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I want to be an astronaut.
Childish, I know, but I think I actually have a shot, moreso considering that the space industry will likely expand hugely over the next two years.
Obviously its unlikely though, so this is my question: If i fail to be an astronaut, what other careers can I pursue?
My resume will hopefully look a little like this:
>degree in mechanical engineering from cambridge
>8 years in Air Force as a pilot, ~2000 flight hours
>speak Russian and English
>qualified scuba diver
>extremely physically fit
What backup options will i have?
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>ambition
i wish i never fell for this meme
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>>7723126
I got into cambridge this year, only due to ambition. 4 years ago i was flunking maths.
Ambition is a great thing!
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>>7723130
gfy. i taught myself up through a phd level in math and physics without taking classes and where did i get?
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Is math a science?
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>>7723039
No.
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>>7723039
no. science is inductive and empirical. math is deductive and axiomatic.
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If science was a car, math would be the transmission. Math on its own, is not a science, but if you remove the transmission from the car it would no longer function.
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Wrote a program with the 4chan API to count the percentage of words containnig kek on a particular board. Here are the results for first couple of runs (One run per board, I will add more results later)
The code is not that well written, I can't think straight today.
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>>7722923
topkek
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>>7722923
more keks on pol than on s4s, troubling stuff.
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>>7723087
if it counts the filtered cuck as kek then /pol/'s true kek count would be inflated
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Why can't the narrow-minded spergs of /sci/ accept that asteroid mining is the future?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_mining
Earth minerals are running out, space launch costs are coming down, it's not even a possibility, it's a fucking certainty.
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>>7722520
It's a fucking pipe dream
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>>7722608
First smug contrarian with nothing to back it up with like clockwork
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>>7722520
From your link:
>up to 2 kg from an asteroid to Earth, will cost about US$1 billion
Note that this is raw material which could contain no valuables at all
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Keep getting into arguments about chemtrails.
Really, his is starting to piss me off. My explicitly stated standpoint is that I don't give a fuck. I have no means to test or verify, I don't know shit about jet fuel or upper atmosphere physics, and even if it were happening and I had means to be aware of this, I COULDN'T DO SHIT ABOUT IT. So what the fuck? Leave me the hell alone for fuck's sake!!
Aluminum is expensive and I don't know by what means you could disperse it in a way that does a goddamn thing to anyone. Likewise, barium poisoning is easy to verify throughout a given population. Strontium is in you anyway. That leaves yet unknown esoteric compounds being used for weather control, geo-engineering, to control selected populations (issue remains dispersal mechanism and dose control), or as a laughably pathetic counter-measure against climate change.
No. Relative to my memories, I've yet to see strange clouds or trails. Historically I've been apt to entertain and evaluate ideas that weren't worth the mental effort, but this shit is getting ridiculous. I can't stand people WHO FUCKING SCREAM AT YOU WHEN YOU DON'T SUCK UP THEIR WANTING RHETORIC.
FUCK
OFF.
But that alone isn't evidence, nor a sufficient framework for reasoning. So tell me /sci/, what do you think about chemtrails? And keep your own equally garbage "lul cunspiracy thorist r DUM!!" shit out of it. This is for real science, not your fuckhead circlejerk horseshit.
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>>7722399
You're a moron. Clearly my first paragraph was whining, second was tame conjecture, third was venting, and fourth was tied to the actual first paragraph as a query.
>>>/fuckoffyousillytwat/
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>Aluminum is expensive
no it's not
it's one of the cheaper metals we have
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This is bothering me.
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Brown skinned Muslims don't appreciate the photon acting like a particle.
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What don't you understand?
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>>7722363
What about it bothers you?
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Any promising developments in tissue engineering? When can I expect to replace my organs? Also why isn't this the biggest thing right now? Stellerators are cool and all but pointless when you're dead.
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>>7722204
i will try to find the key to immortality
or at least how to engineer you a new panis, dont worry
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>>7722204
with all the fucktards currently populating our cosmic trash-dump, i'm very glad that we're not immortal yet.
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>>7722233
>i'm glad i'm going to die because it means the retards die too
you're among them
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>this is the heroes of our generation
what went wrong /sci/?
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>>7721995
Penne.
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>>7721995
>le superior aryan race
kek
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Are there any arguments against determinism?
Even if there is a certain randomness in quantum physics I cant get how people believe in free will.
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>>7721982
Because it would infer that if consciousness is universally derived, then it is universally manipulating.
e.i. the universe is consciously participating in itself. Yet, that is why we have god, because... spooky ramifications.
