Do you think they'll be able to pull it off?? Could this drastically change our world as we know it??
>>8728911
>Do you think they'll be able to pull it off??
They obviously won't.
>>8729014
Please don't post the racist frog here
>>8729024
Please go fuck yourself brainlet.
How does social science work?
Do social scientists develop theories and put them to test, by making verifiable predictions?
>>8728641
>How does social science work?
You become a grad student, you suck up to your Professor's political ideas by writing papers that confirm their own biases, get respect by your superiors, become a professor yourself and then push your ideology into the next line of students.
>Do social scientists develop theories and put them to test, by making verifiable predictions?
Some time ago they did, until they realized that science, specially fringe fields no one cares about, has no checks and balances so you can publish whatever as long as you p-hack it enough.
The wage gap is a good example of that. Literally made up.
>>8728658
But then how comes that social science branch keeps getting funding.
What is the benefit that social scientists provide to the society?
>>8728658
t. jaded humanitiesfag
>>8728535
You can philosophize about anything, but it'll never itself be science.
>>8728540
Analytical philosophy.
when will this meme end
yeah maybe in the golden age, Islamic society hasn't made any great contributions since Medieval times
Literary no theologian worth his salt will say this shit. This does not belong here, I hope a mod will prune this thread.
This is a meme perpetuated by Westerners.
>>8727624
Didn't an Iranian just win the Field's Medal?
Get in here faggots:
http://www.arianespace.com/mission/vega-flight-vv09/
>T minus -00:08:00
HABBENING
INB4 SURRENDER
>bump
If the universe is expanding.
And the space between galaxies is increasing.
And lets assume the big bang happened and all matter came from the same starting point.
How and why will Andromeda collide with the Milky Way?
Because universe is actually just one big moba
>>8727195
which lane is andromeda and the milky way on??
>>8727195
i walk the road of vengeance
Dark matter is bullshit right? I mean, there's obviously something going on. But astrophysicists are like "lol obviously there's shit there WE JUST CAN'T SEE IT" sounds like "lol idk" to me.
What is more likely: most of the mass of the universe is impermeable, invisible and immeasurable, OR gravity is much stranger than astrophysicists think? Since we don't even have a probe far away enough to measure gravity in other star systems, how can we say we "know" it's not gravity and must be this invisible "dark matter" that's just all over the place.
checkmate atheists.
Dark energy is bullshit. Dark matter is just matter which is not illuminated by light, although the exact amount is debatable.
>>8727086
You should read a bit about MOND, or about Erik Verlinde's emergent gravity theory. It totally ditches dark matter.
>>8727109
this
erik verlinde btfo dark matter
to the maths fags
> how many books do you read per a year ?
>>8726830
I finish like 1 or 2.
I skim or start and then drop about like 20.
1 textbook (doing all the exercises) per week
>Chinese professor
>all his interns, undergrads, postgrads, phds and post docs are chinese
>white professor
>falls short of the 50% diversity quota by 2%
>"RACIST MISOGYNIST!"
Why is this allowed?
>>8726598
Liberals r dum
>>8726598
The Chinese expats at my uni are notoriously insular. The only ones I know that have any non Chinese friends are the ones that have to hang out with other people because of campus jobs
>>8726613
just wait until you see the Korean students.
when I was an undergrad, there were five or seven South Koreans in my dorm who we saw in the hallways now and again, but who never hung out with anyone else. and then there was, like, one Korean guy who hung out with the rest of us but didn't talk to the other Koreans. apparently it was kind of a religion thing? I guess Korean churches can be kinda shun-the-nonbelievers at times.
As opposed to reductionism, emergentism argues that there exist emergent properties in the world not reducible to some set of more basic properties. Crucially, this is very much linked to systems science. Anyone here work in systems science (systems biology, systems neuroscience, etc.) care to comment on their views about reductionism?
Shut up faggot
>>8721437
What's gotten your jimmies rustled?
>>8721417
Why don't they use more than just 0s and 1s for computer? Let's look at all combos of 0 and 1
00
01
10
11
Now what if we had 0, 1, and 2
00
01
02
10
11
12
20
21
22
4 combos -> 9 combos, computer over 2x the processing power. Is it because hardware limitations?
why stop there. why not use infinitely many symbols. you could express literally any message using a single symbol
>>8719972
Look up quantum computing
>>8719972
because circuits are either on or off.
>oh boy an interstellar thread
Just saw the movie and have a couple questions.
>why would they even consider settling in a system with a local black hole as the "star"?
>how is it producing light and heat to make the planets habitable?
And what was up with the ice planet, why were they saying it had no surface?
>>8719231
You should watch Prometheus next if you are feeling suicidal.
>>8719254
That didn't answer anything. Going to watch logan tomorrow, though.
I think they answer this in the movie, you should pay attention more lol
But I guess the "why a blackhole" problem is simply because there was no other option, since earth was fucked up and light-speed still don't existing in the movie.
The "producing light and heat" is a mistery to me too, but I think that the accretion disc of the blackhole makes sufficient to light it up and make the planets heat, even if they're cold, like that planet where is Matt Damon.
Hey /sci/, i want to play a game with you
I want to see if u can decrypt this message
Rukzlfpd
I encoded it with a vernam cipher. The key is the message with the last letter shifted in the first position. For example, if the message was AbcdE, the key will be EAbcd.
Good luck and have fun
Thanks for the wikipedia search, now I know why Vernam is a cool guy.
But I don't want to solve your message, which is probably just something like "kys"
>>8728151
No, it have a sense
>>8728124
dRukzlfp
Can someone please identify what this is? I found this hanging on the outside of my dogs asshole. I picked it off and it started moving.
>>8728095
Woah there you fucking /pol/fag. You can't identify it. Only it can decide its identity
>>8728095
Your cat has worms. Take it to the Apple Orchard store.
I remember reading this novel about this guy who got stuck in this endless hallway and he noticed it had a veeery slight curve.
So he took long stick and placed it along the wall(or something to that effect) and calculated the total distance of the circular maze
How do you calculate of a circumference of a circle using a portion of its curve like how that guy did it?
>pls no bully its been eating at me for years and i'm too stupid to figure it out
>>8727965
Pretty sure you need the angle of the curve or the radius of the circle as well
>>8727965
Like so, Anon.
>>8727965
I have a solution but it makes a few assumptions.
1. You can measure things, like the stick.
2. You have either the ability to measure angles (perhaps via compass), or the ability to construct an orthogonal line (perhaps via compass and straight edge or using something with a 90 degree angle as a stencil)
3. The stick is completely straight
4. Ability to mark the midpoint of the stick. This may be done by folding the stick, if possible, or compass and straight edge, or just being very careful closing in from both sides of the stick and acknowledging there will be error.
Now. lay the stick down so its two edges touch the wall. Construct an orthogonal line from the midpoint of the stick to the wall. Measure the length of this line, call it x. Then by using the right triangle created in the diagram, we have:
[math](\frac{StickLength}{2})^2+(r-x)^2=r^2[/math]
Since only r is unknown, solve for r by completing the square or using the quadratic formula. Once you have r, just use 2*pi*r