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China's Combustible Ice Breakthrough Grabs World Attention 2017-05-19 08:06:14 Post No.8921784
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China's Combustible Ice Breakthrough Grabs World Attention
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2017-05-19 08:06:14
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>one cubic foot of flammable ice holds 164 cubic feet of regular natural gas
China has successfully collected samples of combustible ice in the South China Sea. This major breakthrough that may lead to a global energy revolution has captured close attention from both home and abroad.
China is talking up its achievement of mining flammable ice for the first time from underneath the South China Sea.
The fuel-hungry country has been pursuing the energy source, located at the bottom of oceans and in polar regions, for nearly two decades. China's minister of land and resources, Jiang Daming, said Thursday that the successful collection of the frozen fuel was "a major breakthrough that may lead to a global energy revolution," according to state media.
Experts agree that flammable ice could be a game changer for the energy industry, similar to the U.S. shale boom. But they caution that big barriers – both technological and environmental – need to be cleared to build an industry around the frozen fuel, which is also known as gas hydrate.
China, the world's largest energy consumer, isn't the first country to make headway with flammable ice. Japan drilled into it in the Pacific and extracted gas in 2013 – and then did so again earlier this month. The U.S. government has its own long-running research program into the fuel.
The world's resources of flammable ice – in which gas is stored in cages of water molecules – are vast. Gas hydrates are estimated to hold more carbon than all the world's other fossil fuels combined, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
And it's densely packed: one cubic foot of flammable ice holds 164 cubic feet of regular natural gas, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Chinese state news agency Xinhua says that makes the fuel a strong contender to replace regular oil and natural gas. But like any fossil fuel, flammable ice raises significant environmental concerns.
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"flammable ice"
ie Methane Hydrates.
Let's unleash the devil.
If mankind wasn't causing Global Warming already, it is now.
Don't be surprised when this shit just up and blows off the continental shelf.
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>>8921813
yes, methane is a holy fuck tier greenhouse gas, but
>Don't be surprised when this shit just up and blows off the continental shelf.
seriously come the fuck on now
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>>8921813
the amount of methane in the atmosphere is much lower than expected even when only accounting for that produced by decay, ants, and termites. The reason is because methane is fixed by methosynthetic bacteria into glucose, water, and CO2 in the atmosphere. The air is full of bacteria which use chemosynthesis to produce glucose in this manner because all organic matter decays and releases methane. A local methane release creates a "bloom" of this bacteria.
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Why are we able to draw a connection between music and emotions? Why and how can we recognize that certain melodies are happy, sad, romantic, scary, etc.?
We can't taste something and feel that it's a sad taste. We can't smell something and recognize it as a happy scent. So why do the right patterns of notes invoke emotions in us? It's also interesting to note that every person is capable of telling "correctly" if a sound is cheerful or sad. So it's fundamental matter.
How does that work?
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>We can't smell something and recognize it as a happy scent.
Certainly seems to be a connection with scent but perhaps it is only related to memory?
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>>8921698
i dont think its related to memory, i remember an experiment were they played diffrent melodies to bushniggers, and they asociated the same emotions as we
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Almost every modern piece of music is written using a combination between tonal and modal scales. The "modes" were vastly used by the Greeks to represent different types of emotional states, and latter used in the middle ages; the Ionian mode, which has the same structure as the modern major scale, sounds "happy", while the Aeolian (same structure as the natural minor scale) sounds "sad". These are adapted to the modern intervalic system.
There's a publication by Kate Hevner called "Experimental Studies of the Elements of Expression in Music" which describes a relation between different types of musical parameters and emotional states. The relationship described by Hevner is used by many film composers to make a relation between the scene and musical resources.
archive(DOT)music(DOT)ntnu(DOT)edu(DOT)tw/chimeitp/brain/files/brain/brain-sub03.pdf
I now this doesn't answer your question, but it may help.
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I'm about to graduate Uni at the end of the month and have spent most of the time being taught (among other things) how the planet is essentially falling apart.
