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Not a retard just an honest question.
Why do flights from Australia to South America take like 2 and a half days?
Try it, go to any airline and look at the itinerary.
Couldn't they just fly in a quasi-straight line like most flights do and get there in 8-12 hours?
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>not a retard
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>>8668898
Thanks for the bump.
The thread was sliding.
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probably not enough demand to do such flights without layovers
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>been depressed for a few months because I can never get shit done
>study electrical engg and like the material but never can bring myself to study
>just read about random shit everyday
>doc puts me on anti depressants, which just make me tired all the time and less focused
>go in again tell her it doesn't work, says she has something else we can try
>gives me a dex perscription
Wtf /sci/ been taking this shit (5mg) everyday this week and I fucking understand everything. Lectures are the most enjoyable thing ever and I actually can follow the prof and enjoy all the derivations and math theory in my courses. Is this how your supposed to feel? I feel like my brain is fucking overclocked or someshit. Also been noticing that I'm just a fucking speed demon and my brain works better the "faster" I am. (i.e, take my medicine and then put on some hardstyle and grind through some citcuits). Whats the catch??
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>>8668715
Welcome to the wonderful world of stimulants. Enjoy your stay.
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>>8668715
the catch is that you'll become addicted and be some jaw grinding meth head in the long term
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What's dex? Dextro amphetamine?
is there any point of learning calculus for sake of learning?
Where are you going to use calculus with CS degree?
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>>8668248
Im learning calc on my own but only because I want to breeze through college when I go
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>>8668248
Calc is useful in the analysis of algorithms. Estimating the amount of time or space used, etc
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In numerical methods.
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what are you doing to help save extinct animals /sci/? Nothing, that's what. Because you suck.
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>>8667535
number of species means nothing if their loss isnt going to affect humanity
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The animals are probably ungrateful little shits so I don't give a flying fuck
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Not an scientifical argument
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Do biologists have to be as intelligent to win a Nobel Prize (or Fields medal) as Physicists or Mathematicians? For example, this guy discovered and elucidated mechanisms underlying autophagy, a fundamental process for degrading and recycling cellular components. But is he really smart?
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>>8667423
Probably smarter than you, anon
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>>8667423
>guy did something worth doing
>but is he smart
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>>8667423
They have to memorize a bunch of complex pathways and look at tons of blobs on a piece of paper until they find something new and interesting. It's mostly just about getting lucky.
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What went wrong in here?
It is obvious that it is not just based on interest because if so, the ratio would've stayed constant throughout at least from barchelor degree choices.
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there are more men in the tails of the bell curve for IQ. I know shitting on IQ is vogue, but it does probe the sort of problem solving skill you need for STEM. Women tend towards the mean and have a narrowed distribution. This is why they earn the most degree, but the least quantitative ones. Testorsterone also improves visio-spatial understanding which is required to excel. For example, even though there are more ungifted men, their visio-spatial is good enough to be applied in skilled labor.
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>underrepresentation
Why are they using such a misleading word for this? As if it's a democratic election system and the people who represent women are in the minority.
The single truth in the world is that only profits will prevail. It doesn't matter if you are a men or a women, if you earn profits, you are valuable. There is no secret agenda to keep women out of science.
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More women graduate highschool than men. In bachelor, many women exit to become teachers.
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Can people here who are actually working in their field talk about what it's like? I can't decide between majoring in math, CS, physics, or electrical/computer engineering. Everyone says something like
>don't do physics, you'll end up working at an insurance company if you're lucky, post grad positions are extremely competitive
>don't do CS we're in a bubble it's going to burst
>don't go to grad school academia is hell
>go to grad school you won't be specialized if you don't
>PhD is hell don't do it
>only do engineering if you're a brainlet and don't care about what you're learning
>don't do math nobody will hire you you need to go to grad school for anyone to care about it do you really think they're going to care about your proofs?
>lol CS is the future you'll be left in the dust if you don't go into it now
I was leaning towards physics or math, but I don't know what the fuck do to anymore. Faggots tell me something different every day.
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>>8669631
>Special education
>Low math
>Low verbal
The blind leading the blind
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do CS
it will be useful for a very long time
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>>8669637
Right? Only production model hard AIs could totally pop the bubble.
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Agenda 21: its on.
( ._.)
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>>8669377
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l79Qa92DeU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHIvLkztwRI
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Is there anything we could do to defeat enthropy? 2017-02-12 11:47:54 Post No.8669174
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Is there anything we could do to defeat enthropy?
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Eventually the universe will run out of hydrogen and helium and star formation will no longer be possible, as the universe keeps expanding it will go dark and life will be all but gone...
Unless we can do something about it. Can you envision any process by which this could be prevented? The only thing i can think of is magically pulling a shiton of H and He out of our asses and shoot it up into space...
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Well energy is energy, if we found away to stop expansion and also found away to turn heat energy into mass.
