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>>8637460
Post all your stupid questions that don't deserve their own thread here.
Are there any conditions or mechanisms under which a large star like the sun could suddenly extinguish?
>>8648925
collision with a sun of ice, of course
in this video game, a man cuts through though the head of someone with a shovel
is this even possible given that the victim is standing up? I would think he would at worst just be dented, but mostly pushed
>>8648925
>>8648947
if your ice sun would move fast enough to disperse sun's plasma fusion would stop, but any fast moving massive objest would do
now question to any possible medfags:
my head starts hurting when I try to fap (kind of dull pain all around the head), is my blood pressure too high or too low?
>read this paper by a researcher with 100s of citations
>follow his method to try to repeat the results
>method doesn't work and results are shit
>send email to researcher asking wtf bro method doesn't work pls halp
>replies back saying I'm probably not doing something right
>mfw I followed his method step by step and still don't get the results
>doesn't reply back to me again
>mfw
This shit has happens to me a few times now. Why do researchers even bother to post their """"method"""" if it is deliberately (or accidentally) inaccurate? I mean if their exact method is patented then perhaps I can understand, but they never disclose this.
Science is fake. A bunch of lies, everybody knows this.
>>8657589
Publish a paper refuting his method.
>>8657589
40% of statistics are made up.
A recent analysis of citations showed that people were just citing studies, and citing the studies of those that study cited to pad their citations, thinking that no one would check.
A lot of papers are junk, but, hey, published.
Ludwig to Bertrand: "I'm not sure if I"m an idiot or not, if I am, I'll be an engineer, if not I"ll go into philosophy"
Philosophy is the last resort for pseudo-intellectual teenagers who are too uneducated to talk about actual science and math where their baseless drivel would be objectively disproved.
>>8657133
yo tard muffin, verifying theories through falsification is from philosophy, Karl Popper, look it up faggot
>>8657133
lols, math and science were bastard children birthed from philosophy. you mad bro?
Is computer science a real science?
Why do IT guys always look like they hate EVERYONE? Is their job so hard/boring or do only antisocials choose to work in IT?
>>8654337
computer scientists are not scientists
IT is not computer science
>>8654354
this
CS is low-tier engineering
IT is computer handyman/babysitter
IT is not hard.
But it is a terrible job.
Everyone treats them as a personal help desk. World would be a better place with higher computer literacy rates.
Is it possible to build a device that taps into energy from the 4th dimension?
sure m8
>>8649615
naw, man. naw
Maybe.
In your experience, what STEM major/field/subject is socially considered the coolest? Which are the least autistic? For brownie points, what have been the most autistic?
>>8653274
My major (aerospace engineering)
>>8653274
Take a guess.
>>8653274
short answer: everybody believes he is hot shit.
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>Multicellular life can occur on a habitable planet.
>This supposed life can advance to a level where they can achieve means of interstellar communication and space travel.
>This supposed life can visit and send probes to other planets.
Since we, -the humankind- is the existing proof of concept to this idea, why do some people absolutely reject the possibility of alien life elsewhere?
Also among the +100 billion habitable planets out there just in the milky way, shouldn't atleast one of them must have developed intelligent life just like Earth?
because some people believe the world is 6000 years old and was created by some angry old dude in the sky.
People who are incapable of understanding simple statistics deny the possibility of alien life.
The question is not whether alien life exists, but for how long.
>>8654099
>supposed life can advance to a level where they can achieve means of interstellar communication
this has not been proven yet
Post brains
I made this just now what do you think
>>8652362
Is that Athens? Looks farfetched.
>2017
>Still not realizing that Schrodinger's cat is supposed to be a criticism of quantum mechanics
>>8649995
Still not realizing the quantum state is the only reality
>>8649995
I really hate thought experiments.
>>8649995
I vaguely remember that.
I don't know. Anytime I hear people start talking about Schrodinger's cat or wave functions collapsing, I just assume they are a laymen. I think they are too much of a pop-sci meme to be disentangled from the actual science.
If you want to keep posting on /sci/, you should be able to solve this. No cheating.
>>8651760
solve what? It's an expression, not a problem.
>>8651765
simplify to a reasonable closed form formula. don't play dumb
>>8651769
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-form_expression
>In mathematics, a closed-form expression is a mathematical expression that can be evaluated in a finite number of operations.
seems like it is already in "closed form"
What technology do you wish to see happen in your lifetime?
>>8655381
that interstellar light sail thing
EMDrive proven correct
Printable solar, large-scale CCS and fully realised genetic engineering (CRISPR stuff)
Am I the only one who hates complex numbers? They seem like made up bullshit to me.
>>8649815
What are you hoping to get from this thread?
>>8649823
Maybe gets off on being verbally abused about having stupid mathematical opinions,
>>8649815
guess what? they are
the point is they are useful and clever
/sci/ humor.
>>8641835
What do you get when you cross a mosquito with a rock climber?
>>8641849
Nothing. You can't cross a vector and a scalar.
>>8641849
>>8641870
Christ...
1) Is global warming real?
2) Should the government fuck up the economy to deal with it?
>>8649959
>1) Is global warming real?
>2) Should the government fuck up the economy to deal with it?
No, and no.
>>8649959
How many of these threads do we fucking need on this board at one time? Search the fucking catalog next time.
>>8649959
The real /sci/ browsers have no interest in your /pol/ tier bullshit. The other day an anon came in and absolutely eviscerated some fake bullshit graphs some idiot on /pol/ made and then screencapped, consult the archives for the answer to your first question.
Have fun making an echo chamber of retardation though.
>it's a "professor inserts his/her politics into the lecture" lecture
>>8648948
Snarky remarks about current politics and comparisons to mathematics/physics are my favorite parts of the lecture.
my professor's made several alternative facts jokes already
>first year mandatory Writing Composition course
>professor always likes to start class with short stories about his life
>talking about how he used to teach something like Computers 101 for the technologically impaired
>"Didn't we somebody studying Computer Science here?"
>girl raises hand shyly
>"Oh wow! Yeah, that's really good. You don't see that much, female Computer Scientists. That field tends to be very male-dominated. Kind of mysoginistic."
>turns to class
>air quotes "Motherboard"
>segways into lecture
>mfw