Why do all the scientists live in California ?
That's where the 'money' is.
wew lad you only make 60k/year? hahahaha I make 100k/year, but let's not talk about cost of living, quality of life, or any of that shit. I make more than you hahahaha
Depending on your specialty there are other places you can live in the US and make more than enough to save up for retirement.
Just ask and we might be able to point you in the right direction. What's your area or expertise?
>>8613999
California is the size of 2 states, has 3-4 good schools, is sunny and by the water, attracted a ton of people with gold rush then silicon rush, and now has a very unique funding situation.
I don't know if you are really into this race garbage too, but it also has a shit ton of Asians partly because it is one of the states that is closest to Asia and partly because of abused Chinese workers of the past. So, statistically, Asians perform better than most other ethnicities/races.
>>8614036
Are you thinking of Seattle, Portland, Austin, or Charlotte?
Because I think these are some of the fastest growing areas, and they are basically just rich Californians flooding the area and destroying the prices/culture.
How does it feel like knowing that NOTHING that is now >=1000 light years away from us, so pretty much 99,999...% of the observable universe will have absolutely zero, absolutely NO EFFECT AT ALL on humanity? And humanity will probably not affect pretty much ANYTHING outside that circle either.
How do you feel like living in a world where you are part of a system ('humanity') so meaningless and so unaffected by almost everything in existence? Have you already realized how meaningless your existence is?
>>8613902
meaningless to materialistic Universe perhaps but there is also something we call society which does allow for meaning in life and it may not be on a universal scale but it's worth while in it's own little micro universe.
>>8613902
> pretty much 99,999...% of the observable universe will have absolutely zero, absolutely NO EFFECT AT ALL on humanity
If we observe it, it has an effect on us.
Feels relaxing, to be perfectly honest. I don't have to worry about anything but my own well-being.
I've been looking into oil rig work as a future career choice. I'm in college rn but I don't think a biology major would be very practical or useful working on a rig. I know the experience means more than the degree, but what would a semi-useful major be to start on a path towards getting a job on a rig / working for an oil company?
Also, I suck dicc at any non-applied math.
Mech eng with a masters in oil&gas.
Environmental impact assessments would mean field job for biologists, but how many are sent to rigs? 3 in the whole world?
>>8613883
Worked briefly in an oil rig
Assuming you don't mean auxiliary staff like catering and transport, there's many levels of jobs.
Roughnecks are the grunts, it's basically temporary physical labour with danger pay. They look for strong guys who can follow orders and swim. You can also get a lot of non oil jobs like these, high alt crane operator, foremen, divers et cetera.
Next level is mechanic/engineer/electrician/welders. You're in charge of handling the machinery. Anything respectable related to these with a solid GPA gets you an interview, good work ethnic keeps you there. This also has potential for career advancement.
There are two problems with the field. One it's a huge boom bust cycle, oil prices in the last decade have been as high as $120-$30/barrel of crude. Oil rig utilisation and hence your job comes and goes. Two is renewables. Everyone talks about how X is going to replace oil but it never truly does. But the problem is science progresses while oil doesn't, no one has discovered any fantastic new use for oil in the last century. Renewables only needs to win once.
>>8613883
You can work for the state when they decommission rigs. In most places they just blow them up and they need people to go around counting how many and of what they killed so a fine can be issued if they exceeded their permit for take or not.
It's a depressing job.
How much do I have to pay for a good and sturdy equatorial mount?
Also, is Omegon a good brand?
>>8613796
What size/weight is the scope? Dimensions? You definitely don't want to under-mount a scope.
Also, refactor, reflector, catadiotropic? Not that important, but I love telescopes man.
>>8613803
Just bought myself a 76/700 newtonian from Omegon at 80€ (my very first telescope though).
I'm really enjoying it but the mount (AZ1) just suck. The whole telescope moves when focusing (which make it very hard for fine focusing), even when there is very low wind. This is because the telescope is literaly screwed to the mount on just one axis. So I'm planning to buy a sturdy EQ one, i'm also planning to buy a new newtonian 150+ diameter soon, so it should support a larger scale telescope.
>>8613796
You're wasting your time. Those stars and planets in the sky are just holograms to create the illusion the earth is round
Is maths objective?
>>8613758
yes
>>8613758
of course it is
>>8613758
He died because he did not want to eat for fear of being poisoned.
Was he really that smart?
Why are meteors destroyed when approaching earth but not rockets?
Because rockets don't have enough velocity, i guess
>>8613750
I mean, they probably use aerobreaking to slow down their velocity
>>8613752
I did that once in ksp on the venus equivalent and it didn't work as the diagram shows.
I think the whole space thing is a hoax.
if you could PERFECTLY put your consciousness in a robot/computer, wouldn't you be basically controlling it?
because you would have the exact same thoughts at the exact same time, since free will doesn't real.
or wud it control u
>>8613709
please serious replies only.
