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Is there a scientific method for increasing one's socioeconomic status as efficiently as possible?
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>>7743121
PhD in math
>300k starting
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>>7743124
BS in math
>73k starting
MS in math
>82k starting
http://www.payscale.com/research/US/Degree=Doctorate_(PhD),_Mathematics/Salary
PhD in math
>91k starting
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>BSc in coding
>100k starting
Downside is that you will probably live in a city with a 70/30 male/female pop
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Biology or Chemistry
Which one is superior?
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If you can't answer that yourself it's time to Leave /sci/
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>need chemistry for bio
>dont need bio for chemistry
not a hard choice
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>>7742049
Biology is just applied Chemistry, which means more Oompa Loompa'ing, which means less pure.
So, choose Mathematics.
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Money spent on Science and Education 2015-12-24 16:40:17 Post No.7741898
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Money spent on Science and Education
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Military: 54%
Education: 6%
Science: 3%
So, like does the military really need and use all that money or is it just some big ass money laundering scheme with some side projects for anti-terrorism and oil protection?
What the fuck happened in a world where science and education aren't the biggest things to be spending money on?
How do we change this? Seriously, how do we get Science and education to take up a larger portion of the pie?
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Meh.
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I wonder what would happen if we took a big portion of the military budget and use it for something else
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>>7741898
A good chunk of the military portion, I'm sure, is being used for R&D. You have companies like Lockheed Martin developing Nuclear Fusion with the money they get from selling military tech.
Science is still in demand, it just needs to overlap with politics in order for it to get the funding for big projects.
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Helium instead of nitrogen 2015-12-24 09:13:22 Post No.7741487
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Helium instead of nitrogen
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Is there any reason preventing humans from living in a 80helium/20oxygen environment? The N2 is inert anyway, so...?
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what about 80% marijuana ??? xd
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>>7741487
Helium will evaporate quickly/float on top of the oxygen and leave you with a 100% oxygen layer, which will burn everything to a nice crisp the moment someone sneezes.
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>>7741487
Not really! In fact that mixture is called heliox. Look it up.
Do you prefer to use pen or pencils for your science classes?
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>>7740966
pentel p209 mechanical pencil
i really dislike the ink smell and it annoys me too much. mechanical pencil is very easy to use and lasts a long time.
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A bunch of orange pencils.
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>>7740969
>ink smell
what fuckin pens are you using mate that's fucked I can't smell shit even when I bring it right up to my nose
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How can we advance science /sci/?
Let's advance science in this thread.
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>>7739049
We'll start by removing anyone from the gene pool who thinks we can advance science in any thread on /sci/
Should be an improvement in all regards
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>>7739054
>removing /sci/ from the gene pool
Why bother?
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>>7739049
I propose to kill anyone who isn't a STEM major. They're a waste of resources and always try to hinder progress.
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Can humans with tetrachromacy see colors beyond the visible spectrum that are alien to us?
Or is it just easier for them to analyze simple (To us) colors into more colors that we know?
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I can see extra colors like merzel and dulan
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>>7737415
The latter.
Human tetrachromats' fourth cone most commonly has a peak between the standard red and green cones on your picture.
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>>7737419
Sorry, i just noticed your pic is for a bird. Try this pic instead.
Human tetrachromats' fourth cone most commonly has a peak between the two right-most peaks in this pic of human cone sensitivity.
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Do astronauts fuck each other in space?
Do astronauts msaturbate in space? Doesn't the flying cum damage equipment? How do they even clean it up?
Why doesn't NASA ever answer these questions?
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>>7743612
It just so happens I'm the perfect guy to answer your questions, OP. You see, I'm the guy who cleans all the cum off of our valuable space equipment. You may laugh at my job, but I get to go to fucking space, so suck it.
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Think: where do they urinate? Why not cum in there?
Reportedly, sex in space is hard, therefore it's been tried, but I don't know if they succeeded.
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>>7743641
I don't think there's really a big difference between trying sex and succeeding at it.
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Questions for physicists 2015-12-24 18:46:03 Post No.7742127
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1 the claim is that the universe is approx 14 billion years old. Why is this claimed as the age of the universe and not the minimum age of the universe? This number is used bc the farthest object we get light from is 14bil ly away. Why is it impossible the object traveled to get to it's position, how do we know it sits at the origin of the universe?
