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What did you feel when you realized you were born too early to witness Interstellar travel?
Every damn time i think about it, I get momentarily depressed.
Actually, which do you think is a more accurate prediction: Humans NEVER create the capability for Interstellar travel OR Humans do create a way for Interstellar travel but it happens thousands of years from today?
Is a couple thousands years from now too soon?
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>>7776764
>50 million years
>Africa collides with Europe

niga it's doing that right now.
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>>7776764
You see man, the catch is that....
You're not born too late to INVENT interstellar travel.
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>>7776768
But aren't i? If only for the reason that the materials required to do so haven't been discovered on earth?

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Hello, im thinking of going vegan. Is it true that vegan ism will make me immune to most cancers and heart disease? Also, I have an infant, if We go vegan, can she get her nutrients from Almond Milk alone? Serious about veganism.

Pic unrelated
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>>7776761
Quads of greatness
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>>7776761
2/10 bait
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>>7776761

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How do I solve general number theory problems? Like, what is the mathmatical "toolkit" I can use to solve number theory puzzles?

It seems like I just never know where to start - I either get it within 10 minutes intuitively or never get it at all.
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Here is an example problem I am doing at the moment - this is supposed to be extremely easy, but I don't see how to go about working on it.

NB: Please don't spoil it for me, I am just looking for a rough idea of what kind of thing I should be doing to crack these kinds of questions.
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Whether you can solve number theory problems or not is determined by your genes. If you have to ask this question, the answer is pretty much clear.
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>>7776746
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Nice bait, senpai.

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I ve been reading alot of news recently about ai, and how an "insanely" amount of money, time and research is being put into applying it to personal cars by major brands and private investors. Why? We could be investing in space exploration/colonisation (didn't NASA design plans for this back in the 70's?) Why this stupid interest in cars, most people I know already expressed a negative reaction to the idea of a self driven car.
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>Space exploration
We already have telescopes and satellites.
>Colonisation
Why would anyone want to live in a lifeless rock?
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We have a lot of automation to do here on earth before we will be able to venture out.
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>>7776518
It's not lifeless if we live on it

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>study a little bit
>take the general GRE
>get above average scores, 60th percentile in math, think I can do better
>study all winter break
>retake it today
>get exact same score (pretty sure I did better on the writing this time though)

Why do I suck, /sci/?
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low iq
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you didnt study enough or you half-assed
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>>7776468
Studies have shown that studying for the GRE does very little to affect the score.

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Thoughts on Architecture, /sci/? Anyone here interested in it?
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>>7776425
ive always loved it, thought i dont think i have the mindset for it
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>>7776425
As a major, it's a pain in the ass. I'd rather do calculations all day instead of drawing and building paper houses. I respect Architecture majors for their willpower.
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Went to FIU where they have an awesome architecture course and department.

Students get their own desks and shit, its like an actual architecture firm.

Some of these requirements though. Room mate had to build a difficult design, turn it in unscathed traveling accross campus. Then, the new assignment was to improve it without the model he built. Pretty tough to improve it off the notes and memory without the rough draft. A lot of people cant handle that amount of stress.

I really respect architects. Even though the guy graduated top of his department with reccomendations and hasnt worked in any related field 8 years later.

My calculus class starts in about a week. I wanted to get a head start on studying, but I have no idea what to study. We don't get our syllabus or textbooks until the first day of class, so I don't even know what we're going to be covering over the semester.
What are some things that will most likely be covered in a calculus 1 class? Coming from precal, what should I study up on now, and what would I expect later?
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>>7776421
Here http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/CalcI/CalcI.aspx
Just stay like a chapter ahead of the class.
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>>7776421
i hate senpai too
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>>7776424
Thanks, anon.

>>7776833
>hating your senpai
bad onee chan.

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Is cancer basically nature's way of saying "fuck you, you guys weren't meant to live that long or be anything more than primitive apes"? Why hasn't an effective treatment for destroying cancerous cells without killing normal cells been found yet?

Is there any real way forward as a species other than genetic engineering and/or cybernetic enhancements?
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>go to /sci/ to get away from the bandwagoners

Well fugg
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Cancer exists because mutations exist because creatures have to have some way of changing themselves and reproducing and removing the old versions of themselves from the system.
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>>7776264
>"fuck you, you guys weren't meant to live that long or be anything more than primitive apes"
Nature doesn't mean for anything to happen, meaning is a human fabrication.