>>8613707
if free will doesn't real, then there is no YOU, pathetic brainlet, without free will, there is no reason to priveledge "your" specific collection of muscle and brain tissue organised in such a way, you have as much identity as a piece of dog shit that in fact you invariably hold as much value as
this board is crap
nobody reads
VACCINES CAUSE TESTICLE CANCER
and vagina cancer tit cancer
and manboobs
VACCINES ARE LITTLE UFOS
- that time u were awkward? aliens sex in your brain from vaccines
- that time u grew manboobs? lots of alien sex (homrones)
- that time u got aspergers? hot alien sex alld ay
birth defects? hot alien sex all day
low sperm count? hot alien sex (a lot)
>hot alien sex in the vaccine
normal iq get in here
VACCINES ARE MICROSCOPIC UFOS AND CAUSE TESTICLE CANCER, BREAST CANCER, AND VAGINA CANCER, AND I HAVE THE GRAPHS THAT PROVE IT
they are dna mutagens
- mercury is a dna mutagen in ur blood every day (known toxic since 500bc [dartmouth edu tox history mercury])
- the vaxx was scraped from 20 diff people (20 vaxx) that means u now have 20 diff grandpas, dna mutagen
- the vaccines its mutants and flying machines, dna mutagen
- the cdc added human scientist cells to vaxx, dna mutagen
also they fly to the human incubator (vagina/testies) and cause cancer (cuz they WONT FUCKING DIE, and they WONT STOP BREEDING). and may not appear in mice b/c mice dont grow humanoids, but testie cancer rates are up 9200% or so regardless.
>>8613670
===this is real, graphs here===
https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S8575247
https://warosu.org/sci/thread/S8115006
>notice rise in disease
>notice sharp rise in disease after 1975 when vaxx was 7x'ed (not 1 vaxx now its 7 per person)
>notice sharp rise in disease after 1975 when vaxx coverage goes to 99% of population getting vaxx from 20%
>sperm counts, fertility rates plummeting
>>8613670
Fuck off sperglord. Hot alien sex is the only sex I got.
>>8613671
What the fuck do you mean when you say they are little UFOs?
Is there any study about how much can you study ?
Something like whats the most optimal amount of hours/days a week you should put into classes plus studying at home ?
Im trying to decide what Im gonna do this year and I wanted to try and see if I could handle 2 degrees at once.
In my country college has a weird system where you have to approve 6 different courses to enter whatever career you decide and last year I approved 7 different courses so I can take philosophy and communication at the same time
Classes last 2 hours so I could do six hours-four days or maybe two days-six hours and three days-four hours.
I will also try to learn my third language (I want japanese but Im also thinking of german that is easier) and its only 2 hours on Saturdays.
Also if any on you have experience with college and taking a lot of classes and wants to share some tips it would be great.
Adderall. . . lots of adderal!
Way to much codeine and Adderall
>>8613829
>taking a downer and an upper
???
is it possible to teleport a person without killing them by transferring the neural arrangement flawlessly in a data packet?
what would differentiate this from your brain rewriting neural mappings other than time?
i thought his because of a situation where if you lose half your body to an accident, you try to salvage your CNS as much as possible to retain motor functions and cognition if its impaired as well, but in the case where you lose all of it you can't really try and condense it physically, but digitally would it be possible? like say you knew you were going to die and had yourself not just recorded, but actually converted into a storage device so that the whole copy/destruction process doesn't occur. would this circumvent the problem?
of course you can't teleport this object, but as you refine this so called CNS compression process and improve transportation methods, would it be possible to at some point treat it as an approximation of teleportation?
>is it possible to teleport
no
nope, it will still be a different human being, since the signals aren't "original' anymore
Why do people still believe in emergent identities? Isn't it obvious that they aren't real because of all the problems the idea faces?
>add TO
>subtract FROM
>multiply BY
>divide BY
>modulo ____?
[eqn]\text{Nozomi} \equiv \text{shit} (\text{mod goodtaste})[/eqn]
>>8613492
modulo isn't a verb silly
I say "mod out by" or "quotient out by"
with
How tf am I supposed to visualize/conceptualize connection forms?
Things I understand:
>a 1-form, df, is the outside derivative of a real valued function, f: R^n --> R,
>and a k-form is just the outside derivative of a (k-1)-form
>if f: R^3 --> R, then df: R^3 x R^3 --> R
>So, df takes a point and a vector and shows how f varies at the point in the vector's direction
>If you take the covariant derivative of one frame field to another, you get a matrix of 1-forms, called connection forms
So what is special about the (1,2) and (1,3) entries, but not the (2,3) entry? Like, how does this relate to the shape operator?
>>8613044
I always found it much easier to consider analysis from an algebraic perspective. Don't even bother with visualization and intuition at this level. Just get very good at the logic of symbolic manipulation and then the more clear geometric interpretations will link later once you master the more menial thing
>>8613044
Explain like I'm 5
>not a 5 yr old
>>8613044
Don't visualize you idiot.
https://www.strawpoll.me/12143006
>>8612823
I wonder how many of these voters are actually just students...
>software engineering
please stop that
>software engineering
OP and voters are retarded
One could define Even numbers as numbers that include a 2 in their factors. Is there an equivalent term for numbers that have a 3 in their factors?
Presumably there would be three terms involved. A number would be "3ven" if it was divisible by 3, "odd1" if it was one above a 3ven number, and odd2 if it was two above a 3ven number.
What words am I looking for here? Or did I just make them up?
Modulus.
x % 3 (read as "x mod three") is the remainder after dividing by 3. So:
if x % 3 = 1, it's what you call odd1.
if x % 3 = 2, it's what you call odd2.
if x % 3 = 0, it's what you call 3ven.
>>8612834
Okay :)
But those aren't "words" really. "Percentthreeequalszero" doesn't really roll off the tongue the way Even and 3ven do.
>>8612818
By any chance are you a CS major?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PY-VWFx4yEU
Im being completely serious when this clip proves that at least THIS moon mission was fake.
can you prove me wrong with logic?
(part im talking about starts around 3 minute mark)
You think it's a fake shot because some random lady made up a story about it being a shot from LEO?
Ok buddy.
>>8612843
wtf shouldnt the earth look way bigger than that from the moon?
Why would we fake it when we had the technology to go?