/sci/ - Science & Math

>>1320194
>quantum mechanics, a system which has rules and laws.
>claiming it is equivalent to total absence of rules and laws (I.E; nothing)

look bro, either the universe started on its own somehow, or some kind of higher being came first, and then made the universe. or some combination of the two

it's chicken and egg, except physicists have this strange notion that the egg can be the chicken too and come before both of them

i would be more inclined to listen to his opinions if he was not an insufferable prick

>saying I am not racist at all.
>THE REST OF YOUR POST

HA

>>1313068
has never heard of nuclear rockets, or the huge fuel efficiency boost it gives

>>1312830
more like

WHOMP......WHOMP....WHOMP....WHOMP..CLAAANG..WHOMP

all night, all day, every night and day, all year

>>1312806
i
what?
cooling towers are there for a reason

>>1312658
i'd much rather live right next to the nuclear power plant than a highly explosive coal or gas plant.

solar farms are useless for large-scale power and take up way too much room

wind farms are the most annoying thing in the world due to the CONSTANT "whomp whomp" of the blades and the CLANG of birds hitting them, not to mention it's shitty power

nuclear is safe, decently cheap, INCREDIBLY powerful, and can be built anywhere

honestly? i would be very much behind a 5-10 year NASA program to build a space elevator, making space assembly much easier, and thus making the building of long term habitats on mars and the moon a cheap one-step process

>>1307449
i do not doubt it

christian fundamanetalists and the million offshoots of protestantism would be fucked as fucked could fuck.

catholics would scratch their heads, shrug their shoulders, and the pope wold say "hey dem niggahs coo, we be prayin' still"


most of the middle east will commit suicide

overall, better planet

personally? i'll make a serious effort for c

but it all depends on physiology.

(thri-keens, please)

>>1294720
see
>>1294921

>>1293857
into the universe? really high production values, VERY little science content. it's basically the opposite of those patrick stewart narrated documentaries that come on at 3am; packed with data but only basic editing

>>1293660
not to mention he actually hates black history month
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeixtYS-P3s
which is fucking awesome

however i'm sure he is somewhat curious about the subject matter, off camera of course.

how is everyone liking the show anyway? i wish they'd go into a bit more detail instead of throwing things at you hollywood style and never really explaining why they are

HOW TO TERRAFORM MARS ON A REASONABLE TIME SCALE

1) send autonomous robots to the base of valles marinaris, they process mars regolith into CO2, let them keep on pumping until the base of the canyon has something approaching earth pressures (since it's so low down, the air column will be easy to maintain). Then use it as an on-surface base of operations. saturate the air with some water vapor to keep dust particles on the ground.

2) while 1 is going on, find a big ol' asteroid (maybe one that was on the way to earth) strap some rockets to it, and position it at the Lagrange point between mars and the sun. mine it into a large disc with a hole in the center to allow sunlight in. make it into a gigantic magnetic field generator, and place a UV screen in the central hole. the EM field blocks nasty solar flares, and the UV screen makes martian UV exposure earth-like.

3) seed the base of the canyon with algae to begin the atmospheric conversion process from CO2 to O2. make some automated factories to make more of those CO2 conversion robots.

4) keep this up until the atmospheric pressure is high enough to sustain basic plants. lots of weeds should do fine, accelerating the production of an O2 atmosphere. At this point you should make some orbital mirrors to melt the polar ice caps and add some much needed water vapor to the infant atmosphere

5) HOPEFULLY heat will build at this point, and frozen ground water will start to melt and bubble to the surface, covering respectable portions of the planet in water.

6) plant larger plants like large pine trees near rivers and lakes to finalize the atmospheric conversion

7) ?????

8) REAL ESTATE SALES


and hopefully all of this can be done within 100 years.

>>1270966
>>1270790
STOP PRETENDING TO BE ME

>>1270667
their explanation as to how it works is kind of smoke-and-mirrors, but that hypothesis about explaining the intensity of pulsars and GRBs is really interesting.

>>1270636
teaton
go the fuck away
god damnit

>>1270388
wait
nevermind
http://www.metaresearch.org/cosmology/speed_of_gravity.asp
current models of orbits for spacecraft rely on the fact that gravity travels at the speed of light

i was under the impression the effects of gravitation were instantaneous

if the sun were to stop existing this instant, its light would keep traveling for another 8 minutes, however the earth would immediately begin to lose its orbit

or am i hopelessly wrong

>>1254423
HOW TO EASILY CONFIRM SOMEONE IS RETARDED

find a friend who has fridge magnets
show them this
wait a few days
fridge magnets gone?
he needs some serious help

Cancer is out the door in 5 years thanks to the john kanzius machine

heart disease and pretty much all forms of organ failure will be gone within about 10-15 years if bio printing advances well.

more advanced shit like HIV and AIDS might actually be gone within 3-5 years if research into stem-grabbing antibodies works out.

most common fatal ailments will be routine in 20 years for sure

> Please die and go back to school
so
wait
he needs to reincarnate?

1)
the time dilation approaches infinity as you approach C, i like to think of it as an automatic safety to prevent particles accidentally breaking the speed barrier

2)
IS THAT A FUCKING HOMESTUCK WALLPAPER? DAT CHESSBOARD LANDSCAPE