>Why hasn't an effective treatment for destroying cancerous cells without killing normal cells been found yet?
There are a variety of promising methods. There's a difference between discovering a treatment, having it peer-reviewed, testing it on a larger scale, evaluating the effects of that treatment over the lifespan, overcoming all of the legal issues and then marketing and mass producing the treatment.

>Is there any real way forward as a species other than genetic engineering and/or cybernetic enhancements?
You are a fucking retard

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Male here. 6 inches, uncut. How do I go about determining the absolute minimum volume my penis is capable of occupying? I'm not interested so much in the absolute maximum flaccidity, but the minimum volume.

Meaning, as my penis exists right now, across all possible contexts except for those that result in damage, what is its minimum volume?
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The minimum volume is < the minimum volume occupied in your moms vagina.
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>>7776226
Get flaccid and dip it in water, very slowly, without spilling any by the impact. The water that will spill over is equal to your penis volume
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>>7776314
the archipeepees method

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Is silicon-based life possible?
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No
Sincerely,
/sci/
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Yes, but its going to be stunted by the lack of variety carbon offers.
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>>7776151
Why not?

Can't silicon make analogues of organic molecules like silane?

What is this thing?, /sci/.
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>>7776121
It's a hobbit, duh.
have you never read the lord of the rings?
fucking faggot.
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>>7776121
How tall is he? 5'11''?
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He'd more than likely beat up 90% of the non-lifting, non-training nerds on /sci/.

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I'm curious about a certain process. Let's say that you discovered something big in the field of physics. I don't know what, something game-changing. Maybe you figured out quantum relativity, I dunno.

As the guy who developed said theory/new law, how would you go about discussing it with your colleagues without having one of them reword your paper and claim it as their own? How do you properly protect yourself from academic theft so that you can share your ideas without an Edison walking in and snatching them up and putting his name overtop of yours?

Basically, how do you secure credit for your work if you make a ground-breaking discovery? Would it be wise to go as public as possible, such as starting up a YouTube channel and linking it to some social accounts? How would you do it?

This is just a thought experiment kinda thing, nothing real. I'm just curious how actual scientists/researchers stop leeches from stealing credit for their work.
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You can't. But it's ok, since discovery for the sake of discovery is the ultimate incentive.
What makes this problem more interesting is that revolutionary theories tend to be simultaneously discovered by different people in the same era.
If you've discovered something groundbreaking, it's likely that only a few people in the world truly understand how groundbreaking it actually is, even after you explain it to them.
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>>7776508
Like inter-universal teichmüller theory
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>dont discover things
>never get plagiarized

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If you're all so smart, tell me how well these two courses will prepare me for any STEM field, particularly some form of plebgeneering, like civil/mech.

Number 1
http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/mst124

Functions
Trigonometry
Vectors
Calculus
Matrices
Sequences
Complex numbers

Number 2
http://www.open.ac.uk/courses/modules/mst125

Number theory
Conics
Geometric transformations
Mathematical language and proof
Further calculus
Differential equations
Mechanics
Eigenvalues and eigenvectors
Combinatorics
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>>>/adv/
fuck off, we aren't your academic advisers
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>>7775977
sorry I'm not smart enough to answer your query

try going to /adv/, I hear they're smarter.

You fucking mongoloid.
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>>7775981

/adv/ is filled with a bunch of random shit, like guys asking whether their GF cucked them.

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Hi /sci/. My prof presented this problem as part of our first week of homework. He wants us to solve it with substitution and integration by parts, but I don't think we can progress with substitution. Even if we take his suggestion for u to start with, it just derives into 1dx, which now leaves us with two dx's, one of which is under a root. Am I wrong, or does substitution just not work here?
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>>7775960
Do integration by parts first and see what happens.
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>>7775960
I don't think you understand substitution...
if u = x+1, you need to express du as a function of dx.
Here it's easy: du = dx
then you need to substitute the function of x in the integral with a new (and equivalent) function of u.

x^2sqrt(x+1)dx = (u-1)^2 sqrt(u) du
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>>7775960youI would substitute yourself for him when it comes fucking his wife and daughter

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Hello friends,

Is it appropriate to have a thread about Macro economics and discuss the mathemathical equations?

If so!

I suggest we try to get out of the liquidity trap.
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This is now a centrally planned economy thread
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>>7775920

a commie or socialist central planned one?
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>>7775909
I'm pretty sure this is what >>>/biz/ is for

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