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>>8669204
Heat expands mass right?
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>>8669204
E=mc^2.
Just divide both sides by c^2 and boom. Now energy is mass. Simple as that. You can thank Einstein for that one.
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According to the theory of energy producing organelles, chloroplasts and mitochondria were primitive single cell organisms who got absorbed into larger, more effective organisms in exchange for supplying the cell with ATP.
With that being said, could a modified mitochondrion live outside a cell?
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>>8668911
your question is too vague to have a meaningful answer.
with enough "modifications" -- of course
but at what point is your "modified mitochondrion" simply something else, with some similarities to a mitochondrion. Obviously at some point they lived outside cells, so with some level of modification they would be able to do so. Also obviously, their evolution has led in a direction where at present they would not be able to.
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>>8668911
no im not going there and you know it.
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>>8668911
Endosymbiotic theory is not a fact, it's just the most accepted theory, there are several arguments againts it. That being said, there are single celled microorganisms that can create PMF across their outer membrane (using bacteriorhodopsin for instance) which you could maybe say is like an independent mitochondrion.
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Ask a boy that just got accepted into the WPI computer science program with a $62K scholarship anything.
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>>8668118
Congrats!
Now we wait for the comfy hate comments, OP. Good luck
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Ever worked an 8 hour shift? do you deserve your position? are you a valuable member of society?
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I would stick to /g/ anon. Try to avoid mentioning CS or anything development / programming related on /sci/. There is much asspain and jealously to be found here.
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Let's see how smart /sci/ really is.
Information that is given in english:
Three tanging circles are placed on the line OE. The line from O to D is a tangent to the point D. What is the length of AB expressed by the radius?
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smart enough to not do your homework for you
homework board is that way
>>>/hm/
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Hvad med du selv laver dine lektier, Rasmus?
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Languages still a major barrier to global science, new research finds 2017-02-10 01:48:53 Post No.8663665
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Languages still a major barrier to global science, new research finds
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Over a third of new conservation science documents published annually are in non-English languages, despite assumption of English as scientific ‘lingua franca’. Researchers find examples of important science missed at international level, and practitioners struggling to access new knowledge, as a result of language barriers.
>Language barriers continue to impede the global compilation and application of scientific knowledge
>Scientific knowledge generated in the field by non-native English speakers is inevitably under-represented, particularly in the dominant English-language academic journals This potentially renders local and indigenous knowledge unavailable in English
>The real problem of language barriers in science is that few people have tried to solve it. Native English speakers tend to assume that all the important information is available in English But this is not true, as we show in our study
>Ignoring such non-English knowledge can cause biases in our understanding of study systems
>A francophone researcher will always need more time than a native English speaker to produce a paper of equal scientific quality
>Journals, funders, authors and institutions should be encouraged to supply translations of a summary of a scientific publication regardless of the language it is originally published in
>While outreach activities have recently been advocated in science, it is rare for such activities to involve communication across language barriers
>We should see this as an opportunity as well as a challenge. Overcoming language barriers can help us achieve less biased knowledge and enhance the application of science globally
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>>8663665
In January 2004, when some dangerous virus of bird flu reappeared widely in the world, Chinese scientists found that one strain, H5N1, had infected pigs. It was an alarming finding because some experts argued that pigs had been a springboard for humans in the 1918 flu pandemic, which killed more than 40 million people worldwide. But very few were aware of this disturbing discovery. It was in Chinese.
Scientists at the Harbin Veterinary Research Institute in northeast China published their findings that January in a Chinese-language Journal. Neither the World Health Organization nor the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations heard about the announcement until more than half a year later, Nature Journal later warned.
Mankind was in greater danger by language barriers
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>>8663665
Half of me wants to instill global language for science, as the SI units, and part of me also wants to have all scientific efforts focused on a globally cooperative space program
The other half of me knows the jews would take it over and fuck us like they mean it
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Wow, really good point.
Journals should hire translators if they can.
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Who /grader/ here?
What's the most embarrassing thing you've seen on an assignment or exam?
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>>8663485
sin(2x)/sin(x) = 2x/x = x
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>>8663501
But what level of education?
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>student attempts a proof
>crucial part of proof ahead
>writes small and indecipherably because he doesn't know what the fuck he's doing at this point
shaking my head famalalama. Maybe it makes me cringe because I've done the same myself :-^)
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What happened to it? Are they still putting it in the orbit?
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>>8662575
>they
>still
no one is going to pay millions to put a perpetual motion machine into orbit.
Currently, everyone is still having handwaving contests explaining why the "results" are not experimental flaws and noise, and the weird science that is supposed to be behind it. There hasn't been any real progress in the last year.
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>>8662688
>perpetual motion machine
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>>8662692
If it works it is a perpetual motion machine.
You could strap a bunch to a wheel, hook the wheel up to a generator. Past a certain RPM, power out becomes more than power in