> Global Climate Change
> Sea Level Rise
> Ocean Acidification
> Global Pollinator Loss
> Habitat Loss
> The ever expanding number of species on the verge of extinction.
The list goes on and on. What I want to know is why do people (and I know this includes some of you one this board) not feel the evidence is substantial for these claims? In all honesty, I want to know what the contempt is about. I have heard all most all the "its happening!" side has to say. Now I would like to hear from you.
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>>8921377
Bump
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It's ideologically and economically inconvenient
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>>8921377
Not a single person who browses /sci/, is genuinly interested in science, and is at some stage of science academia denies climate change. If they do, they are missing at least one of those attributes
The people posting climate change denial bait are epic trolls and low functioning autist crossboarders from /pol/ and /x/, so you're unlikely to get a very substantial response here
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are you afraid of Ai replacing you ? 2017-05-18 07:06:16 Post No.8919307
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are you afraid of Ai replacing you ?
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2017-05-18 07:06:16
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Im studying engineering management and I always thought my job will be safe and only the plebs have to fear it but after
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Pc4HhhW0Xo
and some other sources im kinda scared
I actually planed on specialize in finance and strategic management
but in only, give or take, 15years these fields should be the domains of Ai or NW´s
Especially the stockexchange sector will be off limits
Engineering will also be nothing for humans anymore since neural networks that we have TODAY can construct stuff better ( with enough data)
Did i fell for the stem meme ;_;
was /g/ right ?
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>>8919307
sauce?
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>>8919324
>sauce?
No >:/ stop objectifying women
and answer my questions
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She looks like Justin Bieber from when he was a teen
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Is 0 finite?
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>>8918935
yes
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>>8918937
h-how many is it?
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anime retards always make the dumbest threads
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>>8918760
ED SHEBON
I'M IN LUV WIF DA SHAIP OF URANUS
LMAOOO
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>>8918760
Alright, I'll bite. Why do you hate Neptune, OP?
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>>8918978
It reminds him of his love life.
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Which bit is wrong?
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Can't simplify by 0
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>>8917004
Going from the penultimate line to the final line.
2*0 = 0
Simplifying this to 2 = 1 requires dividing by zero, but division is not defined when the second input is zero.
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>>8917029
Oh!
Thanks buddy,
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How do we make women priority in STEM?
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>>8916972
I don't know why people are hellbent on ignoring the fact that women don't like critical thinking. It's not their fault, their is no evolutionary biological nor social benefits for them to actually master anything that is difficult. This is why female competitive chess players are magnitudes worse than male ones.
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>>8917013
What exactly did I say that was incorrect? This is common knowledge, ignoring facts on imageboards might work but it doesn't work in the real world.
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My (potential) physics breakthrough 2017-05-17 03:22:19 Post No.8915978
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My (potential) physics breakthrough
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2017-05-17 03:22:19
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Please if you don't have any background in physics or mathematics close the thread. This isn't some opinion piece or general discussion about physics.
Ok /sci/ I have been working for YEARS on this project that started to formulate in my head ever since non-locality was proven by long distance "quantum-entanglement" demonstrations.
This is the first time I'm ever talking about this to ANYONE. familie/friends/peers no one knows about this yet.
I created this thread because I need mathematical help since I lack in this department having only had the basic mathematics garnered through studying applied physics and quantum physics as part of electrical engineering.
Here's the short description of what my work is about without giving away broad details:
>Copenhagen interpretation is wrong
>Pilot-wave/De Broglie–Bohm theory is correct
>non-locality of pilot-wave is proven by quantum-entanglement
>my model of pilot-wave explains and predict the gravity field but also "anti-gravitation" (temporary name for a reverse effect of gravity after a certain distance from the pilot-wave field)
>this anti-gravitation effect completely and exactly correlates with the exponential expansion of the universe
>Thus my model also debunks "dark-energy" or explains dark energy as being this anti-gravitation effect caused by the pilot-wave effect after a certain distance
(1/2)
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>>8915978
Obviously because of the implications I won't be posting all this information online. But basically I need some mathematicians that want to collaborate and could develop some of the next things
>A model connecting pilot-wave non-locality with special relativity
>Models of the pilot wave behavior in 3d space and in particular how a "walking wave" can "suddenly" reverse and start moving backwards
>Setup a model of the workings of this gravity field (Should be a derivative of the pilot-wave field)
I won't share a lot more than this for the moment. I'd like to know if any of you have similar projects that discredits the Copenhagen interpretation or some works into pilot-wave.