2 why there is a diffraction pattern for 1 slit? there is only one slit so the particles waves cannot go through 2 slits and cause diffraction
3 Why is the double slit equation from the 1930s still used today when the experiments have changed over time? When the equation was derived, an aperature was used, today we use lasers. The light of lasers is as intense in the center as around the edges, whereas in an aperature,the light is less intense around the edges. These are 2 different experiments.
4 Why is EM ignored during the double slit? It is assumed that a surface made of charged particles has no effect on incoming particles.
5 During the double slit experiment, when an electron is the projectile, it is assumed that the electron travels a straight path. But electrons are not spherical, they're lopsided. When you "shoot" an electron, it doesn't travel straight. Is there math for this?
6 it's claimed that because objects far away are red shifted, space is expanding. Why do we jump to space expansion rather than just say the objects are moving away from us in an already expanded space?
If you're running in a group, 1 in front of you 1 behind you and the guy in front starts running really fast, the guy behind you slows down a lot and you stay the same pace, both runners will appear red shifted to you but the space has not expanded, they've moved away from you within space. Why is this less reasonable than "space expands"?
Red shift really is a photon at a certain frequency. Its created by the source not the space around the source. Space doesn't alter the frequency of photons, but the source of photons can.
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These are the sort of things that bother me as well, and are what a useful /sci/ would be discussing.
Unfortunately I'm worthless and can't add anything beyond that I share many of your doubts about this modern certainty we're fond of claiming.
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2/3/4/5 please someone
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>But electrons are not spherical, they're lopsided. When you "shoot" an electron, it doesn't travel straight. Is there math for this?
I though electrons had no shape or volume, were just point particles, and were accelerated by magnetic fields, they would travel in a circle until the magnetic field was shut off which would release them tangentially.
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Why do we have facial hair? Why do we have head hair? Why does head hair block our vision naturally? Why is shaving so much more common than wearing a beard, now that we can shave?
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>>7744484
head hair is to protect brain from cold
face hair probably to protect breathing, but I dont know why women dont have it then, maybe works as a testosterone indicator for mating?
most body hair is evolutionary leftover, but it is affected by testosterone, maybe an "evolutionary accident" related to beards
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DA JOOS
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>>7744488
Why do we not have full body hair any more anyway?
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>get up on google
>search 'logic jokes'
>hit images
>get this
/sci/ wtf
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>>7744234
plot twist the codomine is ( -\infty,0]
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>>7744329
haha! Sneaky!
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I feel like the older I get, the more interested I become in learning more about math. Problem is, when I was in high school I fucking hated math, which leaves me now at 27, working in IT but barely able to solve a quadratic equation.
My question to you is: how would you recommend that a soon-to-be 30 year old approaches the subject of wanting to learn about math while having a huge complex over not being smart enough and having "missed the train"? Should I just buy old high school text books (soul-murdering) and power through them, or is there literature out there catering to those that feel like me?
What should I do?
inb4 "kill yourself"
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>>7743858
an hero
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>>7743858
find a personal tutor if you're that interested. it's the best way of having all that information tailored to you specifically.
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It's never to late to learn, man.
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Can you help me with my stinky gooch?
No matter what my activity level is during the day, I find that when settling down for an evening wank, the sweaty odour from behind my nuts is noticable and unpleasant.
Since BO is caused by bacteria munching on one's secretions, is there a reliable chemical method of killing off my current flora? Something like sitting in a diluted bleach bath for a couple of hours while my inventory of underpants sits in the freezer?
I'm not expecting a complete elimination of odour for all time, but I imagine a genocide of my current colony of taint germs will at least help for a while, if not allow a less loathsome ecology to take root.
Thoughts?
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wear clothes that allow air movement around your swampballs
dust your junk with talcum powder
spray yourself with deoderant
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>>7743746
Apply toothpaste to your balls once in the morning and keep it there all day. The fresh scent will drive away the bacteria and mask and residual odor.
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cut off the goolies
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Is it theoretically possible to make a light saber and how ?
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>>7743634
> theoretically
Yes
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>>7743634
You could theoretically make a plasma sword that behaves like one.
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Just ask Michio Kaku
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What do you think about the first human head transplant that will take place around 2017?
Will he be able to walk again or will be most likey die under the operation/ or before he fully heal? If he dont die will is it possible for your head to connect itself into the spinal cord?
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>>7743418
They did this with monkeys, you won't die immediately but you'll die in the near future
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>head transplant
Don't you mean body transplant?
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>>7743418
Both the doctor and the patient are incredibly brave, and are exposing themselves to great risks to do something groundbreaking and revolutionary.
That said, I'd give this guy a 90% chance of not surviving the consequences of the surgery.