the entire society will become part of only one entity - the strongest AI. The Technological Singularity will predate near Lightspeed-Travel.
Putting this all together: If we are visited by Aliens (biological or artificial) whose society contains more than one individual, then they will not intend to harm us, because they are Coexisting. If they weren't Coexisting, they couldn't have more than one individual because of the above reasoning.
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>>7797895
If only coexisting and dominating exist, then what happens to the ones being dominated?
Ur a retard
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I wanted to write this because I read somewhere (regarding the Fermi Paradox) that if we "shout out into space", we will be annihilated for certain. In this scenario this would not necessarily be the case.
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>>7797904
You didn't understand it. Read the definition. It's not about the "hierarchical status" but about world-view.
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How hard is it to design a wing?
I know little about aerodynamics, but I imagine it would mostly just be plugging numbers into equations.
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>>7797700
design a wing for what?
If you already have a wing model and just need to know its characteristics, sure you could plug and chug.
If you want to design a new form or whatever, you need to model the whole thing, simulate, make prototypes, run trials, analyze data, improve initial design and so on until you reach a satisfactory design.
But that's not a job for an "engineer" with a mere BSc
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>>7797718
Design one from scratch, but to keep things relatively simple it would just be a glider i think - im smart enough to be worrying about fuel lines and control systems.
Do you know what I could use to model potential design? Would Solidworks be practical?
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anyone can build a bridge, it takes an engineer to just barely build a bridge.
A wing that just works wouldn't be too hard. But does this wing work well? Is it held up to any safety standards to commercial use? There are alot of questions.
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explain this, faggots
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>>7800413
They can't. No one can. You won math.
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>>7800413
all you did was manipulate the fact that
sqrt(1) = +-1
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>>7800425
do you even math?
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its normal to shred tears after taking anesthesia on a frontal tooth?
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>>7800346
Only if you are a fag
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> anesthesia
> not morphine
you are a fag alright
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>>7800348
im not
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fyi this is grad school
it sucks balls, don't expect to make friends
life is lonely
ur social life is kill
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>>7799936
No fucking way that is STEM grad school.
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>>7799936
Wake up. Grad school is just a nihilist jerk off spree to see what student can unravel reality into the meaningless cesspool that it is. Grad school is a joke. It's a egotistical badge of honor. I got my BA and got the fuck out of the school system.
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>>7799991
Damn, I must assume that your rejection letter from grad school was not very well received from your part.
Also
>BA
What the fuck are you doing here?
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Book ten.
Propositions 85-90.
A couple things, first of all, why is the porism on proposition six constantly referenced? In the case of the former pair, it is always BC and CD, square numbers, and the latter is just another whole and annex squared. This would make more sense if there were a triplet of proportional lines for the former case because then the square lines could be as the first to the last.
But barring that, my second concern is in the vein of how they are used. Like why isn't
the whole squared : annex squared :: whole number : larger square number
Instead it's 'smaller square number : whole number', which doesn't make any logical sense.
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No one likes Euclidean geometry
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>>7800154
Because all of his work could be backed up with algorithms?
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Which answer is correct? 2016-01-21 12:29:59 Post No.7799678
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Find the area.
Area = (L + H + 2) (2W + 2H + 2)
L = 11cm
W = 6cm
H = 4cm
39^2
59^2
214^2
374^2
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374 cm^2
Will the discovery of anti-gravity effectively usher in the 2nd industrial revolution? How will it change science and engineering exactly?
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>>7799495
Literally what? We can already generate artificial gravity in centrifuges, your image is an application of that
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>>7799495
I wonder if trees would be able to grow taller in such an environment because less gravity the closer you are to axis so the easier it becomes to transport nutrients further from the roots.
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Dont post interesting pictures.
Has anyone ACTUALLY calculated/modelled keeeping an atmosphere inside one of those things? I think it would need spin too fast.
Will we ever be able to see the multitude of colors and stuff that the 3 cones in our eyes don't allow us to?
Is it really completely impossible without implanting more cones or something? Would even doing that work?
Please respond, it bothers me that there's stuff I'm not seeing.
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Maybe if we could design retinal pigments that react to different frequencies than our own do, and then implant them into stem cells and let them grow in there.
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>>7796020
this means that you would have to design enzymes that anabolize those new pigments and then introduce genes for those new enzymes into that stem cell, too. we are talking about up to hundred genes plus all their regulators sequences introduced in a way that does not switch off any important original shit
seems more or less impossible to me because designing those new synthethizer genes alone could take hundred years or so.
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*forgot:
and it would be much easier to simply modify the already existing pigments with highly selective drugs, bound to aptamers or something
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>in QM class
>lecturer lists the topics we'll be going over this semester
>writes SUSY on the board
>hear people snicker, laugh, ask 'did he write susy on the board?'
>in complex analysis class
>going over metric spaces
>learn about the word 'clopen'
>nobody had heard it before
>people laughing, asking 'is he serious?'
Why do people go into these courses if they have no interest beyond getting a degree? It's like no one has read about the topics they're studying.
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>people laughing about names
Punch those middle schoolers, OP. Punch 'em right in the balls.
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>>7797512
>It's like no one has read about the topics they're studying.
people have other things to do, surprisingly.
why would you go to a course if you already know the material.
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>>7797512
It's because you're studying a meme degree instead of a professional degree. That's the kind of quality classmates you can expect untill you get to grad-school.
neat.
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>>7794872
It isn't temperature that causes cold, anon. It is only the desire to be warm.
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This is popsci.
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>>7794872
below your body's temperature you are always losing heat.
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>my phd supervisor is rarely in his office
>replies to my emails like once every 2 months
>literally don't know what I am doing
>supposed to sink or swim
>sinking
what do /sci/
i like my research (something to do with "room-T superconductors") but I'm just not the normie type here to figure out the secrets of the universe by just partying on friday's and smoking weed
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read some self help books and convert to psychology
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>>7801835
>working for hands-off guy and lost
You need to find post-docs and 'senior' grad students in the group and talk to them.
Find someone who knows more than you do and who is willing to talk to you about the most recent literature on a daily basis.
Find someone who has published with your boss and ask them how they brought the project to completion.
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>>7801835
>what do /sci/
Stop being weak. Swim, you goddamned faggot.
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Hey do you guys know what the best radioactive material is to keep you warm while being as safe as possible?
Preferably from like 0 to 5 meters distance from the source of the heat decay. I'm in my 2nd year of applied physics at Uni and may get some access to certain useful elements
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This is because I'm going camping in some shitcold country soon and I was just curious what could keep me warm in my tent
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>>7799742
>what could keep me warm in my tent
Charcoal fire.
> I'm going camping in some shitcold country
And you expect to fly there with twenty pounds of refined uranium in carry on luggage?
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I was just curious if any such radioactive isotope exists and could safely warm me