Criticism (as far as possible) is very welcome.
If I'm correct it would permanently remove all this "hocuspocus" quantum randomness bullshit and return physics to being completely deterministic again. Will discredit many-worlds and copenhagen interpretation. Will explain and predict the existance of an anti-gravity force. And will connect that force as the causation of the exponential expansion of the universe and thus removing the need for dark energy or proving that dark energy is actually anti-gravitation.
Thank you for reading this.
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>>8915979
Anon, tell me this isn't bullshit and I'll have all of those things for you in 4 years.
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Why do you insist on wasting the public's money?
NASA's budget could be going to welfare
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I wasn't aware that they store money in Mars rovers.
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>>8915211
>convince poor people that the reason their government doesn't help them is because its spending too much money on science.
good job propagating the plutocrat-oligarchy propaganda. I'm sure Hannity and Rush would be very proud.
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>>8915211
Human advancement (The only valid reason for us not to kill ourselves)
Not American but I think you will find its the Military budget that should be going to NASA and your welfare system
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RETURN OF MATH CAPTCHA, PLEASE 2017-05-16 11:46:12 Post No.8913970
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RETURN OF MATH CAPTCHA, PLEASE
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2017-05-16 11:46:12
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http://random.irb.hr/signup.php
See this website's captcha (Quantum Random Bit Generator Service: Sign up)? Why can't /sci/ have these? Here's an example pic if you don't want to click.
Something like this would really take care of most if not all the spam, bots, and brainlet normie bullshit.
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>>8913970
This needs to be requirement to post on /sci/
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>I just learned how to do X
>lmao how could dumb brainlets not even know how to do X
Only pseudo-intellectual twats are the ones posting shit like this to stroke their own undeserved egos
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>>8913970
BRING IT BACK
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Can the same consciousness be naturally reconstructed?
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>>8922436
Depends on what you mean by "same"
Identity, equality, or equivalence?
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>>8922453
Basically, can someone who dies eventually come back as something else? Like if there's a cycle of consciousness
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>>8922487
If you physically die, you'll lose your memory, so even if you do come back as something else, you would never ever know you had a previous life, nor will anyone else know, so effectively the answer to your question is no.
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>tfw scifaggots talk shit about philosophy
>tfw science can only solve how and not the why
>tfw the important questions are still the realm of philosophers (the why)
>tfw stemfaggots enjoy to be nothing more than human spreadsheets for their ((professors)) in ((academia))
>tfw stemfaggots will soon be replaced by AI the losers their
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who programs the AI?
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>>8922165
Philosophy has never solved any why problem. Or any problem for that matter.
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>>8922178
is not the goal of philosophy to solve their problems, since they're not solvable.
retard.
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So damn simple, yet it's so far one of the most efficient ways for us to recieve energy.
You have the heaviest material that come naturally on the planet, one kilogram of the stuff can provide for one modern-urban household for decades. And the best way we can come up with how to use it is to boil water?!
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>>8922013
I'm not sure if I follow, are you dissatisfied or something?
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>>8922035
This person is probably on amphetamines which induce a kind of discontentment with systems perceived to be "un-optimal" in comparison to, I don't know, directly converting the nuclear energy of fission into electricity.
Its a form of delusion of grandeur and is very common when people take these drugs. It is easily resolved by realizing that a steam turbine is the most efficient way to generate electrical power from nuclear fission.
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Bump.
I had the same thoughts about this while growing up. Can we find a better way other than boiling water? It seems so primitive.
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>therefore
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>>8921458
>a
>an
>the
>is
>are
>so
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fucking brainlets
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stop spamming
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>thus