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>>7721982
Look up Immanuel Kant and categories. In short: free will, causality, laws of physics, etc are categories through which you perceive the world. You can never achieve objective knowledge of the real world, but only subjective knowledge of the world you perceive. Therefore everything you experience is real for you, and that's the farthest you can go, so if you experience your will as free, your will is free for you.
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>>7721998
Yet, subjective knowledge is not objective knowledge by discretion of the synthesis.
Gypsy magic...
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maned ISS launch
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PEAKE
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T-5 min
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ESA or NASA livestream?
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out of curiosity, how many of you went to/are currently going to graduate school?
how many of you are going for a phd? how is it?
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I'm in grad school for math right now. I will be going for a ph.d after I get my m.s. here. it is awful, soul crushing work. you have to need a ph.d, like you cannot live knowing you aren't working towards one. because it DOES suck. the stress of keeping up with a class only to lose it all on a comprehensive final is REAL. if you arent willing to do whatever it takes, if you dont have the mindset of 'get a ph.d in math or die trying' then you should do something else.
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>>7721409
what's bad about it? just the courses themselves are difficult?
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Bumping out of interest.
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What is the most common race on /sci/?
I assume majority of you are Asian.
http://strawpoll.me/6271565
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native american checking in
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>>7721289
What tribe?
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So far all the stereotyped races to love science have not reported in yet
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This is an issue that has been bothering me for some time. For those who are unfamiliar, an O'neill cylinder is a space habitat in the middle of space, with an atmosphere filled interior where people live, and is rotated so that the centrifugal force approximates gravity on the inner surface. Mirrors reflect sunlight through large windows into the habitat, and day and night are simulated by adjusting the mirror's angle.
My problem is that the mirrors are also rotated with the same rpm as the cylinder itself, so it will experience a much higher G-force at the edges, up to 10g or more, so obviously your everyday mirror isn't going to hold up under the strain, especially considering just how large this has to be (at least around 10km). Why does no one ever bring up this seemingly obvious problem? Even if you can find a sufficiently strong mirror material, how are you going to adjust the mirrors without the hinges holding the mirror (and presumed by everyone to be the mechanism doing the adjusting) from breaking apart due to the massive force on it?
Also a side observation, has it ever bothered any of you guys familiar with the O'neill cylinder how everyone only knows this from Gundam? Many of my friends, after watching Interstellar, simply referred to the O'neill cylinder featured at the end as "Gundams".
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>>7720943
Why the need for the mirror anyway? If we are advanced enough to build massive structures in space I would hope that our led technology has reached a point where we can accurately simulate sunlight.
Also material science is booming right now so I'd imagine the material for said mirror isn't too far off.
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>>7720943
>how are you going to adjust the mirrors without the hinges holding the mirror (and presumed by everyone to be the mechanism doing the adjusting) from breaking apart due to the massive force on it?
....I think the best way to design such a mirror is to construct said mirror from an ultrastrong and ultralightweight alloy. And it would be concentric (and probably slightly concaved, albeit shallow).
Just my thoughts
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>>7720985
>I would hope that our led technology has reached a point where we can accurately simulate sunlight.
Because we want to use a nuclear reactor expending rare and costly fuel replicating a task that could be accomplished by a shiny piece of metal or mylar, amirite?
What does /sci/ think of broscience?
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Sometimes useful but not the reasons they think. Mostly wrong
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>>7720834
So calories in and calories out is all I need.
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nutrition and diet as some of the most specious topics in science.
I'd say there's only one solid piece of evidence for diet, a fat based one (low CHO low protein) in the case that you are suffering from Diabetes type II.
Otherwise, it appears as though ANY components of your diet (even to a significant extent) your caloric and glycemic intake don't affect your body transformation.
Exercise is amazing for the body, considering broscience driven by improving the capacity for execise maybe this cult of gains is the best way to go about changing your diet - the effect on your ability.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/11/20/the-diet-study-that-upends-everything-we-thought-we-knew-about-healthy-food/
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I wonder if there is a /sci/ approved way of learning? In about two months I'm going to write my exams at university and have to learn a book/script with around 300 pages for each course.
I'm not sure about taking smart drugs such as aderall, etc.
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>>7720525
Get the course schedule with which chapters are covered, get schedule of homework, then sit down, grab a cup of tea or coffee and get working. Treat your studies as if it's a full time job, you will do better if you're serious and an adult about it.
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>>7720525
From what I can tell the /sci/ way of learning is to curse bitterly that which you don't understand, call it a "meme", and then sit there and realize that you're not actually superior because you flunked your entire semester because you were shitposting on /sci/.
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>>7720593
Hot.