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>>7679009
Can this be a new meme/shitpost?

> asteroid mining for astatine
> transmutation of other elements to astatine
> how to slow down radioactive decay

whats more rare
astatine or ultra rare pepes???

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>>7679009
Fucking clickbait ads, fuck off popsci faggot

>>7678983
> My family is full of morons.

Most people are fairly dumb. Don't fall for the assumption that the average intelligence is in any way sufficient for the challenges facing Humans. Given the nature of our challenges, and given the clear incapabilities extant in the average person, only a few percent of people are able to fully face the present and future.

My dad always mentions popsci physics articles he has read to me. Since I'm /physics/ except he doesn't know much about physics so I tell him to just read about basic physics that he can understand before moving onto the 'cool' stuff.

Anyway one day when he was telling me one of these things I told him to read the chapter in feynman lectures on physics about gravitation. But he told me he already understood gravity and that it was caused by the rotation of objects. He refused to believe that any mass has gravity and that if he was in the middle of space and there was nothing around him but a spacestation it would be exerting a gravitational force on him.

>>7678991
I wouldn't say most people are dumb, they are just content with having no knowledge on lots of subjects.

>>7678743
US or UK? or other?

>>7678746
UK

>>7678757
The contracts are still up in the air. If you're on the fence about medicine, wait (if possible) to see what the monetary situation looks like.

Other than that, it's really a personal commitment to do more work than you get paid for (in terms of complexity, hours, emotional situation, etc)

Obviously there's no practical way to even ballpark this, but even if alien fruit evolved simple sugars that we could digest, chances seem high that the other junk it's made out of would be toxic or at the very least indigestible to us, causing diarrhea, defeating the purpose of eating it.

>>7678735
there are plants on our own planet that evolved in the same environments as we did that will poison and kill you. This is why when hunter/gatherer tribes move into new areas, the safest food sources are fish and game, meat is edible as long as you cook it.

It is incredibly unlikely plants on another planet would be edible to people.

>>7678763
This, basically. Life on earth evolved, as far as we can tell, in a closed ecosystem. If life evolved elsewhere, in a similarly closed ecosystem, chances are low that the two would be compatible. Unless life as we know it on earth is actually the only form of life possible, but that still doesn't guarantee that we could safely eat, digest, and extract nutrients from it.

>>7678531
Python. It's simple, open source (so we don't have to pay for a Matlab license), and flexible. Also, it's easy to teach to undergrads.

>>7678560
That being said, it isn't powerful enough to do certain simulations, so it isn't the only thing we use.

>>7678560
I use matlab... i have a cracked version :)

But you're right, I need stop being a dinosaur and switch to python... It's where everything is going... Any good resources to learn python for someone with a matlab background?

/pol/ was right, as usual.

That's too much to ask for.

A written apology with a few million will be enough.

I expected your reactions to be a bit more extreme. Come on guys.

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>Induction heaters

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>Higgs Boson

>>7678542
Awesome! Sorry for my ignorance, but what kind of things are being improved with induction heaters? And what are the main applications?

>>7678544
Anything specific?

>>7678276
>using google
>not understanding your searches are tailored to be things you want to see rather than being unbiased.
At least learn to use proper tools if you're going to research something.

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evolution has been debunked thoroughly!
why do you all keep insisting, beyond all scientific reason that it's science or fact of any kind?

more deceit from the evolutionists
if i were a darwinist, i'd have to hang my head in shame
yet, even the askdarwinist website admits to the frauds and still hold to their belief in evolution.

>>7678233
>an apple a day...

>>7678233
Synthetic monoclonal antibodies.

>>7678233
Nukes.
lots of magical wonderful nukes.

any third world fucker who doesn't get their shots gets blasted from orbit.

>>7678064
I don't hate humanities in the same way I don't hate a flies, but I'll swot it when it gets annoying.

>>7678064
>implying /his/ and /int/ aren't my other main boards

>>7678070
But do you think the humanities is worthless because it doesn't supply something marketable, or do you think it is intrinsically worthless as a discipline?

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>>7678063
>Alternatively as a way to improve a pickaxe/pneumatic-drill if the vibration is more linear than radial would be to have two impacts, one occurring a tiny fraction of a second later.
you're a fucking genius, anon

>>7678101
This sounds like sarcasm, but if it is, it's very subtle.

Bump I guess

>>7677808

>argentina

Develop a test to check if your students are white or not.

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>>7677808
hmmm

>>7677811
last bastion of european genes, enjoy your refugees and niggers

>MYTH: Last year’s valedictorian wasn’t admitted and he/she was smarter than I am, so I don’t stand a chance.

>FACT: Maybe you offer qualities which the other person didn’t have – a superior creativity, leadership ability, motivation, athletic ability, etc. As noted previously, many factors besides intellect are considered. Harvard does not want, or have, a student body of “grinds” who are uncreative, plodding regurgitators of knowledge.

You're not an uncreative plodding regurgitator are you /sci/?

There is literally nothing wrong with that quote.

>>7677384
Grades aren't everything ya Dingus. So what if you got perfect grades/test scores? You don't stand out purely academically unless you ace every AP test even without taking the classes and you ace all your subject tests. Even that won't guarantee admission.

>>7677381
Spent a number of years that way, on various topic. Ultimately burnt out for mostly unrelated reasons.

I imagine I could go back if I wanted, but that hyperfixation made me half mad at the same time. I definitely lost perspective and became myopic. Then I started lying without knowing it.

>>7677386
How did you get to that state in the first place?

Could you elaborate on going half mad and the lying?

Thanks for the response.

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I have it too atm.

But it's more the drive to materialize a vision I have, which keeps me interested in math.

I see it more as a tool to create, so proving stuff when I don't need, but have to, does still annoy me but I know I have to do it in order to improve.

But when I stumple upon my own problems, finding the solution is as funny as playing a video game.

Sadly I now have stumpled upon a problem so complex, it makes me think I'd might not be able to contribute to its solution in my life, as I have imagined. that makes me kinda sad.

So if im not meant to be the one to use math for building machines, I can surely combine it with art to create something beautiful.

>>7677297
anyone?

Not many people have a PhD in physics so their aren't many people suited to answer questions like these. Just be patient OP. Also start this thread on /adv/ as well. Someone will at least answer parts of it.

Well a theoretical physicist is someone who get's paid to research, so you're just doing research in academia, and unless you're a big shot, you're also teaching and supervising grad students, i.e. what your professors do.

If you have a phD in Theoretical Physics but aren't doing research, you're just going to be a guy with a PhD in physics that almost certainly ends up doing a job that has nothing to do with physics, e.g. wall-street quant, programmer, bar-tender (lol, yes I know a bar-tender with a physics phd). But chances are you will eventually find some kind of low to mid-level technical job.